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Japan: Lifelike Robot Horse Amazes Crowd At JRA 70th Anniversary Event In Tokyo 2

The Japan Racing Association (JRA), which is celebrating its 70th anniversary this year, held a collaborative event with the Daimaru Tokyo, a department store adjacent to Tokyo Station. A lifelike robot horse of 'Sodashi,' a white racehorse that retired last year, was displayed from May 22 to June 4, attracting many visitors.

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Japan: Lifelike Robot Horse Amazes Crowd At JRA 70th Anniversary Event In Tokyo

The Japan Racing Association (JRA), which is celebrating its 70th anniversary this year, held a collaborative event with the Daimaru Tokyo, a department store adjacent to Tokyo Station. A lifelike robot horse of 'Sodashi,' a white racehorse that retired last year, was displayed from May 22 to June 4, attracting many visitors.

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JRA cancels weekend races due to increase of horse flu cases

RITTO, Japan - The Japan Racing Association said Aug. 17 racehorses at its training center in Ritto (shown in photo), Shiga Prefecture, along with the training center in Miho, Ibaraki Prefecture, had caught horse flu. JRA said it decided to cancel horse races on Aug. 18 and Aug. 19 to prevent equine influenza from further spreading among racehorses.

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JRA cancels weekend races due to increase of horse flu cases

RITTO, Japan - Disinfection work is carried out at the Japan Racing Association training center in Ritto, Shiga Prefecture, on Aug. 17 after racehorses there were found to have come down with horse flu.

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Osaka police, JRA warn against con artists

OSAKA, Japan - An Osaka prefectural policeman and the Japan Racing Association's mascot character Turfy hand out leaflets warning against con artists' tempting offers at an off-track betting site in Osaka on April 27, 2014.

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Japanese jockey Fukunaga wins JRA best rider award

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese jockey Yuichi Fukunaga, winner of the 2013 JRA Awards for Best Jockey for both races won and money earned, speaks while holding his trophy during the Japan Racing Association's annual prize presentation ceremony at a Tokyo hotel on Jan. 27, 2014. He also became the inaugural winner of the JRA's Most Valuable Jockey Award.

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JRA Horse of Year honor given to Lord Kanaloa

TOKYO, Japan - People associated with a racing stable for Japanese horse Lord Kanaloa pose with 2013 JRA award trophies during the Japan Racing Association's annual award ceremony at a Tokyo hotel on Jan. 27, 2014. Lord Kanaloa won the most prestigious Horse of the Year Award as well as the JRA Award for Best Sprinter for an outstanding season, including a repeat win in the Hong Kong Sprint.

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Horse undergoes rehabilitation

IWAKI, Japan - Racing horse Seiun Wonder, winner of the 2008 Asahi Cup Futurity Stakes, swims in a pool at a facility of the Japan Racing Association in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, on June 210, 2011. The JRA has postponed the beginning of swimming practice for horses undergoing rehabilitation by about a month this year due to the March quake and tsunami.

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Victoire Pisa wins JRA's Arima Kinen

FUNABASHI, Japan - Jockey Mirco Demuro (R) poses for photos near his mount Victoire Pisa after winning the Japan Racing Association's Arima Kinen at Nakayama Racecourse in Funabashi, Chiba Prefecture, on Dec. 26, 2010.

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Teenage jockey Miura fastest to reach 100 wins

TOKYO, Japan - Teenager jockey Kosei Miura celebrates after picking up his 100th career win at Tokyo Racecourse on Feb. 4 to become the fastest jockey in Japan Racing Association history to reach the mark. Miura's victory on Infinite Air in the day's fourth race came 11 months and seven days since his JRA debut on March 1, 2008.

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Horse Racing: Take sets new JRA all-time record

KITAKYUSHU, Japan - Top jockey Yutaka Take holds a commemorative saddle after he set an all-time record in Japanese horse racing when he rode to three victories at the Kokura Racecourse in Fukuoka Prefecture on July 21, increasing his career total to 2,944 wins in races organized by the Japan Racing Association.

