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Believe
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Believe in the paddock at Kyoto Racecourse during her retirement ceremony.
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Romaji	Birīvu
Foaled	April 26, 1998
Sire	Sunday Silence
Dam	Great Christine
Sex	Mare
Color	Bay
Trainer	Shigeki Matsumoto
Race Record	28: 10-3-5
Earnings	460,313,000 JPY
Major wins
Centaur Stakes (2002) Hakodate Sprint Stakes (2003) Sprinters' Stakes (2002) Takamatsunomiya Kinen (2003)

Believe To The Very End

Believe To The Very End

Step by step, you've honed your speed and nurtured your strength.
When your path is blocked, remember those steps—take pride as a specialist.
As long as you can believe, in both your past and present, the future shall open before you.
JRA Portraits of the Bucephalus

Believe is a Japanese racehorse who raced from 2000-2003. She was the first Sunday Silence offspring to win the Sprinters Stakes in 2002, and would win the Takamatasunomiya Kinen the next year, achieving a Dual Sprint. She was known as a specialist at 1200 meter races, having raced 18 times over that distance.

Name Origin

Believe means to accept something as true, genuine, or real ideals.

Honors

• JRA Award for Best Older Filly or Mare (2003)

Relationships

Relatives

• Sunday Silence - Father

Race Records

Race data sourced from netkeiba.

