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Daring Tact
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Daring Tact, or simply Tact, carries the air of someone shaped by wide skies and steep trails. A Junior Division student from Ritto Dorm, she is introduced as a “Pure White Tiara” and a “pure-hearted child of the great outdoors,” and the image fits beautifully: cheerful and polite on the surface, but with a firm, unwavering will underneath. At 158 cm, with a light, clean presence and a recorded weight note of Natural Transition, she feels less like a pampered princess and more like someone honed by open country and hard effort.
What defines her most is that sense of origin. Daring Tact was raised in a harsh yet beautiful wilderness, and she trains with a very specific kind of pride: to prove the greatness of the homeland that brought her up. Her dream, in her own self-introduction, is to become an Umamusume “remembered in history” for the sake of the hometown that nurtured her with both severity and warmth. It gives her ambition a noble, grounded quality. She is not chasing glory as a glittering abstraction; she is carrying a landscape, a memory, and a debt of gratitude with her every step.
That outdoor streak is not just a line in a profile, either. She is often seen heading into the mountains with Daring Heart, a senior Umamusume with whom she is closely associated. The pairing reinforces Tact’s image perfectly: earnest, active, and most at home where the air is crisp and the scenery feels larger than life. Even her quieter details have that same natural charm. One of her secrets says she has written her dreams on paper and stuck them to the ceiling above her bed, which turns her determination into something almost childlike in its sincerity. Another says that when she plays her handmade wooden flute, small birds gather near her—a detail so gentle and striking that it says almost everything about her atmosphere without needing embellishment.
She refers to herself as Watashi, and her voice is provided by Hina Yomiya, a fitting match for a character who balances sweetness with resolve. Daring Tact has also appeared in Uma Musume Pretty Derby Season 3 as a background character and in the 4th Anniversary Story, and she is featured in group songs including “Reimei ni Saku Hana,” “STARTING FORCE,” and “Umapyoi Densetsu.” As of 2026-06-25, she is not yet playable, but she already leaves a clear impression: a bright, clean-hearted striver with mountain air in her lungs and history in her sights.
A few quick profile notes:
- Birthday: April 15
- Dorm: Ritto Dorm
- Class: Junior Division
- Self-pronoun: Watashi
- Voice actor: Hina Yomiya
- Related names: Daring Heart, Maruzensky, Special Week, Symboli Kris S, Cesario
- Stablemates: Mejiro Bright, Sakura Laurel
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Same races
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7 shared rivals
Latest: FWD QEII Cup · 2021-04-25
Latest: TAKARAZUKA KINEN · 2022-06-26
Latest: FWD QEII Cup · 2021-04-25
Latest: JAPAN CUP · 2020-11-29
Latest: JAPAN CUP · 2020-11-29
Latest: JAPAN CUP · 2020-11-29
Latest: JAPAN CUP · 2020-11-29
Daring Tact is a Japanese dark bay mare of the 2020s, foaled on 15 April 2017 and bred by Hasegawa Bokujo. She raced in the colors of the syndicate Normandy Thoroughbred Racing Co. Ltd. and was trained from Ritto by Haruki Sugiyama.
Career at a glance
Track record
Featured races
Finished 1st · G1 · at Hanshin · over 1600m · Hanshin (JP)
Finished 1st · G1 · at Tokyo · over 2400m · Tokyo (JP)
Finished 1st · G1 · at Kyoto · over 2000m · Kyoto (JP)
At a glance
A daughter of Epiphaneia out of Daring Bird, by King Kamehameha, she combined a prominent modern Japanese pedigree with a top-level middle-distance career.
Her background also reflects the commercial side of the sport. JBIS records her as having been sold at the 2018 Select Sale for ¥12,960,000, while netkeiba lists her racing ownership as a 400-share syndicate priced at ¥44,000 per share. That structure made Daring Tact a notable success for a broad ownership group rather than a single private patron, and her rise to the top gave that syndicate one of the standout fillies of her generation.
