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Yasuda Kinen
The Yasuda Kinen (English: Yasuda Memorial, Japanese and Chinese language: 安田記念) is a Japanese International Grade I Thoroughbred horse race held at the Tokyo Racecourse in Tokyo. Raced annually each June, the Yasuda Kinen is run at a distance of eight furlongs (one mile) on turf and is open to horses three years of age and up. The event was first run in 1951 as the Yasuda Sho in honor of Izaemon Yasuda, the founding chairman of the Japan Racing Association. Following the death of Mr. Yasuda, in 1958 the race name was changed to the Yasuda Kinen. In 1984 the race was promoted to Grade 1 status and in 1993 it was granted International Grade 1 status. In 2005, the race became the final leg of the Asian Mile Challenge. In addition to the US$1 million first place purse, another US$1 million bonus is given to any horse who wins two legs of the four-race Asian Mile Challenge. Past winners of the Yasuda Kinen include Oguri Cap and Taiki Shuttle, both Horse of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asian Mile Challenge
The Asian Mile Challenge is a series of four one-mile (eight furlongs) Thoroughbred horse races. Created in 2005, the series was launched with two races, one in Hong Kong, the other in Japan. In 2006, the Melbourne Racing Club of Australia and the Dubai Racing Club of the United Arab Emirates joined the series. Raced approximately four weeks apart between March and June, a US$1 million bonus is given to any horse who wins two legs of the Asian Mile Challenge. In 2006, the Hong Kong-based horse Bullish Luck collected the bonus after winning the Champions Mile and the Yasuda Kinen. The Asian Mile Challenge now consists of four Grade I races: # Futurity Stakes at Caulfield Racecourse, Melbourne # Dubai Duty Free Stakes at Meydan Racecourse in Dubai # Champions Mile at Sha Tin Racecourse, Hong Kong # Yasuda Kinen at Tokyo Racecourse, Tokyo Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label=none, ), is the capital and largest city of Japan. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yukio Okabe
Yukio Okabe ( Japanese: 岡部 幸雄, ''Okabe Yukio'', born October 31, 1948) is a Japanese former jockey. He belonged to the Japan Racing Association (JRA) from 1967 to 2005. From January 1995 to July 2007, he held the record for the most wins as a jockey in the Japan Racing Association, with a total of 2,943 wins in 2007. Early life Okabe was born on October 31, 1948, in Gunma Prefecture, Japan. He was born to a family of farmers who also raised horses. Okabe was put on a horse from the time he had not yet developed a full understanding, and by the time he was in elementary school he was able to trot and canter on his own. It was during his time in junior high school that he began to seriously pursue a career as a jockey. Career Okabe began his career as a jockey in the fall of his third year in junior high school. He applied to the jockey training center of Bajik''ō''en, and took the exam with the consent of his father, and passed the exam. In 1978, he achieved 500 wins ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yasunari Iwata
(born March 12, 1974; from Himeji, Hyōgo Prefecture) is a Japanese jockey who rode the winner of the 2006 Melbourne Cup, Delta Blues. It was Iwata's first race outside Japan. He debuted in the Hyōgo Keiba, one of the racing organizations in National Association of Racing(NAR). He started riding on selected events in Japan Racing Association(JRA) since 2002. In 2005, Iwata won the 19th World Super Jockey Seriehttp://www.diviplus.com/racing-news/iwata-wins-world-super-jockey-series/]. Despite he had not passed the written test in the past, he was allowed to transfer to JRA in the following year due to "Ankatsu's Rule".A NAR jockey will be exempted from written test if they got at least 20 JRA wins in for at least 3 years in recent 5 years (The regulation was changed again in 2011, which riding test was exempted instead, and 20 JRA wins in 2 out of 3 years is required).It was named "Ankatsu's Rule" mainly referring the case of Katsumi Ando, which he failed to enter JRA in 2001 du ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vodka (horse)
