Symboli Rudolf

{{Infobox racehorse

| horsename = Symboli Rudolf

| image = Symboli rudolf.jpg

| caption = Symboli Rudolf and Yukio Okabe at the Tenno Sho (Spring) in 1985

| sire = Partholon

| grandsire = Milesian

| dam = Sweet Luna

| damsire = Speed Symboli

| sex = Stallion

| foaled = March 13, 1981

| country = Japan

| colour = Bay

| breeder = Symboli Bokujo

| owner = Symboli Bokujo

| trainer = Yuji Nohira

| record = 16: 13-1-1

| earnings = 684,824,200 yen

| race = Yayoi Sho (1984)
Satsuki Sho (1984)
Tokyo Yushun (1984)
St Lite Kinen (1984)
Kikuka Sho (1984)
Arima Kinen (1984, 1985)
Tenno Sho (spring) (1985)
Japan Cup (1985)

| awards = Japanese Champion 3-Year-Old Colt (1984)
Japanese Horse of the Year (1984, 1985)
Japanese Champion Older Colt or Horse (1985)

| honours = Japan Racing Association Hall of Fame (1987)

| updated = June 27, 2009

|death_date={{death date and age |2011 |10|4 |1981|3|13 |mf=yes}}|jockey=Yukio Okabe}}

Symboli Rudolf (Japanese : シンボリルドルフ, March 13, 1981 - October 4, 2011){{Cite news |date=2011-10-04 |title=皇帝シンボリルドルフ死す！30歳 |url=http://www.nikkansports.com/race/news/f-rc-tp0-20111004-844828.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111005083717/http://www.nikkansports.com/race/news/f-rc-tp0-20111004-844828.html |archive-date=2011-10-05 |access-date=2024-02-12 |work=Nikkan Sports |language=ja}}{{Cite news |date=2011-10-05 |title=初の無敗３冠馬シンボリルドルフ大往生 |url=http://www.nikkansports.com/race/news/p-rc-tp0-20111005-845103.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111006084538/http://www.nikkansports.com/race/news/p-rc-tp0-20111005-845103.html |archive-date=2011-10-06 |access-date=2024-02-12 |work=Nikkan Sports |language=ja}} was a Japanese thoroughbred racehorse who won the Japanese Triple Crown, sired by {{Interlanguage link|Partholon (horse)|lt=Partholon|ja|パーソロン}}, a son of Milesian, out of Sweet Luna, a daughter of {{Interlanguage link|Speed Symboli|ja|スピードシンボリ}}. Symboli Rudolf was inducted into the Japan Racing Association Hall of Fame in 1987.{{Cite web |title=シンボリルドルフ：競馬の殿堂 |url=https://www.jra.go.jp/gallery/dendo/horse14.html |access-date=2024-02-12 |website=Japan Racing Association}} Due to his racing career and his namesake, Rudolf I, the horse was dubbed "Kōtei (皇帝)", or emperor.{{Cite web |title=Brand |url=https://en.sake-hikami.co.jp/brand/ |access-date=2024-02-12 |website=Hikami Sake Brewery}}{{Cite news |date=2010-11-28 |title="皇帝"ルドルフが登場 |url=http://sankei.jp.msn.com/sports/news/110114/rac11011411040003-n1.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110227012916/http://sankei.jp.msn.com/sports/news/110114/rac11011411040003-n1.htm |archive-date=2011-02-27 |access-date=2024-02-12 |work=Sankei News |language=ja}}

Racing career

Symboli Rudolf became the first undefeated Triple Crown (not losing a single race until winning Kikuka Sho, a feat later matched by Deep Impact in 2005 and Contrail in 2020) as well as the first Triple Crown winner since the introduction of Racing Grades in Japan.

Symboli Rudolf ultimately went on to win a total of 7 Grade I races in his career.

Racing form

The following form is based on information from JBIS-Search and netkeiba.{{Cite web |title=年度別累計成績／主な成績｜競走成績｜シンボリルドルフ |url=https://www.jbis.or.jp/horse/0000140567/record/ |access-date=2024-02-12 |website=JBIS-Search |publisher=Japan Bloodstock Information System |language=ja}}{{Cite web |title=シンボリルドルフ (Symboli Rudolf)の競走成績 {{!}} 競走馬データ |url=https://db.netkeiba.com/horse/result/1981107017/ |url-access=registration |access-date=2024-02-12 |website=netkeiba.com |language=ja}}

