Kitasan Black

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Kitasan Black
Kitasan Black in October 2015
Sire	Black Tide [ja][1]
Grandsire	Sunday Silence[1]
Dam	Sugar Heart[1]
Damsire	Sakura Bakushin O[1]
Sex	Stallion[1]
Foaled	(2012-03-10) March 10, 2012 (age 12)[1]
Country	Japan[1]
Colour	Bay[1]
Breeder	Yanagawa Bokujo[1]
Owner	Ōno Shōji[1]
Trainer	Hisashi Shimizu[1]
Record	20: 12-2-4[1]
Earnings	1,876,843,000 JPY[1]
Major wins
Spring Stakes (2015) St Lite Kinen (2015) Kikuka Sho (2015) Tenno Sho (Spring 2016, 2017, Autumn 2017) Kyoto Daishoten (2016) Japan Cup (2016) Osaka Hai (2017) Arima Kinen (2017)
Awards
Japanese Horse of the Year (2016, 2017) JRA Award for Best Older Male Horse (2016, 2017)
Honours
Japan Racing Association Hall of Fame (2020)[2]

Kitasan Black (キタサンブラック, foaled 10 March 2012) is a Japanese Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. In a three-year track career he won twelve of his twenty races including seven Grade 1 events, won four JRA Awards and set the record for prize money won in Japan. He was a stayer who has produced most of his best performances over distances of 2400 metres or further. Unraced as a juvenile in 2014 he proved himself one of the best colts of his generation in Japan in the following year with wins in the Spring Stakes, St Lite Kinen and Kikuka Sho as well as third-place finishes in the Satsuki Sho and the Arima Kinen. He continued his good form in the first half of 2016 with a win in the spring edition of the Tenno Sho and a close third in the Takarazuka Kinen. He returned to the track in autumn to win the Kyoto Daishoten and the Japan Cup. His performances in 2016 saw him being voted Japanese Horse of the Year. In the following year he added four more G1 wins and was again named Horse of the Year.