Gold City

2020-11-09 | By jpkeiba | Filed in: (Turf G1 wins)1, colt,stallion(male), Turf.

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Awards

Yushun Award for Best Two-Year-Old Colt (1986)

His sire, Viceregal, won the Canadian Horse of the Year (1968) at age 2.
He was successful as a stallion as well, being the leading sire in Canada from 1976-78, but he worked in Germany and France and then in Japan in his later years.
His young brother, Vice Regent, took his place as the great stallion.

All G1 races

Y D/M	Track	Race	No.	Pl.
1986 14/12	Hanshin T1600	Hanshin Sansai Stakes (G1)	2	1	◆
1987 19/04	Nakayama T2000	Satsuki Sho (G1)	19	2	◆
1987 31/05	Tokyo T2400	Tokyo Yushun (Japanese Derby) (G1)	11	4	◆
1987 08/11	Kyoto T3000	Kikuka Sho (G1)	2	2	◆
1988 29/04	Kyoto T3200	Tenno Sho (spring) (G1)	10	5	◆
1988 27/11	Tokyo T2400	Japan Cup (G1)	4	12	◆
1989 29/04	Kyoto T3200	Tenno Sho (spring) (G1)	6	11	◆
1989 11/06	Hanshin T2200	Takarazuka Kinen (G1)	2	10	◆

In the Hanshin Sansai Stakes, he won by a head.
It was his first G1 win.
And it was his last win.
He won the Yushun Award for Best Two-Year-Old Colt (1986) along with Merry Nice in Kanto-region(Eastern Japan).
In the Satsuki Sho, the fist classic race, he lost to Sakura Star O and finished 2nd.
In the Tokyo Yushun (Japanese Derby), the second classic race, he lost to Merry Nice and finished 4th.
In the Kikuka Sho, the third classic race, he lost to Sakura Star O and finished 2nd.

Episode

In Japan, horses with chestnut body-hair and a golden mane and tail are called “尾花栗毛 (Obana-Kurige)”.
尾花(Obana) means Miscanthus sinensis. (Wikipedia)
栗毛(Kurige) means chestnut-hair.
Horses with that trait are often seen as beautiful and good looking.
Some examples include Gold City, Tosho Falco, Taiki Shutle and Toho Jackal.
Gold City was good looking and bad tempered from birth.
Apparently his producers were thinking of donating him to Disney Land if his temperament prevented him from becoming a racehorse.
Here’s the result of a Google image search.
Note that there are quite a few other factors as well. (Gold City)
As for his bad tempered episodes, he woke up very late.
And he got angry when he was woken up early.

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