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Pink Cameo takes NHK Mile Cup, largest payout for JRA

TOKYO, Japan - Long-shot Pink Cameo (14) makes a last-ditch charge down the final stretch to win the NHK Mile Cup at Tokyo Racecourse on May 6, producing the largest payout in a major race of the Japan Racing Association. Pink Cameo, the No. 17th pick, beat out favorite Laurel Guerreiro (10) by a half length. Least-favorite Muramasano Yoto (far right) came third. The winning trifecta of 14-10-18 paid out 9,739,870 yen in the mile championship for 3 year olds. (Pool photo)

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Pink Cameo takes NHK Mile Cup, largest payout for JRA

TOKYO, Japan - Long-shot Pink Cameo (14) makes a last-ditch charge down the final stretch to win the NHK Mile Cup at Tokyo Racecourse on May 6, producing the largest payout in a major race of the Japan Racing Association. Pink Cameo, the No. 17th pick, beat out favorite Laurel Guerreiro (10) by a half length. The winning trifecta of 14-10-18 paid out 9,739,870 yen in the mile championship for 3 year olds.

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(1)Veteran jockey Okabe calls it a day

TOKYO, Japan - Japan Racing Association (JRA) jockey Yukio Okabe, who has won a record 2,943 races, announced his retirement from horse racing at a press conference in Tokyo on March 10. Okabe, at 56 the oldest active JRA jockey, debuted in 1967 and quickly stole the limelight with 54 victories the following year. ''I'm no longer able to move my body the way I want to when I'm racing,'' Okabe said.

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(2)Veteran jockey Okabe calls it a day

TOKYO, Japan - Japan Racing Association (JRA) veteran jockey Yukio Okabe, who has won a record 2,943 races, poses with Taiki Shuttle after winning the Prix Jacques le Marois Grade-One race in France in August 1998. The 56-year-old Okabe said March 10 he will retire from horse racing after 38 years.

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Okabe makes history with 2,900th win in JRA

TOKYO, Japan - Veteran Yukio Okabe (file photo) won a race in Fukushima on Pione on June 19 to become the first Japan Racing Association jockey in history to earn his 2,900th career victory.

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JRA pays highest cash prize

NIIGATA, Japan - In the 11th race at Niigata Racecourse on May 15, the Japan Racing Association paid out the highest-ever cash prize of 1,555,450 yen for a 100 yen slip betting game for the three horses likely to come in first, second and third. A total of 158 100 yen slips for the right three-horse combination had been sold, and one player cashed in the winning slip. The winner's identity is unknown.

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(1)JRA horse race reaps record betting return

FUNABASHI, Japan - The signboard at Nakayama Racecourse in Funabashi, east of Tokyo, shows a record 1,498,110 yen return on a 100-yen wager March 23. All combinations of 10-14-16, the horses that finished 1-2-3 respectively in the day's sixth race, broke the previous record of 1,449,660 yen set at the same racecourse Jan 6.

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(1)JRA horse race reaps record betting return

FUNABASHI, Japan - The top three long shots paid out 1,498,110 yen on a 100-yen wager at a horse race at Nakayama Racecourse in Funabashi, east of Tokyo on March 23, the highest-ever return on a race organized by the Japan Racing Association (JRA).

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Take wins 8 races for JRA single-day record

TAKARAZUKA, Japan - Jockey Yutaka Take poses for a photograph after setting a Japan Racing Association (JRA) record by winning eight races in a single day on Dec. 7. Take, who took part in 10 of the day's 12 races in drizzly conditions at Hanshin Racecourse, won six of the first 10 to tie the previous record and went on to take the final two races.

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(2)Ex-Kyoto racetrack chief suspected of taking bribes

TOKYO, Japan - Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) officers arrive at the Tokyo house of a former head of the Japan Racing Association's (JRA) Kyoto racetrack Nov. 20 for investigations. The man is suspected of taking 1.6 million yen in bribes from the former president of a firm that makes prepaid cards.

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Ex-Kyoto racetrack chief suspected of taking bribes

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken Nov. 20 shows the headquarters of the Japan Racing Association (JRA) in Tokyo's Shimbashi district. The former head of JRA's Kyoto racetrack is suspected of taking 1.6 million yen in bribes from the former president of a firm that makes prepaid cards, investigative sources said Nov. 20.

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(2)Veteran jockey Okabe calls it a day

TOKYO, Japan - Japan Racing Association (JRA) veteran jockey Yukio Okabe, who has won a record 2,943 races, poses with Taiki Shuttle after winning the Prix Jacques le Marois Grade-One race in France in August 1998. The 56-year-old Okabe said March 10 he will retire from horse racing after 38 years. (Kyodo)

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(1)Veteran jockey Okabe calls it a day

TOKYO, Japan - Japan Racing Association (JRA) jockey Yukio Okabe, who has won a record 2,943 races, announced his retirement from horse racing at a press conference in Tokyo on March 10. Okabe, at 56 the oldest active JRA jockey, debuted in 1967 and quickly stole the limelight with 54 victories the following year. ''I'm no longer able to move my body the way I want to when I'm racing,'' Okabe said. (Kyodo)

