2022 Japanese Racing

[Starine]

Red Knight noses Gufo in Kentucky Turf Cup, gains BC Turf berth
https://www.drf.com/news/red-knight-nos ... turf-berth

Set Piece closes from last to win BWI Turf Cup
https://www.drf.com/news/set-piece-clos ... i-turf-cup

L'Imperator finds softer company in Presious Passion
https://www.drf.com/news/limperator-fin ... us-passion

[tachyon]

Red Knight noses Gufo in Kentucky Turf Cup, gains BC Turf berth
https://www.drf.com/news/red-knight-nos ... turf-berth

Set Piece closes from last to win BWI Turf Cup
https://www.drf.com/news/set-piece-clos ... i-turf-cup

L'Imperator finds softer company in Presious Passion
https://www.drf.com/news/limperator-fin ... us-passion

Were these for Older Horse thread, Starine?

[tachyon]

JRA conducts fan’s ballot on the ''Best Race (Matchup) in Japan'' on its 68th anniversary.
https://www.jra.go.jp/special/2022jraanniversary/



Racing fans are invited to cast votes on their favorite races (picking up one from the ten entries listed below) on the internet until Sep 25th.
I like this JRA’s idea and pretty much agree with JRA’s selections (ten entries below).

It’s a real shame that all the youtube videos attached are in Japanese (ugh), but they are with excellent footages.
I wonder if one may feel about our passion to those famous races!!!

-- Entry #1
2020 Japan Cup (G1)
Almond Eye vs Contrail vs Dearing Tact
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rL9LsfNbjuM

-- Entry #2
2018 Nakayama Daishogai (Jump- G1)
Oju Chosan vs Up to Date
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7I8bnzzZSQ

-- Entry #3
2012 Japan Cup (G1)
Gentildonna vs Orfevre
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RvifiG2qyU

-- Entry#4
2008 Tenno Sho Autumn (G1)
Vodka vs Daiwa Scarlet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtuBxh_Rj10

-- Entry #5
1999 Arima Kinen (G1)
Grass Wonder(USA) vs Special Week
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLRE3k_oCxU

-- Entry#6
1998 Mainichi Okan (G2)
Silence Suzuka vs El Condor Pasa(USA) vs Grass Wonder(USA)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpRVeMUDhCM

-- Entry #7
1996 Hanshin Daishoten (G2)
Nariata Brian vs Mayano Top Gun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVs0oc8VAmg

-- Entry #8
1993 Tokyo Yushun (Japanese Derby) (G1)
Winning Ticket vs Biwa Hayahide vs Narita Taishin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcY-QyL2_wE

-- Entry #9
1992 Tenno Sho Spring (G1)
Mejiro McQueen vs Tokai Teio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrnAJLwl5E4

-- Entry #10
1988 Arima Kinen (G1)
Oguri Cap vs Tamamo Cross
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4veRgXgeUSU


Which one do you like?
I like #1 and #5 the most!

[Starine]

5, 7 & 9

[MissNMecke]

I'll go with the three most recent ones: 1, 2, and 3. By the way, whatever happened to Up To Date? I know he fell in his final start.......

[tachyon]

I'll go with the three most recent ones: 1, 2, and 3. By the way, whatever happened to Up To Date? I know he fell in his final start.......

Hello MissNMecke,
I'm glad to know that you follow the Japanese Racing!!

#1. 2020 Japan Cup


#2. 2018 Nakayama Daishogai


Up to Date ran his final race in the 2018 Nakayama Daishogai.
In 2019, he retired from racing and became a riding horse at JRA's Equestrian Park.


Up to Date(JPN)
https://uma-furi.com/uptodate-utsunomiya/

#3. 2012 Japan Cup

[tachyon]

5, 7 & 9

#5. 1999 Arima Kinen


I still get a chill when I review this video!!
1998 and 1999 were definitely vintage years for the Japanese racing with many ultra-popular runners!!!!!

#7. 1996 Hanshin Daishoten


#9. 1992 Tenno Sho Spring

[MissNMecke]

I'll go with the three most recent ones: 1, 2, and 3. By the way, whatever happened to Up To Date? I know he fell in his final start.......

Hello MissNMecke,
I'm glad to know that you follow the Japanese Racing!!

#1. 2020 Japan Cup


#2. 2018 Nakayama Daishogai


Up to Date ran his final race in the 2018 Nakayama Daishogai.
In 2019, he retired from racing and became a riding horse at JRA's Equestrian Park.


