Akai Ito

Akai Ito ( foaled 17 April 2017) is a Japanese Thoroughbred racehorse. She proved herself a successful but unremarkable racehorse in her first two seasons, winning minor races at Hanshin in 2019 and Sapporo in 2020. As a four-year-old she made significant improvement, winning races at Chukyo and Hanshin before recording an upset victory in the Grade 1 Queen Elizabeth II Cup. Background Akai Ito is a brown mare bred by her owner, Koji Oka's Tsuji Bokujo. She was sent into training with Kazuya Nakatake. Akai Ito is a large thoroughbred mare, weighing more than 510 kg in her racing career. She was from the first crop of foals sired by Kizuna whose wins included the Tokyo Yushun, Prix Niel and Osaka Hai. His other foals have included Songline and Deep Bond. Akai Ito's dam Wadjet showed modest racing ability, winning two minor races from twenty-one starts. She was a female-line descendant of the Kentucky-bred broodmare New Year's Eve, a half-sister to Tom Fool.