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Still in Love
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Still in Love with jockey Hideaki Miyuki at the 2003 Japanese Oaks
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Romaji	Sutiru in Rabu
Foaled	May 02, 2000
Died	August 02, 2007
Sire	Sunday Silence
Dam	Bradamante
Sex	Mare
Color	Chestnut
Trainer	Shouichi Matsumoto
Race Record	16: 5-2-1
Earnings	437,770,000 JPY
Major wins
Oka Sho (2003) Japanese Oaks (2003) Shuka Sho (2003)

The Love of the Triple Tiara filly and her jockey

The Love of the Triple Tiara filly and her jockey

If I'd never won a G1 with this horse, I might have never won one, and I might not have still been a jockey right now. She was a huge turning point. She sustained my life as a jockey. I feel nothing but gratitude towards Still in Love.
― Hideaki Miyuki, Nikkan Sports article

Still in Love was a Japanese racehorse that was active from 2002 to 2005. She was the second racehorse to achieve the fillies' Triple Tiara, 17 years since Mejiro Ramonu won the prestigious feat on 1986, and the first one to win after the last leg was changed to the Shuka Sho. She is also the only mare to win all of the fillies' Triple Tiara races as the second most popular horse, with Admire Groove being the most popular.

Name Origin

Her name is an indirect reference to her mother Bradamante, named after a character from the Italian romantic epics Orlando Innamorato and Orlando Furioso. In the story, Bradamante, a female Christian knight, fell in love with Ruggiero, a Saracen warrior.

Racing career

Retirement

Still in Love became a broodmare after retiring, giving birth to her first and only foal with King Kamehameha on 2nd February, 2007.

On July 25 of the same year, she developed an abdominal pain caused by intestinal torsion, and underwent through surgery. She later relapsed on 28th due to necrosis at her intestines and had to go through another surgery to remove them. On August 1, she had another relapse, and due to the physical deterioration caused by previous surgeries on short timespan, she died on the morning of August 2. The cause of her death was intussusception, an intestinal obstruction caused by a part of the small intestine slipping inside.

Honors

• Fillies' Triple Crown (2003)
• JRA Award for Best Three-Year-Old Filly (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
2002/11/30	Hanshin	Two-Year-Old Newcomer	Maiden	T 1400m	15	1.7	1	1	1:22.2	-0.6	H.Miyuki	(Kitano Suzaku)
2003/01/19	Kyoto	Kobai Stakes	OP	T 1400m	5	4.1	2	1	1:22.1	-0.1	H.Miyuki	(Montparnasse)
2003/03/08	Hanshin	Tulip Sho	G3	T 1600m	6	1.7	1	2	1:36.0	0.1	H.Miyuki	Osumi Haruka
2003/04/13	Hanshin	Oka Sho (Japanese 1000 Guineas)	G1	T 1600m	9	3.5	2	1	1:33.9	-0.2	H.Miyuki	(She is Tosho)	Admire Groove
2003/05/25	Tokyo	Yushun Himba (Japanese Oaks)	G1	T 2400m	3	5.6	2	1	2:27.5	-0.2	H.Miyuki	(Chunyi)	Admire Groove
2003/09/21	Hanshin	Rose Stakes	G2	T 2000m	11	1.9	1	5	2:02.0	0.5	H.Miyuki	Admire Groove	Admire Groove
2003/10/19	Kyoto	Shuka Sho	G1	T 2000m	17	3.2	2	1	1:59.1	-0.1	H.Miyuki	(Admire Groove)	Admire Groove
2003/11/16	Kyoto	Queen Elizabeth II Cup	G1	T 2200m	5	3.0	1	2	2:11.8	0.0	H.Miyuki	Admire Groove	Admire Groove
2004/05/29	Chukyo	Kinko Sho	G2	T 2000m	10	9.2	5	8	1:59.1	1.6	H.Miyuki	Tap Dance City	Tap Dance City, Admire Groove
2004/06/27	Hanshin	Takarazuka Kinen	G1	T 2200m	11	42.3	10	8	2:12.6	1.5	H.Miyuki	Tap Dance City	Tap Dance City, Zenno Rob Roy
2004/07/18	Kokura	Kitakyushu Kinen	G3	T 1800m	6	6.8	4	12	1:45.3	1.2	H.Miyuki	Daitaku Bertram
2004/10/17	Tokyo	Fuchu Himba Stakes	G3	T 1800m	5	2.9	1	3	1:46.4	0.2	H.Miyuki	Osumi Haruka
2004/11/14	Kyoto	Queen Elizabeth II Cup	G1	T 2200m	15	5.1	3	9	2:14.3	0.7	H.Miyuki	Admire Groove	Admire Groove, Sweep Tosho
2005/05/28	Chukyo	Kinko Sho	G2	T 2000m	6	28.6	4	6	1:59.5	0.6	H.Miyuki	Tap Dance City	Tap Dance City, Admire Groove
2005/06/26	Hanshin	Takarazuka Kinen	G1	T 2200m	14	160.0	14	9	2:12.7	1.2	H.Miyuki	Sweep Tosho	Sweep Tosho, Zenno Rob Roy, Tap Dance City, Admire Groove
2005/10/16	Tokyo	Fuchu Himba Stakes	G3	T 1800m	5	10.0	5	17	1:48.2	1.5	H.Miyuki	Yamanin Alabaster

Pedigree

Horse pedigree of Still in Love (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 Bradamante (USA)	Roberto (USA)	Hail to Reason (USA)	Turn-to (IRE)
			Nothirdchance (USA)
		Bramalea (USA)	Nashua (USA)
			Rarelea (USA)
	Sulemeif (USA)	Northern Dancer (CAN)	Nearctic (CAN)
			Natalma (USA)
		Barely Even (USA)	Creme dela Creme (USA)
			Dodge Me (USA), (Family: 10-d)

Trivia

• Still in Love is inbred 3x3 to Hail to Reason and 4x5 to Almahmoud. This 3x3 cross is suspected to be one of the reasons for her mental decline following her win at the Japanese Oaks that persisted throughout the rest of her career.
• After losing the Tulip Sho, Still in Love's jockey - Hideaki Miyuki, was so scared of being scolded and replaced by her trainer Jouichi Matsumoto, that he had thoughts to elope with Still in Love.
  • This likely inspired the Umamusume Still in Love's personality.
• Still in Love, along with Daring Tact, are Triple Tiara winners that never won another race after their win in the Shuka Sho and retired without furthermore wins.
  • Mejiro Ramonu also never won a race after achieving the Triple Tiara and retired, but at that time, the final leg of the Triple Tiara was the Queen Elizabeth II Cup, as the Shuka Sho wasn't inaugurated yet.
  • Liberty Island's situation was similar, but instead of retirement, her career ended prematurely and she was euthanized after a poor prognosis diagnosis in the Hong Kong Queen Elizabeth II Cup.
• She was said to "look a little bad for a filly", lacking the glamorous presence other mares seemed to have. This was due to some skin problems and other appearance-related issues the horse seemed to have.