Up to Date(JPN)
https://uma-furi.com/uptodate-utsunomiya/

#3. 2012 Japan Cup

Thank you so much for the update on Up To Date! I feared the worst after the way his racing career ended. He looks well and that's all that matters. As for being a fan of Japanese racing? I have been since the first horse I ever got really attached to went to stud there: Sunday Silence. Over the years I have followed racing there to see his offspring race and because the horses tend to have longer careers to enjoy. I have had many favorites over the years: Kurofune, Wing Arrow, Wonder Acute, Copano Rickey, Makiba Sniper, Abukuma Poro, Grass Wonder, Daiwa Texas, Meisho Doto, Narita Top Road, Eishin Preston, Agnes Digital, Seiun Sky, Jungle Pocket, Oken Bruce Lee, Trot Thunder, Calstone Light O, Trot Star, Meisho Samson, Isla Bonita, Black Hawk, Snow Dragon, Red Falx, Contrail, and of course Sunday Silence sons Special Week and Stay Gold and SG's two sons, Orfevre and Gold Ship. Currently, I follow closely the careers of Chuwa Wizard, Omega Perfume, Grimm, Kafuji Octagon, Titleholder, Geoglyph, Equinox, Stay Foolish, Jack D'or, and Boccherini. And I'll leave it at that before I list every Japanese thoroughbred I've ever followed. (Sorry, got carried away, just a little.)

[tachyon]

I'll go with the three most recent ones: 1, 2, and 3. By the way, whatever happened to Up To Date? I know he fell in his final start.......

Hello MissNMecke,
I'm glad to know that you follow the Japanese Racing!!

#1. 2020 Japan Cup


#2. 2018 Nakayama Daishogai


Up to Date ran his final race in the 2018 Nakayama Daishogai.
In 2019, he retired from racing and became a riding horse at JRA's Equestrian Park.


Up to Date(JPN)
https://uma-furi.com/uptodate-utsunomiya/

#3. 2012 Japan Cup

Thank you so much for the update on Up To Date! I feared the worst after the way his racing career ended. He looks well and that's all that matters. As for being a fan of Japanese racing? I have been since the first horse I ever got really attached to went to stud there: Sunday Silence. Over the years I have followed racing there to see his offspring race and because the horses tend to have longer careers to enjoy. I have had many favorites over the years: Kurofune, Wing Arrow, Wonder Acute, Copano Rickey, Makiba Sniper, Abukuma Poro, Grass Wonder, Daiwa Texas, Meisho Doto, Narita Top Road, Eishin Preston, Agnes Digital, Seiun Sky, Jungle Pocket, Oken Bruce Lee, Trot Thunder, Calstone Light O, Trot Star, Meisho Samson, Isla Bonita, Black Hawk, Snow Dragon, Red Falx, Contrail, and of course Sunday Silence sons Special Week and Stay Gold and SG's two sons, Orfevre and Gold Ship. Currently, I follow closely the careers of Chuwa Wizard, Omega Perfume, Grimm, Kafuji Octagon, Titleholder, Geoglyph, Equinox, Stay Foolish, Jack D'or, and Boccherini. And I'll leave it at that before I list every Japanese thoroughbred I've ever followed. (Sorry, got carried away, just a little.)

That's a great list!
You have been following the Japanese racing for more than 25 years!!

[tachyon]

Chain of Love(JPN), 2017M. Heart's Cry(JPN) x Fair Ellen(USA) by Street Cry(IRE), is slated to run in the BC Filly & Mare Sprint at Keeneland.
She won the listed Enif Stakes 1400m dirt at Chukyo last time out.


-- replay
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuBG3W9qPes

Earlier this year, she was 3rd in the G3 Riyadh Dirt Sprint and 4th in the G1 Dubai Golden Shaheen.
https://www.jbis.jp/horse/0001236374/

[MissNMecke]

Hello MissNMecke,
I'm glad to know that you follow the Japanese Racing!!

#1. 2020 Japan Cup


#2. 2018 Nakayama Daishogai


Up to Date ran his final race in the 2018 Nakayama Daishogai.
In 2019, he retired from racing and became a riding horse at JRA's Equestrian Park.


Up to Date(JPN)
https://uma-furi.com/uptodate-utsunomiya/

#3. 2012 Japan Cup

Thank you so much for the update on Up To Date! I feared the worst after the way his racing career ended. He looks well and that's all that matters. As for being a fan of Japanese racing? I have been since the first horse I ever got really attached to went to stud there: Sunday Silence. Over the years I have followed racing there to see his offspring race and because the horses tend to have longer careers to enjoy. I have had many favorites over the years: Kurofune, Wing Arrow, Wonder Acute, Copano Rickey, Makiba Sniper, Abukuma Poro, Grass Wonder, Daiwa Texas, Meisho Doto, Narita Top Road, Eishin Preston, Agnes Digital, Seiun Sky, Jungle Pocket, Oken Bruce Lee, Trot Thunder, Calstone Light O, Trot Star, Meisho Samson, Isla Bonita, Black Hawk, Snow Dragon, Red Falx, Contrail, and of course Sunday Silence sons Special Week and Stay Gold and SG's two sons, Orfevre and Gold Ship. Currently, I follow closely the careers of Chuwa Wizard, Omega Perfume, Grimm, Kafuji Octagon, Titleholder, Geoglyph, Equinox, Stay Foolish, Jack D'or, and Boccherini. And I'll leave it at that before I list every Japanese thoroughbred I've ever followed. (Sorry, got carried away, just a little.)

