page_title: Fenomeno (horse)
section_title: 2014: five-year-old season
hierarchical_section_title: Fenomeno (horse) / Racing career / 2014: five-year-old season
caption_attribution_description: English: Fenomeno (from 149th Tenno Sho). 日本語: フェノーメノ（第149回天皇賞（春）ゴール）。投稿者が撮影および編集
context_page_description: Fenomeno is a Japanese Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. After winning one minor race as a two-year-old he emerged as a top-class performer in the following year, taking the Aoba Sho and St Lite Kinen and finishing a close second in both the Tokyo Yushun and the autumn edition of the Tenno Sho. In his third campaign he won the Nikkei Sho and the spring edition of the Tenno Sho before his season was ended by injury. At the end of that year he was rated the best horse in the world over extended distances. He won a second Tenno Sho in 2014 but failed to win again and was retired to stud at the end of 2015.
context_section_description: On 29 March, after an absence of over nine months, Fenomeno returned in the Nikkei Sho at Nakayama. He was unable to repeat his success of 2013, but ran creditably to finish fifth of the fifteen runners behind the six-year-old favourite Win Variation, beaten just over three lengths by the winner. On 4 May at Kyoto Fenomeno attempted to become the third horse, after Mejiro McQueen and T M Opera O to win consecutive runnings of the spring Tenno Sho and started the 10.5/1 fourth choice in the betting behind Kizuna, Gold Ship and Win Variation. Admire Rakti, Red Cadeaux and Jaguar Mail were again in the eighteen-runner field but the only other horses to start at less than 50/1 were Desperado (Kyoto Kinen) and Satono Noblesse (runner-up in the Kikuka Sho). After racing along the inside rail, Fenomeno was switched to the outside to make his challenge i the straight. He took the lead 200 metres out and held on to win in very tight finish by a neck, a nose and half a length from Win Variation, Hokko Brave and Kizuna. After the race Ebina said "This win is the result of the stable staff that really made a great effort to bring him back to form. He got me worried early because he was a bit keen but I knew he would make it when he put in a breather passing the stand the first time. I just concentrated on giving our best performance instead of worrying about the other horses".
  Fenomeno returned on 2 November in the autumn Tenno Sho in which he finished unplaced behind Spielberg. Ebina was replaced as Fenomeno's jockey after this race but the horse showed no improvement in two subsequent starts that year. He came home eighth behind Epiphaneia in the Japan Cup and then ran uplaced in the Arima Kinen at Nakayama on 28 December.
caption: Fenomeno wins his second Tenno Sho
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