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I'm not sure what happened with him. Perhaps he was feeling off or perhaps the tactic of keeping him towards the rear simply didn't work in this situation and his connections were overly optimistic. Whatever the issue, they should have plenty of time to figure him out. He'd looked quite promising before, but his performance earlier today was far worse than expected. I hope we see him make a come back next time!

He won the G1 Hopeful Stakes at Nakayama quite professionally! I was impressed with how patiently he was kept to 3rd before just brushing past the lead horses towards the end. Another excellent son of the late great Deep Impact by the looks of it.

In coming in 4th in the G1 Arima Kinen, Stella Veloce becomes the 2nd highest earner for his sire behind Chrono Genesis. Hopefully, he'll grow even more as a 4yo and continue to perform so well.

He always seemed to be the one to beat even as a 2yo and now he's looking insanely strong. I will say, though, he did have the benefit of staying in Japan rather than dealing with travel and quarantine like the 2nd and 3rd. Still, he's an absolute beast and I hope they choose to be bold with his future races.

Agreed. It's too bad things didn't go better for Geoglyph, he already had so much against him with the draw and his jockey's decision to wait so long towards the back. I think Christophe Lemaire thought that the runners in front would be running more out of steam than they were and he expected Geoglyph's speed to make up the distance. I feel like this was a really strong group of 2yos with 4 of the first 5 home impressing me one way or another. Serifos still looks as strong as ever and I can see him flipping the result in the future if he continues like this, Danon Scorpion ran incredibly for such a massive step up against far more experienced company, and Geoglyph looks like a real contender who might've even won the race if things had turned out a little differently for him.

Retains his undefeated streak in scoring his third victory in the G1 Asahi Hai Futurity Stakes, beating the previously unbeaten Serifos by 1/2 a length with the also previously undefeated Danon Scorpion back 1/2 a length in 3rd! Further back in 5th was Geoglyph who was rapidly gaining ground on the far outside, but was too late to catch the runners in the front.

Has been retired to stand at The Beeches in Coolmore's National Hunt division. His fee is set at €4,000.

If the Ramseys can't or don't want to pay their trainers they should just get out of the sport altogether. There's no excuse for this kind of thing.

Retired to stand at Knockhouse Stud in Ireland.

Has retired to stand at Norton Grove Stud.