Fuji Kiseki

Fuji Kiseki (Japanese: フジキセキ, 15 April 1992 – 28 December 2015) is 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.

Fuji Kiseki
SireSunday Silence
GrandsireHalo
DamMillracer
DamsireLe Fabuleux
SexStallion
Foaled15 April 1992[1]
CountryJapan
ColourBrown
BreederShadai Farm
OwnerYomoji Saito
TrainerSakae Watanabe
Record4: 4-0-0
EarningsJPY129,650,000
Major wins
Asahi Hai Sansai Stakes (1994)
Yayoi Sho (1995)
Awards
JRA Award for Best Two-Year-Old Colt (1994)

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 from 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 and won from 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 metres 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]

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).[8] He died in December 2015 after sustaining a "cervical spine injury".[7]

Pedigree
Pedigree of Fuji Kiseki (JPN), brown or black stallion 1992[1]
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]
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References
  1. "Fuji Kiseki pedigree". Equineline.
  2. "Fuji Kiseki - Stallions in Japan". www.jrha.or.jp.
  3. "Sunday Silence - Stud Record". Racing Post.
  4. "Millracer profile". Equibase.
  5. "Grand Duchess - Family 22-d". Thoroughbred Bloodlines.
  6. "Race Records:Lifetime Starts - Fuji Kiseki(JPN)". www.jbis.jp.
  7. "Japanese Sire Fuji Kiseki Dies at 23". The Blood-Horse. 28 December 2015.
  8. "Stallion Reports - Fuji Kiseki(JPN)". www.jbis.jp.
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