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Twin Turbo
ツインターボ
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Twin Turbo at the 1993 Tanabata Sho
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Romaji	Tsuin Taabo
Foaled	April 13, 1988
Died	January 15, 1998
Sire	Lyra Ridge
Dam	Racing Jean
Sex	Stallion
Color	Bay
Trainer	Takehisa Sasaiwa
Race Record	33: 6-2-0
Earnings	183,980,000 JPY
Major wins
Radio Tampa Sho (1991) Tanabata Sho (1993) Sankei Sho All Comers (1993)

Twin Turbo was a Japanese racehorse that was active from 1991 to 1996. He was a legendary frontrunner whose career predated Silence Suzuka, another legendary frontrunner. Despite having never won a G1 race throughout his career, he had garnered a huge number of fans who were enchanted by his running style.

Name Origin

Twin Turbo is named after twin-turbo charging, a method of boosting an engine using two turbochargers.

Racing career

Three-year-old season (1991)

Twin Turbo started his debut in a maiden race at Nakayama Racecourse on March 2, 1991. His trainer, Takehisa Sasakura, instructed the jockey, Nobuhiro Ishizuka, to let him run how he likes, put him on front, and hold on to the reins. And so, Ishizuka followed the instruction, having the horse to the front out of the starting gate, and won the race by three lengths. He then went on to win his second race, the Mokuren Sho on Mar 24, 1991.

In his graded race, the G3 Radio Tampa Sho, jockeyed by Shoichi Osaki again, he delivered excellent performance, pushing Twin Turbo far out in to the lead on the back stretch and giving the horse his first graded win. At that time, this was also Sasakura's first graded thoroughbred victory.

After a midsummer recovery, Twin Turbo's autumn season started with the St Lite Kinen. With Osaki taking the reins, he placed second just narrow from winning from Strong Kaiser. Then the Fukushima Kinen, where the winner that beat Twin Turbo, Leo Durban, was racing in the same track as him. Twin Turbo held him to a neck's length to finish second.

Retirement and Death

After suffering huge losses from running his last six races in 1996, and with his age taken into consideration, his team decided to retire him. He stood stud at Saito Farm in 1997, located in Miyagi Prefecture's Naruko Town (currently Osaki City), with his children being eligible to race in 1998. None of his children had achieved significant success.

In January 15th, 1998, after standing stud for a year, he died of a heart failure, having only sired five children in his short year of stud service.

Race Records

Race data sourced from netkeiba.

