ARIMA KINEN (THE GRAND PRIX) (G1)

2013 Winner : Orfevre

Sunday, 28 December 2014

Weight:

3yo

55 kg

4yo+

57 kg

Allowance:

Fillies & Mares		2 kg
Southern Hemisphere Bred born in	2011	2 kg

Barrier Draw

NAKAYAMA 10R, THE ARIMA KINEN (THE GRAND PRIX)(G1)

Post Time : 15:25

December 28, 2014, 2500m, Turf

INT DSN, Special Weight, 3-Year-Olds & Up, Open Class, Value of race: 384,800,000 Yen

 

	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	total
Added Money (Yen)	200,000,000	80,000,000	50,000,000	30,000,000	20,000,000	380,000,000
Stakes Money (Yen)	3,360,000	960,000	480,000	0	0	4,800,000
Total (Yen)	203,360,000	80,960,000	50,480,000	30,000,000	20,000,000	384,800,000

 

Bk	Hs	Horse	Colors	Sex Age	Weight (Kg)	Sire Dam	Dam’s sire Dam’s dam	Jockey  Trainer	Owner Breeder
1	1	Tosen Ra(JPN)		H6	57.0	Deep Impact Princess Olivia	Lycius Dance Image	Yutaka Take Hideaki Fujiwara	Takaya Shimakawa Shadai Farm
1	2	Verxina(JPN)		M5	55.0	Deep Impact Halwa Sweet	Machiavellian Halwa Song	Hiroyuki Uchida Yasuo Tomomichi	Kazuhiro Sasaki Northern Racing
2	3	One and Only(JPN)		C3	55.0	Heart’s Cry Virtue	Taiki Shuttle Saint Amour	Norihiro Yokoyama Kojiro Hashiguchi	Koji Maeda North Hills Co . Ltd.
2	4	Gentildonna(JPN)		M5	55.0	Deep Impact Donna Blini	Bertolini Cal Norma’s Lady	Keita Tosaki Sei Ishizaka	Sunday Racing Co. Ltd. Northern Racing
3	5	Lachesis(JPN)		F4	55.0	Deep Impact Magic Storm	Storm Cat Foppy Dancer	Cristian Demuro Katsuhiko Sumii	Masaya Oshima Northern Farm
3	6	To the World(JPN)		C3	55.0	King Kamehameha To the Victory	Sunday Silence Fairy Doll	William Buick Yasutoshi Ikee	U.Carrot Farm Northern Racing
4	7	Last Impact(JPN)		C4	57.0	Deep Impact Superior Pearl	Timber Country Pacificus	Yuji Hishida Hiroyoshi Matsuda	Silk Racing Co. Ltd. Shadai Corporation Inc.
4	8	Meisho Mambo(JPN)		F4	55.0	Suzuka Mambo Meisho Momoka	Grass Wonder Meisho Ayame	Koshiro Take Yuji Iida	Yoshio Matsumoto Yoshio Matsumoto
5	9	Win Variation(JPN)		H6	57.0	Heart’s Cry Super Ballerina	Storm Bird Count On a Change	Kota Fujioka Masahiro Matsunaga	Win Co. Ltd. Northern Racing
5	10	Fenomeno(JPN)		H5	57.0	Stay Gold De Laroche	Danehill Sea Port	Hironobu Tanabe Hirofumi Toda	Sunday Racing Co. Ltd. Oiwake Farm
6	11	Satono Noblesse(JPN)		C4	57.0	Deep Impact Cry with Joy	Tony Bin Cryingformore	Kenichi Ikezoe Yasutoshi Ikee	Hajime Satomi Mejiro Stud
6	12	Denim and Ruby(JPN)		F4	55.0	Deep Impact Venenciador	King Kamehameha Fairy Doll	Suguru Hamanaka Katsuhiko Sumii	Kaneko Makoto Holdings Co. Ltd. Northern Farm
7	13	Epiphaneia(JPN)		C4	57.0	Symboli Kris S Cesario	Special Week Kirov Premiere	Yuga Kawada Katsuhiko Sumii	U.Carrot Farm Northern Farm
7	14	Gold Ship(JPN)		H5	57.0	Stay Gold Point Flag	Mejiro McQueen Pastoralism	Yasunari Iwata Naosuke Sugai	Kobayashi Eiichi Holdings LLC. Eiichi Kobayashi
8	15	Just a Way(JPN)		H5	57.0	Heart’s Cry Sibyl	Wild Again Charon	Yuichi Fukunaga Naosuke Sugai	Akatsuki Yamatoya Shadai Corporation Inc.
8	16	Ocean Blue(JPN)		H6	57.0	Stay Gold Peu a Peu	Dashing Blade Plains Indian	Masayoshi Ebina Yasutoshi Ikee	Aoshiba Shoji Co. Ltd. Shadai Farm