Date	Racecourse	Race	Grade	Distance	Gate	Odds	Fav.	Fin.	Time	Margin	Jockey	Winner (Runner-Up)	Other Umamusume
2000/11/11	Kyoto	Three-Year-Old Newcomer	Maiden	T 1200m	2	1.5	1	1	1:10.5	-0.4	Y.Fukunaga	(Mad Party)
2000/12/10	Hanshin	Three-Year-Old Pre-OP	Pre-OP	T 1600m	1	3.8	2	6	1:36.6	0.7	Y.Fukunaga	Millennium Bio
2001/01/06	Kyoto	Wakana Sho	Pre-OP	D 1200m	10	6.9	3	9	1:14.8	1.3	M.Matsunaga	Koei Marvelous
2001/01/27	Kyoto	Kanzakura Sho	Pre-OP	T 1200m	8	8.4	4	4	1:12.1	0.5	M.Matsunaga	Toyo Lincoln
2001/03/17	Nakayama	Flower Cup	G3	T 1800m	14	22.7	11	8	1:51.1	0.8	J.Horai	Time Fair Lady
2001/05/04	Kyoto	Azusa Sho	Pre-OP	T 1600m	18	6.9	3	3	1:34.9	0.2	Y.Fukunaga	Soleil Dance
2001/05/19	Chukyo	Three-Year-Old Pre-OP	Pre-OP	T 1200m	4	4.4	2	1	1:08.3	-0.1	Y.Fukunaga	(Gold Disc)
2001/06/10	Chukyo	Falcon Stakes	G3	T 1200m	6	19.9	9	9	1:09.6	0.7	Y.Fukunaga	Rusunai Christie	Calstone Light O
2001/11/10	Kyoto	Daigo Tokubetsu	Pre-OP	T 1200m	2	8.5	6	1	1:08.8	-0.2	Y.Fukunaga	(Check the Luck)
2001/12/15	Hanshin	Sakasegawa Stakes	Pre-OP	T 1600m	12	8.5	6	3	1:34.2	0.3	F.Komaki	Meisho Kio
2002/02/17	Kyoto	Yamashiro Stakes	Pre-OP	T 1200m	2	3.7	1	2	1:08.2	0.4	Y.Fukunaga	Shonan Kampf
2002/03/10	Hanshin	Mukogawa Stakes	Pre-OP	T 1600m	15	5.3	4	3	1:34.0	0.8	Y.Fukunaga	Grass World
2002/03/24	Nakayama	Funabashi Stakes	Pre-OP	T 1200m	6	2.5	1	3	1:08.2	0.4	K.Ando	Happy Maximum
2002/04/14	Hanshin	Yodoyabashi Stakes	Pre-OP	T 1200m	14	3.9	1	1	1:07.7	-1.0	Y.Iwata	(Resurreccion)
2002/05/12	Tokyo	Keio Hai Spring Cup	G2	T 1400m	17	14.9	7	3	1:20.5	0.2	Y.Fukunaga	God of Chance	Dantsu Flame
2002/06/08	Chukyo	TV Aichi Open	OP	T 1200m	9	1.9	1	7	1:09.3	0.7	Y.Fukunaga	Native Heart	Calstone Light O
2002/07/20	Kokura	Sasebo Stakes	Pre-OP	T 1200m	10	1.9	1	1	1:07.7	-0.1	Y.Fukunaga	(Osumi Erst)
2002/08/17	Kokura	Kitakyushu Tankyori Stakes	Pre-OP	T 1200m	6	2.0	1	1	1:07.8	-0.4	Y.Iwata	(Osumi Erst)
2002/09/08	Hanshin	Centaur Stakes	G3	T 1200m	1	2.0	1	1	1:07.1	-0.7	Y.Iwata	(Paian)	Calstone Light O
2002/09/29	Niigata	Sprinters' Stakes	G1	T 1200m	4	2.2	1	1	1:07.7	-0.1	Y.Take	(Admire Cozzene)
2002/12/15	Hong Kong	Hong Kong Sprint	G1	T 1000m	11	4.7	2	12	0:58.1	1.7	Y.Take	All Thrills Too
2003/03/02	Hanshin	Hankyu Hai	G3	T 1200m	10	3.7	2	9	1:09.6	1.1	Y.Take	Shonan Kampf
2003/03/30	Chukyo	Takamatsunomiya Kinen	G1	T 1200m	1	10.1	3	1	1:08.1	-0.2	K.Ando	(Sunningdale)
2003/05/18	Tokyo	Keio Hai Spring Cup	G2	T 1400m	9	6.9	4	8	1:21.8	0.8	K.Ando	Telegnosis
2003/06/08	Tokyo	Yasuda Kinen	G1	T 1600m	5	22.4	9	12	1:32.8	0.7	K.Ando	Agnes Digital	Agnes Digital, Dantsu Flame
2003/07/06	Hakodate	Hakodate Sprint Stakes	G3	T 1200m	7	1.7	1	1	1:09.3	-0.3	K.Ando	(Agnes Sonic)
2003/09/14	Hanshin	Centaur Stakes	G3	T 1200m	2	1.8	1	2	1:07.8	0.0	K.Ando	Tenshino Kiseki	Durandal, Calstone Light O
2003/10/05	Nakayama	Sprinters' Stakes	G1	T 1200m	11	2.2	1	2	1:08.0	0.0	K.Ando	Durandal	Durandal, Calstone Light O

Pedigree

Horse pedigree of Believe (JPN)

Sire Sunday Silence (USA)	Halo (USA)	Hail to Reason (USA)	Turn-to (IRE)
			Nothirdchance (USA)
		Cosmah (USA)	Cosmic Bomb (USA)
			Almahmoud (USA)
	Wishing Well (USA)	Understanding (USA)	Promised Land (USA)
			Pretty Ways (USA)
		Mountain Flower (USA)	Montparnasse (ARG)
			Edelweiss (USA)
Dam Great Christine (USA)	Danzig (USA)	Northern Dancer (CAN)	Nearctic (CAN)
			Natalma (USA)
		Pas de Nom (USA)	Admiral's Voyage (USA)
			Petitioner (GB)
	Great Lady M. (USA)	Icecapade (USA)	Nearctic (CAN)
			Shenanigans (USA)
		Sovereign Lady (USA)	Young Emperor (GB)
			Sweety Kid (USA), (Family: 22-d)

Trivia

• The "Brand Number" of Believe in Hong Kong Jockey Club is "C601".
  • "Brand Number" is a system that HKJC used to identify horse, including local horse and overseas contender.