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|Date

|Racecourse

|Name

|Group

|Entry

|PP

| style="text-align: right;" |Finished

|Jockey

|Distance

| style="text-align: right;" |Time

|Winner (2nd Place)

1983.07.23

|Niigata

|Maiden Race

|

|10

|6

|{{color|darkred|1st}}

|Yukio Okabe

|1000m

|0:59.2

|（Broken Hill）

style="text-align: right;" |10.29

|Tokyo

|Icho Tokubetsu

|

|17

|4

|{{color|darkred|1st}}

|Yukio Okabe

|1600m

|1:37.3

|（Ebisu George）

style="text-align: right;" |11.27

|Tokyo

|Open

|

|5

|1

|{{color|darkred|1st}}

|Yukio Okabe

|1600m

|1:39.9

|（Haruda）

1984.03.04

|Nakayama

|Yayoi Sho

|GIII

|14

|12

|{{color|darkred|1st}}

|Yukio Okabe

|2000m

|2:01.7

|（Bizen Nishiki）

style="text-align: right;" |04.15

|Nakayama

|Satsuki Sho

|GI

|18

|10

|{{color|darkred|1st}}

|Yukio Okabe

|2000m

|{{color|darkred|R2:01.1}}

|（Bizen Nishiki）

style="text-align: right;" |05.27

|Tokyo

|Tokyo Yushun

|GI

|21

|10

|{{color|darkred|1st}}

|Yukio Okabe

|2400m

|2:29.3

|（Suzu Mach）

style="text-align: right;" |09.30

|Nakayama

|St Lite Kinen

|GIII

|10

|5

|{{color|darkred|1st}}

|Yukio Okabe

|2200m

|{{color|darkred|R2:13.4}}

|（Onward Cameroun）

style="text-align: right;" |11.11

|Kyoto

|Kikka Sho

|GI

|18

|5

|{{color|darkred|1st}}

|Yukio Okabe

|3000m

|3:06.8

|（Gold Way）

style="text-align: right;" |11.25

|Tokyo

|Japan Cup

|GI

|14

|12

|{{color|darkgreen|3rd}}

|Yukio Okabe

|2400m

|2:26.5

|Katsuragi Ace

style="text-align: right;" |12.23

|Nakayama

|Arima Kinen

|GI

|11

|4

|{{color|darkred|1st}}

|Yukio Okabe

|2500m

|{{color|darkred|R2:32.8}}

|（Katsuragi Ace）

1985.03.31

|Nakayama

|Nikkei Sho

|GII

|8

|6

|{{color|darkred|1st}}

|Yukio Okabe

|2500m

|2:36.2

|（Kane Kuroshio）

style="text-align: right;" |04.29

|Kyoto

|Tenno Sho (Spring)

|GI

|15

|{{color|darkred|1st}}

|Yukio Okabe

|3200m

|3:20.4

|（Sakura Gaisen）

style="text-align: right;" |06.02

|Hanshin

|Takarazuka Kinen

|GI

|10

|3

|N/A

|Yukio Okabe

|2200m

|Scratched

|Suzuka Gohan

style="text-align: right;" |10.27

|Tokyo

|Tenno Sho (Autumn)

