Details
Name / Japanese | Gold City / ゴールドシチー |
Birth Year | 1984 |
Sex | male |
Earnings | 179,186,000 yen |
Races-Win / G1-Win | 20-3 / 8-1 |
Sire | Viceregal |
Dam (Sire) | Italian City (Tesco Boy) |
Other site link | JBIS / Umanity / netkeiba |
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.