Special Week

Special Week
Sire	Sunday Silence
Grandsire	Halo
Dam	Campaign Girl
Damsire	Maruzensky
Sex	Stallion
Foaled	2 May 1995[1]
Country	Japan
Colour	Dark bay or brown
Breeder	Hidaka Taiyo Bokujo
Owner	Hiroyoshi Usuda
Trainer	Toshiaki Shirai
Record	17: 10-4-2
Earnings	¥1,092,623,000
Major wins
Kisaragi Sho (1998) Hochi Hai Yayoi Sho (1998) Tokyo Yushun (1998) Kyoto Shimbun Hai (1998) American Jockey Club Cup (1999) Hanshin Daishoten (1999) Tenno Sho (spring) (1999) Tenno Sho (autumn) (1999) Japan Cup (1999)
Awards
JRA Special Award

Special Week (Japanese: スペシャルウィーク, 2 May 1995 – 27 April 2018)^[2] was a Japanese Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. Between 1997 and 1999 he won ten of his seventeen races including four at Grade I level. After winning his only start as a juvenile he emerged as a top-class performer in the following season: he won the Tokyo Yushun (Japanese Derby) and three other graded races as well as being placed in the Satsuki Sho, Kikuka Sho and the Japan Cup. He performed even better as a four-year-old in 1999 winning the Hanshin Daishoten, the spring and autumn editions of the Tenno Sho, and the Japan Cup. In the last-named race he defeated a strong international field including the winners of the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe and The Derby.

He later became a successful breeding stallion siring the Japanese Horse of the Year Buena Vista.