Luxor Cafe, a two-time winner most recently victorious in the Jan. 11 Kurochiku Sho at Nakayama, leads a competitive field of 10 3-year-olds in Sunday’s Hyacinth Stakes at Tokyo.

The about one-mile contest is the third leg of the Japan road to the Kentucky Derby. The Hyacinth will be run as the ninth race on the card with a post time of 12:25 a.m. EST.

The Hyacinth awards qualifying points on a 30-15-9-6-3 scale to the top five finishers. In the 10-horse field, all of the entrants are Triple Crown nominated except for Admire Daytona and Don in the Mood. The only entrant who has points so far is Happy Man, who earned 10 Japan road to the Kentucky Derby points with a second-place finish behind the filly Myriad Love in the Zen-Nippon Nisai Yushun on Dec. 11 at Kawasaki.

The only Japan qualifier after the Hyacinth is the Fukuryu, scheduled for March 29 at Nakayama. That race offers 40-20-12-8-4 points for the Japan road to the Kentucky Derby. Though no horse has yet hit the board in the run for the roses after qualifying through the prep series in Japan, a Japan-based horse hit the board for the first time in 2024. That was Forever Young, who earned Japan points with a vin in the Zen-Nippon Nisai Yushun but punched his ticket with a victory in the Grade 2 UAE Derby.

	Silks	Horse / Sire	Rating	Trainer / Jockey	Last Start / Next Start	Int’l odds
		Ecoro Azel Shancelot	5.12	Hideyuki Mori Fuma Matsuwaka	8th, 2024 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile G1 2025 Hyacinth Stakes LS	25-1
Last Race Next Race		8th, 2024 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile G1 2025 Hyacinth Stakes LS
		Promised Gene Nadal	0.00	Yuki Uehara Keita Tosaki	2025 Hyacinth Stakes LS	10-1
Last Race Next Race		1st, Oxalis Sho 2025 Hyacinth Stakes LS
		Admire Daytona Drefong	0.00	Yukihiro Kato Katsuma Sameshima	2025 Hyacinth Stakes LS	12-1
Last Race Next Race		1st, maiden special weight 2025 Hyacinth Stakes LS
		Happy Man Danon Legend	0.00	Ryo Terashima Yusuke Fujioka	2nd, 2024 Zen-Nippon Nisai Yushun LS 2025 Hyacinth Stakes LS	18-1
Last Race Next Race		2nd, 2024 Zen-Nippon Nisai Yushun LS 2025 Hyacinth Stakes LS
		Vilja Lied Nadal	0.00	Masayuki Nishimura Hideaki Miyuki	2025 Hyacinth Stakes LS	18-1
Last Race Next Race		1st, allowance 2025 Hyacinth Stakes LS
		Luxor Cafe American Pharoah	0.00	Noriyuki Hori Rachel King	2025 Hyacinth Stakes LS	2-1
Last Race Next Race		1st, Kurochiku Sho 2025 Hyacinth Stakes LS
		Danon Figo Into Mischief	0.00	Yasuo Tomomichi Mirai Iwata	2025 Hyacinth Stakes LS	25-1
Last Race Next Race		1st, maiden special weight 2025 Hyacinth Stakes LS
		Don In The Mood Asia Express	0.00	Teiichi Konno Hironobu Tanabe	2025 Hyacinth Stakes LS	25-1
Last Race Next Race		1st, allowance 2025 Hyacinth Stakes LS
		Taisei Dorado American Pharoah	0.00	Haruki Sugiyama Takeshi Yokoyama	2025 Hyacinth Stakes LS	8-1
Last Race Next Race		1st, newcomers race 2025 Hyacinth Stakes LS
		Dragon Mind Your Biscuits	0.00	Mikio Matsunaga Mirco Demuro	2025 Hyacinth Stakes LS	9-2
Last Race Next Race		1st, maiden special weight 2025 Hyacinth Stakes LS