Fuji Kiseki
| Fuji Kiseki | |
|---|---|
| Sire | Sunday Silence |
| Grandsire | Halo |
| Dam | Millracer |
| Damsire | Le Fabuleux |
| Sex | Stallion |
| Foaled | 15 April 1992[1] |
| Country | Japan |
| Colour | Brown |
| Breeder | Shadai Farm |
| Owner | Yomoji Saito |
| Trainer | Sakae Watanabe |
| Record | 4: 4-0-0 |
| Earnings | JPY129,650,000 |
| Major wins | |
| Asahi Hai Sansai Stakes (1994) Yayoi Sho (1995) | |
| Awards | |
| JRA Award for Best Three-Year-Old Colt (1994) | |
Fuji Kiseki (Japanese: フジキセキ, 15 April 1992 – 28 December 2015) was a Japanese Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. He was the best Japanese two-year-old of his generation in 1994 when he won all three of his starts including the Asahi Hai Sansai Stakes. In the following spring he took his unbeaten run to four with a win in the Yayoi Sho before his racing career was ended by injury. After his retirement from racing he became a very successful breeding stallion. He died in 2015 at the age of 23.
Background
Fuji Kiseki was a brown or black horse standing 1.63 metres high with a white star and a white sock on his right hind leg[2] bred by the Shadai Farm. During his racing career he was owned by Yomoji Saito and trained by Sakae Watanabe.
He was from the first crop of foals sired by Sunday Silence, who won the 1989 Kentucky Derby, before retiring to stud in Japan where he was champion sire on thirteen consecutive occasions. His other major winners included Deep Impact, Stay Gold, Heart's Cry, Manhattan Cafe, Zenno Rob Roy and Neo Universe.[3] Fuji Kiseki's dam Millracer was bred in Virginia and won two minor races in the United States before being exported to Japan.[4] Her grand-dam Millicent was a half-sister to Mill Reef.[5]
Racing career
1994: two-year-old season
Fuji Kiseki made his racecourse debut in an event for previously unraced juveniles over 1200 metres at Niigata Racecourse on 20 August and won by more than five lengths over the filly Shell Queen. At Hanshin Racecourse on 8 October he won the Momiji Stakes from Tayasu Tsuyoshi, a colt who won the Japanese Derby in 1995. On his final start of the year the colt was stepped up to Grade 1 class for the Asahi Hai Sansai Stakes over 1600 metres at Nakayama Racecourse, beating Ski Captain and Kokuto Julian.[6]
1995: three-year-old season
On his three-year-old debut Fuji Kiseki contested the Grade 2 Yayoi Sho (a major trial race for the Satsuki Sho) over 2000 meters at Nakayama and won from Hokkai Rousseau and Hashino Taiyu.[6]
Shortly after the race he sustained a tendon injury which ended his racing career.[7]
Statistics
The following statistics are based on information from netkeiba.[8]
| Date | Track | Name | Grade | Type/Distance | Field | Finished | Time | Jockey | Winner (2nd Place) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 – two-year-old season | ||||||||||||
| August 20, 1994 | Niigata | Maiden Race | Turf 1200m | 8 | 1st | 1:09.8 | Masayoshi Ebina | (Shell Queen) | ||||
| October 8, 1994 | Hanshin | Momiji Stakes | OP | Turf 1600m | 9 | 1st | 1:35.5 (record) | Koichi Tsunoda | (Tayasu Tsuyoshi) | |||
| December 11, 1994 | Nakayama | Asahi Hai Sansai Stakes | G1 | Turf 1600m | 10 | 1st | 1:34.7 | Koichi Tsunoda | (Ski Captain) | |||
| 1995 – three-year-old season | ||||||||||||
| March 5, 1995 | Nakayama | Hochi Hai Yayoi Sho | G2 | Turf 2000m | 10 | 1st | 2:03.7 | Koichi Tsunoda | (Hokkai Rousseau) | |||
Stud record
After the end of his racing career, Fuji Kiseki became a breeding stallion at the Shadai Stallion Station in Hokkaido. Later in his stud career he was shuttled to spend the southern hemisphere breeding season at the Arrowfield Stud in New South Wales. He sired several major winners including Straight Girl, Kane Hekili, Isla Bonita, Sun Classique (Sheema Classic), Danon Chantilly (NHK Mile Cup), Sadamu Patek (Mile Championship), Fine Grain (Takamatsunomiya Kinen) Asian Winds (Victoria Mile), Kinshasa No Kiseki (Takamatsunomiya Kinen) and Koiuta (Victoria Mile).[9] He was pensioned in 2011 and died in December 2015 after sustaining a "cervical spine injury".[7]
In popular culture
An anthropomorphized version of Fuji Kiseki appears in the multimedia franchise Umamusume: Pretty Derby, voiced by Eriko Matsui.[10]
Pedigree
| Sire Sunday Silence (USA) 1986 |
Halo 1969 |
Hail to Reason | Turn-To (IRE) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nothirdchance | |||
| Cosmah | Cosmic Bomb | ||
| Almahmoud | |||
| Wishing Well 1975 |
Understanding | Promised Land | |
| Pretty Ways | |||
| Mountain Flower | Montparnasse (ARG) | ||
| Edelweiss | |||
| Dam Millracer (USA) 1983 |
Le Fabuleux (FR) 1961 |
Wild Risk | Rialto |
| Wild Violet | |||
| Anguar | Verso | ||
| La Rochelle (USA) | |||
| Marston's Mill 1975 |
In Reality | Intentionally | |
| My Dear Girl | |||
| Millicent | Cornish Prince | ||
| Milan Mill (Family 22-d)[5] |
See also
- Jungle Pocket - 2001 Japanese Derby and Japan Cup winner; shared a common owner, trainer, and jockey
References
- ^ a b "Fuji Kiseki pedigree". Equineline.
- ^ "Fuji Kiseki – Stallions in Japan". www.jrha.or.jp.
- ^ "Sunday Silence – Stud Record". Racing Post.
- ^ "Millracer profile". Equibase.
- ^ a b "Grand Duchess – Family 22-d". Thoroughbred Bloodlines. Archived from the original on 2012-05-27. Retrieved 2019-04-21.
- ^ a b "Race Records:Lifetime Starts – Fuji Kiseki(JPN)". www.jbis.jp.
- ^ a b "Japanese Sire Fuji Kiseki Dies at 23". The Blood-Horse. 28 December 2015.
- ^ "Horse Profile, Pedigree, Form, Race Record". netkeiba. Retrieved 2025-09-28.
- ^ "Stallion Reports – Fuji Kiseki(JPN)". www.jbis.jp.
- ^ "フジキセキ｜ウマ娘 プリティーダービー 公式ポータルサイト｜Cygames". ウマ娘 プリティーダービー 公式ポータルサイト (in Japanese). Retrieved 2025-12-01.