Amazing white filly! Sodashi wins the Grade 1 Victoria Mile! 😍

The brilliant Sodashi won her third Grade 1 in Tokyo, landing the Victoria Mile for Hayato Yoshida and trainer Naosuke Sugai!
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[@chigozie123]

Wow that horse looked like a mythical creature just as it passed that finish line. I could almost imagine flames on its mane and tail. Wow what a sight

[@danischmend9305]

When she took one step the others had to take almost two, she is quite short in the back compared to her size, but horses like her are so elastic that they can accelerate with movements like a greyhound, I had two horses like that in my life, a very big pure bred Arabian that was as fast as a thoroughbred and a very small jumper that could beat much bigger horses.

[@arthurshat7793]

Elastic is such a perfect way to describe it! Her strides look so effortless. I can’t even see any strain in her eyes nor face. Really nice filly!

[@gd2234_]

It’s surprising too cause she’s a mare. Usually their backs are a bit longer

[@Detective.C3dar_]

Nice

[@jimbo91262]

WOW! When she switched leads so effortlessly with a few links to go, it blew me away, shows just how athletic this beauty is.

[@leslietimmerman7420]

She switched leads several times during the race.

[@Pink7omy]

I never seen a white horse win a race before…what an amazing moment!

[@OfficialMuffiin]

She's the first & only one ever to win a grade 1.

[@bartender4877]

That’s just racist

[@TakenByStormEquestrian]

White Dragon?-

[@pablopc1]

she has tactical speed and her turn of foot is AMAZING!!!!

[@johnnyboy6608]

What a gorgeous horse🔥

[@HugsBach]

NOTE: You will see a red ribbon, red pom-pom, red tag on horses if that horse kicks. It is "an equestrian" thing ... It applies Globally, Western, English, Driving, Jumpers, Fox Hunt, Trotting horses, Gaited horses too.

[@paulalim1476]

Not just an “equestrian thing”. It’s also done in car racing such as NASCAR. But rather than red ribbons or Pom poms they use red tape…this tape is put on rear bumpers of rookie drivers so all know to approach with caution. Kind like keeping your distance from horses that kick! 🤭😄

[@farrierette5216]

Note none of these horses lives matter. They are not fully grown and there legs break easily they will be slaughtered after they are no longer winning or breedable no matter how beautiful and how many times they win.

[@farrierette5216]

@@paulalim1476 At least they don't Kill race cars or shoot them. Drivers have a choice horses don't.

[@farrierette5216]

It's called abuse and learned defensiveness

[@farrierette5216]

These horses are all Japanese steaks.

[@Patriot751]

Absolutely striking horse. Her tactical speed is amazing !

[@farrierette5216]

It's a shame that her life doesn't matter.

[@winx4930]

@@farrierette5216 wtf?

[@peachtea1607]

@@farrierette5216 dude… you do know it’s illegal in the US for racehorse owners to send a racehorse to slaughter right? Like, that’s something that’s HEAVILY regulated. Any and all race horses that are sent to slaughter were sent there by people who adopted them out

[@farrierette5216]

@@peachtea1607 Tell yourself that. I knew a vet that lost his license because he lied about necropsy. They shove ping pong balls up there nostrils and other awful things for insurance money.

[@farrierette5216]

@@peachtea1607 These horses are pushed to there limits before they are fully grown!

[@Zarkava8]

If she had wings she'd look like Pegasus.

[@patriciaguth6882]

Love her powerful stride!

[@murphyslaw1975]

Watch how she has bursts of speed as she is digging down on each stride

[@ToriumiMaya]

Sodashi beats Loves Only You at Sapporo Kinen(Grade 2, Turf 2000m) last year. Loves Only You won the Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf, Queen Elizabeth II Cup, Hong Kong Cup last year. Sodashi has won three Japanese Grade 1 races.

[@texasgal3903]

You don't see too many pure white race horses, it's very unusual! She's very beautiful!

[@user-pi5li7fx4u]

ソダシは2021年ブリーダーズカップフィリー&メアターフレースに勝利したラヴズオンリーユーを前走で負かしている。 つまり、本当に強い馬です。

[@bellaboo8286]

Agreed

[@JuliaShea]

Love how she switches lead throughout the race, seems like she’s almost having fun. What a stunning horse

[@rengokusbobatea9194]

She enjoys running when put out in the ranch she lives in! I love seeing horses enjoy their jobs! :)

[@tgowl4743]

She looks magical…🤩…the way she glided on the ground then the turn of foot,Gods work…😍

[@sharonhazeldine3619]

She is one of the most beautiful creatures I've ever seen.If anyone can remember dessert orchid he was a beautiful grey horse a few years ago he was one of the best.R.I.P Dessie

[@marylynch3431]

So unusual to see white horse. Beautiful.

