Details
| Name / Japanese | Meisei Opera / メイセイオペラ |
| Birth Year | 1994 |
| Sex | male |
| Earnings | 498,633,000 yen |
| Races-Wins / G1-Wins | 35-23 / 9-3 |
| Sire | Grand Opera |
| Dam (Sire) | Tiramisu (Ishikari) Ishikari was his name when he was imported to Japan, and he is listed as such in the studbook. As a racehorse, Ishikari was named Taklamakan. Ishikari is a cousin of Mill Reef. |
| Other site link | JBIS / Umanity / en.netkeiba |
| Awards | NAR Grand Prix for Horse of the Year (1999) |
All grade races
| Y D/M |
Track | Race | No. | Pl. |  |
| 1997 03/11 |
Morioka D2000 |
Derby Grand Prix (G1) | 7 | 10 | ◆ |
| 1997 20/11 |
Ohi D2000 |
Super Dirt Derby (G2) | 13 | 10 | |
| 1998 28/01 |
Kawasaki D2000 |
Kawasaki Kinen (G1) | 3 | 4 | G |
| 1998 24/06 |
Ohi D2000 |
Teio Sho (G1) | 4 | 3 | G |
| 1998 20/07 |
Mizusawa D2000 |
Mercury Cup (G3) | 3 | 1 | ◆ |
| 1998 10/10 |
Morioka D1600 |
Mile Championship Nambu Hai (G1) | 3 | 1 | ◆ |
| 1998 23/12 |
Ohi D2000 |
Tokyo Daishoten (G1) | 3 | 2 | G |
| 1999 31/01 |
Tokyo D1600 |
February Stakes (G1) | 9 | 1 | ◆ |
| 1999 24/06 |
Ohi D2000 |
Teio Sho (G1) | 14 | 1 | G |
| 1999 29/12 |
Ohi D2000 |
Tokyo Daishoten (G1) | 16 | 11 | G |
| 2000 20/02 |
Tokyo D1600 |
February Stakes (G1) | 15 | 4 | ◆ |
| 2000 22/06 |
Ohi D2000 |
Teio Sho (G1) | 9 | 14 | G |
- He debuted as a horse of Iwate Keiba, which is based at Morioka Racecourse and Mizusawa Racecourse.
(Iwate Horseracing is a part of NAR, not JRA.) - He won nine straight races from November of his second year to August of his third.
He was touted as the return of the monsters.
Monsters include Swift Say Die and Tokei Nisei, both of whom were also very successful horses of Iwate Keiba.
He ran in the Derby Grand Prix and the Super Dirt Derby, but this time he was in poor form due to a fractured skull. - In the Kawasaki Kinen (1998), he was 5th favorite and finished 4th.
It was the first meeting between Meisei Opera and Abukuma Poro. - In the Teio Sho (1998), he lost to Abukuma Poro and finished 3rd.
- In the Mercury Cup, he was 1st favorite.
He won his first grade race in his hometown. - In the Mile Championship Nambu Hai, he was 3rd favorite.
Abukuma Poro was 1st favorite and Taiki Sherlock, the previous year’s champion, was 2nd favorite.
At the time of Kawasaki Kinen and Teio Sho, it was Abukuma Poro’s hometown, but this time the race was in Meisei Opera’s hometown.
He took the lead right from the start of the race and won by 3 lengths, pulling away from the rest of the field in the home stretch.
It was his first G1 win. - In the Tokyo Daishoten (1998), he lost to Abukuma Poro and finished 2nd.
- In the February Stakes (1999), he was 2nd favorite.
Abukuma Poro was not present to run in the Kawasaki Kinen.
Meisei Opera took the lead with 200 meters to go, overtaking the leader, Kyoei March.
He won by 2 lengths.
He won a G1 race organized by JRA.
As of 2021, he is still the only NAR horse to have won a JRA G1 race.
(There are horses that have won a JRA G1 race after transferring from NAR to JRA, such as Oguri Cap.
Also, Cosmo Bulk won a G1 race in Singapore while belonging to NAR.) - In the Teio Sho (1999), he was 1st favorite and won easily.
Abukuma Poro was absent due to injury. - He was then in a poor condition due to injury.
He won his local races but could not win G1 races and retired. - He did not do well as a stallion in Japan, but all of his crops that were exported to Korea won a race.
Therefore, he was eagerly demanded by Korean breeders and was exported to Korea.