All in all it was a pretty soft win in the Gr 2 turf feature.

At one stage his stablemate the hot favourite Nations Pride looked to have it in the bag and then came Silver Knott who put on a great finish with the race being all over 100m from the post.  Ohana Honor 12/1 ran on to pass Nations Pride and finish second by 4 ½ lengths and Nations Pride was left with third place to fill.

Following the Kentucky Derby enquiry which did not take place until Thursday, Tyler Gaffalione was fined US$2,500 for "touching" another horse.  We refer you to the head on film of that last 200m where it looked like Sierra Leone was constantly bumping in to Forever Young.  The Japanese did not protest as generally these matters are left to the stewards in Japanese racing but……