Legendary Dirt Champion Vermilion, Nine-time G1/Jpn1 Winner, Succumbs to Colic
Tuesday, 17 September, 2024 17:48
Vermilion (Photo: Akihisa Sasaki)
Northern Horse Park announced on X on September 14 that Vermilion, a nine-time G1/Jpn1 winner, died on April 12 due to colic at the age of 22.
Vermilion won a new horse race on turf in October, and later that year won the Radio Tanpa Hai 2-Year-Old Stakes. putting his name in the Classic class, but his performance as a 3-year-old continued to lag, so he switched to dirt tracks in the fall. He showed his aptitude by winning the Enif Stakes and the Urawa Kinen in succession.
After winning his first JpnI victory in the 2007 Kawasaki Kinen, he reigned as the king of dirt for a long period of time, winning nine G1/Jpn1 races, the most in Japanese horse racing history at the time. After retiring at the end of 2010, he became a stallion at Shadai Stallion Station, moved to Breeders Stallion Station in 2013, and then to East Stud in 2016, He retired as a stallion in 2017 and spent the rest of his life at the Northern Horse Park.
Vermilion won a new horse race on turf in October, and later that year won the Radio Tanpa Hai 2-Year-Old Stakes. putting his name in the Classic class, but his performance as a 3-year-old continued to lag, so he switched to dirt tracks in the fall. He showed his aptitude by winning the Enif Stakes and the Urawa Kinen in succession.
After winning his first JpnI victory in the 2007 Kawasaki Kinen, he reigned as the king of dirt for a long period of time, winning nine G1/Jpn1 races, the most in Japanese horse racing history at the time. After retiring at the end of 2010, he became a stallion at Shadai Stallion Station, moved to Breeders Stallion Station in 2013, and then to East Stud in 2016, He retired as a stallion in 2017 and spent the rest of his life at the Northern Horse Park.