Graham Pavey
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Dubai World Cup🇦🇪 winner USHBA TESORO parades for return in JpnII Nippon TV Hai at Funabashi on the NAR council circuit. 530kg tonight, they don't weigh in Dubai, won Kawasaki Kinen Feb @ 523kg . Typically he doesn't look interested, looks hot, sleepy #zzz.
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Dirt monster USHBA TESORO (Orfevre) amping up his work as he sets up for Breeders Cup Classic🇺🇸. Worked Miho circle ship today. Has an NAR JpnII run on 27th to blow out the cobwebs. Ugly work, don't be alarmed. That's him, saves everything for race day.
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Trackwork ugly, parade depressing but when it’s race time he switches on, right on, when it counts 🔛 #USHBATESORO
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ROMANTIC WARRIOR 🇭🇰 final fast ahead of the g1 1600m Yasuda Kinen on Sunday . Silk. The one to beat.
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Absolute scenes. Yutaka Take has won a Derby in his 20s, 30s, 40s and now in his 50s, legend. DO DEUCE is entered for the Arc. Time for dreams. #HeroIsComing .
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PANTHALASSA x Saudi Cup 🇸🇦 Plushy. World’s richest race, first Plushy! . #gohardorgohome .#JRA.
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JRA fans are amazing.
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Trainer Yoshito Yahagi rode CONTRAIL into Contrail's Retirement Ceremony at Tokyo Racecourse!.
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AUGUSTE RODIN final fast ahead of the Japan Cup on Sunday and, in fact, final fast work of his career. On the course proper at Tokyo . #JapanCup.#DeepImpact .
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3yo filly NANYO IVORY (Lord Kanaloa) unseated her jockey Fuma Izumiya then felt bad and went back to get him.
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Ring of screen is Equinox trainer Tetsuya Kimura, as they got in the tunnel mostly out of public view he broke into tears, Lemaire also very emotional. The pressure they, and the Grooms, are under in a racing obsessed country is immense . #HeroIsComing .
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EQUINOX retired, off into the sunset he goes . Thanks for the memories champ!. #HeroIsGone .
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Absolute scenes at the biggest show as legend Yutaka Take returns to on DO DEUCE in front of a massive crowd after a stirring win in the G1 2000m Tenno Sho at Tokyo racecourse. Yutaka Take. schooling them since 1987 .
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Beauty in full flight:. The princess SODASHI winning the G1 Hanshin Juvenile Fillies #white .
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GRAN ALEGRIA’s first, a colt, by Epiphaneia is some looker!
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USHBA TESORO fast work this mroning at Miho. 3F of the usual nonsense from him, then. he actually decided to concentrate the last 1F (!). Breeders Cup Classic 🇺🇸 next for him.
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Christophe Lemaire and Yutaka Take in a new Uma Musume advert, it’s getting a lot of air time atm! .
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EQUINOX on the cover of Gallops, not winning another Group 1, this time as a Sire !. #HeroIsComing
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Tokyo Yakult Swallows (NPB Baseball) team mascot reading the racing newspaper (Keiba Eight) at the team's pre-season game today, a closed game without spectators, he had little to do so punted the day away #cleverswallow .
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Here is this peice of work by DO DEUCE this morning, blue cap under Yutaka Take. 10.6 closing 1F on the Ritto chip is nuts. Dubai Turf 🇦🇪 next for him.
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GOLIATH final fast ahead of the Japan Cup. Course proper at Tokyo. Soumillon won't hear of him getting beat. #HeroIsComing .
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G1 2400m Japan Cup at Tokyo. Won by 4h 2. EQUINOX (Kitasan Black x Chateau Blanche (King Halo)) under Christophe Lemaire🇫🇷 . 2.21.8 for the 2400m. His sixth Group 1 win in a row. 2nd 3f 1. LIBERTY ISLAND.3rd 4f 17. STARS ON EARTH.4th 4h 5. DO DEUCE . #JRA .
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JRA official Japan Cup poster. Featuring a horse and a jockey. As usual, the previous year's hereoes are celebrated . #EQUINOX.#ChristopheLemaire.#JRA
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Yuga Kawada rode LOVES ONLY YOU into the parade ring for her Retirement Ceremony at Tokyo Racecourse, Trainer Yahagi on the left lead.
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EQUINOX arrived at Shadai Stallion Station this morning. His fee for 2024 is ￥20mil and the "Book Full" sign is already up. 引退式を終えたイクイノックス、社台SSに到着 初年度種付け料2000万円で既に満口(スポニチアネックス).#Yahooニュース.
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More EQUINOX.
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EQUINOX and Lemaire checking in, horse wouldn't have blown a candle out, Lemaire needs a big breath :) .
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HEART’S CRY and Christophe Lemaire 🇫🇷 after beating Deep Impact in the 2005 Arima Kinen
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AUGUSTE RODIN had a jump out of the JRA Gates this morning, handles the Dirt well.
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For A Shin Hikari fans, this will bring tears:. 2yo filly REFRAME 🇺🇸(American Pharoah x Careless Jewel (Tapit)) won the 1600m (Turf) 2yo Newcomers at Niigata. She was uncontrollable for most of the race. You won't forget her! A freak is born. #JRA.
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Tenno Sho week!. Mirco Demuro and EISHIN FLASH acknowledge the Emperor after winning the 2012 Tenno Sho.
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Polpularity rarely seen on a racecourse anywhere, the great OGURI CAP and Yutaka Take after winning the Arima Kinen in 1990 in fornt of 170,000+ fans #OguriCap .
