Mejiro Bright

2020-08-28 | By jpkeiba | Filed in: (Turf G1 wins)1, colt,stallion(male), Turf.

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Awards

Best Horse By Home-bred Sire (1998)

Mejiro Bright is a Mejiro Ryan’s representative crop along with Mejiro Dober of the same age.
He won his debut race.
But the race was very low level.
It was more than 10 seconds later than the race time under the same conditions on the same day. (About 15 seconds later than Japanese records at the time.)
The crowd heckled, “Are you walking?”

All G1 race + grade-races he won

Y D/M	Track	Race	No.	Pl.
1996 21/12	Hanshin T2000	Radio Tampa Hai Sansai Stakes (G3)	7	1	G
1997 09/02	Tokyo T1800	Kyodo Tsushin Hai Yonsai Stakes (G3)	13	1	G
1997 13/04	Nakayama T2000	Satsuki Sho (G1)	8	4	◆
1997 01/06	Tokyo T2400	Tokyo Yushun (Japanese Derby) (G1)	15	3	◆
1997 02/11	Kyoto T3000	Kikuka Sho (G1)	14	3	◆
1997 29/11	Nakayama T3600	Stayers Stakes (G2)	12	1	G
1998 25/01	Nakayama T2200	American Jockey Club Cup (G2)	3	1	G
1998 22/03	Hanshin T3000	Hanshin Daishoten (G2)	3	1	G
1998 03/05	Kyoto T3200	Tenno Sho (spring) (G1)	5	1	◆
1998 12/07	Hanshin T2200	Takarazuka Kinen (G1)	2	11	◆
1998 01/11	Tokyo T2000	Tenno Sho (autumn) (G1)	2	5	◆
1998 27/12	Nakayama T2500	Arima Kinen (G1)	10	2	◆
1999 24/01	Kyoto T2400	Nikkei ShinShun Hai (G2)	11	1	G
1999 02/05	Kyoto T3200	Tenno Sho (spring) (G1)	10	2	◆
1999 31/10	Tokyo T2000	Tenno Sho (autumn) (G1)	4	11	◆
1999 26/12	Nakayama T2500	Arima Kinen (G1)	13	5	◆

In the Radio Tampa Hai Sansai Stakes, it was his first grade-race victory.
Before the classics races, he was seemed to the major contender.
In the Satsuki Sho, the first classic race, he was 1st favorite.
But he lost to Sunny Brian and finished in 4th place.
In the Tokyo Yushun, the second classic race, he was 1st favorite again.
But he lost to Sunny Brian and finished in 3rd place.
He was good at slow pace racing.
He couldn’t keep up with Sunny Brian’s fast pace.
In the Kikuka Sho, the third classic race, he was 2nd favorite.
He lost to Matikanefukukitaru and finished in 3rd place.
In the Stayers Stakes, his jockey changed to Hiroshi Kawachi.
He was easy to win by 12 lengths.
In the American Jockey Club Cup, he won by 2+1/2 lengths.
In the Hanshin Daishoten, he won by nose.
Silk Justice was 2nd.
In the Tenno Sho (spring), he was 2nd favorite.
He took the lead in the home stretch.
He won defeating Silk Justice and Stay Gold.
It was his first G1 win.
He won the grade-races four times in a row from the Stayers Stakes.
After that he only won once in the Nikkei Shinshun Hai.
He could not catch up with fast-pace-horses such as Special Week and Grass Wonder.

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