Nakayama Festa

“*Cold… is that so? When my passion heats up it’ll be hot enough to burn you.*”
―Nakayama Festa

* Uniform
* Secondary
* Game

## Personality

A horse girl who possesses a unique, lone wolf personality. She loves solitude, and is a hard-boiled risk taker who finds fierce races to be her reason for existing. On the surface she shows little emotion, and never opens her heart to a trainer or lets them come near unless they prove themselves to be a true partner; only once she knows they "have each others' back" will she give them her strong confidence. Her hobby is horticulture. It seems she grows violets at her house.

## Songs

* Umapyoi Densetsu
* Make Debut!
* Ms. VICTORIA
* GIRLS' LEGEND U
* DRAMATIC JOURNEY

## Special Commentary

底を見せていなかったナカヤマフェスタ！
ここで宝塚記念制覇！　場内騒然です！
これは驚いた、ナカヤマフェスタ、ブエナビスタ、ナカヤマフェスタ勝った！
ブエナビスタ2番手、3番手にはアーネストリー！
なんとなんと、ナカヤマフェスタ、柴田善臣がやりました！　ブエナビスタは2番手まで！
驚きました、ナカヤマフェスタ関東馬！　11年ぶりに関東馬、ナカヤマフェスタ！
底を見せていなかったナカヤマフェスタ！　明け4歳、ここで宝塚記念制覇！
 What a surprise, Nakayama Festa!
She didn't show us her limit, Nakayama Festa!
She won the Takarazuka Kinen here! The racecourse is in uproar!
How surprising it is, Nakayama Festa, Buena Vista, Nakayama Festa won!
Buena Vista is the second, and third place is Earnestly!
Oh, my! Nakayama Festa and Yoshitomi Shibata achieved! Buena Vista is no more than second place!
What a surprise, Nakayama Festa, the Kanto horse! for the first time in eleven years, Nakayama Festa!
He didn't show us his limit, Nakayama Festa! At four years old, he won the Takarazuka Kinen here!
The racecourse is in uproar! Buena Vista showed her strength, but lost in second!

* Requirement: Winning Takarazuka Kinen with 4th or lower popularity
* Reference: 2010 Takarazuka Kinen by Yusuke Ishimaki (Kansai TV)

### Notes

* In real-life one, Yusuke Ishimaki announcer shouted like staccato at the homestrech, surprised about Festa's overtaking.

## Basic profile

### Owner

Nobuko Izumi (first)Shinichi Izumi (second)

### Racing silk

White, red stars, sleeves with red hoop (Nobuko)Red, White two hoops, blue sleeves (Shinichi)

Shinichi Izumi

## Family

### Children

Ganko
Babbitt
Born Genius

## Racing Info

### Jockeys

Hiroyuki Uchida, 1 time
Masayoshi Ebina, 12 times
Yoshitomi Shibata, 2 times

## Result

### Major wins

2008 Tokyo Sports Hai 2-year-old Stakes, Jpn3
2009 St. Lite Kinen, Jpn2
2010 Takarazuka Kinen, G1

### Honors

JRA Award for Best Older Male Horse

“*My daughter loved Takarazuka Revue and often went there.
At first Festa was my daughter's horse. He fought well at the Derby (4th place), and won the St. Lite Kinen, making my daughter pleased.
However, she passed away because of an esophageal cancer last year.
(an omission)
And I succeeded Festa. Although he is my horse in name, he is still my daughter's horse in my mind.
That's why our team's name is 'Violet Flower'.*”
―Shinichi Izumi, the owner

**Nakayama Festa** is a racehorse in the early 2000s. He has the worst temper in Stay Gold's children, though, it was also a fighting spirit. He won a G1 Takarazuka Kinen and defeated Buena Vista, inverting his popularity,

* Winning Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe of Japanese-trained horse has been the dream for Japanese fans and horsemen. Nakayama Festa ran in 2010, and lost in second by head. Fans say he was approached to win the closest of all Japanese horses.
* In the end of 2009, his first owner Nobuko Izumi passed, and racing silk was changed.
* His team for l'Arc de Triomphe was named Team Violet Flowers. First owner loved Takarazuka Revue, so her father, the second owner, named after a song title that represents the Revue.

## Notes

1. ↑ In 2009.
2. ↑ Nobuko Izumi's silk
3. ↑ *When Violets Bloom*, a cover song of *When the White Lilacs Bloom Again.*

## References

1. ↑ Kansai TV official (YouTube)
2. ↑ 【第1回】ロンシャンに咲くすみれの花（前編）