FROM: Junichi Takada General Manager, Media & Publicity Department, THE JAPAN RACING ASSOCIATION (JRA) DATE: June 28, 2020 SUBJECT: RESULT OF THE 61ST TAKARAZUKA KINEN (G1) The Takarazuka Kinen, established in 1960, opened its doors to foreign-trained horses in 1997 and became the first international grade-one race designated by the International Cataloguing Standards Committee (ICSC) held in western Japan in 2001. The race joined the Breeders’ Cup Challenge Series in 2011, enabling its winner to earn automatic starting position in the Breeders’ Cup Turf (G1, 2,400m). The winner will also be eligible to start in the Cox Plate (2,040m) beginning last year. In 2018, the race welcomed Hong Kong’s 2015/16 Horse of the Year Werther (NZ, by Tavistock) who finished a neck second. He was the second foreign contender to challenge the race since Australian-trained Seto Stayer (AUS, by Bellotto; 9th) in 1997. It is a Grand Prix (All-Star) race, along with the year-end Arima Kinen (G1, 2,500m), in which the runners are selected by a fan poll. This year, the fans could only cast their votes online to select the ten most popular runners, as the voting at JRA racecourses and off-track betting sites was cancelled due to COVID-19. Among the horses entered in the race, ten runners with the most votes are entitled to run in the race while the rest of the field is determined in order of earnings. Last year’s winner Lys Gracieux (JPN, by Heart’s Cry) subsequently claimed the Cox Plate and the Arima Kinen to be named Horse of the Year. This year’s contenders that were among the top ten horses voted included; Lucky Lilac (2nd) and Chrono Genesis (6th), top two finishers in the Osaka Hai (G1, 2,000m; Apr.5), in which 2018 Tokyo Yushun (Japanese Derby, G1, 2,400m) victor Wagnerian (8th) and 2018 Arima Kinen champion Blast Onepiece (10th) finished fifth and seventh, respectively; 2019 Best Three-Year-Old Colt Saturnalia (3rd) who won his previous start, the Kinko Sho (G2, 2,000m; Mar.15); and Kiseki (7th), 2017 Kikuka Sho (Japanese St. Leger, G1, 3,000m) winner who were sixth in his latest start, the Tenno Sho (Spring) (G1, 3,200m; May.3). Other notable contenders included Stiffelio (19th), runner-up of this year’s Tenno Sho (Spring), Glory Vase (20th), winner of last year’s Hong Kong Vase (G1, 2,400m) and 2017 Mile Championship (G1, 1,600m) victor Persian Knight (35th). Horses that were ranked among the top ten but passed up their entry were: Almond Eye (JPN, M5, by Lord Kanaloa; 1st); Fierement (JPN, H5, by Deep Impact; 4th); World Premiere (JPN, C4, by Deep Impact; 5th); and Contrail (JPN, C3, by Deep Impact; 9th). THE 61ST TAKARAZUKA KINEN (G1) 3-year-olds & up, 2,200 meters (about 11 furlongs), turf, right-handed Sunday, June 28, 2020 Hanshin Racecourse 11th Race Post time: 15:40 Total prize money: ¥ 325,000,000 (about US$ 3,010,000 <US$1=¥108>) 3-y-o: 53kg (about 117 lbs), 4-y-o & up: 58kg (about 128 lbs), 2kg allowance for Fillies & Mares, 1kg allowance for Southern Hemisphere-bred born in 2016, 3kg allowance for Southern Hemisphere-bred born in 2017 Course Record: 2:10.1 Race Record: 2:10.1 [Earnestly (JPN, by Grass Wonder), 2011] Safety factor: 18 runners Going: Good Weather: Cloudy S&A Sire Owner Horse Odds Margin FP BK PP Color Dam Breeder Jockey Wgt (Fav) (L3F) (Dam’s Sire) Trainer F4 Bago Sunday Racing Co., Ltd. Chrono Genesis (JPN) 4.1 2:13.5 1 8 16 g. Chronologist Northern Racing Yuichi Kitamura (2) (36.3) 56.0 (Kurofune) Takashi Saito H6 Rulership Tatsue Ishikawa Kiseki (JPN) 14.2 6 2 7 14 d.b. Blitz Finale Shimokobe Farm Yutaka Take (6) (37.2) 58.0 (Deep Impact) Katsuhiko Sumii C4 Deep Brillante Capital System Co., Ltd. Mozu Bello (JPN) 106.1 5 3 6 12 b. Harlan's Ruby Murata Bokujo Kenichi Ikezoe (12) (37.6) 58.0 (Harlan's Holiday) Naoyuki Morita C4 Lord Kanaloa U. Carrot Farm Saturnalia (JPN) 2.4 1-3/4 4 3 5 d.b. Cesario Northern Farm Christophe Lemaire (1) (37.6) 58.0 (Special Week) Katsuhiko Sumii C4 Deep Impact Yoshio Matsumoto Meisho Tengen (JPN) 206.2 Neck 5 5 10 g. Meisho Beluga Mishima Bokujo Kohei Matsuyama (16) (37.4) 58.0 (French Deputy) Kaneo Ikezoe M5 Orfevre Sunday Racing Co., Ltd. Lucky Lilac (JPN) 4.9 2-1/2 6 6 11 ch. Lilacs and Lace Northern Racing Mirco Demuro (3) (38.8) 56.0 (Flower Alley) Mikio Matsunaga H5 Lohengrin Takaya Shimakawa Tosen Surya (JPN) 150.2 2 7 3 6 ch. Tosen Gracia Takaya Shimakawa Kazuo Yokoyama (14) (39.1) 58.0 (Durandal) Jiro Ono C4 Deep Impact Takaya Shimakawa Tosen Cambina (JPN) 83.8 Neck 8 1 1 b. Cambina Shadai Farm Suguru Hamanaka (11) (38.2) 58.0 (Hawk Wing) Katsuhiko Sumii G6 Rulership Sunday Racing Co., Ltd. Danburite (JPN) 82.9 1-1/4 9 7 13 d.b. Tanzanite Northern Farm Fuma Matsuwaka (10) (39.3) 58.0 (Sunday Silence) Hidetaka Otonashi C4 King Kamehameha TokyoHorseRacing Co. Ltd Red Genial (JPN) 169.0 3/4 10 4 8 d.b. Red Agate Shadai Farm Manabu Sakai (15) (38.9) 58.0 (Manhattan Cafe) Yoshitada Takahashi H6 Stay Gold Shadai Race Horse Co., Ltd. Stiffelio (JPN) 53.7 Nose 11 7 15 b. Serious Attitude Shadai Farm Hideaki Miyuki (8) (38.9) 58.0 (Mtoto) Hidetaka Otonashi H6 Deep Impact Koji Maeda Cadenas (JPN) 82.5 Neck 12 8 17 b. French Riviera Grand Stud Katsuma Sameshima (9) (38.5) 58.0 (French Deputy) Kazuya Nakatake H5 Deep Impact Kaneko Makoto Holdings Co., Ltd. Wagnerian (JPN) 19.8 Neck 13 4 7 b. Miss Encore Kaneko Makoto Holdings Inc. Yuichi Fukunaga (7) (39.6) 58.0 (King Kamehameha) Yasuo Tomomichi G5 Heart's Cry Junko Kondo Admire Alba (JPN) 526.4 5 14 5 9 b. Eridu Babylon Northern Farm Atsuya Nishimura (18) (39.1) 58.0 (Bernstein) Naosuke Sugai H6 Harbinger G1 Racing Co., Ltd. Persian Knight (JPN) 149.5 2 15 1 2 d.b. Orient Charm Oiwake Farm Ryuji Wada (13) (40.5) 58.0 (Sunday Silence) Yasutoshi Ikee H5 Harbinger Silk Racing Co., Ltd. Blast Onepiece (JPN) 9.9 Head 16 8 18 b. Tsurumaru Onepiece Northern Farm Yuga Kawada (4) (40.3) 58.0 (King Kamehameha) Masahiro Otake H5 Deep Impact Silk Racing Co., Ltd. Glory Vase (JPN) 10.7 5 17 2 3 d.b. Mejiro Tsubone Lake Villa Farm Damian Lane (5) (41.2) 58.0 (Swept Overboard) Tomohito Ozeki G5 Stay Gold Godolphin African Gold (JPN) 413.5 DS 18 2 4 ch. Blixen Darley Japan K. K Kanichiro Fujii (17) (43.5) 58.0 (Gone West) Masato Nishizono FP: Final Position / BK: Bracket Number / PP: Post Position / S&A: Sex & Age / Wgt: Weight (kg) / L3F: Time of Last 3 Furlongs (600m) / DS: Distance Color: b.=bay / bl.=black / br.=brown / ch.=chestnut / d.b.=dark bay / d.ch.=dark chestnut / g.=gray / w.=white NOTE 1: No Foreign Contenders NOTE 2: Figures quoted under Odds are shown in form of decimal odds (single unit is ¥100), and Fav indicates the order of favorites. Turnover for the Race alone: ¥ 20,398,659,400 Turnover for the Day: ¥ 29,293,658,100 Pay-off (for ¥100) Win No.16 ¥ 410 Bracket Quinella 7-8 ¥ 1,180 Quinella 14-16 ¥ 3,410 No.16 ¥ 180 14-16 ¥ 790 Exacta 16-14 ¥ 5,350 Place No.14 ¥ 370 Quinella Place 12-16 ¥ 3,910 Trio 12-14-16 ¥ 51,240 No.12 ¥ 1,280 12-14 ¥ 12,070 Trifecta 16-14-12 ¥ 183,870 Winner= 11 starts, 6 wins, 2 seconds, 2 thirds / Added money: ¥ 153,780,000 / Career earnings: ¥ 531,658,000 Second Pick Chrono Genesis Claims This Year’s Takarazuka Kinen in Sweeping Victory Second pick Chrono Genesis claimed this year’s Takarazuka Kinen to register her second G1 title following her win in last year’s Shuka Sho (2,000m), the last jewel of the fillies Triple Crown. Marking her third graded victory in her kick off start of this season in the Kyoto Kinen (G2, 2,200m) over a yielding track in February, she finished a neck second in the previous Osaka Hai (G1, 2,000m) in April. For trainer Takashi Saito, this win marked his third JRA-G1 title following his NHK Mile Cup win with Lauda Sion in May and for jockey Yuichi Kitamura, his fourth JRA-G1 victory following the Hanshin Juvenile Fillies title with Resistencia in December last year. Chrono Genesis, one of the only two female contenders in an “All-Star” field, broke smoothly out of stall 16 and settled around ninth from frontrunner Tosen Surya. Continuing to take a wide route rounding the last two corners, the Bago filly advanced strongly to enter the lane in second behind Lucky Lilac. Once assuming command 300 meters out, the four-year-old filly unleashed a powerful kick despite the somewhat soft going due to rain, leaving the field behind to win the race with a race-record margin of six lengths. “The filly broke smoothly and we were able to travel in good rhythm in good striking position. I didn’t really have to urge her to go but she just went spontaneously. She was responding really well so I knew that she will stretch well in the lane. She has become a powerful filly and was in very good condition.