was a Japanese Thoroughbred racemare which won the 2007 Group One (GI) Tokyo Yūshun (Japanese Derby), the first filly to win this race in 64 years, as well as winning the 2009 Japan Cup. She won seven G1 races in Japan and was the highest earning racemare in Thoroughbred history at the time. Breeding Vodka was foaled on 4 April 2004 at Country Bokujo in Hokkaido's Shizunai. She was a bay mare by the 2002 Tokyo Yushun (Derby) winner, Tanino Gimlet out of Tanino Sister by Rousillon (USA). Racing career Vodka was owned by Yuzo Tanimizu and trained by Katsuhiko Sumii. At two years: 2006 In 2006, Vodka won her first race start and was second in the ungraded Kigiku Sho race which was also contested at the Kyoto Racecourse before she won the G1 Hanshin Juvenile Fillies race at the Hanshin Racecourse. Vodka was then awarded the 2007 JRA Award for Best Two-Year-Old Filly. At three years: 2007 In 2007, Vodka won her first start in the ungraded Elfin Stakes, followed by another ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daiwa Major
Daiwa Major ( ja, ダイワメジャー, link=no) is a retired Japanese Thoroughbred racehorse and active sire. A horse who excelled at distances of , he won the Satsuki Shō, the first leg of the Japanese Triple Crown in 2004. His greatest success, however, came later in his career when he won several of Japan's most important weight-for-age races including the Tennō Shō, the Yasuda Kinen and two runnings of the Mile Championship. He was twice named Japan's champion miler. Daiwa Major made a successful start to his stud career, siring a Group One winner in his first crop. Background Daiwa Major is a chestnut horse with a white blaze bred by the Shadai Farm in Hokkaido. He is an unusually large Thoroughbred, standing 16 hands 2½ inches high and weighing more than 530 kilograms during his racing career. He was sired by Sunday Silence, who won the 1989 Kentucky Derby, before retiring to stud in Japan where he was champion sire on thirteen consecutive occasions. His dam, S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony S
Anthony or Antony is a masculine given name, derived from the '' Antonii'', a '' gens'' ( Roman family name) to which Mark Antony (''Marcus Antonius'') belonged. According to Plutarch, the Antonii gens were Heracleidae, being descendants of Anton, a son of Heracles. Anthony is an English name that is in use in many countries. It has been among the top 100 most popular male baby names in the United States since the late 19th century and has been among the top 100 male baby names between 1998 and 2018 in many countries including Canada, Australia, England, Ireland and Scotland. Equivalents include '' Antonio'' in Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and Maltese; ''Αντώνιος'' in Greek; ''António'' or ''Antônio'' in Portuguese; ''Antoni'' in Catalan, Polish, and Slovene; '' Anton'' in Dutch, Galician, German, Icelandic, Romanian, Russian, and Scandinavian languages; '' Antoine'' in French; '' Antal'' in Hungarian; and '' Antun'' or '' Ante'' in Croatian. The usual abbreviated form ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brett Prebble
Brett Prebble (born 23 September 1977 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia) is a leading Australian jockey, currently based in Melbourne, Victoria. Having ridden over 1200 career winners, Prebble's most famous win came aboard Green Moon in the 2012 Emirates Melbourne Cup. Personal life Prebble was born in Melbourne on 23 September 1977. He and his wife have two children. He is the brother-in-law of two Melbourne Cup-winning jockeys: Michelle Payne, who won the Cup in 2015, and Kerrin McEvoy, who won the Cup in 2000, 2016 and 2018. Career as a jockey Prebble was a champion jockey in Melbourne before he moved to Hong Kong in 2002. He held the record for the number of winners in a Melbourne Metropolitan racing season, with 99 winners and one dead heat in 1999–2000, until Jamie Kah set a new record in July 2021 when she rode her 100th winner for the 2020–21 season. His competition with Douglas Whyte for the 2009–10 Hong Kong Jockeys' Championship was one of the closest in H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agnes Digital
Agnes Digital (foaled May 15, 1997 – December 8, 2021) is an American born Japan-based Thoroughbred racehorse and the winner of the 2003 Yasuda Kinen. Career Agnes Digital's first race was on September 12th, 1999, where he came in 2nd at Hanshin Racecourse. He picked up his first win at the same course on October 2nd. He won his first graded race, by winning the Zen-Nippon Sansai Yushun on December 23rd, 1999. He then began competing in only stakes races and graded races. He won his next graded race on June 14th, 2000, by winning the Nagoya Yushun. He then picked up two big wins to close the year - the September 30th, 2000, Unicorn Stakes and the November 19th, 2000, international Mile Championship. He went on a five win streak starting in September 2001. He won the Nihon TV Hai, the Mile Championship Nambu Hai, the Autumn Tenno Sho, then the Hong Kong Cup and the February Stakes. The win streak ended with a 6th place finish at the 2002 Dubai World Cup. His next ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Makoto Kaneko (businessman)
