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Tastiera (horse)
Tastiera（ Japanese: タスティエーラ, Foaled March 22, 2020）is an active Japanese Thoroughbred racehorse. His major wins include the Yayoi Sho and the Tōkyō Yūshun. His name was derived from an Italian word which means " Keyboard", which is related to his Dam's name. He was awarded the JRA Award for Best Three-Year-Old Colt for 2023. Racing career 2022: Two-year old season Tastiera made his debut at the Tokyo Racecourse on November 27, 2022, in a two-year old newcomer race on turf at the distance of 1800m. He was ridden by Ryan Moore and won the race. 2023: Three-year old season In Tastiera's first race of his three-year old season, he was entered in the Kyodo Tsushin Hai on February 12 for his first Graded stakes race challenge. He was ridden by Yuichi Fukunaga and was the second most popular horse behind Danon the Tiger. He got off to a good start, and although he seemed to slow down a bit on the way, he pursued the middle group from a good position. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
90Derby
9 (nine) is the natural number following and preceding . Evolution of the Arabic digit In the beginning, various Indians wrote a digit 9 similar in shape to the modern closing question mark without the bottom dot. The Kshatrapa, Andhra and Gupta started curving the bottom vertical line coming up with a -look-alike. The Nagari continued the bottom stroke to make a circle and enclose the 3-look-alike, in much the same way that the sign @ encircles a lowercase ''a''. As time went on, the enclosing circle became bigger and its line continued beyond the circle downwards, as the 3-look-alike became smaller. Soon, all that was left of the 3-look-alike was a squiggle. The Arabs simply connected that squiggle to the downward stroke at the middle and subsequent European change was purely cosmetic. While the shape of the glyph for the digit 9 has an ascender in most modern typefaces, in typefaces with text figures the character usually has a descender, as, for example, in . T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
