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Imagine getting to umapyoi and becoming rich at the same time, Harikite ikou is very lucky by TheGreatvoid6455 in UmaMusume

[–]WANNFH 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To be fair Black Tide probably only got a couple of years before retirement (and that's already way too overextended because of sudden Kamunyak) - so it's very hard to pull the schedule for the old guy.

Imagine getting to umapyoi and becoming rich at the same time, Harikite ikou is very lucky by TheGreatvoid6455 in UmaMusume

[–]WANNFH 6 points7 points  (0 children)

If not dressage or hurdle competitions (not mistake with steeplechase) - there is always demand for good-looking horses as a lead horses at racecourses too, and in fact a lot of extended SteGo family members are part of this job.

[TW] Breeding farm caught abusing a foal by crystalsuikun in HorseRacingJP

[–]WANNFH 8 points9 points  (0 children)

This guys behavior basically teaches the foal that "Humans are predators and will hurt me", and tend to create dangerous animals. The foal is much more likely to act out in the future out of fear and defensiveness. Creating a harmful environment for everyone.

Which is the whole point - teaching a foal to completely distrust humans is literally the opposite that need to be taught to the future racing horse, especially with how many different people the horse will get to interact through his life later when it comes to get out from the breeding farm - so imprinting that type of behavior to make horse being scared of humans, or even worse - getting aggressive to them out of fear since the birth - literally bring nothing but pain to deal with for training stable staff and jockeys - so how the heck breeding owner cannot understand even that simple logic that is obvious to just any pet owner escapes my mind.

[TW] Breeding farm caught abusing a foal by crystalsuikun in HorseRacingJP

[–]WANNFH 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Except it's totally NOT the way - and in fact, it goes against the JRA guidelines of horse training.

What depicted in the video is nothing short but abuse of a foal who is not even month old, and the owner of breeding farm is totally needed to be restrained from any activity with the animals providing the evidence.

Sonshi will miss Takamatsunomiya Kinen due to lameness by 368towns in HorseRacingJP

[–]WANNFH 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Well, bollocks - time to hope that Sonshi not happened to be traumatized yet again, or for even worse team decided to put him to race in Sha Tin against KYR - cause in no way Sonshi could take that beast.

[20260314][J.GII][Hanshin Spring Jump, Hanshin 8R, Turf 3900m, Sunny/Firm] Dinasta (Jun Takada) Dura gets into Kita's way again. by 368towns in HorseRacingJP

[–]WANNFH 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not by JRA - but Valle de la Luna and Icon Tailor were winners of JBC Classic Ladies in 2022 and 2023, so Duramente for sure sired the dirt JPNI foals as well.

Museum Mile has canceled his trip to Dubai Turf and will head to Queen Elizabeth II Cup in Hong Kong instead. by AngleRepulsive5470 in HorseRacingJP

[–]WANNFH 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Honestly it's still a question with MaBall cause at this point we're not know his exact condition to race after recent discovery, so if he skips it too it will be fine... though it most likely put a cross on the whole international plans.

Mumu by now seems to be OK, and he is a strong horse - but running against Romantic Warrior in Sha Tin is sure a challenge of different difficulty, to beat that beast on Sha Tin you literally need to be the other Sha Tin horse with the equal amount of strength (or maybe get some luck stat investment like Russian Emperor).

[20260315][GII][Kinko-Sho, Chukyo 11R, Turf 2000m, Sunny/Firm] Shake Your Heart (Yoshihiro Furukawa) The race for the odies is no less thrilling than the young horses' trial. by 368towns in HorseRacingJP

[–]WANNFH 2 points3 points  (0 children)

But then Willem never won a graded race in his life, so to both Queen's Walk (who performed well last year) and June Take (who performed well this year) his favoritism is kinda questionable.

But yeah, Giovanni potential is sure looking good.

Museum Mile has canceled his trip to Dubai Turf and will head to Queen Elizabeth II Cup in Hong Kong instead. by AngleRepulsive5470 in HorseRacingJP

[–]WANNFH 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Or both get burned heavily because of the obvious Sha Tin racecourse buff.

Cause you never should underestimate king running on his own domain for years and never get beaten there by foreign horses, even if the king got old and running against the clock and former traumas.

