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| Rhein Kraft | ||
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| ラインクラフト | ||
| Rhein Kraft at the 2005 Oka Sho | ||
| Silks |  |
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| Romaji | Rain Kurafuto | |
| Foaled | April 04, 2002 | |
| Died | August 19, 2006 | |
| Sire | End Sweep | |
| Dam | Must Be Loved | |
| Sex | Mare | |
| Color | Bay | |
| Trainer | Tsutomo Setoguchi | |
| Race Record | 13: 6-3-2 | |
| Earnings | 505,630,000 JPY | |
| Major wins | ||
| Fillies' Revue (2005) Oka Sho (2005) NHK Mile Cup (2005) Hanshin Himba Stakes (2006) |
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Rhein Kraft was a Japanese racehorse that was active from 2004 to 2006. She was a promising filly that won both the Oka Sho and NHK Mile Cup back to back, being one of the only three unconventional Double Crown[Note 1] winners alongside King Kamehameha and Deep Sky. She tragically passed away in the summer of 2006, due to acute heart failure.
Name Origin
Owner Shigemasa Osawa uses the crown name "Rhein". As a 2 year old, she was given the name "Kraft", which means "strength" in German.
Racing career
Two-year-old season (2004)
Rhein Kraft made her debut on October 16th, in a 1,400-meter turf race on Kyoto Racecourse. With ease, she won her debut by five lengths. She then entered the Fantasy Stakes (G3) on November 7th, where she won and attained her first graded victory. Her final race of the year was the Hanshin Juvenile Fillies, where she fought hard in the stretch, but placed 3rd.
Three-year-old season (2005)
On March 13th, she started off the year with a win in the Fillies Revue (G2), and attained her second graded victory. She was then granted priority entry to the Oka Sho, the first leg of the Triple Tiara. On April 10th, she competed in the race, and she began to surge through as Air Messiah, Cesario, and Daring Heart were chasing her from behind. However, Rhein Kraft held them all off by a head, and she won her first G1 victory.
On May 8th, she compete in the NHK Mile Cup. At the final corner of the race, she began to surge as Daring Heart marked her from behind. As she won by three-quarters of a length, not only did she mark her second and final G1 victory, she also became the second "Unconventional Double Crown" winner in history since King Kamehameha in 2004.
However, throughout the rest of the year, she did not win her remaining races after that. She made her return in the Rose Stakes (G2) on September 18th, where she lost a small margin to Air Messiah and placed second. On October 16th, she challenged the Shuka Sho, in which it was her first time challenging a medium-distance race. Though she fought hard in the stretch, Air Messiah had caught up to her at that point, and Rhein Kraft finished 2nd. On November 20th, she challenged the Mile Championship, where she chased hard during the race and placed 3rd. Her final race of the year was the Hanshin Himba Stakes (G2) on December 18th, where she placed 4th and lost to Admire Groove, who had won the Queen Elizabeth II Cup in both 2004 and 2005.
Four-year-old season (2006)
In the beginning of the year, Rhein Kraft returned to sprint races and entered the Takamatsunomiya Kinen on March 16th, placing 2nd out of 18 racers. She then entered that year's Hanshin Himba Stakes on April 8th. She eventually won against an old rival, Air Messiah. This marked her first win in 11 months since the NHK Mile Cup.
Final Race and Sudden Death
On May 14th, she entered the Victoria Mile, but her luck ran out quickly as she placed 9th place behind Dance in the Mood. There were initially plans to have her compete in the Sprinters Stakes later that year. However, on August 19th, as she trained at the Northern Farm Airport Farm, she suddenly suffered acute heart failure, and passed away shortly after.[2] She was four years old.
