By Bloodhorse.com
Dual American classic winner and repatriated sire I’ll Have Another was represented by his first black-type winner and first graded stakes winner April 14 when his gelded son Another Truth won the Antares Stakes (G3) at Hanshin Racecourse.
Another Truth was bred in Japan by Makio Okada’s Okada Stud and is raced by Normandy Thoroughbred Racing. Okada is the brother of Shigeyuki Okada, who owns Big Red Farm, where I’ll Have Another entered stud in 2013.
Though the Antares was Another Truth’s second start in a recognized black-type stakes, the gelding has made seven other starts in non-black-type stakes, of which he won two—the Ibaraki Shimbun Hai Stakes in September and the Jan. 20 Alexandrite Stakes, both races at Nakayama Racecourse.
Another Truth’s first black-type test came March 14 in the 1 3/16-mile Nagoya Daishoten Stakes, where he finished third. The 5-year-old cut back to 1 1/8 miles in the Antares and won by half a length in 1:50.8. The Hanshin victory was Another Truth’s sixth win out of 15 starts and raised his career earnings to US$1,172,005.
Out of the winning Fuji Kiseki mare Kyoei Truth, Another Truth is a half brother to multiple grade 1 winner and 2016 Japanese champion dirt horse Sound Truth, by French Deputy, and to graded-placed stakes winner Leur Sauveur also by French Deputy.
I’ll Have Another, a 10-year-old son of Flower Alley, returned to the United States for the 2018 breeding season to stand at Ballena Vista Farm in California. He stands for a fee of $6,000 in 2019.