[@ns6789]

Most beautiful horse i ever seen

[@heatherdodge844]

What a magnificent filly and wow, can she run!!!

[@bpfromowc]

Wow, what a turn of foot. She’s beautiful. 🙂

[@jlove8445]

Unique looking horse, particularly for a Graded Stakes winner Hope they bring her to the Breeders Cup like other horses that came from Asia last year

[@OhK746]

Not surprising she’s a kicker. The great Ruffian had a lot of ginger in her system, and Rachel Alexandra is well-known to be a pill. Many racemares are feisty animals.

[@farrierette5216]

Stop horse racing!

[@brileigh3039]

I think she is!

[@AuthenticMage]

She won a Breeders’ cup berth with this race

[@Bruh-ob9mi]

I hope she gets lucky and is retired before she gets seriously injured or dies. Horse racing is brutal and damaging to the legs and joints. Racehorses face a lot of abuse, harsh training, and when they’re too old for racing, they are slaughtered unless they are bought/adopted first. The training they receive also sticks with them for their whole lives and they tend to be fidgety, feisty, and are more go than whoa. They often pace along fences and may not stand still for grooming, tacking up, or mounting. On top of that, they are more likely to develop arthritis. The racing industry is notorious for breeding horses purely for speed with no regard to strength, which results in horses with weak skeletal structures. Drugging horses is a rampant practice. Broken legs, injured joints, even deaths happen on the track all the time. My own Thoroughbred suffered an injury on the track and has arthritis. He was rescued from the slaughter, but most retired racehorses aren’t so lucky. Horse racing is not moral, ethical, safe, or humane. It is deadly, it is dangerous, it is a corrupt and greedy industry. I don’t mean to come off as condescending or anything, I just want you to know that racing isn’t so innocent.

[@Rebeljustforkicks]

How beautiful and talented is she?Absolute pleasure to watch.💛💙

[@blueknight6645]

Amazing when shes lenghtens you cant take your eyes off her

[@gregwyntiu6815]

WOW unbeaten in turf mile races hope she stays at that division.

[@controlleddemolition9112]

Perhaps, but on her day, she beat Loves Only You going 2000m. If you look at the size of her and the length of her stride, you might think 10F would be fine.

[@davidray4793]

The Trainer & Owner or Owners need to keep what's working & not run in a division that's unknown stay the course she can be a legend what a beautiful horse.

[@justanotherchannelfornow2846]

She is amazing and has a kick of speed at the end and is pulling away, what a winner

[@horseygurl143]

She's magic!!!

[@angre6422]

That filly has heart! ❤️

[@stephanieyee9784]

Beautifully ridden and a great run by the White Wonder.

[@Thewhitewhale10]

😍😍😍 this makes me happy ❤️

[@jennifermoffett9866]

Look at you, sodashi! Wonderful 👍 congratulations!

[@Bruh-ob9mi]

While I am against horse racing, I will admit that is an impressive filly. I hope she makes it off the track and to a better life, though.

[@kristyw89]

I agree. She's clearly a special girl. She deserves to retire and be pampered, not ran until she breaks down and is hauled off in a van under a tarp like trash

[@night_falll]

Me too

[@Jimmy911ism]

Why are you here?

[@Bruh-ob9mi]

@@Jimmy911ism got linked here

[@Writeowl]

Would LOVE to see her follow the lead of Lys Gracieux and contest the Cox Plate. She’d run away with it!!😁😁

[@controlleddemolition9112]

Winner Sodashi, by Shadowfax, veteran jockey Gandalf in the saddle.

[@mongooseodon7608]

She is stunning! 😍

[@farokhbajan5348]

Spotless Beauty.

[@YagirlJude1218]

Just notice how she looks so calm. Its like she isn’t even trying all the others have ears pinned back and she’s just cruising. It’s so amazing that a unique horse like her and can have this amazing speed.

[@rengokusbobatea9194]

She enjoys it very much, you can tell

[@restoretheearth2829]

She was getting ahead a length every second!! Unbelievable! I got goodness. 🐎🐴

[@mikehopkins4040]

Looked like a Unicorn.

[@peterdawson3428]

Beautiful and fast.A great combination.

[@user-yn4ur1uv4c]

奇跡の名馬や！

[@songbirds3712]

She is stunning!

[@karenbellini2240]

Beautiful horse. Great win.

