Runaway Victoria Oaks winner Mosheen will race for her new part-owner Katsumi Yoshida for the first time when she resumes in the Manfred Stakes at Caulfield on Saturday.
The leading Japanese owner-breeder secured 50 per cent of Mosheen for an undisclosed seven-figure sum with managing owner Phil Sly to race the filly and ultimately breed with her in Japan.
Yoshida, who won the 2006 Melbourne Cup with Delta Blues, and his brothers run Japan’s biggest racing and breeding operation.
Sly, who is on the verge of gaining a licence to race horses in Japan, said he would not reveal the purchase price, but added “the figure would blow you away”.
After speaking to trainer Robert Smerdon, Sly agreed to sell half of the daughter of Fastnet Rock.
Mosheen, runner-up to outstanding colt Sepoy in the Golden Slipper (1200m) last autumn and runner-up to star filly Atlantic Jewell in the Thousand Guineas (1600m) in the spring, hasn’t started since her nine-length romp in the Victoria Oaks (2500m) at Flemington on November 3.
She galloped strongly at Moonee Valley last Monday but Smerdon decided to wait for the Listed Manfred Stakes (1200m) on her home track rather than take on champion Black Caviar in last Friday night’s Group Two Australia Stakes (1200m).
Race jockey Danny Nikolic, who rode the filly in the work out, said Mosheen she was still fraction underdone and would better off if her autumn program launch was delayed a week.
“She had a bit of a blow afterwards and Danny reckons she would benefit from another week,” Smerdon said.
Mosheen will carry 57kg in the set-weights plus penalties event for three-year-olds which attracted 19 entries.
The Listed W J Adams Stakes (1000m), a lead-up to the Group One Oakleigh Plate (1100m) at Caulfield on February 25, attracted 16 nominations including last-start Kensington Stakes (1000m) winner First Command and talented types Bel Sprinter and Decircles.