FROM: Media & Publicity Department, THE JAPAN RACING ASSOCIATION (JRA) DATE: May 2, 2021 SUBJECT: RESULT OF THE 163RD TENNO SHO (SPRING) (G1) The forerunner of the Tenno Sho was established in 1905 under the name “Emperor’s Cup”, in which the winner received the silver comport bestowed by the Emperor. The race was renamed to “Teishitsu Goshoten Kyoso” the following year. The race became biannual events—held at Hanshin in spring and at Tokyo in autumn—a year after the establishment of the Japan Racing Society (the forerunner of the Japan Racing Association) in 1936 and was officially named the “Tenno Sho” since the autumn of 1947. The Tenno Sho (Spring) became the ultimate competition to determine the champion stayer, having altered its distance to 3,200 meters in 1938 while its counterpart in autumn run over 2,000 meters is one of the biggest middle-distance events contested between the proven older horses with the addition of the three-year-old hopefuls. The venue of the spring version was also moved to Kyoto Racecourse in 1948 and has been shifted to Hanshin due to the renovation of Kyoto’s grandstand this year. The Tenno Sho (Spring) was designated as an international race in 2005 and welcomed Makybe Diva (GB, by Desert King) of Australia as the first foreign contender the same year. She finished seventh and subsequently went on to make history back home by winning her third consecutive Melbourne Cup (G1, 3,200m). Red Cadeaux (GB, Cadeaux Genereux) was the latest foreign contender of this race in 2014, running for the second time after finishing third in the 2013 edition, but was unable to perform over the firm turf and finished 14th. With 2019-20 champion Fierement (JPN, by Deep Impact) retired from racing after finishing third in the year-end Arima Kinen (G1, 2,500m), this year’s line-up saw Deep Bond who registered his second graded title in the Hanshin Daishoten (G2, 3,000m, Mar.21), along with You Can Smile in second and Namura Donovan in third while the American Jockey Club Cup (G2, 2,200m, Jan.24) winner Aristoteles was a disappointing seventh. Win Marilyn also came off her second grade-race win in the Nikkei Sho (G2, 2,500m, Mar.27) after rallying with Curren Bouquetd’or (2nd) and 2019 Kikuka Sho (Japanese St. Leger, G1, 3,000m) victor World Premiere (3rd). Other key runners were Authority, two-time G2 winner and the Diamond Stakes (G3, 3,400m, Feb.20) runner-up, Diastima, victor of the Shorai Stakes (3 Wins Class, 3,200m, Feb.27), and 2016 Tokyo Yushun (Japanese Derby, G1, 2,400m) winner Makahiki. THE 163RD TENNO SHO (SPRING) (G1) 4-year-olds & up, 3,200 meters (about 16 furlongs), turf, right-handed Sunday, May 2, 2021 Hanshin Racecourse 11th Race Post time: 15:40 Total prize money: ¥ 325,000,000 (about US$ 3,096,000 <US$1=¥105>) 4-y-o & up: 58kg (about 128 lbs), 2kg allowance for Fillies & Mares, 1kg allowance for Southern Hemisphere-bred born in 2017 Course Record: 3:14.7 Race Record: 3:12.5 [Kitasan Black (JPN, by Black Tide), Kyoto, 2017] Safety factor: 18 runners Going: Good to Firm Weather: Fine S&A Sire Owner Horse Odds Margin FP BK PP Color Dam Breeder Jockey (Fav) (L3F) Wgt (Dam’s Sire) Trainer H5 Deep Impact Ryoichi Otsuka World Premiere (JPN) 5.2 3:14.7 1 1 1 d.b. Mandela Northern Racing Yuichi Fukunaga (3) (36.7) 58.0 (Acatenango) Yasuo Tomomichi C4 Kizuna Shinji Maeda Deep Bond (JPN) 3.6 3/4 2 6 12 br. Zephyranthes Murata Bokujo Ryuji Wada (1) (37.1) 58.0 (King Halo) Ryuji Okubo M5 Deep Impact Takashi Suzuki Curren Bouquetd'or (JPN) 7.3 2 3 2 3 b. Solaria Shadai Farm Keita Tosaki (4) (37.7) 56.0 (Scat Daddy) Sakae Kunieda C4 Epiphaneia Hideko Kondo Aristoteles (JPN) 3.8 Head 4 1 2 b. Blue Diamond Hideko Kondo Christophe Lemaire (2) (37.3) 58.0 (Deep Impact) Hidetaka Otonashi Win Marilyn (JPN) F4 22.7 2-1/2 Screen Hero Win Co., Ltd. 5 7 14 Takeshi Yokoyama ch. (8) (37.4) Cosmo Cielo Cosmo View Farm 56.0 (Fusaichi Pegasus) Takahisa Tezuka C4 Deep Impact Sunday Racing Co., Ltd. 5 Diastima (JPN) 12.6 Neck 6 3 br. Sweet Reason Northern Racing B Ryusei Sakai (7) (38.3) 58.0 (Street Sense) Tomokazu Takano Kaneko Makoto Holdings Co., H6 King Kamehameha You Can Smile (JPN) 12.0 3-1/2 Ltd. 7 4 7 b. Mood Indigo Yusuke Fujioka (5) (37.8) Kaneko