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Pink Cameo takes NHK Mile Cup, largest payout for JRA

TOKYO, Japan - Long-shot Pink Cameo (14) makes a last-ditch charge down the final stretch to win the NHK Mile Cup at Tokyo Racecourse on May 6, producing the largest payout in a major race of the Japan Racing Association. Pink Cameo, the No. 17th pick, beat out favorite Laurel Guerreiro (10) by a half length. The winning trifecta of 14-10-18 paid out 9,739,870 yen in the mile championship for 3 year olds. (Kyodo)

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Pink Cameo takes NHK Mile Cup, largest payout for JRA

TOKYO, Japan - Long-shot Pink Cameo (14) makes a last-ditch charge down the final stretch to win the NHK Mile Cup at Tokyo Racecourse on May 6, producing the largest payout in a major race of the Japan Racing Association. Pink Cameo, the No. 17th pick, beat out favorite Laurel Guerreiro (10) by a half length. Least-favorite Muramasano Yoto (far right) came third. The winning trifecta of 14-10-18 paid out 9,739,870 yen in the mile championship for 3 year olds. (Pool photo) (Kyodo)

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Horse Racing: Take sets new JRA all-time record

KITAKYUSHU, Japan - Top jockey Yutaka Take holds a commemorative saddle after he set an all-time record in Japanese horse racing when he rode to three victories at the Kokura Racecourse in Fukuoka Prefecture on July 21, increasing his career total to 2,944 wins in races organized by the Japan Racing Association. (Kyodo)

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JRA cancels weekend races due to increase of horse flu cases

RITTO, Japan - Disinfection work is carried out at the Japan Racing Association training center in Ritto, Shiga Prefecture, on Aug. 17 after racehorses there were found to have come down with horse flu. (Kyodo)

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JRA cancels weekend races due to increase of horse flu cases

RITTO, Japan - The Japan Racing Association said Aug. 17 racehorses at its training center in Ritto (shown in photo), Shiga Prefecture, along with the training center in Miho, Ibaraki Prefecture, had caught horse flu. JRA said it decided to cancel horse races on Aug. 18 and Aug. 19 to prevent equine influenza from further spreading among racehorses. (Kyodo)

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Teenage jockey Miura fastest to reach 100 wins

TOKYO, Japan - Teenager jockey Kosei Miura celebrates after picking up his 100th career win at Tokyo Racecourse on Feb. 4 to become the fastest jockey in Japan Racing Association history to reach the mark. Miura's victory on Infinite Air in the day's fourth race came 11 months and seven days since his JRA debut on March 1, 2008. (Kyodo)

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(1)JRA horse race reaps record betting return

FUNABASHI, Japan - The top three long shots paid out 1,498,110 yen on a 100-yen wager at a horse race at Nakayama Racecourse in Funabashi, east of Tokyo on March 23, the highest-ever return on a race organized by the Japan Racing Association (JRA).

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(2)Ex-Kyoto racetrack chief suspected of taking bribes

TOKYO, Japan - Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) officers arrive at the Tokyo house of a former head of the Japan Racing Association's (JRA) Kyoto racetrack Nov. 20 for investigations. The man is suspected of taking 1.6 million yen in bribes from the former president of a firm that makes prepaid cards. (Kyodo)

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(2)JRA horse race reaps record betting return

FUNABASHI, Japan - The signboard at Nakayama Racecourse in Funabashi, east of Tokyo, shows a record 1,498,110 yen return on a 100-yen wager March 23. All combinations of 10-14-16, the horses that finished 1-2-3 respectively in the day's sixth race, broke the previous record of 1,449,660 yen set at the same racecourse Jan 6. (Kyodo)

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Female jockey Fujita wins 1st national race

Nanako Fujita (R), 18, the Japan Racing Association's first female jockey in 16 years, celebrates after her first victory in a race hosted by the JRA in Fukushima on April 10, 2016. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Female jockey Fujita wins 1st national race

Nanako Fujita (R), 18, the Japan Racing Association's first female jockey in 16 years, signs her autograph for fans after her first victory in a race hosted by the JRA in Fukushima on April 10, 2016. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Female jockey Fujita wins 1st national race

Nanako Fujita on 5-year-old horse Sunny Days wins the ninth race in Fukushima on April 10, 2016. Fujita, 18, the Japan Racing Association's first female jockey in 16 years, claimed her first victory in the race hosted by the JRA. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Horse racing: 18-year-old female jockey Fujita 2nd on debut

