Loves Only You is a bay Japanese mare foaled on 26 March 2016, bred by Northern Farm and trained throughout her racing career by Yoshito Yahagi. She raced for DMM Dream Club Co. Ltd., after being bought as a yearling at the 2017 Select Sale for ¥172,800,000 and offered in shared ownership. On pedigree, she was especially notable even before she ran: she was by Deep Impact out of Loves Only Me, a Storm Cat mare, and came from the same family as high-class runners including Real Steel, Prodigal Son, and Langley.
Her career began with considerable expectation and quickly justified it. Loves Only You compiled a record of 16 starts for 8 wins, 2 seconds, and 3 thirds, developing from a promising young filly into a top-class performer at home and abroad. Early in her three-year-old season she won the Wasurenagusa Sho, then reached the peak of the Japanese fillies' classics by taking the 2019 Yushun Himba, the Japanese Oaks, her first top-level victory and the race that established her among the leading mares of her generation.
After that classic success, her story broadened from domestic excellence to international achievement. In 2021 she added the Kyoto Kinen before traveling for major overseas targets, finishing third in the Dubai Sheema Classic. She then captured the FWD QEII Cup in Hong Kong, showing she could reproduce her best form outside Japan against elite opposition.
That international campaign reached its height later the same year. Loves Only You won the Maker's Mark Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Turf at Del Mar, becoming a rare Japanese-trained mare to land one of America's biggest turf prizes, and she followed it with another Group 1 success in the Hong Kong Cup in December 2021. Those victories made her one of the most accomplished Japanese mares of her era, with major wins in Japan, Hong Kong, and the United States in a single career arc.
By the time she retired, Loves Only You had earned 913,948,700 yen and built a resume that combined blue-blooded pedigree, Classic success, and international Group 1 distinction. Her career also reflected the global reach of modern Japanese racing: a Northern Farm-bred daughter of Deep Impact, campaigned by Yoshito Yahagi and a shared-ownership syndicate, who progressed from the Japanese Oaks to some of the most prestigious turf races in the world.
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