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Almond Eye racing in the Yushun Himba (Japanese Oaks) at Tokyo

REAL RACING ARCHIVE(documented racing history)

GREAT RACE · Tokyo Racecourse

Yushun Himba

優駿牝馬（オークス） — Japanese Oaks

2400MLeft-handedGI

The fillies’ classic that crowns the “Queen of the Oaks”; the subtitle “Oaks” was added in 1965.

Almond Eye — Yushun Himba (Japanese Oaks), Tokyo Racecourse, 2018 — Photo: Nadaraikon / CC BY-SA 3.0

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Current conditions

These are today’s conditions; past runnings may have differed.
Distance
2400m
Grade (current)
GI
Racecourse
Tokyo Racecourse
Direction
Left-handed
Eligibility
Three-year-old fillies
Surface
Turf
First run
23 Nov 1938

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Runnings in the archive

Race records are taken from the “Racing record” tables of each horse’s Japanese Wikipedia article (which cite netkeiba.com and JBIS-Search) and cross-checked against the career start count. Grades are shown as printed for that year’s running — current grades are never applied retroactively.

2018

FILM

On film

Published on the JRA official YouTube channel.

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The venue

The main stand of Tokyo Racecourse on Japan Cup day

Tokyo Racecourse

東京競馬場

Home of the Japanese Derby, the Japan Cup and the autumn Tenno Sho — its long home straight has staged countless great finishes.

SOURCES & REFERENCES

Sources & References

  1. 01
    優駿牝馬 — Wikipedia（日本語版）

    Wikipedia · Reference · Accessed 2026-09-26

  2. 02
    Yushun Himba — Wikipedia (English)

    Wikipedia · Reference · Accessed 2026-09-26

IMAGE CREDITS

Image credits

Each photograph was checked on its individual Wikimedia Commons file page for author and licence.