Adrian Webber

Keiba Diary: Liberty Island in the Oka Sho spotlight

Adrian Webber has the latest happenings around the JRA from Classic musings to Kawada’s continuing hot streak, to the Ho O man’s Group 1 ambitions.

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Asian Racing Review: answering the Nature Strip retirement ‘question’

Michael Cox and Andrew Le Jeune weigh-in on the Nature Strip retirement debate on this week's episode of Asian Racing Review, as they analyse all the weekend's Group 1 action from Australia and Japan.

Adrian Webber

Keiba Diary: Take brothers in Classic quest, few clues besides

Adrian Webber brings us this week’s latest from the JRA including some inconclusive Classic trials and news of Group 1 stars Do Deuce and Pixie Knight.

Costa Rolfe

The ‘Shadow Roll Monster’ recast: Narita Brian thrills Japanese audiences anew

Anime phenomenon Uma Musume is ensuring that the feats of past champions like 1994 Triple Crown winner Narita Brian can be appreciated by a new generation of racing fans.

David Morgan

Top 5 magic moments of 2022: Japan

After Equinox’s brilliant Arima Kinen victory emphasised the wonder of top-level racing in Japan, Asian Racing Report looks back on 2022 and ranks its five most memorable Japanese racing moments of the year.

David Morgan

A champion jockey title is Yuga Kawada’s destiny

Yuga Kawada stands on the cusp of a first championship, a feat that continues his family’s long racing legacy and is important to the profile of Japanese jockeys on the world stage.

David Morgan

The Legend of Oju Chosan

On the date when, fable has it, Father Christmas’s antlered coursers spring magically into flight, it is fitting that Japan’s greatest jumps horse will leap the Nakayama fences one last time.

David Morgan

Daisuke Fukumoto is one of a new ilk of Japanese jockeys abroad

The former ‘Jockey Baby’ with an international outlook is now an established rider at Woodbine where his compatriot Kazushi Kimura keeps on turning heads.

Michael Cox

Hong Kong Cup: ‘World’s Best Jockey’ in hot seat on Romantic Warrior

Asian Racing Report's Michael Cox and Andrew Le Jeune assess the tactical minefield facing Romantic Warrior's jockey James McDonald in Sunday's G1 Longines Hong Kong Cup.

Michael Cox

Yutaka Take takes on first smartphone, threatens to take on Panthalassa

The mind games have begun before Sunday's Hong Kong Cup as Jack D’Or’s jockey Yutaka Take – who in breaking news now owns a smartphone – suggests Panthalassa may not get his own way in front.

David Morgan

Japan is still an option for Arc heroine Alpinista

Kirsten Rausing and Sir Mark Prescott weigh up whether or not to embark on a lucrative Tokyo raid after another Japanese washout at Longchamp.

David Morgan

Japan’s Arc quest: tactics and wet track make for a difficult task

Kazuo Yokoyama will achieve a rare feat if he makes all on Titleholder to land Japan its first Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe on Sunday.

David Morgan

Japan’s top five Arc heartbreaks

A brief history of Japan's tortured relationship with one of horse racing's most coveted prizes, the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe.