![]() 2018: three-year-old season Spring and summer Two month later at Tokyo Racecourse, she recorded her first success in a 1600 metres maiden race, winning by three lengths from Cosmo Feerique. Racing career 2017: two-year-old season Īlmond Eye made her debut in a newcomers' race over 1400 metres at Niigata Racecourse on August 6 and finished second to Nishino Urara. She was descendant of the influential American broodmare Best In Show, the ancestor of numerous major winners including El Gran Senor, Try My Best, Xaar, Jazil, Rags to Riches and Redoute's Choice. Her dam Fusaichi Pandora was a top-class racemare who won the 2006 Queen Elizabeth II Cup. Almond Eye usually raced in a hood and a shadow roll.Īlmond Eye was from the first crop of foals sired by Lord Kanaloa, an outstanding sprinter-miler who was the 2013 Japanese Horse of the Year. She was sent into training with Sakae Kunieda. Her other notable wins include the Dubai Turf in 2019, the Tenno Sho in 20, and the Victoria Mile in 2020.Īlmond Eye is a bay mare bred in Japan by Northern Racing and owned by Silk Racing. She was the World Champion of 2020 in the TRC Global Horses Rankings, and she is the highest earning racehorse in the world among the racehorses born in 2015. Almond Eye was the 2018 Japanese Horse of the Year, 2018 Best Three-Year-Old Filly, 2020 Japanese Horse of the Year, and 2020 Best Older Filly or Mare. She is also a two-time winner of the Japan Cup, breaking the record in the 2018 race and defeating two other undefeated Japan Triple Crown winners in the 2020 race. The TRC Global Rankings World Champion (2020)Īlmond Eye ( Japanese アーモンドアイ, foaled 10 March 2015) is a champion Japanese Thoroughbred racehorse who won the Japanese Fillies' Triple Crown in 2018, and holds a world record over 2,400 meters on turf. JRA Award for Best Older Filly or Mare (2020) JRA Award for Best Three-Year-Old Filly (2018) Almond Eye wins the Yushun Himba (Japanese Oaks)
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