Main contenders all fine for Arima Kinen 26/12/2014 Nearly all the horses aimed at the Sunday G1 Arima Kinen were given their last fast work on 24 December at their respective training grounds – Miho in the east, Ritto in the west. All eyes were on Just a Way, Epiphaneia and Gold Ship. The trio are neck and neck in the popularity polls, with forecast odds hovering at about 3.5 to 1. Epiphaneia was given his usual pre-race workout of 1200m on the woodchip course at Ritto under the strong urging of jockey Yuga Kawada. He clocked 80.6 seconds with a last 200m time of 12.4 seconds. Kawada’s responses were characteristically low-key afterward, “The work went off without a mishap, which is good,” he said. Kawada will be riding the colt in a race for the first time. “I did get on once for gate practice when he was a 2-year-old,” Kawada said the 4-year-old colt has grown a lot since then. “He’s a different horse now. He’s also quite excitable before a race, unlike in work, where he’s relaxed. I’ll be careful to try to not let him get too excited.” Kawada added that his main concern over the 2500m would be trying to keep the horse patient. Just a Way worked under jockey Yuichi Fukunaga over 1000m up the hill course. He clocked 54.9 seconds with a 12.9 final 200m under strong urging. “We started the workout behind an older horse. I was asked to check his responses and bring him out and past the other horse over the last furlong,” Fukunaga said. “And, I think all went well, and everything was according to instructions. He felt good. He’s the kind of horse that does best with a sharpener and his muscle tone looks better now.” Fukunaga said he wasn’t worried about the Nakayama venue. “He has won graded races there and I don’t think it’s a big factor against him.” The other big question surrounding Just a Way is the distance. The 2500m of the Arima is a first for Just a Way and Fukunaga wasn’t pretending it will be easy. According to Fukunaga, Just a Way had not been at his best for the G1 Japan Cup. “He wasn’t his usual self in work before that race either. But this time, I think he’s back to his best. I think he’ll be in very good shape come raceday. The competition will be very strong. But I believe he has what it takes to overcome all of it.” Gold Ship worked in tandem up the hill course with jockey Yasunari Iwata in the saddle. He clocked 52.1 seconds over 1000m, with a 12.8-second final 200m with strong urging. Following the workout, Iwata said, “There was some concern about his work last week so they asked me to ride today and I think he’s totally different today. He felt great. When he lined up with the other horse, he took the bit and quickened beautifully. I think he’ll be able to run a good race.” Gentildonna worked under an assistant trainer over 1000m of slightly slow going up the hill course. She clocked 54.5 seconds and finished up with a 13.3-second final 200m. Keita Tosaki, slated for the ride in the Arima, rode her for work last week as well. “She felt really good and was very eager to run. I was instructed to push her pretty hard while watching how she was doing. The ground was pretty bad so I didn’t push her.” Trainer Sei Ishizaka commented as well.  “This week and last week, she worked in tandem to help get her switched on,” Ishizaka explained. “She moved as expected. It’s her third race of the fall and I think this amount of work is enough.” Ishizaka said he believed Gentildonna had tried her best in the Japan Cup, but the rain-affected track was a factor in her loss. One and Only, this year’s Derby winner, finished seventh in the Japan Cup, but trainer Kojiro Hashiguchi says the colt is in good shape. “He didn’t show any particular signs of fatigue after that run. In the Japan Cup, he ran from a forward position and hung on for seventh. He wasn’t able to make the top but he looked very good in parts. I think he has every chance of winning this time.” Plans are to run One and Only in the G1 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes next year at Ascot. Hopes are high the colt can wrap up his 3-year-old season with a winning run.

