Field of 2011 Tenno Sho Autumn

A total of 18 horses will go to post for the 2011 Tenno Sho Autumn at 3:40 p.m. JST on Sunday, October 30 at Tokyo Racecourse.

The main contenders are likely to be:

Buena Vista, multiple g1 winner who had a couple of g1 second finishes earlier this season, aims at her second Tenno Sho Autumn title in two consecutive years;
Eishin Flash has not won since last year's Japanese Derby, but has consistently run this season on the highest level;
Rose Kigdom, a multiple g1 winner, comes into this classic g1 event off impressive victory in the Kyoto Daishoten;
Earnestly has enjoyed a fantastic 2011 campaign with the Takarazuka Kinen victory and won the All Comers on his latest running.

The 144th Tenno Sho Autumn, Grade One
Sunday, October 30, 2011
Tokyo Race-11
3yo+ 2,000-meter turf left-handed

pp/HorseName/AgeSex/Weight/Rider
1/Silport/6h/58/Masayoshi Ebina
2/Danon Yoyo/5h/58/Hiroki Goto
3/Axion/8h/58/Yoshitomi Shibata
4/Eishin Flash/4c/58/Christophe Lemaire
5/Buena Vista/5m/56/Yasunari Iwata
6/Big Week/4c/58/Yuga Kawada
7/Dark Shadow/4c/58/Francis Berry
8/Pelusa/4c/58/Norihiro Yokoyama
9/Jaguar Mail/7h/58/Hirofumi Shii
10/Meisho Beluga/6m/56/Kenichi Ikezoe
11/Rose Kingdom/4c/58/Ioritz Mendizabal
12/Tosen Jordan/5h/58/Nicola Pinna
13/Mikki Dream/4c/58/Ryuji Wada
14/Shadow Gate/9h/58/Katsuharu Tanaka
15/Shingen/8h/58/Hironobu Tanabe
16/Narita Crystal/5h/58/Yutaka Take
17/To the Glory/4c/58/Yuichi Fukunaga
18/Earnestly/6h/58/Tetsuzo Sato