Another Winner in Japan for Oscar Performance

“Oscar Performance (Kitten's Joy) was an outstanding turf horse, winning four Grade I's on the grass. And he's been a quality stallion, with his progeny headlined by the likes of Grade I winner Trikari and four other graded winners.

Like most horses labeled `turf sires,' Oscar Performance, who stands at Mill Ridge Farm, was always going to be up against it in a country where breeders and buyers aren't necessarily looking for grass horses. European buyers don't need to buy horses by American turf stallions when they have so many top sires of their own.

Oscar Performance has done well enough that his stud fee has been raised to $45,000, but it was always going to take something special to happen for him to get into the upper tier of the stallion ranks. Maybe that is going to happen after all. When Erika Endive won a Dec. 8 maiden race at Kyoto in Japan, she became the fourth Oscar Performance to win over there and kept her stallion's record perfect. Only four Oscar Performances have run in Japan and all four have won.” Read more from TDN