The G1 Sprinters Stakes went to 27-1 longshot Win Carnelian at Nakayama on Sunday. His trainer Yuichi Shikato also trained his sire, Screen Hero.Booked widest of all in the car park in stall 16, the chestnut won the break and soon perched just off June Blair (American Pharoah) to his inside. That rival was in a beautiful rhythm through fractions of :22.70 for the quarter-mile and :44.90 for the half-mile. Win Carnelian moved up to the filly's throat leaving the bend and the duo were in lockstep throughout the lane, with the eventual winner wearing down his ultra game foe by a head on the line.The admirably consistent Namura Clair (Mikkie Isle) was third, 1 1/2 lengths back, in her third consecutive Sprinters Stakes. She has also filled that spot in the spring's G1 Takamatsunomiya Kinen three years in a row, as well (2023-2025). G1 Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Stakes second and race favourite Satono Reve (Lord Kanaloa) was a nose back in fourth. Lucky Sweynesse (Sweynesse) was aiming to become the third Hong Kong raider to take the Sprinters Stakes after Silent Witness (El Moxie) in 2005 and Ultra Fantasy (Encosta De Lago) in 2010, but he got going too late and finished 11th.“I've been riding this horse for a long time, so regardless of the [widest] draw, I was confident in knowing how he could find his best and most comfortable rhythm, which was the top priority for us today,” said winning rider Kosei Miura of only the second 8-year-old to take the Sprinters Stakes. “During the dead-heat to the wire, the history between us and the strong desire to give one more big victory to my eight-year-old partner ran through my mind. It's also a big joy for me to mark my first Group 1 win with the horse of my mentor [and trainer], Yuichi Shikato.”A group winner in 2022 and 2023, Win Carnelian ran second in the G3 Keihan Hai last November and resumed with a third in the G3 Silk Road Stakes in February. Sent to the UAE, he acquitted himself well with a second in the G1 Al Quoz Sprint to Believing (Mehmas) in April and was last seen running fifth in the G3 Keeneland Cup in late August.Pedigree NotesWin Carnelian is the fourth Group 1 winner and one of 19 stakes winners for the pensioned Lex Stud stallion Screen Hero. The son of the late Grass Wonder was named the 2008 Japanese Champion Older Horse and won that year's G1 Japan Cup as well as running second in the G1 Tenno Sho (Autumn). Screen Hero is best known as the sire of the “Beast From the East” in 2015 Japanese Horse of the Year and six-time top-level winner Maurice, who stands at Shadai Stallion Station and has sired 32 stakes winners worldwide and six Group 1 scorers.Out of the four-time winner Cosmo Crystal by the Seeking The Gold horse Meiner Love, the winner is one of seven foals and six winners for his dam. Although his granddam was only third in a Japanese listed race, she was a half-sister to a pair of stakes horses, one of them G1 Racing Post Trophy second Mudeer (Warning). The fourth dam of Win Carnelian is the blue hen Reprocolor (Jimmy Reppin), who has left a slew of stakes winners on the world stage.Sunday, Nakayama, JapanSPRINTERS STAKES-G1, ¥328,800,000, Nakayama, 9-28, 3yo/up, 1200mT, 1:06.90, fm.1–WIN CARNELIAN (JPN), 128, h, 8, Screen Hero (Jpn) 1st Dam: Cosmo Crystal (Jpn), by Meiner Love 2nd Dam: Christian Name (GB), by Cadeaux Genereux (GB) 3rd Dam: Colorvista (GB), by Shirley Heights (GB)1ST GROUP 1 WIN. O-Win Inc.; B-Cosmo View Farm (Jpn);T-Yuichi Shikato; J-Kosei Miura; ¥173,360,000. LifetimeRecord: G1SP-UAE, 33-9-6-1, ¥517,851,710. Click for the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree. Werk Nick Rating: D+. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.2–June Blair, 123, f, 4, American Pharoah–Lap of Luxury (Ire),by Galileo (Ire). 1ST GROUP 1 BLACK TYPE. ($275,000 Ylg '22KEESEP). O-Jun Yoshikawa; B-Diamond Creek Farm (KY);¥68,960,000.3–Namura Clair (Jpn), 123, m, 6, Mikki Isle (Jpn)–Sun Queen, byStorm Cat. O-Mutsuhiro Namura; B-Tanikawa Farm (Jpn); ¥43,480,000.Margins: HD, 1HF, NS. Odds: 27.50, 8.60, 7.20.Also Ran: Satono Reve (Jpn), Yoshino Easter (Jpn), Danon McKinley (Jpn) Dead Heat; Mama Cocha (Jpn), Puro Maic (Jpn), Kangchenjunga (Jpn), Toshin Macau (Jpn), Lucky Sweynesse (NZ), Lugal (Jpn), Pair Pollu (Jpn), Drop of Light (Jpn), Yamaninal Rihla (Jpn), Ka Pilina (Jpn). Click for the JRA chart & video.The post Win Carnelian Edges Game June Blair In Sprinters Stakes appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions.