First-pick Gold Ship capped the Olympic year with a remarkable run in the season-ending Arima Kinen to win his third Grade 1 title on Sunday.
Gold Ship, who became the third consecutive 3-year-old to win the race, traveled second from the rear during the 2,500-meter journey before jockey Hiroyuki Uchida made his move from the second to last turn.
Chugging like a freight train on the far outside, the Naosuke Sugai-trained colt held off 10th-choice Ocean Blue by a length and a half to pass the winning post in 2 minutes, 31.9 seconds in the world's highest-grossing race along with the Grand National.