page_title: Danon Platina
section_title: 2014: two-year-old season
hierarchical_section_title: Danon Platina / Racing career / 2014: two-year-old season
caption_attribution_description: English: Sakae-Kunieda20110423 日本語: 国枝栄
context_page_description: Danon Platina is a Japanese Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. He was the best two-year-old colt in Japan in 2014 when he won his last three races including the Asahi Hai Futurity Stakes and was the unanimous choice for the JRA Award for Best Two-Year-Old Colt. In the following year he finished third in a strong edition of the Spring Stakes and defeated older opponent in the Fuji Stakes. He remained in training for another three years but made only seven appearances and won only one more race, the Listed New Year Stakes in 2018. He was retired from racing to become a breeding stallion in South Africa.
context_section_description: Danon Platina began his racing career at Sapporo Racecourse on 6 September 2014 when he finished second to Daitokyo in a contest for previously unraced juveniles over 1500 metres. In October he recorded his first success as he was a clear winner of a maiden race over 1600 metres at Tokyo Racecourse. In the Begonia Sho, over the same course and distance in November he won again, beating Mikki Universe by three lengths.
  For his final race of the year Danon Platina was stepped up to Grade 1 Asahi Hai Futurity Stakes over 1600 metres at Hanshin Racecourse on 21 December and was made the 3.6/1 favourite. The best fancied of his seventeen opponents included Bright Emblem (Sapporo Nisai Stakes), Tagano Epresso (Daily Hai Nisai Stakes), Clarity Sky (Icho Stakes), Tagagno Azaghal (Manryo Sho) and Navion (Kikyo Stakes). After being restrained by Ebina towards the rear of the field the favourite made a forward move on the wide outside entering the straight. He accelerated past his rivals, overtook the front-running outsider Active Minoru 200 metres from the finish and held off the late challenge of Arma Waioli to win by three quarters of a length. Ebina commented "He was relaxed and had enough left in him by the last corner for a strong final run. He definitely takes after his sire Deep Impact, his finishing speed speaks for itself".
  In January 2015 Danon Platina was named Best Two-Year-Old Colt at the JRA Awards for 2014, being the unanimous choice of the 285 voters.
caption: Danon Platina's trainer Sakae Kunieda
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