Gold Ship
Following his win in the 2012 Arima Kinen, the Racing Post rated Gold Ship the best three-year-old in the world, one pound ahead of Camelot, I'll Have Another, and Dullahan. Although he finished second to the filly Gentildonna in the vote for Japanese Horse of the Year he was the unanimous winner of the JRA Award for Best Three-Year-Old Colt. In the 2012 edition of the World Thoroughbred Racechorse Rankings Gold Ship was rated the second-best three-year-old colt, one pound behind I'll Have Another, and the thirteenth best horse in the world.