Eighteen-year-old Nanako Fujita is pictured ahead of a Japan Racing Association race at Nakayama Racecourse in Funabashi, Chiba Prefecture near Tokyo on March 5, 2016. Fujita, the first rookie female jockey from the JRA in 16 years, came second in her debut race. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Horse racing: 18-year-old female jockey Fujita 2nd on debut

Eighteen-year-old Nanako Fujita rides three-year-old colt Nature Point (4) in a Japan Racing Association race at Nakayama Racecourse in Funabashi, Chiba Prefecture near Tokyo on March 5, 2016. Fujita, the first rookie female jockey from the JRA in 16 years, came second in her debut race. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Fujita becomes 1st female jockey in 16 years in JRA

Nanako Fujita points to her name on a list of people passing a jockey license test by the Japan Racing Association at Miho Training Center in the village of Miho, Ibaraki Prefecture, on Feb. 11, 2016. Fujita, 18, became the first female jockey in Japan in 16 years. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Fujita becomes 1st female jockey in 16 years in JRA

Nanako Fujita speaks at a press conference at Miho Training Center in the village of Miho, Ibaraki Prefecture, on Feb. 11, 2016, after the Japan Racing Association announced that she passed a test to get a jockey license. Fujita, 18, became the first female jockey in Japan in 16 years. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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JRA issues short-term license for Kiwi female jockey

New Zealand jockey Lisa Allpress is seen on May 10, 2015. The Japan Racing Association issued a short-term riding license to Allpress effective May 9. She finished second in a GIII race in Japan on May 10. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Demuro, Lemaire 1st foreigners to ride full-time in Japan

File photo taken June 1, 2003, shows Mirco Demuro of Italy becoming the first foreign jockey to win the Japanese Derby. The Japan Racing Association said on Feb. 5, 2015, Demuro and Christophe Lemaire of France have passed its exam to qualify for a full-time riding license. The two jockeys are the first foreigners to qualify for JRA licenses. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Demuro, Lemaire 1st foreigners to ride full-time in Japan

Christophe Lemaire of France speaks at a press conference in Ritto, Shiga Prefecture, on Feb. 5, 2015, after a Japan Racing Association announcement that he and Mirco Demuro of Italy have passed its exam to qualify for a full-time riding license. The two jockeys are the first foreigners to qualify for JRA licenses. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Horse undergoes rehabilitation

IWAKI, Japan - Racing horse Seiun Wonder, winner of the 2008 Asahi Cup Futurity Stakes, swims in a pool at a facility of the Japan Racing Association in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, on June 210, 2011. The JRA has postponed the beginning of swimming practice for horses undergoing rehabilitation by about a month this year due to the March quake and tsunami. (Kyodo)

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Horse racing: 1st graded race win by Japanese female jockey

Nanako Fujita (far L) rides Copano Kicking to victory in the G3 Capella Stakes at Nakayama Racecourse in Funabashi, near Tokyo, on Dec. 8, 2019, making her the first Japanese female jockey ever to win a JRA graded race. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Horse racing: 1st graded race win by Japanese female jockey

Nanako Fujita (center R) rides Copano Kicking (center R) to victory in the G3 Capella Stakes at Nakayama Racecourse in Funabashi, near Tokyo, on Dec. 8, 2019, making her the first Japanese female jockey ever to win a JRA graded race. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Horse racing: Fujita claims her 100th career win

Undated file photo shows Japan Racing Association jockey Nanako Fujita, who claimed her 100th career victory at a JRA race at Fukushima Racecourse in northeastern Japan on April 25, 2020. Fujita, 22, debuted in March 2016. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Horse racing: 1st graded race win by Japanese female jockey

Nanako Fujita (4th from L) is pictured after riding Copano Kicking to victory at the G3 Capella Stakes at Nakayama Racecourse in Funabashi, near Tokyo, on Dec. 8, 2019. She became the first Japanese female jockey ever to win a JRA graded race. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Horse racing: 1st graded race win by Japanese female jockey

Nanako Fujita is pictured after riding Copano Kicking to victory in the G3 Capella Stakes at Nakayama Racecourse in Funabashi, near Tokyo, on Dec. 8, 2019. She became the first Japanese female jockey ever to win a JRA graded race. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Horse racing: 1st graded race win by Japanese female jockey

Nanako Fujita pats her mount Copano Kicking after winning the G3 Capella Stakes at Nakayama Racecourse in Funabashi, near Tokyo, on Dec. 8, 2019, making her the first Japanese female jockey ever to win a JRA graded race. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo