Fine Motion


Fine Motion is an Irish-bred, Japanese-trained Thoroughbred racehorse who won the Shūka Sho and the Queen [Elizabeth II Cup (Japan)|Queen Elizabeth II Commemorative Cup] in 2002. She was also awarded with JRA Best Three-Year-Old Filly in the same year. With a total of 15 starts and 8 wins from those races, she earned 494,518,000 JPY in total before retiring from racing.

Background

Fine Motion is a bay horse foaled on January 27, 1999, by Cocote, a daughter of Troy. She was sired by Danehill, an inductee of Australian Racing Hall of Fame in 2015 and a leading sire in many countries multiple times. Her half brother, Pilsudski, was the winner of the 1996 Breeders' Cup Turf as well as the 1997 Japan Cup.

Racing Record

Fine Motion was active from 2001 to 2004. The table below taken from netkeiba and JBIS shows her racing statistics.

Breeding career

Although registered as a mare, she had a chromosomal abnormality, making her infertile and was unable to become a broodmare.

In popular culture

An anthropomorphized version of the horse appears in Umamusume: Pretty Derby, voiced by Chinami Hashimoto.