|GI

|17

|{{color|darkblue|2nd}}

|Yukio Okabe

|2000m

|1:58.8

|Gallop Dyna

style="text-align: right;" |11.24

|Tokyo

|Japan Cup

|GI

|15

|{{color|darkred|1st}}

|Yukio Okabe

|2400m

|2:28.8

|（Rocky Tiger）

style="text-align: right;" |12.22

|Nakayama

|Arima Kinen

|GI

|10

|6

|{{color|darkred|1st}}

|Yukio Okabe

|2500m

|2:33.1

|（Miho Shinzan）

1986.03.29

|Santa Anita

|San Luis Rey Handicap

|GI

|7

| -

|6th

|Yukio Okabe

|12f

|2:26.8

|Dahar

Stud career

File:Symboli-Rudolf2010.jpg

As a stallion, Symboli Rudolf sired numerous grade winners.{{Cite web |title=Record {{!}} Stallion Reports {{!}} Symboli Rudolf(JPN) {{!}} |url=https://www.jbis.jp/horse/0000140567/sire/record/ |access-date=2024-02-12 |website=JBIS-Search |publisher=Japan Bloodstock Information System}} The horse's most successful progeny was by far Tokai Teio, who won 4 GI races, including the Tokyo Yushun in 1991 and the Arima Kinen in 1993.{{Cite web |title=Tokai Teio(JPN) |url=https://www.jbis.jp/horse/0000207623/ |access-date=2024-02-12 |website=JBIS-Search |publisher=Japan Bloodstock Information System}} Other notable progenies include {{Interlanguage link|Ayrton Symboli|ja|アイルトンシンボリ}}, who won the Stayers Stakes in 1992 and 1993, and {{Interlanguage link|Tsurumaru Tsuyoshi|ja|ツルマルツヨシ}}, who won the Kyoto Daishoten and Asahi Challenge Cup in 1999.{{Cite web |title=Ayrton Symboli(JPN) |url=https://www.jbis.jp/horse/0000225726/ |access-date=2024-02-12 |website=JBIS-Search |publisher=Japan Bloodstock Information System}}{{Cite web |title=Tsurumaru Tsuyoshi(JPN) |url=https://www.jbis.jp/horse/0000298659/ |access-date=2024-02-12 |website=JBIS-Search |publisher=Japan Bloodstock Information System}}

Symboli Rudolf passed away on October 4, 2011 at the Symboli Farm in Narita, Chiba.

Sire line tree

Symboli Rudolf[http://www.bloodlines.net/TB/Sirelines/BayMiddleton.htm Bay Middleton Sire Line]
Tokai Teio
Taiki Polar
Tokai Point
Tomai Pulsar
Strong Blood
Quite Fine{{Cite web |title=トウカイテイオー後継種牡馬プロジェクト・クワイトファイン種牡馬入りへの道 |url=https://camp-fire.jp/projects/view/204578 |access-date=2023-04-30 |website=camp-fire.jp |language=ja}}{{Cite web |title=トウカイテイオーの血を令和に繋ぎたい！ファンの支援が後継種牡馬を送り出す - スポニチ Sponichi Annex ギャンブル |url=https://www.sponichi.co.jp/gamble/news/2021/08/02/kiji/20210801s00004048521000c.html |access-date=2023-04-30 |website=スポニチ Sponichi Annex |language=ja}}
Ayrton Symboli
Tsurumaru Tsuyoshi

Pedigree

{{Pedigree

|name = Symboli Rudolf{{cite web |url=https://www.jbis.jp/horse/0000140567/pedigree/ |title=Five-generation Pedigree Table

|author= |date= |website=JBIS.jp |publisher=Japan Bloodstock Information System |access-date=2024-02-12 }}{{cite web |url=https://en.netkeiba.com/db/horse/ped/1981107017/ |title=PEDIGREE (5-GEN) |author= |date= |website=netkeiba.com |publisher=NetDreamers |access-date=2024-02-12 }}

|f = Partholon

|m = Sweet Luna

|ff = Milesian

|fm = Paleo

|mf = Speed Symboli

|mm = Dance Time

|fff = My Babu

|ffm = Oatflake

|fmf = Pharis

|fmm = Colonice

|mff = Royal Challenger

|mfm = Sweet Inn

|mmf = Palestine

|mmm = Samaritaine

|ffff = Djebel

|fffm = Perfume

|ffmf = Coup de Lyon

|ffmm = Avena

|fmff = Pharos

|fmfm = Carissima

|fmmf = Abjer

|fmmm = Coronis

|mfff = Royal Charger

|mffm = Skerweather

|mfmf = Rising Light

|mfmm = Feenagh

|mmff = Fair Trial

|mmfm = Una

|mmmf = Maravedis

|mmmm = Sarita

|}}

In popular culture

A sake brand, Nanakanba (七冠馬), is sold by Hikami Sake Brewery in honor of the horse. The Tamura family, who owns the brewery, is related to the Wada family, who owned the Symboli Ranch.

An anthomorphized version of the horse appears in Uma Musume Pretty Derby.{{Cite web |title=シンボリルドルフ |url=https://umamusume.jp/character/detail |access-date=2024-02-12 |website=ウマ娘プリティーダービー公式ポータルサイト |publisher=Cygames |language=ja}}{{Cite web |last=Sherman |first=Jennifer |date=2017-07-01 |title=Uma Musume Pretty Derby Project's Anime, Game Promo Videos Streamed |url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2017-07-01/uma-musume-pretty-derby-project-anime-game-promo-videos-streamed/.118279 |access-date=2024-02-12 |website=Anime News Network |language=en |quote=The cast of Uma Musume (Horse Girls) includes ... Azusa Tadokoro as Symboli Rudolf}}

Symboli Rudolf

Racing career

Racing form

Stud career

Sire line tree

Pedigree

In popular culture

References

See also