 

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2014 Arima Kinen (The Grand Prix) (G1) – Preview     The 59th Arima Kinen (The Grand Prix) will not only see off the JRA’s 2014 season but also a couple of horses who carved out their own piece of Japanese racing history in Just a Way and Gentildonna. The two 5-year-olds will run in the 2,500-meter race at Nakayama Racecourse this weekend for the first time. The Arima Kinen is the people’s race in Japan, with arguably the highest turnover in the world alongside the Grand National. The first 10 horses in the maximum field of 16 are chosen by the fans. This year’s top vote-getter ahead of six-time Grade 1 champion Gentildonna was Gold Ship, the winner of the 2012 race. Just a Way, the No. 1 ranked thoroughbred in the world, was fifth. While Oka Sho (Japanese 1000 Guineas) champion Harp Star (third), Satsuki Sho (Japanese 2000 Guineas) winnerIsla Bonita (fourth), Tenno Sho (Autumn) champion Spielberg (ninth) and Kikuka Sho (Japanese St. Leger) winnerToho Jackal (10th) have backed out from the top 10, the set for Dec. 28 still looks impressive with 10 horses who have won at the top level including newly crowned Japan Cup champion Epiphaneia. With a purse of 416 million yen – 200 million yen of it going to the winner – the Arima Kinen had revenue of more than 36 billion yen last year and at its all-time high 18 years ago, raked in more than 87.5 billion yen. It is a national sporting event in Japan that reaches far beyond the usual fan base, much like the Grand National does in Britain, the Kentucky Derby in the United States, the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe in France and the Melbourne Cup in Australia. The Arima Kinen started out as the Nakayama Grand Prix, founded in 1956 at the behest of then JRA president Yoriyasu Arima, who felt compelled to organize a race at Nakayama that could match the Tokyo Yushun (Japanese Derby) at Tokyo in terms of prestige and popularity. Arima also decided to let the fans vote in the field, which was a novel concept back in the times. The inaugural race was held at 2,600 meters and after Arima passed away in January 1957, it was renamed after the late president. The Arima Kinen has been held at the current distance of 2,500 meters since 1966, and began allowing foreign-bred horses from 1971. It received international Grade 1 status in 2007, opening up the door to as many as six horses from overseas. The Arima Kinen starts near the end of the backstretch, circling Nakayama’s inner oval clockwise for a lap and a half before hitting the final straight. The homestretch at the track remains short at 310 meters, but rises hard over the last 200 meters, testing the power and stamina of the runners. Compared to the Sprinters Stakes held on Nakayama’s outside course, the turns are tighter in the Arima Kinen, making positioning absolutely crucial during the trip. The race record is 2 minutes, 29.5 seconds set by Zenno Rob Roy in 2004. The Arima Kinen is the 10th race on the card, with post time set at 3:25 p.m. The draw on Thursday will be broadcast live in Japan for the first time, with the connections of each horse able to choose the post number in order of lot. The following are the early favorites among the field: Epiphaneia EPIPHANEIA: Epiphaneia was only eighth at the ballot boxes for the Arima Kinen, trailing Gold Ship by almost 25,000 votes. But after the Japan Cup he had, trainer Katsuhiko Sumii’s prized 4-year-old could very well be the top choice at the morning line for the Arima Kinen. “I think the other horses simply couldn’t keep up, racing the way he did,” assistant trainer Kengo Takada said, reflecting on the Nov. 30 Japan Cup at Fuchu, where Epiphaneia beatJust a Way by a shocking four lengths for his second career Grade 1 victory. “The jockey (Christophe Soumillon) really had to work to settle him. He rode a heck of a race. It probably helped that the horse ran the Tenno Sho (Autumn) beforehand, to shake off the rust.” The Japan Cup was the colt’s first win in more than a year, the first since he won the Kikuka Sho. By two-time Arima Kinen champion Symboli Kris S out of the American Oaks winnerCesario, Epiphaneia’s potential has been touted since birth. While he has never done worse than sixth place, in the Queen Elizabeth II Cup at Hong Kong this April, his temperament prevented him from making the most of his physical gifts. For that reason, Epiphaneia settled for a narrow second in both the Satsuki Sho and the Derby and even though he won the Japan Cup by a comfortable margin, Soumillon almost lost control of his mount on the backstretch. The Belgian said, “Until the final straight, he was running at the pace of a miler.” Keeping him relaxed continues to be the name of the game for Epiphaneia at the Sumii stable, although the uber horse appears to have grown up physically. “He tends to switch on as soon as you start working him so right now we’re just trying to keep him loose,” Takada said. “No heavy workload yet – that we’ll do a week before the race. He seemed a little tired the day after (the Japan Cup), but the race didn’t take as much out of him as I thought. He doesn’t seem different on the eye but when you ask the jockeys, they say the horse has gotten stronger. He’s finally filled out, I guess.” Epiphaneia’s stamina has already been spoken for, but Sumii and his team admit they are worried about the dimensions of the 2,500 meters at Nakayama, especially in the colt’s first partnership with Yuga Kawada. However if his ultra-talented parents’ genes have truly kicked in, then a repeat performance of the Japan Cup from Epiphaneia wouldn’t be completely surprising. “I think that’s the only sticking point for him; it’s hard to think the layout will suit him,” Takada said. “But maybe it’s something we don’t need to worry about. We’re also kind of hoping he might just overpower the entire field.” Fenomeno   FENOMENO: The autumn campaign for the two-time defending Tenno Sho (Spring) champion has been disappointing to say the least. The 5-year-old son by Stay Gold out of the Danehill dam De Laroche belied his fans who made him the third pick in the Tenno Sho (Autumn) by sinking to 14th out of 18. The Hirofumi Toda-trained Fenomeno then dropped to eighth in the Japan Cup as the ninth favorite. The flops have been inexplicable to those who know and don’t know Fenomeno. But there’s no denying the talent in him; on top of his two Emperor’s Cup titles, he was runner-up in the 2012 Derby and the Tenno Sho (Autumn) and was also fourth in the 2013 Takarazuka Kinen. The unpredictable Fenomeno, who will be ridden by Hironobu Tanabe for the first time (only Masayoshi Ebina and Yasunari Iwata have jockeyed the horse in his 16 starts), could be an intriguing bet for the punters as it is still too early to write him off. But as far as his people are concerned, he could easily bounce back to turn the tables on the rest of the competition – even in a race as grandeur as the Arima Kinen. “There are no problems as far as I’m concerned. He’s made two starts this fall so he just been breezing,” assistant trainer Yoshinori Saito said. “We lost in the Tenno Sho (Autumn) because it was his first race back from a layoff, the Japan Cup because of the outside barrier we drew. He quit at the end of the Tenno Sho but finished the Japan Cup strong. We need to make our move early and try to hang on.” Gentildonna   GENTILDONNA: Perhaps the sentimental favorite in this year’s Arima Kinen, Gentildonna will hope to have one, last laugh in her decorated career by tying her father Deep Impact for a joint record of seven Grade 1 titles. “She’s been coming along well since her last race so we wanted the fans to have one last look at her in the Arima Kinen,” trainer Sei Ishizaka said, referring to the Japan Cup in which she ended up fourth as the first choice, coming up short in a bid to win the race for an unprecedented third straight year. Few horses in the history of the JRA have enjoyed the kind of success Gentildonna has had. As a 3-year-old, she became the fourth horse of all time to capture the filly’s Triple Crown and topped it off by winning her first Japan Cup over the legendary Orfevre, the first 3-year-old filly to accomplish the feat. She made only four starts the following season but successfully defended the Japan Cup title, becoming the race’s first repeat winner. This season, Gentildonna, who will be retired during a post-race ceremony on Sunday, struck gold overseas, capturing the Dubai Sheema Classic back in March for her first win on foreign soil. She hasn’t made the trip to the winner’s circle in the autumn but Ishizaka is counting that she will at Nakayama –Gentildonna will race there for her first time – to take a final victory lap that will draw the curtain on what has been a phenomenal career. “We thought maybe in her last race the offtrack affected her,” Ishizaka said. “She’s been full of energy since the Japan Cup; I see her and I see a racehorse who can’t wait to run again. She’s only raced twice this fall and I don’t see any signs of fatigue. Even if she has an average race, she should finish near the top. This will be it for her, but all I want for her is to come home in one piece. It’s all I ask.” Gold Ship   GOLD SHIP: The most popular racehorse in Japan with five Grade 1 titles, nine graded victories and more than a billion yen in earnings, Gold Ship is seeking to end the year with his second Arima Kinen win. “There is a bit of pressure on us because he has so many fans; we really appreciate the support he gets year after year,” trainer Naosuke Sugai said of his 5-year-old horse, who won 11,000 more votes than Gentildonna to finish atop the Arima Kinen fan voting. “The 2,500 meters at Nakayama is perfect for him. He’s got the talent so we’re expecting him to come through for us here.” The Stay Gold son, out of the Mejiro McQueen mare Point Flag, will start for the first time since finishing 14th in the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe