Field of Tenno Sho Spring 2011

The field of the 2011 Tenno Sho Spring has been drawn. A total of 18 horses have been entered for the traditional grade one race at Kyoto Race Course.

The 143rd Tenno Sho Spring, Grade One
Sunday, May 1, 2011
Kyoto Race-11
4yo+ 3,200-meter turf right-handed

1/Beat Black/4c/58/Yasunari Iwata
2/Hiruno d'Amour/4c/58/Shinji Fujita
3/Namura Crescent/6h/58/Ryuji Wada
4/Rose Kingdom/4c/58/Yutaka Take
5/Gentoo(FR)/7g/58/Dominique Boeuf
6/Pelusa/4c/58/Norihiro Yokoyama
7/Makani Bisty/4c/58/Futoshi Komaki
8/Meiner Kitz/8h/58/Masami Matsuoka
9/To the Glory/4c/58/Hirofumi Shii
10/Tosen Crown/7h/58/Teruo Eda
11/Gestalt/4c/58/Yusuke Fujioka
12/Cosmo Helenos/4c/58/Yuta Nakatani
13/Jamil/5h/58/Craig Williams
14/Tokai Trick/9h/58/Yuga Kawada
15/Eishin Flash/4c/58/Hiroyuki Uchida
16/Oken Bruce Lee/6h/58/Suguru Hamanaka
17/Forgettable/5h/58/Genki Maruyama
18/Cosmo Meadow(IRE)/4c/58/Yuji Tannai

Top Ratings
To the Glory, winner of the Nikkei Sho and the Kyoto Kinen this season, has been assigned the top weight at 120 pounds(long distance).

Rose Kingdom, the 2010 Japan Cup winner who got third in the Nikkei Sho, was assigned at 117(long distance).
Pelusa, coming off second in the Nikkei Sho, was assigned at 116(long distance). Eishin Flash, winner of the 2010 Japanese Derby, was also assigned at 116(intermediate distance).
Gentoo(FR), the only foreign entry who was shipped from France, was assigned at 116(extended distance).

Hiruno d'Amour(winner of the Sankei Osaka Hai) and Namura Crescent(winner of the Hanshin Daishoten) shared at 113.