| Gold Ship | |
|---|---|
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| Sire | Stay Gold |
| Grandsire | Sunday Silence |
| Dam | Point Flag |
| Damsire | Mejiro McQueen |
| Sex | Colt |
| Foaled | 6 March 2009 |
| Country | Japan |
| Colour | Grey |
| Breeder | Eiichi Kobayashi |
| Owner | Eiichi Kobayashi |
| Trainer | Naosuke Sugai |
| Record | 28: 13-3-2 |
| Earnings | 1,397,767,000 JPY |
| Major wins | |
| Kyodo Tsushin Hai (2012) Satsuki Shō (2012) Kobe Shimbun Hai (2012) Kikuka Shō (2012) Arima Kinen (2012) Hanshin Daishoten (2013, 2014, 2015) Takarazuka Kinen (2013, 2014) Tennō Shō (2015) | |
| Awards | |
| JRA Award for Best Three-Year-Old Colt (2012) | |
Gold Ship (Japanese: ゴールドシップ) is a Japanese Thoroughbred racehorse. In a racing career which began in July 2011, he ran twenty-eight times and won thirteen races. As a two-year-old in 2011, he won his two of his four races. In 2012, he won the Satsuki Shō and the Kikuka Shō, the first and third legs of the Japanese Triple Crown. In December, he defeated a strong field in the weight-for-age invitational Arima Kinen, which led to his being rated the best three-year-old racehorse in the world by some authorities. As a four-year-old, he ran disappointingly in the Tennō Shō but returned to form to win the Takarazuka Kinen. As a five-year-old, Gold Ship became the first horse to record a second victory in the Takarazuka Kinen and in 2015 he added a win in the Tennō Shō. He was known for his unpredictable temperament, with major wins being interspersed with inexplicably poor efforts.