Details
| Name / Japanese | Tokai Trick / トウカイトリック |
| Birth Year | 2002 |
| Sex | male |
| Earnings | 550,388,000 yen (only Japan) |
| Races-Win / G1-Win | 63-9 / 11-0 |
| Sire | El Condor Pasa |
| Dam (Sire) | Zoonaqua (Silver Hawk) |
| Other site link | JBIS / Umanity / en.netkeiba |
All G1 races + grade-races in which he finished third or higher + Manyo Stakes (2008, 2010, 2014) + all Hanshin Daishoten
| Y D/M |
Track | Race | No. | Pl. |  |
| 2005 13/11 |
Fukushima T2000 |
Fukushima Kinen (G3) | 3 | 2 | |
| 2006 12/02 |
Tokyo T3400 |
Diamond Stakes (G2) | 15 | 3 | G |
| 2006 19/03 |
Hanshin T3000 |
Hanshin Daishoten (G2) | 1 | 2 | G |
| 2006 30/04 |
Kyoto T3200 |
Tenno Sho (Spring) (G1) | 5 | 9 | ◆ |
| 2006 02/12 |
Nakayama T3600 |
Stayers Stakes (G2) | 11 | 2 | |
| 2007 11/02 |
Tokyo T3400 |
Diamond Stakes (G2) | 2 | 1 | G |
| 2007 18/03 |
Hanshin T3000 |
Hanshin Daishoten (G2) | 7 | 3 | G |
| 2007 29/04 |
Kyoto T3200 |
Tenno Sho (Spring) (G1) | 12 | 3 | ◆ |
| 2007 24/06 |
Hanshin T2200 |
Takarazuka Kinen (G1) | 12 | 9 | ◆ |
| 2007 07/11 |
Tokyo T2500 |
Copa Republica Argentina (G2) | 4 | 2 | G |
| 2008 05/01 |
Kyoto T3000 |
Manyo Stakes (OP) | 6 | 1 | |
| 2008 23/03 |
Hanshin T3000 |
Hanshin Daishoten (G2) | 9 | 4 | G |
| 2008 04/05 |
Kyoto T3200 |
Tenno Sho (Spring) (G1) | 11 | 7 | ◆ |
| 2009 22/03 |
Hanshin T3000 |
Hanshin Daishoten (G2) | 2 | 5 | G |
| 2009 03/05 |
Kyoto T3200 |
Tenno Sho (Spring) (G1) | 8 | 6 | ◆ |
| 2010 05/01 |
Kyoto T3000 |
Manyo Stakes (OP) | 6 | 1 | G |
| 2010 21/03 |
Hanshin T3000 |
Hanshin Daishoten (G2) | 13 | 1 | G |
| 2010 02/05 |
Kyoto T3200 |
Tenno Sho (Spring) (G1) | 6 | 9 | ◆ |
| 2010 16/10 |
Caulfield T2400 |
Caulfield Cup (G1) | 4 | 12 | G |
| 2010 02/11 |
Flemington T3200 |
Melbourne Cup (G1) | 9 | 12 | G |
| 2011 20/03 |
Hanshin T3000 |
Hanshin Daishoten (G2) | 6 | 12 | G |
| 2011 01/05 |
Kyoto T3200 |
Tenno Sho (Spring) (G1) | 14 | 5 | ◆ |
| 2011 03/12 |
Nakayama T3600 |
Stayers Stakes (G2) | 13 | 3 | G |
| 2012 18/03 |
Hanshin T3000 |
Hanshin Daishoten (G2) | 3 | 6 | G |
| 2012 29/04 |
Kyoto T3200 |
Tenno Sho (Spring) (G1) | 2 | 8 | ◆ |
| 2012 01/12 |
Nakayama T3600 |
Stayers Stakes (G2) | 15 | 1 | G |
| 2013 17/03 |
Hanshin T3000 |
Hanshin Daishoten (G2) | 1 | 5 | G |
| 2013 28/04 |
Kyoto T3200 |
Tenno Sho (Spring) (G1) | 11 | 11 | ◆ |
| 2013 30/11 |
Nakayama T3600 |
Stayers Stakes (G2) | 5 | 3 | G |
| 2014 06/01 |
Kyoto T3000 |
Manyo Stakes (OP) | 5 | 4 | G |
In 2004-2005 (age 2-3)
- He was gradually stepping up his rank.
- He’d also run with Deep Impact, but he’d been beaten by over ten lengths.
In 2006 (age 4)
- He has done reasonably well in the long-distance grade-races.
- He lost to Deep Impact, a Triple Crown horse at the same age, in the Hanshin Daishoten and the Tenno Sho (Spring).
In 2007 (age 5)
- He won the Diamond Stakes.
It was his first grade-race win. - He lost to Meisho Samson and finished 3rd in the Tenno Sho (Spring).
Third place was his best finish in a G1 race, before and after that.
In 2008-2009 (age 6-7)
- He didn’t do so well.
In 2010 (age 8)
- He won for the first time in two years in the Manyo Stakes.
- He also won the Hanshin Daishoten.
- He was defeated in the Tenno Sho (Spring).
- After that, his connections went to Australia to try to win a G1 race, but they were defeated.
In 2011 (age 9)
- In the Tenno Sho (Spring), he was the lowest favorite.
But he showed the fastest finishing-kick of any of the other horses and finished 5th.
In 2012 (age 10)
- He ran with Orfevre, the next Triple Crown horse after Deep Impact, in the Hanshin Daishoten and the Tenno Sho (Spring).
- In the Stayers Stakes, he was 8th favorite.
He took the lead in the home stretch and won by 1+1/4 lengths.
He won for the first time in two years and nine months.
In 2013 (age 11)
- He finished 3rd in The Stayers Stakes.
In 2014 (age 12)
- He remained on active duty.
- In the Manyo Stakes, he showed a pretty good run and finished 4th.
- He tried to run in the Hanshin Daishoten and the Tenno Sho (Spring) for nine years in a row, but he retired because of sore muscles.
His records and Episodes
- He set the records for the most runs in the same grade-races, the most consecutive runs in the same grade-races, the most runs in the same G1 races, and the most consecutive runs in the same G1 races.
(Eight consecutive runs in Hanshin Daishoten (G2) and Tenno Sho (Spring) (G1)) - He is the only horse that ran with both Deep Impact and Orfevre.
- He is the last El Condor Pasa’s crop registered with JRA as a racehorse.
- He is the second 10-year-old to win a flat grade-race, following Asaka Defeat.
Asaka Defeat won a grade-race in February, and Tokai Trick won in December, making Tokai Trick the oldest. - The total distance he has run in the races is 175.1km.
- He was very much loved by the racing fans.
His fans called him such as “トリックじいさん (Old Trick, Trick Grandpa)” and his ageless running cheered them up. - It was announced that he would be a lead horse at Kyoto Racecourse after his retirement.
Many fans dreamed of seeing him lead younger horses onto the track at Kyoto Racecourse for Tenno Sho (Spring).
But just as he was beginning to be trained as a lead horse, he developed a shattered fracture of the right first phalanx and had to be euthanized.
When a horse in JRA’s facilities died, it was not customary to announce the death, but he was a very fancied horse, so after consulting with his owner his death was announced.
At the Kyoto Racecourse, a flower donation table was set up, and many fans offered flowers, carrots, apples, etc. and prayed for him.