Lovely Day | |
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Sire | King Kamehameha |
Grandsire | Kingmambo |
Dam | Popcorn Jazz |
Damsire | Dance in the Dark |
Sex | Stallion |
Foaled | 30 January 2010[1] |
Country | Japan |
Colour | Dark bay or Brown |
Breeder | Northern Farm |
Owner | Makoto Kaneko |
Trainer | Yasutoshi Ikee |
Record | 31:9-3-3 |
Earnings | ¥647,555,000 |
Major wins | |
Metropolitan Stakes (2014) Nakayama Kimpai (2015) Naruo Kinen (2015) Kyoto Kinen (2015) Takarazuka Kinen (2015) Kyoto Daishoten (2015) Tenno Sho (2015) | |
Awards | |
JRA Award for Best Older Male Horse (2015) | |
Last updated on 11 October 2016 |
Lovely Day (Japanese: ラブリーデイ, foaled 30 January 2010) is a Japanese Thoroughbred racehorse. After winning his first two races as a two-year-old, the horse recorded only one in from fifteen starts over the next two years. In 2015 however, he showed marked improvement to become one of the best horses in Japan, winning six races including the Takarazuka Kinen and the autumn edition of the Tenno Sho. He was voted Best Older Male Horse in the JRA Awards for 2015.