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Tamamo Cross
タマモクロス
Main
Silks
Romaji	Tamamo Kurosu
Foaled	May 23, 1984
Died	April 10, 2003
Sire	C.B. Cross
Dam	Green Chateau
Sex	Stallion
Color	Gray
Trainer	Isami Obara
Race Record	18: 9-3-2
Earnings	489,670,000 JPY
Major wins
Naruo Kinen (1987) Kyoto Kimpai (1988) Hanshin Daishoten (1988) Takarazuka Kinen (1988) Tenno Sho (Spring) (1988) Tenno Sho (Autumn) (1988)

The White Lightning

The White Lightning

1988, Tenno Sho Autumn.
'Gray horses aren't strong.'
People had said until these two horses appeared.
The showdown by a gray and a gray.
A rival gives strength. A Wind or a light?
That horse's name is Tamamo Cross.
JRA CM "THE WINNER" (Autumn Tenno Sho 2012)

Tamamo Cross was a Japanese racehorse that was active from 1987 to 1988. Prior to his career, people believed that gray horses couldn't run fast. His appearance broke this superstition by winning three G1 races in a row, including both 1988 Tenno Sho races and the Takarazuka Kinen. He was also the first horse to have won both Tenno Sho races in the same year, after the rule where Tenno Sho winners cannot participate in another Tenno Sho in the same year was abolished in 1981.

Tamamo Cross, along with Oguri Cap, sparked the second horse racing boom in Japan through their remarkable rivalry, about 10 years after Haiseiko sparked the first horse racing boom.

Name Origin

The first part of Tamamo Cross's name comes from the company, Tamamo Co., Ltd, in which his owner Mitsuho Tamamo owned. The name Tamamo also refers to Tamamo-no-Mae, a legendary fox spirit in Japanese mythology. The second half comes from his sire, C.B. Cross, who was nicknamed "White Lightning".

Honors

• Japanese Horse of the Year (1988)
• JRA Award for Best Older Male Horse (1988)

Race Records

Race data sourced from netkeiba.

Date	Racecourse	Race	Grade	Distance	Gate	Odds	Fav.	Fin.	Time	Margin	Jockey	Winner (Runner-Up)	Other Umamusume
1987/03/01	Hanshin	Four-Year-Old Newcomer	Maiden	T 2000m	6	3.5	2	7	2:07.1	1.8	K.Minai	Aichi Matsushima
1987/03/21	Hanshin	Four-Year-Old Newcomer	Maiden	D 1800m	8	3.7	2	4	1:56.3	0.7	K.Minai	Silk Maria
1987/04/11	Hanshin	Four-Year-Old Maiden	Maiden	D 1700m	7	3.0	2	1	1:48.3	-0.1	K.Minai	(Beautiful)
1987/05/10	Kyoto	Four-Year-Old Pre-OP	Pre-OP	T 2000m	4	11.2	6	DNF			K.Minai	Tosano Asakaze
1987/06/28	Sapporo	Four-Year-Old and Up Pre-OP	Pre-OP	D 1800m	6	11.7	7	6	1:55.6	3.0	S.Tabara	Hokkai Seizan
1987/07/11	Sapporo	Rebun Tokubetsu	Pre-OP	D 2000m	5	18.0	7	2	2:07.1	0.2	T.Yasuda	Hirono Hayate
1987/09/19	Hanshin	Nose Tokubetsu	Pre-OP	D 1800m	4	4.8	3	3	1:55.0	0.3	K.Minai	Alpha Vivace
1987/10/04	Hanshin	Four-Year-Old and Up Pre-OP	Pre-OP	D 1700m	1	2.0	1	3	1:47.9	0.6	K.Minai	Marukasky
1987/10/18	Kyoto	Four-Year-Old and Up Pre-OP	Pre-OP	T 2200m	10	9.6	5	1	2:16.2	-1.2	K.Minai	(Nachino Perso)
1987/11/01	Kyoto	Fujinomori Tokubetsu	Pre-OP	T 2000m	5	1.7	1	1	2:03.0	-1.3	M.Matsunaga	(Meisho Hien)
1987/12/06	Hanshin	Naruo Kinen	G2	T 2500m	5	5.8	3	1	2:33.0	-1.0	K.Minai	(Meisho Eikan)	Gold City
1988/01/05	Kyoto	Kyoto Kimpai	G3	T 2000m	13	2.2	1	1	2:03.7	-0.1	K.Minai	(Hallow Point)
1988/03/13	Hanshin	Hanshin Daishoten	G2	T 3000m	5	1.7	1	1	3:12.1	0.0	K.Minai	(Dyna Carpenter)
1988/04/29	Kyoto	Tenno Sho (Spring)	G1	T 3200m	8	4.4	1	1	3:21.8	-0.5	K.Minai	(Running Free)	Gold City
1988/06/12	Hanshin	Takarazuka Kinen	G1	T 2200m	2	3.0	2	1	2:13.2	-0.4	K.Minai	(Nippo Teio)
1988/10/30	Tokyo	Tenno Sho (Autumn)	G1	T 2000m	9	2.6	2	1	1:58.8	-0.2	K.Minai	(Oguri Cap)	Oguri Cap, Sirius Symboli
1988/11/27	Tokyo	Japan Cup	G1	T 2400m	5	3.2	1	2	2:25.6	0.1	K.Minai	Pay the Butler	Oguri Cap, Gold City
1988/12/25	Nakayama	Arima Kinen	G1	T 2500m	11	2.4	1	2	2:34.0	0.1	K.Minai	Oguri Cap	Super Creek, Oguri Cap

Pedigree

Horse pedigree of Tamamo Cross (JPN)

Sire C.B. Cross (JPN)	Fortino (FR)	Grey Sovereign (GB)	Nasrullah (GB)
			Kong (GB)
		Ranavalo (FR)	Relic (USA)
			Navarra (ITY)
	Zuisho (JPN)	Partholon (IRE)	Milesian (GB)
			Paleo (FR)
		Cumulus (JPN)	Turk's Reliance (FR)
			Royal Deal (IRE)
Dam Green Chateau (JPN)	Chateaugay (USA)	Swaps (USA)	Khaled (GB)
			Iron Reward (USA)
		Banquet Bell (USA)	Polynesian (USA)
			Dinner Horn (USA)
	Queen Bee (JPN)	Tudor Period (GB)	Owen Tudor (GB)
			Cornice (GB)
		Corsa (JPN)	Hindostan (GB)
			Miss Channel (AUS), (Family: 21-a)

Trivia

• Although he raced alongside Oguri Cap, he was not counted as a member of the "Heisei Big Three". The honors was given instead to Super Creek and Inari One.
  • Another reason to this is that Tamamo Cross retired at the very end of Showa, where Heisei started next year. Therefore, he was not counted as part of the Heisei.
• Tamamo Cross was known to be exceptionally temperamental, that other horses became afraid of him. According to Ryuseisha's "Ano Uma wa Ima? Guide 2002-2003", he always picked fights with almost every horse beside him in his retirement stable, most notably Mejiro Bright, Paradise Creek and Tikkanen.
  • His fights with Mejiro Bright were so ferocious that no man or horse dared come near them.