The Tokyo Shimbun Hai is a Grade 3 horse race for Thoroughbreds aged four and over in Japan, run in February over a distance of 1600 metres on turf at Tokyo Racecourse.
Win Carnelian winning the 2023 Tokyo Shimbun Hai
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
Tokyo Shimbun Hai
…Layer 6 T1600m Hayato Yoshida Ryuji Okubo Toru Okawa 1:34.1 2017 Black Spinel 4 T1600m Mirco Demuro Hidetaka Otonashi Sunday Racing Co. Ltd. 1:34.9 2018 Lys Gracieux 4 T1600m Yutaka Take Yoshito Yahagi U.Carrot Farm 1:34.1 2019 Indy Champ 4 T1600m Yuichi Fukunaga Hidetaka Otonashi Silk Racing Co. Ltd. 1:31.9 2020…
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