{{Infobox racehorse , horsename = Real Shadai , image =

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Shadai Stallion Station is a thoroughbred breeding facility located in Abira on the island of Hokkaido in Japan. The farm was begun in the late 1970s to early 1980s by the late Zenya Yoshida, and is now run jointly by his sons (Katsumi, Haruya, and Teruya Yoshida), know ...

in 2000. , sire =

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, grandsire =

Hail To Reason Hail to Reason (April 18, 1958 – February 24, 1976) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse and an influential sire. In a racing career cut short by injury, he was named the American Champion Two-Year-Old Colt of 1960 after winning seven stake ...

, dam = Desert Vixen , damsire =

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, sex =

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, foaled = 1979 , country =

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, breeder = North Ridge Farm , owner = Zenya Yoshida , trainer = John Cunnington, Jr. , record = 8:2-2-2 , earnings = F911,400 , race =

Grand Prix de Deauville The Grand Prix de Deauville is a Group 2 flat horse race in France open to thoroughbreds aged three years or older. It is run at Deauville over a distance of 2,500 metres (about 1 mile and 4½ fur ...

(1982) , awards=

Leading sire in Japan The list below shows the leading Thoroughbred sire of racehorses in Japan for each year since 1924. This is determined by the amount of prize money won by the sire's progeny during the season. ---- * 1924 - Ebor (1) * 1925 - Ebor (2) * 1926 - E ...

(1993) , honours = , updated= June 18, 2007 Real Shadai (1979–2004) was an American-born

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who raced in

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and became a

leading sire in Japan The list below shows the leading Thoroughbred sire of racehorses in Japan for each year since 1924. This is determined by the amount of prize money won by the sire's progeny during the season. ---- * 1924 - Ebor (1) * 1925 - Ebor (2) * 1926 - E ...

Background

He was sired by

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winner

out of the U.S. Racing Hall of Fame

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Desert Vixen. Real Shadai was bred by Franklin Groves' North Ridge Farm near

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, and sold at the 1980 Keeneland July yearling sale for $360,000 to the renowned Japanese horseman Zenya Yoshida. As he had done before with his Champion colt Northern Taste, Yoshida turned Real Shadai over to trainer John Cunnington, Jr. at the Great Stables in Chantilly.

Racing career

In 1981, Real Shadai was a non-winner in his two starts at age two. Out of his six races the following year, he won two, the most important of which was the 1982

. His other significant outing was a second-place finish in the 1982 GI

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to Robert Sangster's colt

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. Entered in the 1982

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, Real Shadai was up against a very strong field that included Assert along with Ardross,

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, and one of the great international racing fillies of all time, All Along. After finishing fifth to winner Akiyda, Real Shadai was retired from racing.

Stud record

Sent to stand at

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at his owner's

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, Real Shadai had a successful career as a stallion. He was the

in 1993, and his progeny earned in excess of US$110 million. Among his notable offspring were Shadai Kagura, Japan's Champion Three-Year-Old Filly in 1989 and winner of the

Oka Sho The is a Japanese Grade 1 flat horse race in Japan. The race is restricted to three-year-old Thoroughbred fillies and is run over a distance of 1,600 metres (approximately 1 mile) at the Hanshin Racecourse, Takarazuka, Hyōgo in April. It ...

(Japanese 1000 Guineas), as well as

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, who captured the 1992 Domestic Grade I Kikuka Sho (Japanese St. Leger) and was a two-time winner of the Domestic Grade I

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(1993, 1995). Pensioned in 2000, Real Shadai became afflicted with hyposthenia, brought on by

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, and died at the age of twenty-five on May 26, 2004.

References

Real Shadai's pedigree and partial racing stats

1979 racehorse births 2004 racehorse deaths Racehorses bred in Kentucky Racehorses trained in France Thoroughbred family 2-c