Makoto Holdings Inc. 58.0 (Dance in the Dark) Yasuo Tomomichi Kaneko Makoto Holdings Co., H8 Deep Impact Makahiki (JPN) 98.4 2 Ltd. 8 3 6 b. Wikiwiki Kota Fujioka (12) (38.3) Kaneko Makoto Holdings Inc. 58.0 (French Deputy) Yasuo Tomomichi H6 Deep Brillante N. Namura Namura Donovan (JPN) 67.1 1/2 9 7 13 b. Punctilio Ito Bokujo Hiroyuki Uchida (11) (38.1) 58.0 (Kingmambo) Haruki Sugiyama C4 Orfevre Silk Racing Co., Ltd. Authority (JPN) 12.2 Neck 10 8 17 b. Rosalind Northern Farm Yuga Kawada (6) (38.4) 58.0 (Symboli Kris S) Tetsuya Kimura M5 Orfevre Makio Okada Melody Lane (JPN) 154.9 4 11 8 16 b. Mowen Okada Stud Kenichi Ikezoe (16) (38.5) 56.0 (Motivator) Naoyuki Morita G5 Heart's Cry Takeshi Nishimura Ghost (JPN) 142.1 1/2 12 5 10 g. Gaviola Northern Farm Katsuma Sameshima (14) (38.9) 58.0 (Cozzene) Shinsuke Hashiguchi H5 Orfevre IHR Ocea Great (JPN) 41.2 Neck 13 8 15 b. Blue Danube Shimoyashiki Bokujo Norihiro Yokoyama (9) (39.0) 58.0 (Bahri) Masatatsu Kikukawa H5 Deep Impact Yoshio Matsumoto Meisho Tengen (JPN) 126.5 3-1/2 14 6 11 g. Meisho Beluga Mishima Bokujo Manabu Sakai (13) (39.4) 58.0 (French Deputy) Kaneo Ikezoe H5 Workforce Haruya Yoshida Divine Force (JPN) 45.2 Nose 15 4 8 b. Tsukuba Beauty Oiwake Farm Yutaka Take (10) (39.0) 58.0 (Zenno Rob Roy) Ryo Terashima Kaneko Makoto Holdings Co., H7 King Kamehameha 4 Shironii (JPN) 182.3 1-3/4 Ltd. 16 2 w. Shirayukihime B Fuma Matsuwaka (17) (40.3) Kaneko Makoto Holdings Inc. 58.0 (Sunday Silence) Yasutoshi Ikee H7 Danon Chantilly Yoshitsugu Harema Jako Maru (JPN) 153.9 7 17 5 9 b. Pure Wink Niikappu Hashimoto Bokujo Kazuo Yokoyama (15) (41.6) 58.0 (Tony Bin) Mikio Matsunaga FP: Final Position / BK: Bracket Number / PP: Post Position / B: Blinker / S&A: Sex & Age / Wgt: Weight (kg) / L3F: Time of Last 3 Furlongs (600m) 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: ¥ 18,899,020,300 Turnover for the Day: ¥ 28,350,102,200 Pay-off (for ¥100) Win No.1 ¥ 520 Bracket Quinella 1-6 ¥ 470 Quinella 1-12 ¥ 940 No.1 ¥ 160 1-12 ¥ 360 Exacta 1-12 ¥ 2,220 Place No.12 ¥ 150Quinella Place 1-3 ¥ 500 Trio 1-3-12 ¥ 2,040 No.3 ¥ 200 3-12 ¥ 530 Trifecta 1-12-3 ¥ 11,490 Winner= 11 starts, 4 wins, 1 second, 4 thirds / Added money: ¥ 153,570,000 / Career earnings: ¥ 455,943,000 World Premiere Storms to Victory in Tenno Sho (Spring) Third favorite World Premiere displayed a strong stayer performance beating the race favorite near the wire to claim this year’s Tenno Sho (Spring) behind closed doors once again, void of the fans at Hanshin Racecourse. It is the second G1 victory for the 2019 Kikuka Sho (Japanese St. Leger) winner who has overcome a setback after finishing third in the 2019 Arima Kinen (G1, 2,500m). Sidelined for nearly a year, the Deep Impact colt made his comeback in the Japan Cup (G1, 2,400m) last autumn with a promising sixth, followed by a fifth in the Arima Kinen a month later and has just come off a third in the Nikkei Sho (G2, 2,500m) on March 27. This is trainer Yasuo Tomomichi’s 13th overall JRA-G1 victory and first since winning the Kikuka Sho with the horse in 2019. He also celebrates his second Tenno Sho (Spring) title after winning it with Admire Jupiter in 2008. Jockey Yuichi Fukunaga, the successful rider of last year’s Triple Crown victor Contrail, pocketed his 29th JRA-G1 win today and first Tenno Sho (Spring) trophy emulating his father and former jockey Yoichi Fukunaga who won the race in 1976. Breaking from the innermost stall, World Premiere was unhurried on the rails in seventh, a couple of lengths behind second favorite Aristoteles who sat another couple of lengths behind the front group led by Diastima. As the field made their moves after the third corner, the son of Deep Impact chased Aristoteles into the lane, picked him off from the outside before the furlong marker and closed in strongly on the front runners with a tenacious stretch run. While Diastima weakened on the rails, World Premiere finally pinned and stole the lead from Deep Bond and Curren Bouquetd’or 100 meters out, clearing the wire 3/4 length in front of Deep Bond for the win. “We had a weak start but recovered well since with the advantage from breaking from stall #1, and kept our eyes on the favorites from behind throughout.