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7/10/2025, 11:53:06 AM
Who was everyone's first career clear honse? 99% of people will be Bakushin probably but I'm curious about the outliers.
6/30/2025, 2:58:22 PM
Symboli Rudolf, Factoids of the Emperor (1/2)
>His name came from the clan name (Symboli) and the name of the Holy Roman Empire emperor Rudolf I von Habsburg.
>JRA played Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5 "Emperor" after he won the Kikka-Sho and claimed the Triple Crown title.
>Rudolf’s race outfit possesses seven medals, referencing the number of GI races won by the horse.
>He created the “Rudolf Obstacle”; for a long time, no Japanese horse could win more central GI titles than him (applied to TM Opera O, Deep Impact, Vodka and Kitasan Black, who all also won 7 GI titles) until Almond Eye finally made the new record of 9 GIs (and even that is a new obstacle, rivalled by Oju Chosan in jump races).
>The famous passage to praise him: “There’s no absolute in horse racing, but there’s an absolute in him.”
>His name is hard for commentators to announce, so you don’t usually hear his full name in a race. There were commentators who asked if the owner could make Symboli Rudolf’s name shorter, just to be scolded by the angry owner.
>He has the tendency to slack off when he is about to hit the goal, so there were a few times other jockeys and horses were able to take advantage of this behaviour.
>Every time he notices a camera pointing at him, he makes a cool pose. Few horses share this cognizance.
>A hatred across two generations - Bizen Nishiki always lost to Symboli Rudolf in classical races, and this hatred seems to pass to his son Daitaku Helios. Whenever Tokai Teio, the son of Symboli Rudolf, met Daitaku Helios in a race, Tokai Teio always lost terribly.
>His name came from the clan name (Symboli) and the name of the Holy Roman Empire emperor Rudolf I von Habsburg.
>JRA played Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5 "Emperor" after he won the Kikka-Sho and claimed the Triple Crown title.
>Rudolf’s race outfit possesses seven medals, referencing the number of GI races won by the horse.
>He created the “Rudolf Obstacle”; for a long time, no Japanese horse could win more central GI titles than him (applied to TM Opera O, Deep Impact, Vodka and Kitasan Black, who all also won 7 GI titles) until Almond Eye finally made the new record of 9 GIs (and even that is a new obstacle, rivalled by Oju Chosan in jump races).
>The famous passage to praise him: “There’s no absolute in horse racing, but there’s an absolute in him.”
>His name is hard for commentators to announce, so you don’t usually hear his full name in a race. There were commentators who asked if the owner could make Symboli Rudolf’s name shorter, just to be scolded by the angry owner.
>He has the tendency to slack off when he is about to hit the goal, so there were a few times other jockeys and horses were able to take advantage of this behaviour.
>Every time he notices a camera pointing at him, he makes a cool pose. Few horses share this cognizance.
>A hatred across two generations - Bizen Nishiki always lost to Symboli Rudolf in classical races, and this hatred seems to pass to his son Daitaku Helios. Whenever Tokai Teio, the son of Symboli Rudolf, met Daitaku Helios in a race, Tokai Teio always lost terribly.
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