Six-year-old favorite T O Royal unleashes a furious sprint around the final turn and the home stretch to win the spring Tenno-Sho in the race's 169th running.
Jockey Yutaka Take extended his record for career G1 victories to 81 on Sunday aboard second favorite Do Deuce at the 68th running of the Arima Kinen. The victory on turf over 2,500 meter
Equinox, the world's top-ranked horse, dominates over the home stretch to win the 43rd Japan Cup, four lengths ahead of this year's winner of Japan's Triple Crown for fillies, Liberty Island.
Japanese horses have been in a rich vein of form in recent overseas races as decades-long efforts to improve domestically bred thoroughbreds have narrowed the gap with horses bred in Europe and the United States.