Horse Racing: Nakayama Grand Jump

Lorsqu'il devenu international à la fin des années 90, le Nakayama Grand Jump avait attiré de nombreux conquérants à la poursuite de son énorme allocation de 560.000 € au vainqueur. Mais vu les échecs répétés, cet objectif avait été considéré inaccessible... Starting stalls, bends, bends again, scary jumps to face. Here is the program of the…

Oju Chosan (natty blue headgear) and Shinichi Ishigami come home strongest to land the Nakayama Grand Jump on Saturday Oju Chosan, the veteran darling of Japan's jump racing scene, took his earnings to beyond £5.7 million on Saturday with a remarkable sixth victory in the Nakayama Grand Jump. The 11-year-old started favourite to win the race, with…

Oju Chosan has extended his own record-breaking feats with a fifth consecutive win in the Japan's rich steeplechase, the Nakayama Grand Jump. His fourth win a year ago gave him the outright record after he was tied on three with Australian horse Karasi who won from 2005 to 2007. Karasi, trained by Eric Musgrove and ridden by Brett Scott, followed…

Oju Chosan: completed a Grand Jump five-timer Oju Chosan made history by landing a fifth successive win in the Grade 1 Nakayama Grand Jump in Japan on Saturday. The race is one of two top-level jump races staged in Japan. The contest is run over 2m5f, with a prize-money pot of ¥126060000 (£938000/€1.08million) making it one of the richest…