Lys Gracieux
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Lys Gracieux is a champion Japanese Thoroughbred racehorse. As a two-year-old in 2016 she showed top-class form, winning two of her four starts and finished second in the Hanshin Juvenile Fillies. In
Lys Gracieux winning the Takarazuka Kinen
Lys Gracieux in September 2017
Lys Gracieux's trainer Yoshito Yahagi
Damian Lane, who rode Lys Gracieux to her three consecutive G1 wins in 2019
Arima Kinen
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The Arima Kinen is a Grade I flat horse race in Japan open to Thoroughbreds three-years-old and above and is the world's largest betting horserace. It is run on the fourth Sunday of December each year
Lys Gracieux
…in a row; the Takarazuka Kinen in June, the Cox Plate in Australia in October, and concluded her career with a five length margin of victory in the Arima Kinen in December. She was awarded the 2019 Japanese Horse of the Year and was again awarded Best Older Filly or Mare. Lys Gracieux is one of the three highest…
2019 Arima Kinen winner Lys Gracieux
Yoriyasu Arima, founder of the race（1884 - 1957）