That's a great list!
You have been following the Japanese racing for more than 25 years!!

Thanks! It has been a long time......thus a whole lot of horses. So please don't be surprised if I hit you up for more info from time to time when I think of one I've lost track of.

[tachyon]

Titleholder(JPN) has arrived in Chantilly yesterday.

https://twitter.com/francegalop/status/ ... 4458717184
https://twitter.com/JRA_WorldRacing/sta ... 4670982144

[tachyon]

-- from Thoroughbredracing.com

''Teenage sensation: introducing Seina Imamura, the girl who is taking Japanese racing by storm''
https://www.thoroughbredracing.com/arti ... ing-storm/

Rookie jockey Seina Imamura is on course to break Nanako Fujita’s record for the most wins by a female jockey on the elite Japan Racing Association circuit – and she is still only 18.

[tachyon]

-- from bloodhorse

''Preemie Overcomes Adversity to Win His Debut in Japan''
https://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing ... t-in-japan

Thanks Naohiro Goda for introducing this appropriately named Duramente 3yo colt who was foaled Dec. 27, 2019!!
He is out of the Argentinian group 1 winner Atomica Oro(ARG).

https://www.jbis.jp/horse/0001331664/

[brunanas]

-- from bloodhorse

''Preemie Overcomes Adversity to Win His Debut in Japan''
https://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing ... t-in-japan

Thanks Naohiro Goda for introducing this appropriately named Duramente 3yo colt who was foaled Dec. 27, 2019!!
He is out of the Argentinian group 1 winner Atomica Oro(ARG).

https://www.jbis.jp/horse/0001331664/

is there any way you have a replay??

[tachyon]

-- from bloodhorse

''Preemie Overcomes Adversity to Win His Debut in Japan''
https://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing ... t-in-japan

Thanks Naohiro Goda for introducing this appropriately named Duramente 3yo colt who was foaled Dec. 27, 2019!!
He is out of the Argentinian group 1 winner Atomica Oro(ARG).

https://www.jbis.jp/horse/0001331664/

is there any way you have a replay??

Here’s the replay!

https://youtu.be/BZ7LSEHdSdE

[Starine]

What a great story. And a dominating winner too!

[tachyon]

-- from AtTheRaces:

Christophe Soumillon on the Japanese horses:

"If you make the Arc 10 times, Orfevre was supposed to win it nine times"
Christophe Soumillon on the great Japanese horses that have so nearly won on Europe's biggest stage.
https://twitter.com/AtTheRaces/status/1 ... 4910703616

"It was a little bit like a revenge"
Christophe Soumillon looks back on his Japan Cup memories, from disqualification with Buena Vista to winning the race with Epiphaneia a few years later...
https://twitter.com/AtTheRaces/status/1 ... 1807264768

Christophe Soumillon confirms that he will be riding in Japan over the winter!
https://twitter.com/AtTheRaces/status/1 ... 2244817922

[tachyon]

-- from At The Races:

''Titleholder team dreaming of first Japanese Arc success''
https://www.attheraces.com/news/2022/Se ... rc-success

I do think that Titleholder is a very good horse, probably the best Japanese contender since Orfevre.
But the biggest concern is his jockey Kazuo Yokoyama who doesn't have any international experience.
Moreover he runs in the Arc without a local prep.
Japan has had three silver medalists in El Condor Pasa, Nakayama Festa and Orfevre, all of whom had run local preps.
I only hope that Titleholder will set the pace in his rhythm and can handle the Longchamp turf.

[MissNMecke]

-- from At The Races:

''Titleholder team dreaming of first Japanese Arc success''
https://www.attheraces.com/news/2022/Se ... rc-success

I do think that Titleholder is a very good horse, probably the best Japanese contender since Orfevre.
But the biggest concern is his jockey Kazuo Yokoyama who doesn't have any international experience.
Moreover he runs in the Arc without a local prep.
Japan has had three silver medalists in El Condor Pasa, Nakayama Festa and Orfevre, all of whom had run local preps.
I only hope that Titleholder will set the pace in his rhythm and can handle the Longchamp turf.

I'm really hoping Titleholder can get that breakthrough win. (Hoping for a good showing from Stay Foolish too!)