Field of 2009 Mile Championship

Company, coming off the Tenno Sho Autumn victory in good style, is likely to be favorite for the Mile Championship for which 18 horses have been entered. It will be his farewell race.
Other horses to watch will be Fuji Stakes winner Absolute and Zarema, winner of the Keisei Hai Autumn Handicap.

The foreign entries are Eva's Request(IRE) and Sahpresa(USA). They can get into contention in the very final stage if they handle a speed race.

The 26th running of the Mile Championship, Grade One
Sunday, November 22, 2009
11th Race at Kyoto
3yo+ international 1,600-meter turf right-handed

H#(pp)/Horse Name/AgeSex/Weight(in kgs)/Rider
1/Eva's Request(IRE)/4f/55/Alan Munro
2/Toreno Jubilee/6h/57/Andreas Suborics
3/Maruka Shenck/6h/57/Yuichi Shibayama
4/Company/8h/57/Norihiro Yokoyama
5/Smile Jack/4c/57/Kosei Miura
6/Fine Grain/6h/57/Hideaki Miyuki
7/Absolute/5h/57/Katsuharu Tanaka
8/Fifth Petal/3c/56/Christophe Lemaire
9/Captain Thule/4c/57/Yuga Kawada
10/Suzuka Causeway/5h/57/Hiroki Goto
11/Zarema/5m/55/Hiroyuki Uchida
12/Hikaru Ozora/5h/57/Christophe Soumillon
13/Meiner Falke/4c/57/Ryuji Wada
14/Strong Garuda/3c/56/Yuichi Fukunaga
15/Sahpresa(USA)/4f/55/Olivier Peslier
16/San Carlo/3c/56/Yutaka Yoshida
17/Live Concert(IRE)/5g/57/Yasunari Iwata
18/Sandalphon/6h/57/Hirofumi Shii

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Two JC horses arrive in Japan

On November 19, Conduit(IRE) and Scintillo(GB) arrived in Japan to run in the 2009 Japan Cup.