The Japanese super mare Almond Eye will end the year as the #1 ranked racehorse in the world by TRC Global Rankings.
No horse can match the combination of her expansive portfolio – encompassing no fewer than nine Gr1 wins – and her resounding end to the campaign.
Despite racing just four times in 2020, she won Gr1’s at a mile, a mile and a quarter and a mile and a half. And her form is rock solid for the following reasons:
The horses she has beaten have an outstanding record when she is not around – the same aspect that distinguished Frankel and a sure sign of a horse who deserves to be regarded as a champion.
In the Gr1 Japan Cup, she had male (Contrail) and female (Daring Tact) Japanese Triple Crown winners in her wake; that pair have dominated large fields of their own age and sex repeatedly. The first five – including last year’s Gr1 Hong Kong Vase winner Glory Vase – were clear.
In the Gr1 Tenno Sho (Autumn), she was followed home by Fierement, who had won the Tenno Sho (Spring) twice, and Chrono Genesis, who was coming off a hugely impressive six-length win in the Gr1 Takarazuka Kinen.
And, her only defeat was a second place to another brilliant filly, world #14 Gran Alegria, in the Gr1 Yasuda Kinen over a mile. That runner went on to show the kind of acceleration rarely witnessed when landing the Gr1 Mile Championship, and before that she had taken out the Gr1 Sprinters Stakes.
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