No Reason

2021-02-24 | By jpkeiba | Filed in: (Turf G1 wins)1, colt,stallion(male), Turf.

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Great Journey is his half-brother (sire: Sunday Silence).
Great Journey won two G3 races.
He retired and became a stallion in France.
Max Dynamite, who won a G2 race in England and also ran well in the Melbourne Cup in Australia, is his crop.
Great Journey has been working in Tunisia since 2020.

All grade-races

Y D/M	Track	Race	No.	Pl.
2002 14/04	Nakayama T2000	Satsuki Sho (G1)	2	1	◆
2002 26/05	Tokyo T2400	Tokyo Yushun (Japanese Derby) (G1)	2	8	◆
2002 22/09	Hanshin T2000	Kobe Shimbun Hai (G2)	15	2	G
2002 20/10	Kyoto T3000	Kikuka Sho (G1)	6	/	◆
2002 24/11	Nakayama T2200	Japan Cup (G1)	9	8	◆
2002 22/12	Nakayama T2500	Arima Kinen (G1)	6	6	◆
2003 22/02	Kyoto T2200	Kyoto Kinen (G2)	6	5	G
2003 23/03	Hanshin T3000	Hanshin Daishoten (G2)	3	4	G
2004 11/09	Hanshin T2000	Asahi Challenge Cup (G3)	10	11	G

He finished 7th in the Wakaba Stakes, a trial race for Satsuki Sho.
Whether he will be able to run in the Satsuki Sho will be decided by lottery.
He won the lottery, which had a two in seven chance of winning, and was able to run in the Satsuki Sho.
In the Satsuki Sho, the first classic race he was 15th favorite.
He took the lead in the home stretch and won by 1+3/4 lengths.
He broke the race record held by Narita Brian by 0.5 seconds.
It was his first G1 win.
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He was the 15th favorite horse, so the payout was very high.
In Japan, a horse ticket that returns more than 100 times the multiplier as a dividend is called 万馬券 (Manbaken).
(Manbaken means “10000 Horse Ticket”.)
The win ticket was the only Manbaken in the history of Satsuki Sho.
It was the second Manbaken in all of Japan’s classic races since Tokyo Yushun in 1949.
In the Kikuka Sho, the third classic race, he was 1st favorite because Tanino Gimlet and Symboli Kris S didn’t run.
He stumbled shortly after the start of the race and his jockey, Yutaka Take, fell off.
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(Patrol Video) (A video comparing various live situations.)
About half of the ticket sales for this race were related to him.
A whopping 11 billion yen worth of horse tickets were turned into scrap paper right after the start of the race.
He didn’t have a very good run after that, and retired.

Evaluation of him

His performance in the Satsuki Sho was amazing, but nowadays he is a horse that people only talk about the accident in the Kikuka Sho.
Gold Ship and Portofino are sometimes mentioned with him as horses similar to him.
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Gold Ship got up right after the start of the Takarazuka Kinen and turned 12 billion yen worth of horse tickets into scrap paper. (Youtube)
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Portofino, like No Reason, dropped the jockey Yutaka Take at the start of the Queen Elizabeth II Cup. (Youtube)
(She was also surprised that she then ran to the finish line in the first place without a jockey.)
In contrast to his brother, who spread the Sunday Silence blood to Europe, he was not in much demand as a stallion.

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