Foaled2004-05-13
SexMare
ColourChestnut
TrainerKunihide Matsuda
OwnerKeizo Oshiro
BreederShadai Farm
SireAgnes Tachyon
DamScarlet Bouquet
DamsireNorthern Taste
Record12 starts: 8-4-0
Daiwa Scarlet was one of Japan’s standout mares of the late 2000s, a chestnut daughter of Agnes Tachyon bred by Shadai Farm and raced in the colours of Keizo Oshiro. Foaled on 13 May 2004, she was trained at Ritto by Kunihide Matsuda and compiled an exceptional race record of 12 starts for 8 wins and 4 seconds, earning ¥786.685 million in JRA prize money. Her major success came at the highest level, culminating in victory in the 2008 Arima Kinen, one of Japan’s most prestigious races.
She was also notably well bred. Daiwa Scarlet was out of Scarlet Bouquet, by Northern Taste, and came from a family that had already produced top-class performers. Her siblings included Daiwa Major, himself a major G1 winner, as well as Glorious Sunday and Daiwa Rouge. That background gave her a strong pedigree page, but Daiwa Scarlet fully justified it on the racecourse with a career marked by consistency as much as brilliance.
Her three-year-old season established her as an elite filly. In 2007 she won the Oka Sho, then added the Rose Stakes, Shuka Sho, and the Queen Elizabeth II Commemorative Cup. That sequence made her one of the dominant fillies of her generation and earned her the JRA Award for Best Three-Year-Old Filly for 2007. Rather than being a one-season star, she carried that form forward against older competition as well.
At four, she added the Sankei Osaka Hai in 2008 before sealing her place in Japanese racing memory with the Arima Kinen later that year. Winning the Grand Prix gave her career a fitting high point, confirming that she could excel not only within her own age and sex division but also on one of the sport’s biggest stages. Across her short but concentrated career, she never finished worse than second, a striking testament to her reliability at the top level.
Retired from racing, Daiwa Scarlet remains significant both as a high-class race mare and as a member of a distinguished Shadai Farm family. Her combination of pedigree, championship-level filly form, and Arima Kinen glory ensures her place among the notable Japanese mares of her era.
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