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We didn't have to wait too long after Almond Eye:. 3yo filly 5. LIBERTY ISLAND (Duramente x Yankee Rose🇦🇺) made a procession of the G1 2400m Japan Oaks. She is a 3x G1 winner from just 5 starts. The freak show!. #JRA .
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EQUINOX thinks he is there to race :).
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7. SUMOMOMOMOMOMOMOMO about to have her second run at Ohi
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CONTRAIL and an emotional Yuichi Fukunaga, how good it is, the greatest game.
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Raider CHARYN final fast ahead G1 Mile Championship on Sunday, Ryan Moore 🇬🇧 in the saddle. Worked on the course proper at Kyoto. Time decent. he wasn't very light on his feet and movmement stiff-ish. but that may be him?. Connections happy, main thing!.
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Absolute scenes as the "YU-TA-KA" call breaks out at Tokyo for the legend Yutaka Take and DO DEUCE .
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The legendary “Nakano Call” as INES FUJIN and Eiji Nakano returned to scale after winning the 1990 Derby in front of 196,517 fans, epic stuff on the big show #JRA .
DID YOU KNOW❓⁉️. The 1990 Tokyo Yushun, won by Ines Fujin, still holds the WORLD RECORD for the most people at a race meeting. Listen to that crowd of 196,517 racegoers! 🎌. #東京優駿 #アイネスフウジン #競馬 #世界記録
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"日本のみなさんＢＯＮＮＥ ＡＮＮＥＥ" NY message from Mickaëlle Michel 🇫🇷 who begins riding the NAR Nankan circuit from the 21st, the next step in her quest to become a JRA jockey.仏ミシェル騎手から新年メッセージ！川崎競馬拠点に２０２０年は日本で仕事始め .
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FOREVER YOUNG 3yo career:. 1st 🇸🇦 Saudi Derby.1st 🇦🇪 UAE Derby.3rd 🇺🇸 Kentucky Derby.1st 🇯🇵 Japan Dirt Classic (Derby).3rd 🇺🇸 Breeders Classic.1st 🇯🇵 Tokyo Daishoten. Amazing horse, amazing training by Team Yahagi. Bring on 2025, 2026 etc! . Wonder if we see him on Turf too?!.
G1 2000m Tokyo Daishoten:. Won by 3c FOREVER YOUNG (Real Steel x Forever Darling 🇺🇸 (Congrats)) under Ryusei Sakai . FOREVER YOUNG deservedly bags his first ever Group 1!. WILSON TESORO 2nd.RAMJET 3rd.USHBA TESORO 4th . Great race, won by a monster colt!.
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Mr. Yahagi is riding CONTRAIL at the Retirement Ceremony!. Did the same when LYS GRACIEUX retired.
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Emotional scenes at LYS GRACIEUX 's Retirement Ceremony as the Groom bids farewell and says "thank you".
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KITASAN BLACK (Sire of Equinox) parading as an autumn 5yo, a big horse at 542kg, he ran at 524kg as a spring 4yo. Awesome looker. No bodyweights for Dubai however EQUINOX was 492kg when he won the Arima Kinen in December, around 500kg in Dubai?.
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This is not manga, it isn't a fairy tale. SODASHI really is very very good.
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FOREVER YOUNG and Ryusei Sakai post winning the Jpn1 Japan Dirt Classic. FOREVER YOUNG seemed full of energy and happy post race, he was very fit for this first up tonight, obviously. Ryusei Sakai flies to France tomorrow to ride SHIN EMPEROR in The Arc .
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PANTHALASSA has been retired, he ran his last race in the Japan Cup. He tore away till the end of his racing career. Thanks for the memories PANTHALASSA ! . #gohardorgohome .
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ALMOND EYE final fast before the Tenno Sho under Lemaire 🇫🇷 #floating . Helmet cams on too:) .
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Lemaire speaking Spanish, he answered questions in four languages after the Japan Cup, international jockey.
Christophe Lemaire, después de haber ganado la Japan Cup con Equinox.
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ALMOND EYE inducted into Japan's Horse Racing Hall Of Fame, finally!. 200 Votes from 207 (96.6%), needed 75%. Missed last year, incredibly, with 71.3% of Votes. There were no additions to the HOF in 2021 and 2022. KITASAN BLACK inducted 2020. 🍾🎉🐎.
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The world at their feet: 3yo colt FOREVER YOUNG and Ryusei Sakai . What a 4yo - 5yo - 6yo he is going to be!. #HeroIsComing .
G1 2000m Tokyo Daishoten:. Won by 3c FOREVER YOUNG (Real Steel x Forever Darling 🇺🇸 (Congrats)) under Ryusei Sakai . FOREVER YOUNG deservedly bags his first ever Group 1!. WILSON TESORO 2nd.RAMJET 3rd.USHBA TESORO 4th . Great race, won by a monster colt!.
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Star Jockeys Yutaka Take and Christophe Lemaire collaborate in a new Uma Musume related advert!.
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EQUINOX has the stall across from his sire KITASAN BLACK at Shadai
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NEW: Uma Musume advert featuring Christophe Lemaire 🇫🇷 and Yutaka Take 🇯🇵. Academy Award-worthy performance by @christo68914587 , surely? .
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Happy 33rd birthday WIND IN HER HAIR 🇮🇪 🎉🍾.
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GOLD MARTIN jumped the winning post shadow as he win at Kawasaki today
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