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3rd place of Oka Sho '97 (the winner of the race was Kyoei March (grandmother of Marche Lorraine), while the second place was Mejiro Dober, who took victories on the later two Classics) - but never won the graded stakes afterwards.

Probably one of the oldest still living direct descendants of Sunday Silence (photo taken at anniversary of his death), currently living in small retirement farm Candy Farm in Urakawa.

what an insanely elite group, 38 horses out of how manny hundreds of thousands, and only about 4 from before 2000