Deep Impact -- it was a movie; it was a NASA mission; it's a super colt poised to make history this weekend in Kyoto when he makes his bid for the Triple Crown.
Deep Impact, with jockey Yutaka Take up, will try to become the sixth horse to win Japan's Triple Crown when he races in the Kikkasho at Kyoto Racecourse on Sunday.
The son of American champion Sunday Silence claimed the first two legs of Japan's Triple Crown, the Satsukisho and the Nippon Derby, by 2 1/2 lengths and five, and he has yet to know defeat in his six races to date.