is the Founder, President, CEO and Representative Director of Zuken Inc., a public listed multinational corporation in the Tokyo Stock Exchange. He also owns the exclusive golf club, The King Kamehameha Golf Club in Hawaii. Makoto Kaneko is better known as a prominent horse owner in Japan. He is the owner of Deep Impact, one of the most famous racehorses in Japanese history. Kaneko has also become the first racehorse owner to win all of the 8 major races of Japan as well as the Japan Cup. Makoto Kaneko's famous racehorses *Black Hawk :He won the Sprinters Stakes and the Yasuda Kinen. *Kurofune :He has 4 course records. Because of his strength, He was called "White Secretariat". * To the Victory :She won the Queen Elizabeth II Commemorative Cup and challenged the Dubai World Cup twice. Her younger brother Silent Deal is also Makoto's horse. *Utopia :He was traded to Godolphin Racing. * King Kamehameha :He won the Tokyo Yushun (Japanese Derby) for the first time as Kane ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivan W
Ivan () is a Slavic male given name, connected with the variant of the Greek name (English: John) from Hebrew meaning 'God is gracious'. It is associated worldwide with Slavic countries. The earliest person known to bear the name was Bulgarian tsar Ivan Vladislav. It is very popular in Russia, Ukraine, Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Belarus, North Macedonia, and Montenegro and has also become more popular in Romance-speaking countries since the 20th century. Etymology Ivan is the common Slavic Latin spelling, while Cyrillic spelling is two-fold: in Bulgarian, Russian, Macedonian, Serbian and Montenegrin it is Иван, while in Belarusian and Ukrainian it is Іван. The Old Church Slavonic (or Old Cyrillic) spelling is . It is the Slavic relative of the Latin name , corresponding to English ''John''. This Slavic version of the name originates from New Testament Greek (''Iōánnēs'') rather than from the Latin . The Greek name is in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robbie Fradd
Robbie Fradd (born 4 December 1964 in South Africa) is a jockey in Thoroughbred horse racing. Robbie Fradd, has ridden in his native South Africa and in Mauritius, Australia, New Zealand, Dubai, Japan, Singapore and Hong Kong Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a List of cities in China, city and Special administrative regions of China, special .... He was the champion jockey and second-placed rider for the 1999–2000 and 2000–2001 Hong Kong racing seasons respectively. Fradd relocated his family to Australia in 2014 for lifestyle reasons, settling on the Gold Coast and obtaining a license to ride. He currently rides primarily in southern Queensland. References Robbie Fradd profile at Jockeysroom.com 1964 births Living people South African jockeys Hong Kong jockeys {{Horseracing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Masayoshi Ebina
(born March 19, 1969 in Hokkaidō, Japan) is a Japanese jockey. Nicknamed ''Ebi-Shō''. He is best known for riding El Condor Pasa. That won the Japan Cup (1998) and second in Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe (1999). In 2010 he won the Japanese Fillies' Triple Crown with Apapane. Major wins France * Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud - (1) - '' El Condor Pasa (1999)'' ---- Hong Kong * Hong Kong Cup - (1) - ''Fujiyama Kenzan (1995)'' ---- Japan * Arima Kinen - (2) - ''Manhattan Cafe (2001)'', ''Matsurida Gogh (2007)'' * Asahi Hai Futurity Stakes - (2) - ''Dream Journey (2006)'', ''Danon Platina (2014)'' * Hanshin Juvenile Fillies - (2) - ''Apapane (2009)'', ''Shonan Adela (2014)'' * Japan Breeding farm's Cup Sprint - (1) - ''Nobo Jack (2001)'' * Japan Cup - (1) - '' El Condor Pasa (1998)'' * Kikuka Shō - (1) - ''Manhattan Cafe (2001)'' * Mile Championship - (2) - ''Air Jihad (1999)'', ''Tokai Point (2002)'' * Oka Sho - (1) - '' Apapane (2010)'' * Queen Elizabeth II Commemorative ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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