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Listed Warrnambool Cup, $300,000, 2350m
This is a race which has been on a number of occasions won by an imported galloper but Mystery Island (Jpn) (Victoire Pisa {Jpn}) provided a first for Japan.
And a very easy win it was for the Northern Racing bred 7-year-old whose G1 Dubai World Cup-winning sire took his stakes winner tally to 15.
His sire's only Australian runner, Mystery Island is raced by Limerick Lane and the Bamford family who combined to win the G1 Melbourne Cup in the same colours with Americain (USA).
He was purchased by agent Robert Roulston for ¥50 million (AU$493,000) at the 2017 Japan Racing Association Select Sale.
A half-brother to the Group-placed Jodie (Jpn) (Daiwa Major {Jpn}), he is out of the unraced Mystique (Ger) (Monsun {Ger}) whose half-brother Mawingo (Ger) won the 2012 G1 Doomben Cup.
Mystique is a granddaughter of the Group 1 mare Mackie (USA) (Summer Squall {USA}), a descendant of the legendary matriarch La Troienne (Fr) (Teddy {Fr}).
