Meisho Samson

{{Short description|Japanese-bred racehorse (2003–2024)}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2025}}

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{{Infobox racehorse

| horsename = Meisho Samson

| image = Meisho SamSon 20060528R1.jpg

| caption = Meisho Samson winning Tokyo Yūshun 2006

| sire = Opera House

| grandsire = Sadler's Wells

| dam = My Vivien

| damsire = Dancing Brave

| sex = Stallion

| foaled = 2003

| country = Japan

| colour = Bay

| breeder = Kouki Hayashi

| owner = Yoshio Matsumoto

| trainer = Tsutomu Setoguchi
→Shigetada Takahashi

| record = 27: 9-7-2

| earnings = 1,065,949,000 Yen

| race = Spring Stakes (2006)
Tokyo Yushun (2006)
Satsuki Sho (2006)
Osaka Hai (2007)
Tenno Sho (Spring) (2007)
Tenno Sho (Autumn) (2007)

| awards = JRA Award for Best Three-Year-Old Colt (2006)
JRA Special Award (2007)

| honours=

| updated=

}}

Meisho Samson (Japanese : メイショウサムソン; 7 March 2003 – 26 November 2024) was a Japanese racehorse and sire who won the Tokyo Yūshun and Satsuki Sho in 2006, and the Tenno Sho (Spring and Autumn) in 2007.

He was diagnosed with cancer in late October 2024 and had been undergoing treatment, when he died of heart failure on the morning of November 26th. He was 21 years old.{{Cite web |title=G1・4勝メイショウサムソン死す 死因は「心不全」10月末にがんの診断 現所有者の沼田恭子氏コメント ― スポニチ競馬Web |url=https://keiba.sponichi.co.jp/news/20241127s00004000183000c |access-date=2025-03-22 |website=スポニチ競馬Web |language=ja}}

Stud career

Meisho Samson's descendants include:{{cite web|title=Meisho Samson|url=https://www.jbis.jp/horse/0000760084/sire/record/|website=JBIS|accessdate=6 August 2019|language=en}}

c = colt, f = filly

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| style="width:35px;"| Foaled

| style="width:120px;"| Name

| style="width:35px;"| Sex

| style="width:580px;"| Major Wins

2010

| Samson's Pride

| f

| Principal Stakes

2011

| Luminous Warrior

| c

| Hakodate Kinen

2013

| Kinsho Yukihime

| c

| Fukushima Himba Stakes

2013

| Frontier Queen

| c

| Laurel R. C. Sho, Nakayama Himba Stakes

2013

| Denko Ange

| c

| Fukushima Himba Stakes

Pedigree

{{Pedigree

|name = Meisho Samson

|f = *Opera House
1988

|ff = Sadler's Wells
1981

|fm = Colorspin
1983

|fff = Northern Dancer

|ffm = Fairy Bridge

|fmf = High Top

|fmm = Reprocolor

|ffff = Nearctic

|fffm = Natalma

|ffmf = Bold Reason

|ffmm = Special

|fmff = Derring-Do

|fmfm = Camenae

|fmmf = Jimmy Reppin

|fmmm = Blue Queen

|m = My Vivien
1997

|mf = Dancing Brave
1983

|mm = Will Princess
1983

|mff = Lyphard

|mfm = Navajo Princess

|mmf = Sun Prince

|mmm = Yell

|mfff = Northern Dancer

|mffm = Goofed

|mfmf = Drone

|mfmm = Olmac

|mmff = Princely Gift

|mmfm = Costa Sola

|mmmf = Fortino

|mmmm = Garnet (family 3)

|}}

References