Trot Thunder
Thoroughbred racehorse
Trot Thunder (トロットサンダー, Hepburn: Torotto Sanda, 10 May 1989 – November 2004) was a retired Japanese Thoroughbred racehorse. He ran on a total of 22 races and won 15 of them, notably the Mile Championship in 1995 and the Yasuda Kinen in the following year. He made a total of 364,361,000 JPY during his racing career.
Background
Trot Thunder is a bay horse sired by Dyna Cosmos, the 1986 Satsuki Shō winner. His dam, La Seine Wonder, is a daughter of Tesco Boy, a British racehorse who was the leading sire in Japan six times. He was born on May 10, 1989, on the Flat Bokujo.
Racing Record
In Trot Thunder's racing career, he started competing in dirt (regional) races before transitioning into turf (central). Although he did not win in any G2 races, he won two G1 race and one G3 race. The table below shows the available data from netkeiba and JBIS about his racing career.
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