Admire Groove (in Japanese: アドマイヤグルーヴ, foaled April 30th, 2000) is a Japanese Thoroughbred racehorse and the winner of the 2003 and 2004 Queen Elizabeth II Cup.

Career

Admire Groove's first race was on November 10th, 2002 at Kyoto, where she came in first. She then won her next two races after at Hashin Racecourse, which included a win at the Wakaba Stakes. Admire Groove's first major win was at the Grade-2

Rose Stakes The Rose Stakes (Japanese language, Japanese ローズステークス) is a Japanese Group races, Grade 2 Flat racing, flat Horse racing, horse race in Hyōgo Prefecture for three-year-old Thoroughbred fillies. It is run over a distance of 1800 m ...

on September 21st, 2003. She came close to capturing the October

Shūka Sho The is a Grade 1 flat horse race in Japan for three-year-old thoroughbred fillies run over a distance of 2,000 metres (approximately 1 1/4 miles) at the Kyoto Racecourse, Fushimi-ku, Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture in October. The Shūka Shō is ...

just weeks later, but finished in 2nd. She then picked up her first Grade-1 victory, by winning the 2003 Queen Elizabeth II Cup. She picked up another win at the July 11th, 2004

Mermaid Stakes The Mermaid Stakes was an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually at Sheepshead Bay Race Track in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn. An important event for three-year-old fillies, the race was run on dirt over a distance of one mile and one furlong un ...

. Admire Groove then returned to the Queen Elizabeth II Cup in 2004, where she successfully defended her title. Groove tried to repeat the feat again at the 2005 Queen Elizabeth II Cup, but finished in 3rd place. On December 18th, 2005, she grabbed her final win in her last race by winning the 2005

Hanshin Himba Stakes The Hanshin Himba Stakes Japanese 阪神牝馬ステークス} is a Japanese Grade 2 flat horse race in Japan for Thoroughbreds fillies and mares of at least four years of age. It is run over a distance of 1400 metres at Hanshin Racecourse in A ...

Stud career

Admire Groove's descendants include: ''c =

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, f =

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Pedigree

References

{{reflist 2000 racehorse births Racehorses bred in Japan Racehorses trained in Japan Thoroughbred family 8-f