Speed bumps and potholes on the road to 2020 Tokyo Olympics
When planners proposed the opening date of the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, they pored over historical weather data in search of the day with the lowest statistical likelihood of rain. It turned out to be Oct. 10. Happily that day, a Saturday, was fine. As ...
The Japan Racing Association said Saturday it would exclude 156 horses from racing this weekend, an unprecedented number, after finding a prohibited substance in their feed additives. The JRA held its races as scheduled on Saturday, and will do likewise on Sunday with the remaining ...
Japanese thoroughbred mare Vodka, who became the first filly to win the Japanese Derby in 64 years, has died from laminitis, the Japan Racing Association said Wednesday. The 15-year-old mare died Monday in Newmarket, England, where she had been staying to mate. She tied the ...
Jockey Christophe Lemaire picked up two wins on Friday to set a single-season Japan Racing Association record with 213 wins. The French-born Lemaire steered 2-year-old colt Maillot Blanc to victory in the sixth race of the day at Nakayama Racecourse to break star jockey Yutaka ...
Nanako Fujita breaks Yukiko Masuzawa's record for most wins by Japanese female jockey
Nanako Fujita rode to her 35th career victory on Saturday, rewriting the record for wins by a Japanese female jockey. Fujita rode second favorite Seiun Ririshii to victory in the 12th race in Niigata. The 21-year-old Fujita had been tied with Yukiko Masuzawa with 34 ...
New JRA system to let addicts' families block online gambling
The Japan Racing Association says it will begin accepting applications Thursday from family members living with those clinically diagnosed with gambling disorders or suspected of struggling with its symptoms.
Nanako Fujita breaks single-season win record for Japan Racing Association female jockeys
Nanako Fujita won her 12th race of the year on Saturday to set the single-season record for most wins by a Japan Racing Association female jockey. The 20-year-old Fujita steered Belmont Lahaina to victory in the 11th race of a meet in Niigata to break ...
Kitasan Black, a five-time Grade One race winner, will retire after the Arima Kinen in December, the stallion's trainer Hisashi Shimizu said on Friday. "(Kitasan Black's) owner (Saburo Kitajima) decided that he would retire this year after running the autumn Tenno-sho, the Japan Cup and ...
Nanako Fujita is set to make her overseas debut at a Ladies World Championship race on Aug. 19 at Sandown Park Racecourse in England, the Japan Racing Association announced Saturday. The 18-year-old Fujita became the first female jockey from the JRA in 16 years when ...
Eighteen-year-old Nanako Fujita, the Japan Racing Association's first female jockey in 16 years, claimed her first win on Thursday. Fujita guided second choice 5-year-old gelding Ascii Code to a bright start in the third race at Urawa Racecourse and went onto win comfortably by two ...
Female teen Fujita realizes dream by becoming jockey
After three years of rigorous training, Nanako Fujita realized her childhood dream at age 18 by becoming a jockey this year. Fujita is one of the six applicants who passed the Japan Racing Association's fiscal 2016 test to obtain a jockey license and became its ...
Yutaka Take became the first jockey to win 300 graded races, when he captured the G3 Sirius Stakes aboard Awardee on Saturday. The 46-year-old Take has rewritten one record after another since his debut in 1987, with Saturday's win at Hanshin Racecourse the 3,758th of ...