On the track, Daring Tact built a compact but high-class record of 13 starts for 5 wins, 1 second, and 3 thirds, with total earnings of ¥644,132,400. Her major breakthrough year was 2020, when she captured the Yushun Himba (Japanese Oaks), the Classic success highlighted in the core race record. The same season is also credited in the supplied research with victories in the Oka Sho and Shuka Sho, completing Japan’s fillies’ Triple Crown and establishing her as one of the defining three-year-old mares of her era.
That campaign brought formal recognition as well. Daring Tact was named the 2020 JRA Best Three-Year-Old Filly, an award that underlined how thoroughly she had dominated her division. In historical terms, her name is inseparable from the Japanese Triple Tiara of 2020, a feat that gives her lasting significance beyond any single race.
After racing, Daring Tact was retired. Her career earnings included ¥610.915 million in JRA prize money, and her legacy rests on the rare combination of Classic success, championship honors, and syndicate ownership that allowed many members to share in an elite racehorse’s achievements. Even in a relatively brief racing career, she left a durable mark as a Japanese Oaks winner and one of the most important fillies of her generation.
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| Date | Race | Grade | Course | Going | Dist | Pos | Draw | Jockey | Wgt | SP | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-11-27 |
JAPAN CUP
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G1 | Tokyo (JP) | Good | 2400 m | 4 | 8 | Tom Marquand | 55.0 kg | 13.0 | 2:23.9 |
| 2022-11-13 |
QUEEN ELIZABETH 2 CUP
|
G1 | Hanshin (JP) | Soft | 2200 m | 6 | 4 | Kohei Matsuyama | 56.0 kg | 4.3 | 2:14.0 |
| 2022-09-25 |
SANKEI SHO ALL COMERS
|
G2 | Nakayama (JP) | Good | 2200 m | 6 | 8 | Kohei Matsuyama | 54.0 kg | 2.0 | 2:13.7 |
| 2022-06-26 |
TAKARAZUKA KINEN
|
G1 | Hanshin (JP) | Good | 2200 m | 3 | 7 | Kohei Matsuyama | 56.0 kg | 7.3 | 2:10.3 |
| 2022-05-15 |
VICTORIA MILE
|
G1 | Tokyo (JP) | Good | 1600 m | 6 | 1 | Kohei Matsuyama | 55.0 kg | 8.4 | 1:32.7 |
| 2021-04-25 |
FWD QEII Cup
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G1 | St (JP) | Good | 2000 m | 3 | 6 | Kohei Matsuyama | 55.5 kg | 1.7 | 2:01.43 |
| 2021-03-14 |
KINKO SHO
|
G2 | Chukyo (JP) | Soft | 2000 m | 2 | 1 | Kohei Matsuyama | 55.0 kg | 1.4 | 2:01.8 |
| 2020-11-29 | G1 | Tokyo (JP) | Good | 2400 m | 3 | 5 | Kohei Matsuyama | 53.0 kg | 3.7 | 2:23.2 | |
| 2020-10-18 |
SHUKA SHO
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G1 | Kyoto (JP) | Good to Soft | 2000 m | 1 | 13 | Kohei Matsuyama | 55.0 kg | 1.4 | 2:00.6 |
| 2020-05-24 |
YUSHUN HIMBA (JAPANESE OAKS)
|
G1 | Tokyo (JP) | Good | 2400 m | 1 | 4 | Kohei Matsuyama | 55.0 kg | 1.6 | 2:24.4 |
| 2020-04-12 |
OKA SHO (JAPANESE 1000 GUINEAS)
|
G1 | Hanshin (JP) | Soft | 1600 m | 1 | 9 | Kohei Matsuyama | 55.0 kg | 4.2 | 1:36.1 |
| 2020-02-08 |
ELFIN STAKES
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Listed | Kyoto (JP) | Good | 1600 m | 1 | 8 | Kohei Matsuyama | 54.0 kg | 4.8 | 1:33.6 |
| 2019-11-16 |
2yo DBT
|
Maiden | Kyoto (JP) | Good | 1600 m | 1 | 3 | Kohei Matsuyama | 54.0 kg | 4.8 | 1:37.7 |
Citations
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