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Sodashi is a pure white mare bred in Japan by Northern Farm, the breeding operation of her owner Makoto Kaneko. She was sent into training with Naosuke Sugai. She was from the seventeenth crop of foals sired by Kurofune, an American-bred stallion who won the NHK Mile Cup and the Japan Cup Dirt in 2001. As a breeding stallion, his other progeny ...
Horse racing (競馬, keiba) is a popular equestrian sport in Japan, with more than 21,000 horse races held each year. There are three types of racing that take place in Japan - flat racing, jump racing, and Ban'ei Racing (also called Draft Racing). In Japan, horse racing is organized by the Japan Racing Association (JRA) and the National ...
Katsuragi Ace: First Japanese-trained horse to win the Japan Cup; Kauto Star: record five-time winner of the King George VI Chase; Keen Ice: 2015 Travers Stakes winner; Kelso: only five-time U.S. Horse of the Year, in the list of the top 100 U.S. thoroughbred champions of the 20th Century by The Blood-Horse magazine, Kelso ranks 4th
Thoroughbred Winning Brew holds the Guinness world record for the fastest speed from the starting gate for a Thoroughbred racehorse, at 70.76 km/h (43.97 mph) over two furlongs, [3] although Quarter Horses attain higher speeds over shorter distances than Thoroughbreds. [4] Such speeds may also be achieved by elite racehorses during the stretch ...
Liberty Island （Japanese: リバティアイランド; February 2, 2020 - ）is a Japanese thoroughbred racehorse. [1] She became the Japanese Triple Tiara winner of 2023. Her name is derived from the island of the same name in New York Harbor, where the Statue of Liberty is built on (as her mother is named " Yankee Rose [ja] "). [6]
Contrail (Japanese: コントレイル, foaled 1 April 2017) is a champion Japanese Thoroughbred racehorse who won the Japanese Triple Crown in 2020. He was one of the leading two-year-olds in Japan in 2019 when he was undefeated in three races including the Tokyo Sports Hai Nisai Stakes and Hopeful Stakes. In 2020 he maintained his unbeaten ...
Deep Impact, winner of the 2005 Japanese Triple Crown. The Japanese Triple Crown for colts are as follows: [23] Satsuki Sho (Japanese 2000 Guineas), run over 2000 metres (1.2 mi) on a turf track at Nakayama Racecourse in Funabashi, Chiba; Tokyo Yushun (Japanese Derby), run over 2400 metres (1.5 mi) on a turf track at Tokyo Racecourse in Fuchu ...
Forever Young (Japanese: フォーエバーヤング, foaled February 24, 2021) is a Japanese thoroughbred racehorse, who won his maiden race, the JBC Nisai Yushun and the Zen-Nippon Nisai Yushun in 2023, as well as the Saudi Derby and the UAE Derby in 2024, and remained undefeated until a third-place three-horse photo finish at the 150th Kentucky Derby, losing to Mystik Dan and Sierra Leone ...