Date	Racecourse	Race	Grade	Distance	Gate	Odds	Fav.	Fin.	Time	Margin	Jockey	Winner (Runner-Up)	Other Umamusume
1991/03/02	Nakayama	Four-Year-Old Newcomer	Maiden	D 1800m	11	4.4	3	1	1:57.2	-0.5	N.Ishizuka	(Kochi Port)
1991/03/24	Nakayama	Mokuren Sho	Pre-OP	T 2000m	2	17.6	7	1	2:03.4	-0.2	N.Ishizuka	(Sanei Luck)
1991/04/27	Tokyo	Aoba Sho	OP	T 2400m	16	21.2	11	9	2:28.9	1.3	S.Osaki	Leo Durban
1991/05/26	Tokyo	Komakusa Sho	Pre-OP	T 2000m	5	9.0	5	5	2:02.0	0.4	M.Shibata	Strong Kaiser
1991/06/30	Fukushima	Radio Tampa Sho	G3	T 1800m	7	8.5	5	1	1:48.5	-0.2	S.Osaki	(Kamino Sword)
1991/09/22	Nakayama	St. Lite Kinen	G2	T 2200m	2	9.9	3	2	2:12.8	0.1	S.Osaki	Strong Kaiser
1991/11/17	Fukushima	Fukushima Kinen	G3	T 2000m	11	3.5	2	2	2:01.4	0.2	S.Osaki	Yagura Stella
1991/12/22	Nakayama	Arima Kinen	G1	T 2500m	12	55.6	11	14	2:34.4	3.8	S.Osaki	Dai Yusaku	Mejiro McQueen, Nice Nature, Daitaku Helios, Mejiro Ryan
1992/11/08	Fukushima	Fukushima Minyu Cup	OP	T 1800m	1	2.9	1	10	1:52.0	2.4	Y.Shibata	Rabbit Ball
1993/01/05	Nakayama	Nikkan Sports Sho Kimpai	G3	T 2000m	6	10.3	5	6	2:00.9	0.4	Y.Shibata	Sekitei Ryu O	Matikanetannhauser
1993/03/14	Nakayama	Nakayama Kinen	G2	T 1800m	8	20.3	8	6	1:47.5	0.5	Y.Shibata	Movie Star	Yamanin Zephyr
1993/05/16	Niigata	Niigata Daishoten	G3	T 2200m	8	5.1	2	8	2:14.4	0.9	S.Osaki	Hashino Kenshiro
1993/07/11	Fukushima	Tanabata Sho	G3	T 2000m	16	7.8	3	1	1:59.5	-0.7	E.Nakadate	(Ayrton Symboli)
1993/09/19	Nakayama	Sankei Sho All Comers	G3	T 2200m	11	7.1	3	1	2:12.6	-0.9	E.Nakadate	(Hashiru Shogun)	Rice Shower, Ikuno Dictus
1993/10/31	Tokyo	Tenno Sho (Autumn)	G1	T 2000m	3	7.5	3	17	2:01.7	2.8	E.Nakadate	Yamanin Zephyr	Yamanin Zephyr, Rice Shower, Ikuno Dictus, Nice Nature
1994/01/23	Nakayama	American Jockey Club Cup	G2	T 2200m	11	4.2	3	6	2:14.7	0.6	E.Nakadate	Matikanetannhauser	Matikanetannhauser, Nice Nature
1994/03/20	Nakayama	Nikkei Sho	G2	T 2500m	1	5.6	3	6	2:34.4	1.6	E.Nakadate	Stage Champ	Rice Shower, Matikanetannhauser
1994/08/21	Sapporo	Hakodate Kinen	G3	T 2000m	11	5.7	4	11	2:03.8	2.2	H.Tamogi	Wako Chikako
1994/11/20	Fukushima	Fukushima Kinen	G3	T 2000m	6	5.2	3	8	2:02.7	1.4	T.Munakata	Silk Grayish
1994/12/25	Nakayama	Arima Kinen	G1	T 2500m	5	39.6	10	13	2:37.2	5.0	K.Tanaka	Narita Brian	Matikanetannhauser, Narita Brian, Hishi Amazon, Rice Shower, Nice Nature, Sakura Chitose O
1995/01/22	Nakayama	American Jockey Club Cup	G2	T 2200m	2	13.7	4	10	2:17.4	3.0	E.Nakadate	Sakura Chitose O	Sakura Chitose O
1995/04/13	Ooi	Teio Sho	Listed	D 2000m	3		3	15	2:10.9	7.2	Y.Take	Lively Mount
1995/05/14	Fukushima	Niigata Daishoten	G3	T 2000m	11	8.9	5	11	2:06.2	3.3	T.Munakata	Irish Dance
1995/07/23	Kaminoyama	Fuzuki Tokubetsu A2		D 1700m	5		1	1	1:52.5	-0.4	E.Kaikata	(Azuree Symboli)
1995/08/20	Kaminoyama	Thoroughbred Ippan A2		D 1700m	6		2	9	1:55.1	3.8	E.Kaikata	Tiger Berck
1995/09/03	Kaminoyama	Thoroughbred Ippan A2		D 1700m	8		2	7	1:54.5	3.4	E.Kaikata	Air in Heart
1995/09/19	Kaminoyama	Nagatsuki Tokubetsu A1		D 1800m	2		3	10	2:00.0	3.8	Y.Suzuki	Takeden Mangetsu
1995/10/15	Kaminoyama	Kannazuki Tokubetsu A2		D 1700m	5		2	9	1:55.2	3.3	Y.Suzuki	Hokusai Roller
1995/10/31	Kaminoyama	Thoroughbred Ippan A1		D 1800m	3		6	9	2:02.3	4.1	Y.Suzuki	Air in Heart
1995/11/26	Kaminoyama	Thoroughbred Ippan A2		D 1700m	8			DNR			H.Yamanaka	Lilliput Queen
1996/04/16	Kaminoyama	Thoroughbred Ippan A1		D 1800m	7		3	9	2:05.2	6.3	E.Kaikata	Hokusai Roller
1996/04/29	Kaminoyama	Thoroughbred Ippan A1		D 1800m	2		3	9	2:04.7	7.6	E.Kaikata	Noiseless Winner
1996/06/10	Kaminoyama	Minazuki Tokubetsu A2		D 1700m	9		3	9	1:55.6	4.1	S.Tokudome	Kagarisky
1996/08/13	Morioka	Cluster Cup	Listed	D 1200m	1		4	11	1:13.3	2.5	E.Kaikata	Tokio Crafty

Pedigree

Horse pedigree of Twin Turbo (JPN)

Sire Lyra Ridge (USA)	Lyphard (USA)	Northern Dancer (CAN)	Nearctic (CAN)
			Natalma (USA)
		Goofed (USA)	Court Martial (GB)
			Barra (FR)
	Riverside (GB)	Sheshoon (GB)	Precipitation (GB)
			Noorani (GB)
		Renounce (GB)	Big Game (GB)
			Refreshed (GB)
Dam Racing Jean (JPN)	Sancy (FR)	Sanctus (FR)	Fine Top (FR)
			Sanelta (FR)
		Wordys (FR)	Worden (FR)
			Princesse d'Ys (FR)
	Mauta Jo O (JPN)	Faberge (FR)	Princely Gift (GB)
			Spring Offensive (GB)
		Hard Hope (JPN)	Die Hard (GB)
			Mejiro Hope (JPN), (Family: 3-e)

Trivia

• The real life Twin Turbo performed the Runaway tactic because he was scared of the crowd of horses running with him, unlike how it was depicted in Season 2 of the anime. If he was overtaken, he quickly lost speed due to this. This earned him the nickname of "Renegade".
  • His fear of horse crowds and his desperate frontrunning might have been contributors to his early death caused by a heart failure while he was standing stud.
• Despite having never won a G1 race, he entered the Arima Kinen twice due to his popularity, having enchanted fans with his desperate runaway style.
• Twin Turbo and Tokai Teio never raced against each other during their careers, despite the one-sided rivalry that Twin Turbo had displayed in the anime.
• In the present days, Twin Turbo's name was used as a criterion for horses that use the Runaway running style alongside Silence Suzuka by horse-racing fans.
  • If a frontrunning horse was able to finish the race without losing speed (even when they get overtaken), they will be compared to Silence Suzuka. If they lose speed, they will be compared to Twin Turbo instead.