Details
| Name / Japanese | Ishino Sunday/ イシノサンデー |
| Birth Year | 1993 |
| Sex | male |
| Earnings | 368,088,000 yen |
| Races-Wins / G1-Wins | 22-6 / 5-1 |
| Sire | Sunday Silence |
| Dam (Sire) | Jefforee (Alydar) |
| Other site link | JBIS / Umanity / en.netkeiba |
All G1 races + grade races in which he finished 3rd or higher + Junior Cup
| Y D/M |
Track | Race | No. | Pl. |  |
| 1995 23/12 |
Hanshin T2000 |
Radio Tampa Hai Sansai Stakes (G3) | 10 | 2 | G |
| 1996 20/01 |
Tokyo D1600 |
Junior Cup (OP) | 5 | 1 | |
| 1996 03/03 |
Nakayama T2000 |
Hochi Hai Yayoi Sho (G2) | 11 | 3 | G |
| 1996 14/04 |
Nakayama T2000 |
Satsuki Sho (G1) | 5 | 1 | ◆ |
| 1996 02/06 |
Tokyo T2400 |
Tokyo Yushun (Japanese Derby) (G1) | 10 | 6 | ◆ |
| 1996 01/11 |
Ohi D2000 |
Super Dirt Derby (重賞) | 2 | 3 | G |
| 1996 23/11 |
Morioka D2000 |
Derby Grand Prix (重賞) | 4 | 1 | ◆ |
| 1997 05/01 |
Kyoto T2000 |
Sports Nippon Sho Kyoto Kimpai (G3) | 1 | 1 | G |
| 1997 16/02 |
Tokyo D1600 |
February Stakes (G1) | 3 | 9 | ◆ |
| 1998 15/02 |
Kyoto T2200 |
Kyoto Kinen (G2) | 5 | 2 | G |
| 1998 05/04 |
Hanshin T2000 |
Sankei Osaka Hai (G2) | 5 | 3 | G |
| 1998 03/05 |
Kyoto T3200 |
Tenno Sho (Spring) (G1) | 12 | 9 | ◆ |
| 1998 14/06 |
Tokyo T1600 |
Yasuda Kinen (G1) | 6 | 6 | ◆ |
- In the Radio Tampa Hai Sansai Stakes, he was 1st favorite.
He lost to Royal Touch, the younger brother of Winning Ticket, and finished 2nd.
Dance in the Dark was 2nd favorite, but finished 3rd. - In his three-year-old season in 1996, he was known as the “Sunday Top Four” along with Dance in the Dark, Bubble Gum Fellow and Royal Touch.
They were supposed to be the stars of the classic race. - In the Junior Cup, he was 1st favorite.
The race was an 1800m turf race, but due to snowfall, it was changed to a 1600m dirt race at the last minute.
He showed his aptitude for dirt racing by winning by 5 lengths.
This would lead to his later career. - In the Hochi Hai Yayoi Sho, the trial race of Satsuki Sho, he was 1st favorite.
He lost to Dance in the Dark and finished 3rd. - In the Satsuki Sho, the first classic race, he was 4th favorite.
Dance in the Dark had to withdraw from the race due to a fever, and Bubble Gum Fellow, the two-year-old champion, was unable to run due to a broken bone.
Ishino Sunday took the lead about 100m before the finish line.
Royal Touch followed him, but could not catch up.
Ishino Sunday won by 3/4 lengths.
It was his first G1 win.
Following last year’s Genuine and Tayasu Tsuyoshi, Sunday Silence’s crops dominated the 1st and 2nd places. - He then raced in the Tokyo Yushun but finished sixth.
In the Autumn, he ran in the St.Light Kinen and Kyoto Shimbun Hai, the trial races for Kikuka Sho, but finished 4th and 5th.
His connections made the decision to give up on the longer distance Kikuka Sho, as well as G1 races such as Tenno Sho (Autumn) and Mile Championship, and run in the dirt Derby at NAR.
It was very unusual for a horse that had won a classic turf race to run in a dirt race, either at the time or in today’s sense. - In the Super Dirt Derby, he was 1st favorite, but finished 3rd.
- In the Derby Grand Prix, he was 2nd favorite.
Shinko Windy was 1st favorite.
Ishino Sunday won by 1+1/2 lengths.
He broke the record time.
With his victories in the Satsuki Sho and the Derby Grand Prix, he was called, among other things, the odd double crown horse on turf and dirt. - He has since suffered from injury but has finished in the top three in G2 races twice.