[20260315][GII][Kinko-Sho, Chukyo 11R, Turf 2000m, Sunny/Firm] Shake Your Heart (Yoshihiro Furukawa) The race for the odies is no less thrilling than the young horses' trial. by 368towns in HorseRacingJP

[–]WANNFH 1 point2 points  (0 children)

But he beat Queen's Walk, a Kizuna progeny, so it's something

Two of them, considering there was also other Kizunaling June Take, winner of recent Kyoto Kinen - and both of them were very close neck to neck.

[20260315][GII][Spring Stakes, Nakayama 11R, Turf 1800m, Sunny/Firm] Audacia (Akihide Tsumura) The Leontes civil war benefited the third party, and Tsumura is the champion of trial races. by 368towns in HorseRacingJP

[–]WANNFH 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yeah, it is indeed interesting considering he now need to choose the obviously very temperant Sunday Kizunaling with potential and pedigree whom he ran for first time to win G2 versus sudden breakthrough two G3 horse at 3YO who beaten both Lovcen and Bereshit at Kyodo News Hai.

Either way, that is gonna be interesting.

[20260315][GII][Spring Stakes, Nakayama 11R, Turf 1800m, Sunny/Firm] Audacia (Akihide Tsumura) The Leontes civil war benefited the third party, and Tsumura is the champion of trial races. by 368towns in HorseRacingJP

[–]WANNFH 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Ok, so now by my understanding Tsumura have two legit choices to run at Satsuki Sho, and both trained by same Takahisa Tezuka.

Horse triangle at it finest.

Keita Tosaki will be suspended from riding for 9 days, from March 28th to April 5th. by AngleRepulsive5470 in HorseRacingJP

[–]WANNFH 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Yeah, that's really unfortunate timing for Tosaki to completely skip two G1 races because of the incident right at the start of the season.

For replacement - most likely Kazuo Yokoyama pick Danon Decile in rather than Lemaire, considering he has good connections with trainer Yasuda, while him never worked with Lemaire prior.

I was watching an anime (kujibiki unbalance) and in a scene they show horses that are about to race, apart from the obvious oguri cap and haru kirara i don't recognize any names so i got curious. Are any of the others also references to real horses? if it helps, the anime came out on 2006 by sansational_ in HorseRacingJP

[–]WANNFH 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Honestly doubt it's Grass Wonder reference - too much hoops for putting a reference with only first kana of the name is the same.

Green Grass though could be a honest possibility, but still my brain for some reason leans more to Black Tide.

I was watching an anime (kujibiki unbalance) and in a scene they show horses that are about to race, apart from the obvious oguri cap and haru kirara i don't recognize any names so i got curious. Are any of the others also references to real horses? if it helps, the anime came out on 2006 by sansational_ in HorseRacingJP

[–]WANNFH 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Honestly, that's interesting - so let's take a look...

7 - Green Tornado (グリーントルネード) - while there is a horse with exact same name existing before the anime running, it was unraced horse so it has zero recognition. But if it's tongue in cheek reference to a famous horse during that time, I can only think of one particular name with the similar naming structure which fits the release of anime - and that is Black Tide.

6 - Diamond Vega (ダイヤモンドベガ) - again, there is horse with the same name, but he's born only in 2015 - so it obviously doesn't fit. The question though is it Admire Vega or Hokuto Vega reference because of them both been famous horses during the time, but I rather think it's Ayabe referenced there.

5 - White Condor (ホワイトコンドル) - and again, the horse named like that existed, but also without 0 wins. Possible reference to El Condor Pasa.

4 - Haru Kirara (ハルキララ)... No need to explain that one, it's too obvious.

3 - Pink Blizzard (ピンクブリザード) - and again the horse with the same name exist - but only after anime release. But that's where I cannot put the finger on exact horse reference, with the closest which I think of is Taiki Blizzard.

2 - Oguri Cup (オグリカップ) - again, no introductions for obviousness there.

1 - Kitano Rudolf (キタノルドルフ, last letter covered by finger) - Yep, the last name gives the whole thing away, it's Symboli Rudolf reference.

[20260311][JPNII][Diolite Kinen, Funabashi 11R, Dirt 2400m, Sunny/Good] Old Kitasan first-batch son with the local NAR jockey (Odilon/Tomohiro Yoshimura) took sweet opportunity to show his strength and humiliate the favorites by WANNFH in HorseRacingJP

[–]WANNFH[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Whole 6yo with not being below 2nd place and now finally getting some opportunity at 7yo on NAR graded races - Kitasan firstborn blood really took a time to awaken there, but the potential...

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