The Japan Racing Association is a public company established to operate ChūōKeiba and to manage racecourses,betting facilities,and horse-training facilities.
Nakayama Racecourse was built in 1990 in Funabashi,Chiba,Japan,for horse racing and up to 165,676 spectators.
Show Gate is a New Zealand Racing Hall of Fame champion thoroughbred racehorse sired by Gatekeeper out of Minglow,a Eulogy mare.
Hong Kong International Races (香港國際賽事) is an event consisting of the four most prestigious horse races in Hong Kong hosted by the Hong Kong Jockey Club. The four races are:Hong Kong Sprint (1200m),Hong Kong Mile (1600m),Hong Kong Cup (2000m),and Hong Kong Vase (2400m).
Chukyo Racecourse is located in Toyoake,Aichi,Japan. It is used for horse racing. It was built in 1953. It has a capacity of 58,400. It has 8,795 seats. Unlike the JRA's nine other racecourses,it is independent of the JRA,with most of the racecourse owned and run by Nagoya Horse Racing Co.,Ltd.
Kokura Racecourse is located in Kokura Minami-ku Kitakyushu,Japan. It is used for horse racing. It was built in 1994. It has a capacity of 20,000. It has 1,192 seats.
So Casual is a Thoroughbred racehorse who won the New Zealand Derby in record time in 1998.
Hakodate Racecourse is a horse racing track in Hakodate,Japan,built in 1896. During the period between 2008 and 2009,Hakodate Racecourse was closed for renovation and refurbishment of the grandstand. Work was completed in June 2010. As part of this refurbishment,Mitsubishi Electric installed a Diamond Vision Screen. Races that were supposed to be held at Hakodate during that period were moved to Sapporo Racecourse. Hakodate Racecourse has both a grass course,and a dirt course.
Horse racing in Japan is a popular equestrian sport,with more than 21,000 horse races held each year. There are three types of racing that take place in Japan - flat racing,jump racing,and Ban'ei Racing.
Trentham Racecourse is the main thoroughbred horse racecourse for the Wellington city area in New Zealand. It is located in the suburb of Trentham in Upper Hutt,next to Trentham Military Camp.
Riccarton Park Racecourse is the main thoroughbred horse racecourse for the Christchurch city area in New Zealand.
Pan Sutong JP,is a Hong Kong billionaire businessman. He is the founder of Matsunichi Digital Holdings Limited,and the chairman of Goldin Real Estate Financial Holdings Limited.
John Marshall was an Australian jockey from Perth,who was best known for riding Rogan Josh to victory in the 1999 Melbourne Cup.
Akeed Mofeed is a Thoroughbred racehorse trained in Ireland by John Oxx and arrived in Hong Kong in 2012. In Hong Kong he was trained by Richard Gibson. He is notable for winning the BMW Hong Kong Derby 2013 and the Longines Hong Kong Cup 2013.
Gold-Fun was an Irish-bred Thoroughbred racehorse trained in Hong Kong since 2012. He is notable for winning the Hong Kong Classic Mile 2013,National Day Cup 2013 (HKG3–1400m),the HKG2 Oriental Watch Sha Tin Trophy,the HKG1 Queen's Silver Jubilee Cup 2014 and the Celebration Cup 2014.
Lord Kanaloa is a Japanese Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. A specialist sprinter,he recorded his first important success in 2011 when he won the Grade 3 Keihan Hai at Kyoto Racecourse. In the following year he won once from his first four starts but then emerged as a world-class performer with wins in the Sprinters Stakes and the Hong Kong Sprint,becoming the first Japanese horse to win the latter race. Lord Kanaloa was even better in 2013 winning the Takamatsunomiya Kinen before stepping up in distance to take the Yasuda Kinen. In the autumn he repeated his wins in the Sprinters Stakes and the Hong Kong Sprint and ended the year rated as one of the best racehorses in the world.
Designs On Rome is an Irish-bred Thoroughbred racehorse. He is best known for his performances in Hong Kong where he was named Horse of the Year in 2014.
James Hugh Bowman is an Australian thoroughbred racing jockey. Based in Sydney,Bowman has won the New South Wales Metropolitan Jockey Premiership four times and has ridden 100 Group 1 winners. He was the jockey for Australian champion mare Winx from 2014 through to her retirement in 2019. In 2017,Bowman won the Longines World’s Best Jockey award presented by the International Federation of Horseracing Authorities. The award capped off a year in which he added to his domestic success with international Group 1 wins in Hong Kong and Japan. In 2019,he was inducted into the Australian Racing Hall of Fame,the industry’s highest accolade. Bowman is also renowned for his “She’s Apples”winning salute and his nickname of “the Undisputed Group 1 King”.
Poetic Prince,known in Australia as Our Poetic Prince,was an Australian bred and New Zealand trained race-horse that was a top performer at Group 1 level.
McGinty,known in Australia as Mr McGinty,was a Group 1 winning New Zealand bred and trained race-horse and sire.
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