Big names boosted this year's top-level races to a powerful start and a four-way stretch battle gave the 2009 February Stakes a finish to remember with Success Brocken upsetting the top picks to win in a record time of 1 minute, 34.6 seconds.
Success Brocken was the least favorite of the top six picks, which all figured in the top finishers.
It was a clean race from start to finish, a race roaring in power and thrilling in its final moments as fans at Tokyo Racecourse Sunday screamed their favorites over the line. Espoir City, the globe-trotting Casino Drive, Japan Cup Dirt champion Kane Hekili and Success Brocken lined up just meters out from the finish line and pushed home with the winner taking the 1,400-meter dirt race by a neck with Casino Drive and Kane Hekili in second and third a head apart.