on Oct. 5, his first race overseas. Sugai and his team like to attribute the loss to the relaxed environment in France that made Gold Ship, the two-time defending champion of the Takarazuka Kinen, think he was farmed out and never switched him on. Since returning to Japan, however, Gold Ship has been on his toes, ready to run in the race he was third in last year. The Nov. 30 Japan Cup was an option, Sugai said, but the trainer wanted Gold Ship 100 percent for a race he’s had previous success in. Should Gold Shipwin this weekend, he would be the first horse ever to capture the spring and autumn Grand Prix twice each. “He had a good buildup to (the Arc) and was in good condition, but just seemed to quit during the actual race itself,” Sugai said, referring to the Oct. 5 race at Longchamp. “The race didn’t take much out of him because he wasn’t close to being serious. But we took into consideration the air travel so we passed on the Japan Cup and set our sights on (the Arima Kinen). The rest was well worth it because he came back to the stable looking very fit and has been shaping up nicely ever since. He might still be a little bit on the heavy side, but he should be just right after his fast work on the week of the race.” Just a Way   JUST A WAY: The 5-year-old Heart’s Cry son had a smashing first half to the season that saw him climb to the top of the world rankings. After cruising to victory in the Nakayama Kinen on March 2, Just a Way stunned the racing world by destroying the competition in the Dubai Duty Free, winning by more than six lengths. He returned home to net his third Grade 1 title in the Yasuda Kinen in June, solidifying his standing as the No. 1 horse in Japan. Along with stablemate Gold Ship and Harp Star, the Naosuke Sugai-trained Just a Way took a shot at the Arc but ended up eighth as the third choice. He took a distant second to Epiphaneia in the Japan Cup, which was originally set to be his farewell race. But at the urging of ownership, Just a Way will bow out in what will be his first and only appearance in the Arima Kinen. “It was his first race back from France, but he adjusted well to the distance and showed a lot of heart,” Sugai said, looking back on the Japan Cup. “We felt like we got a lot out of the performance. He took it easy for a week or so after the race, and that allowed him to recuperate enough for (the Arima Kinen). He’s shown no signs of stress and has really been picking it up; he finished ahead of Gold Ship in the workout a week ago.” Until the Arc,Just a Way hadn’t run 2,400 meters since the Derby as a 3-year-old, but put to bed any doubts about not being able to handle the distance with his performance in the Japan Cup. Having conquered the 2,400 meters at Fuchu, Sugai isn’t worried about the 2,500 meters at Nakayama and is giving Just a Way’s form a big thumbs up going into the final race of his career. “His action was very good, and his form is really improving. If he’s giving off the vibes he’s giving off now during the week of the race, I think we’ll have a lot to look forward to. He’s had a solid track record at Nakayama, and he proved in his previous race that he can cover the distance. The terms of the race don’t worry us. After the Japan Cup he had, he’s ready to give it everything he’s got now. This will be the last race for him so I just want him to end his career with no regrets; it’s all I ask.” One and Only   ONE AND ONLY: The fall hasn’t quite been what was expected of this season’s Japanese Derby winner, who slumped to ninth in the Kikuka Sho and seventh in the Japan Cup. But trainer Kojiro Hashiguchi likes what he saw from the Heart’s Cry-sired One and Only in the Japan Cup despite defeat, enough to enter the colt in the star-studded season-ender. “The horse that won ran a strong race, but he wasn’t far behind anyone else,” Hashiguchi said. “If he was barely clinging on to seventh place that would’ve been one thing; if that were the case, we wouldn’t use him in the Arima Kinen. But he came from behind and gained to finish seventh, which gave us hope, that he might catch up all the way the next time around.” Hashiguchi also took advice from jockey Norihiro Yokoyama, who believes Nakayama suits One and Only’s style. While the homestretch at Nakayama is only 300 meters-plus long, Yokoyama says, the tightness of the track actually works to the favor of the late runners. Showing no signs of tiring and his appetite remaining strong, One and Only, whose father shocked Deep Impact in the race nine years ago, could be an intriguing pick for the punters this weekend. “He came up short in the Yayoi Sho and the Satsuki Sho, but we were happy with the performance,” Hashiguchi said. “Yokoyama said the course favors the closers and I think he’s right; the pace tends to pick up because everyone moves forward trying to get good position. We’ll need the weather to hold up but if it does, I think we can sneak up on the favorites.”

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