page_title: Lys Gracieux
section_title: 2017: three-year-old season
hierarchical_section_title: Lys Gracieux / Racing career / 2017: three-year-old season
caption_attribution_description: 日本語: 2017/9/17 ローズS/リスグラシュー English: Japanese race horse Lys gracieux at Hanshin racecourse. Hanshin (JPN) 17 Sep 2017 Kansai Telecasting Corp. Sho Rose Stakes (Shuka Sho Trial) (Grade 2) (3yo Fillies) (Turf) (3yo) 1m1f Firm RankHorse NameOddsAgeWgtTrainerJockey1stRabbit Run (USA)25/1F38-7Katsuhiko SumiiRyuji Wada2ndKawakita Enka (JPN)204/10F38-7Tamio HamadaNorihiro Yokoyama3rdLys gracieux (JPN)53/10F38-7Yoshito YahagiYutaka Take4th - 18th/omission
context_page_description: Lys Gracieux is a Japanese Thoroughbred racehorse. As a two-year-old in 2016 she showed top-class form, winning two of her four starts and finished second in the Hanshin Juvenile Fillies. In the following year she failed to win but was placed in several major races including the Oka Sho and the Shuka Sho. As a four-year-old she won the Tokyo Shimbun Hai and the Queen Elizabeth II Cup as well as running second in the Victoria Mile and the Hong Kong Vase and was awarded the JRA Award for Best Older Filly or Mare. In 2019 she had her most successful season as she took the Takarazuka Kinen in Japan and the Cox Plate in Australia before ending her track career with a victory in the Arima Kinen. Lys Gracieux is the third highest earning racehorse in the world among the racehorses born in 2014.
context_section_description: On her first appearance as a three-year-old Lys Gracieux ran third behind Soul Stirring and Miss Panthere in the Tulip Sho over 1600 metres at Hanshin on 4 March. In the Grade 1 Oka Sho over the same course and distance five weeks later she produced a sustained challenge in the straight and finished second, beaten half a length by the 40/1 outsider Reine Minoru with Soul Stirring in third place. When moved up in trip for the Yushun Himba at Tokyo on 21 May she came from well off the pace to come home fifth of the eighteen runners behind Soul Stirring.
  After a break of almost four months Lys Gracieux returned to the track in September and finished third to Rabbit Run in the Grade 2 Rose Stakes over 1800 metres at Hanshin. In the Grade 1 Shuka Sho a month later the filly produced her customary late charge, caught the leader Mozu Katchan 50 metres from the finish but was overtaken by the fast-finishing Deirdre in the final strides. On her final run of the year Lys Gracieux came home eighth behind Mozu Katchan in the Queen Elizabeth II Cup at Kyoto Racecourse on 12 November.
caption: Lys Gracieux in September 2017
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