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HANEDA HAI 2026 (3YO / Jpn I) ๐ 1800m ๐ฅ FINGER (Gun Runner ร Estilo Talentoso (Macleanโs Music)) I think the fact the pace never relaxed really suited him This win fully showcased the inertia created by his long stride and massive frame ๐ฅkontena
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At Kasamatsu Racecourse(NAR), the track-conditioning car once โjoinedโ the race. Pretty dangerous โ which is why we really do need monitoring stewards to keep random things from lining up at the gates.
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๐ฅ Even Yutaka Take, after all his years in the saddle, has said that Do Deuce was an unusual horse. What surprised him was that a horse with such an extremely high-pitch running style could still handle 2400m and 2500m. Thatโs why Take has said Do Deuceโs sustained power was remarkable. He has also said in various places that Do Deuce was difficult to ride โ a horse who didnโt always show his true ability, and one he never fully figured out, right to the very end. And yet, Take has also said he had a lot of confidence that he could win the Derby with him. In that Derby, he thought he had it won quite comfortably โ but then Equinox came at him. And apparently, he also knew that if anyone was going to come, it would be Equinox.
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Super Creek was the horse that gave legendary jockey Yutaka Take his very first G1 victoryโand set him on the path to greatness. Heโs said, โMy beginningโ Hereโs a JRA commercial featuring Super Creek
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A Derby winner In a mares-only G1 2009 Victoria Mile โ Vodka Come on
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ใBiwa Hayahide :True Strength Refuses Even Thrillใ Since Biwa Hayahide, no horse in JRA history has managed to finish in the top two for 15 consecutive races. He wasnโt just dominantโhe was too consistent. So consistent, in fact, that his odds often dropped below 2.0, making the gamble feel pointless. He turned racing into a foregone conclusion. Not a thriller, but a statement of inevitability.
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Oju Chosan โ the absolute monarch who dominated steeplechase racing โ could never have started in the Arima Kinen without the fan voting system. It was fan voting that allowed us to witness that dream race come true. (Video: 2017 Nakayama Daishogai)
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On March 19, 2021โhis seventy-first birthdayโa man walked to the pond on his farm and threw himself into it. He had said it again and again, almost like a prayer: โWhen I leave this world, I donโt want it to be without winning the Derby. I canโt accept that. I absolutely canโt. Itโs nothing like the other G1s. For those of us who live in the world of horses, itโs a race apart.โ Yet he never held a single classic title, the Japanese Derby included. His name was Okada Shigeyuki. They called him the Commander. He called himself โthe man with Japanโs greatest eye for a horse,โ and many agreed. It never felt like boasting. He simply saw too much. He traveled to Britain and America when he was young, quarreled with his family, and built everything from scratch. Big Red Farm. Its satellites. The club. He challenged taboos in Japanese breedingโthings no one dared attemptโuntil those very acts became standard practice. Horses he bought, pedigrees others dismissed, kept turning up in the classics. Again and again. It was as if he could see not just what a horse was, but what it might become. Then came Sunday Silence, and the axis of racing shifted. Okada searched obsessively for a stallion who could surpass him. He looked everywhere, spent heavily, and invested without hesitation. Yet deep down, he knew the truth: Sunday Silence was a once-in-a-lifetime existence. There would be no second. Still, for the sake of the Derbyโthe dream he could not abandonโhe kept struggling. In 2008, on the Japanese Derby, a jockey called him. The colt had been favorite for the Satsuki Sho. Okada had even instructed him to ride with the Derby in mind, saying it was fine not to win the Satsuki. And yet, just before the Japanese Derby, Okada said quietly: โToday, ride however you like. We canโt beat Deep Sky.โ The jockey was stunned. From a man who had given everything to the Derby, such resignation felt unbearable. Deep Sky won. That was the curse of possessing the finest eye: he could see not only greatness, but also defeat. He continued to challenge the systemโJRA, local racing, entrenched power itself. Cosmo Bulk was his provocation. Favorite for the Satsuki Sho, yet the horse Okada feared most was the tenth choice, Daiwa Major. Daiwa Major won. Later came the era of Deep Impact and King Kamehameha. As they kept claiming the Derby, Okada could only smile bitterly. Northern Farm was simply too strong. And thenโat lastโa different thread. He managed, somehow, to bring Gold Ship in as a stallion. From his prized broodmare band came a filly: Uberleben. Two months after Okada died, she won the Japanese Oaks. It was the first classic victory for horses connected to him. The first time the dreamโhis dreamโbroke the surface of history and became real. After the finish, the jockey Mirco Demuro pointed to the sky. A win offered upward. A message. A payment, long overdue. People from Big Red Farm had brought Okadaโs photograph to Tokyo Racecourse, holding it as an altar in a place made of noise and speed. And then, from the rival campโNorthern FarmโYoshida Shunsuke stepped over, looked at the picture, and said with a rough tenderness that only rivals earn the right to show: โWhat is thisโฆ You shouldโve brought a bigger one.โ There was someone thereโusually composed, always steadyโwho, at that moment, could not stay standing inside himself. Tears spilled out. Then a sob that escaped the bodyโs permission. A collapse into grief so loud it startled the air. They had finally won a classic. And the one person who should have been thereโฆ wasnโt. Over the racecourse speakers, the announcement cameโformal, measured, incapable of hiding what it meant: โThoroughbred Club Ruffian records its first classic victory. This win is dedicated to Okada Shigeyuki, commander of the Meiner stable, who passed away on March 19 this year.โ
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TAIKI RUGGERO (Leontes ร Taiki Kirara by King Halo) wins his debut over Kyoto Turf 1800m at a jaw-dropping 170.6-1. Trainer Takano: โI was surprised. We were thinking dirt, but the owner said, โLetโs start on turf.โโ
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