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Lemaire delight at Equinox's Arima Kinen romp

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Lemaire delight at Equinox's Arima Kinen romp

Equinox won the Arima Kinen at Nakayama on Christmas Day. It was his second Group 1 success. The winner earned connections JPY403,360,000 (approx £2.52m/€2,85m) for the extended mile and a half turf contest for three-year-olds and up. The runner-up's jockey Yuichi Fukunaga is retiring in February. He will be remembered for his jockeying on Heart's Cry in 2005 and Satono Diamond in 2016. Equinox is a son of Kitasan Black out of the winning King Halo mare Chateau Blanche.

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