Uma profile
Manhattan Cafe
Manhattan Cafe, often simply called Cafe, has one of those names and presences that immediately set a mood. A Senior Division student in Miho Dorm, she carries an understated elegance that feels fitting for someone framed in deep, muted tones with a striking accent of gold. At 155 cm, with a compact build and a recorded weight status of “No change,” she gives off a composed, self-contained impression—quietly distinctive rather than loudly theatrical.
That reserved feeling extends into the finer character details. She refers to herself as Watashi and addresses her mentor as Trainer-san, small touches that suit her polished, measured air. Her roommate is Yukino Bijin, and that dorm-room connection also places Yukino among the names most directly associated with her. In the wider cast around her, Jungle Pocket and Agnes Tachyon are noted as related figures, while her listed rivals include Jungle Pocket, Agnes Tachyon, and Dantsu Flame—a lineup that hints at a competitive orbit full of strong personalities.
Cafe’s presentation is also carried by her voice: Yui Ogura gives her the kind of presence that can feel soft at first glance yet memorable enough to linger. Her solo song, “Rakuen,” adds another layer to that image, reinforcing a character who feels refined and atmospheric rather than bluntly straightforward. Even her official trivia has a slightly charming air to it: her earliest profile reveal came through an official name-guessing quiz, and some non-Japanese renderings have mistakenly translated her name as “Manhattan Coffee,” even though “Cafe” is the intended form.
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In all, Manhattan Cafe stands out less by noise than by atmosphere. She feels carefully composed: a girl whose details—name, colors, manner of speech, and company—combine into something quietly dramatic. Not flamboyant, not plain, but unmistakably her own kind of memorable.
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Same races
Same Races
7 shared rivals
Latest: TENNO SHO (SPRING) · 2002-04-28
Latest: TENNO SHO (SPRING) · 2002-04-28
Latest: NIKKEI SHO · 2002-03-23
Latest: ARIMA KINEN (46TH THE GRAND PRIX) · 2001-12-23
Latest: ARIMA KINEN (46TH THE GRAND PRIX) · 2001-12-23
Latest: KIKUKA SHO (JAPANESE ST.LEGER) · 2001-10-21
Latest: HOCHI HAI YAYOI SHO · 2001-03-04
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Rivals
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Stablemates
1 total · 1 linked
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Manhattan Cafe was one of Japan’s standout long-distance horses of the early 2000s, a brown stallion foaled on 5 March 1998 and bred by Shadai Farm. By the great Sunday Silence out of Subtle Change, a daughter of Law Society, he carried an international pedigree into a thoroughly Japanese top-level career. He was sold as a yearling for ¥136.5 million at the 1998 Select Sale, then raced for Kiyoshi Nishikawa, with some sources also listing Ken Nishikawa, under Miho-based trainer Futoshi Kojima.
Career at a glance
Track record
Featured races
Finished 1st · G1 · at Kyoto · over 3000m · Kyoto (JP)
Finished 1st · G1 · at Nakayama · over 2500m · Nakayama (JP)
Finished 1st · G1 · at Kyoto · over 3200m · Kyoto (JP)
At a glance
His race record was compact but high-class: 12 starts, 6 wins, and earnings of ¥522,834,000. Ridden by Masayoshi Ebina, Manhattan Cafe rose rapidly at three, establishing himself as a true stayer. His breakthrough came in the 2001 Kikuka Sho, the Japanese St. Leger, where he captured his first top-level victory over the classic long distance. That autumn success was soon followed by an even bigger statement in the Arima Kinen, the year-ending Grand Prix, which he won in December 2001.
That sequence made him one of the most important horses of his generation, and he confirmed his class at four by adding the 2002 Tenno Sho (Spring), another of Japan’s premier long-distance prizes. Those three Group 1 victories — Kikuka Sho, Arima Kinen, and Tenno Sho (Spring) — define his racing legacy and mark him as a specialist of stamina and endurance at the highest level. For his four-year-old season he was named the 2002 JRA Award for Best Older Male Horse.
Manhattan Cafe’s significance did not end with retirement from racing. He went on to become an influential stallion and was crowned Japan’s leading sire in 2009, extending the reach of the Sunday Silence line through his own success at stud. In that sense, his career formed a complete arc: an expensive Shadai-bred colt, a late-developing but brilliant long-distance champion, and then a major commercial and breeding force in Japan.
He died on 13 August 2015, but he remains well remembered as an Arima Kinen winner and as one of the notable staying stars of his era. Among his family, the mare Subtle Change also produced Air Smap, a Group 2 winner, further underlining the strength of the pedigree that produced him.
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| Date | Race | Grade | Course | Going | Dist | Pos | Draw | Jockey | Wgt | SP | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002-10-06 |
PRIX DE L'ARC DE TRIOMPHE LUCIEN BARRIERE
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G1 | Lch (JP) | Good | 2400 m | 13 | 8 | M.Ebina | 59.5 kg | 0.0 | 2:30.5 |
| 2002-04-28 |
TENNO SHO (SPRING)
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G1 | Kyoto (JP) | Good | 3200 m | 1 | 4 | M.Ebina | 58.0 kg | 2.9 | 3:19.5 |
| 2002-03-23 |
NIKKEI SHO
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G2 | Nakayama (JP) | Good | 2500 m | 6 | 8 | M.Ebina | 58.0 kg | 1.2 | 2:37.5 |
| 2001-12-23 |
ARIMA KINEN (46TH THE GRAND PRIX)
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G1 | Nakayama (JP) | Good | 2500 m | 1 | 4 | M.Ebina | 55.0 kg | 7.1 | 2:33.1 |
| 2001-10-21 |
KIKUKA SHO (JAPANESE ST.LEGER)
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G1 | Kyoto (JP) | Good | 3000 m | 1 | 2 | M.Ebina | 57.0 kg | 17.1 | 3:07.2 |
| 2001-09-16 |
R.F.RADIO NIPPON SHO ST.LITE KINEN
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G2 | Nakayama (JP) | Good to Soft | 2200 m | 4 | 14 | S.Nihonyanagi | 56.0 kg | 5.3 | 2:13.8 |
| 2001-08-26 |
AKANKO TOKUBETSU ALW (2 Win)
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Pre-OP | Sapporo (JP) | Good | 2600 m | 1 | 3 | M.Ebina | 54.0 kg | 1.8 | 2:43.1 |
| 2001-08-04 |
FURANO TOKUBETSU ALW (1 Win)
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Pre-OP | Sapporo (JP) | Good | 2600 m | 1 | 6 | M.Ebina | 54.0 kg | 2.0 | 2:43.5 |
| 2001-04-07 |
AZALEA SHO ALW (1 Win)
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Pre-OP | Hanshin (JP) | Good | 2000 m | 11 | 10 | H.Kawachi | 55.0 kg | 4.0 | 2:03.7 |
| 2001-03-04 |
HOCHI HAI YAYOI SHO
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G2 | Nakayama (JP) | Heavy | 2000 m | 4 | 7 | M.Ebina | 55.0 kg | 21.4 | 2:06.8 |
| 2001-02-11 |
3yo DBT
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Maiden | Tokyo (JP) | Good | 1800 m | 1 | 5 | M.Ebina | 55.0 kg | 1.7 | 1:49.8 |
| 2001-01-29 |
3yo DBT
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Maiden | Tokyo (JP) | Soft | 2000 m | 3 | 9 | M.Ebina | 55.0 kg | 4.0 | 2:06.5 |
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