Honors
Relationships
Relatives
- Sunday Silence - Maternal grandfather
- Northern Taste - Great grandfather
Race Records
| Date | Racecourse | Race | Grade | Distance | Gate | Odds | Fav. | Fin. | Time | Margin | Jockey | Winner (Runner-Up) | Other Umamusume |
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| 2004/10/16 | Kyoto | Two-Year-Old Newcomer | Maiden | T 1400m | 7 | 5.3 | 3 | 1 | 1:21.8 | -0.8 | Y.Fukunaga | (Rusunai of Sakura) | |
| 2004/11/07 | Kyoto | KBS Fantasy Stakes | G3 | T 1400m | 3 | 2.7 | 2 | 1 | 1:21.6 | -0.7 | Y.Fukunaga | (Monroe Blond) | |
| 2004/12/05 | Hanshin | Hanshin Juvenile Fillies | G1 | T 1600m | 3 | 1.5 | 1 | 3 | 1:35.2 | 0.0 | Y.Fukunaga | Shonan Peintre | Daring Heart |
| 2005/03/13 | Hanshin | Fillies' Revue | G2 | T 1400m | 8 | 1.8 | 1 | 1 | 1:21.2 | 0.0 | Y.Fukunaga | (Daring Heart) | Daring Heart, Air Messiah |
| 2005/04/10 | Hanshin | Oka Sho (Japanese 1000 Guineas) | G1 | T 1600m | 17 | 4.6 | 2 | 1 | 1:33.5 | 0.0 | Y.Fukunaga | (Cesario) | Cesario, Daring Heart, Air Messiah |
| 2005/05/08 | Tokyo | NHK Mile Cup | G1 | T 1600m | 12 | 3.9 | 2 | 1 | 1:33.6 | -0.3 | Y.Fukunaga | (Daring Heart) | Daring Heart |
| 2005/09/18 | Hanshin | Rose Stakes | G2 | T 2000m | 10 | 2.2 | 1 | 2 | 2:00.2 | 0.1 | Y.Fukunaga | Air Messiah | Air Messiah |
| 2005/10/16 | Kyoto | Shuka Sho | G1 | T 2000m | 5 | 1.8 | 1 | 2 | 1:59.2 | 0.0 | Y.Fukunaga | Air Messiah | Air Messiah, Daring Heart |
| 2005/11/20 | Kyoto | Mile Championship | G1 | T 1600m | 1 | 6.9 | 2 | 3 | 1:32.3 | 0.2 | Y.Fukunaga | Hat Trick | Durandal |
| 2005/12/18 | Hanshin | Hanshin Himba Stakes | G2 | T 1600m | 2 | 1.6 | 1 | 4 | 1:35.1 | 0.6 | Y.Fukunaga | Admire Groove | Admire Groove |
| 2006/03/26 | Chukyo | Takamatsunomiya Kinen | G1 | T 1200m | 14 | 4.7 | 2 | 2 | 1:08.0 | 0.0 | Y.Fukunaga | Orewa Matteruze | |
| 2006/04/08 | Hanshin | Hanshin Himba Stakes | G2 | T 1400m | 4 | 1.7 | 1 | 1 | 1:21.2 | -0.5 | Y.Fukunaga | (Air Messiah) | Air Messiah, Daring Heart |
| 2006/05/14 | Tokyo | Victoria Mile | G1 | T 1600m | 6 | 2.4 | 1 | 9 | 1:34.8 | 0.8 | Y.Fukunaga | Dance in the Mood | Air Messiah, Daring Heart |
Pedigree
| Sire End Sweep (JPN) |
Forty Niner (USA) | Mr. Prospector (USA) | Raise a Native (USA) |
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| Gold Digger (USA) | |||
| File (USA) | Tom Rolfe (USA) | ||
| Continue (USA) | |||
| Broom Dance (USA) | Dance Spell (USA) | Northern Dancer (CAN) | |
| Obeah (USA) | |||
| Witching Hour (USA) | Thinking Cap (USA) | ||
| Enchanted Eve (USA) | |||
| Dam Must Be Loved (JPN) |
Sunday Silence (USA) | Halo (USA) | Hail to Reason (USA) |
| Cosmah (USA) | |||
| Wishing Well (USA) | Understanding (USA) | ||
| Mountain Flower (USA) | |||
| Dyna Shoot (JPN) | Northern Taste (CAN) | Northern Dancer (CAN) | |
| Lady Victoria (CAN) | |||
| Shadai Mine (JPN) | Hitting Away (USA) | ||
| Fancimine (USA), (Family: 9-f) |
Trivia
- Despite her strength, Rhein Kraft had weaker legs compared to other horses.[3]
- She loved to sunbathe, and would refuse to go back to her stall when she wanted to bask in the sun.[4]
- The Oka Sho she ran in was notable for how the large majority of runners had Sunday Silence in their pedigree, with only five out of eighteen runners not having him in their pedigrees.
Notes
- ↑ 変則二冠 (hensoku nikan). Unconventional Double Crown winners are horses who won a race part of the Classic Triple Crown and the NHK Mile. If they are a mare, the Triple Tiara is also part of the equation alongside the Classic Triple Crown and NHK Mile. One of the most famously known unconventional crown winners was Kurifuji, who was the only unconventional Triple Crown winner (変則三冠 (hensoku sankan)) in Japanese racehorse history while being undefeated in the process, having won the Japanese Derby, Japanese Oaks and the Kikuka Sho in 1943.