[@jamesdoyle3885]

What a beautiful horse Sodashi is

[@waynebarnes9788]

Pegasus has wings 👀

[@jackwoods9604]

My God this Horse is BEAUTIFUL!!!!...Her Ears are so Perked up in The Stretch to the Wire

[@lynnfelsheim2386]

She is gorgeous!

[@snowfert]

I pray these horses live a happy life off the track

[@ynty9795]

Sodashi the white wonderってかわいい

[@Ballen0510]

素晴らしい誉め言葉だと思います(^^

[@ynty9795]

@@Ballen0510 誇らしいです！

[@andymatthews7617]

PEGASUS,!!!!!!!!!!

[@christineduflos7110]

quel beautee ce cheval 💓❤️💓❤️

[@elizabethferguson7002]

Hope to see Sodashi at the Breeders Cup Distaff this Fall. Congratulations to all her connections.

[@clgmotorsport3021]

The Victoria Mile is a BC Challenge series race and the winner gets an invitation to compete in the BC Filly and Mare Turf. The same race that Loves Only You, another Japanese horse, has won.

[@myronschabe]

Nearly 50 years around horses and I have never seen a Thoroughbred that color....she is not a grey...and I don't think she is an albino....I would like to know what her color genetics are...anyone? Super cool horse!

[@Makado14]

She is considered white and no, she is not an albino. If you look at her breeding, there is a white close up, I think that her dam was also white. And there is more white farther back. I guess that its something that runs in her bloodlines.

[@beckyshell4649]

There is a family horse farm in KY that only has white Thoroughbreds. I think that they mainly just breed for color I don't think they have any contenders. Lookup White Thoroughbreds on youtube they will come up.

[@Makado14]

@@beckyshell4649 yes, I've seen some pics of their horses, it's been several years ago, yes I think that you are right, they mainly breed for color, not for racing quality. I'm not sure their horses are even purebred registered TBs.

[@kakudai303]

Sodashi is the offspring of a single white-haired horse born by mutation in Japan. This was a mare named Shirayukihime (Snow White), born to Sunday Silence and Wave Wind.

[@lizroberts1569]

Sometimes a chestnut will give birth to a cremello if put to a palomino, so maybe that’s why she’s that colour, or genetic anomaly

[@nancysanborne1226]

She is gorgeous! What a girl!! ♥️✌️

[@bonnymcdermott1240]

Sadashi is so incredible!! When can we watch races in the u.s.??? This horse has captivated me! Like Seabiscuit!

[@brandonaldaymachuse6669]

Her ears are not even pinned back...she's totally relaxed and confident. Won by two lengths!!!

[@Balleyer_gooner]

Wow she's lovely

[@tonjafortson2674]

You go Girl!!!!!

[@ianclarke3627]

Marvelous

[@davidphillips423]

Sodashi wow what a run nice win

[@ievibes]

Wow, that was a beautiful run by a beautiful philly

[@hazelsmith5628]

Beautiful action on her !

[@ghaiyyath_vw5179]

A star horse

[@reynaldovisco511]

What a fabulous one.. Looks to me an enchanted creature galloping with flaming body... Felt goosebumps, really....

[@lindaed3594]

What a beautiful horse ! Seems like she has dark eyes too. Certainly looks that way in the video footage. Very pretty…& very fast! Looks like if she’d got an open space sooner, she would have won that race even further ahead. Very impressive

[@stephenjames413]

Wow ‘‘tis horse is the new farlap would love to the horse for real best mile face I’ve seen class more to come and style & class

[@ewallace791]

Beautiful movement

[@carrieeasley3995]

OMG! She’s gorgeous and so fast! What I would have given for a ride like her when I was young and riding race horses.

[@consadosambora5347]

I got to see her race 🥰

[@renatastec5212]

Spetacular!!

[@mariahmerriwether3780]

Sodashi's striding is beutiful!

[@tinaspelta297]

Treat her like the princess she is !

[@urbanwilliam5407]

wow big mama, what a beautiful fast mare , love her ..

[@majessaroserepalbor4251]

She's back

[@anonamasnoname9098]

So good to see a white horse win!

[@tlrogers116]

Awesome run

[@haroldwilkes6608]

Hi, ho, silver, away! Beautiful stride. Great jockey too. Pegasus's sister?

[@juliederuiter1839]

Well ridden. Knows the power of that beautiful horse.

[@RyanGRyan1985]

Beauty 😍

[@Starplayz.]

Amazing grey horse! She’s beautiful!

[@OfficialMuffiin]

She's white not grey.

[@jazzysam9590]

That horse is just gorgeous! Reminds me of a horse named Bates Motel that I use to bet on in the early ‘70’s.

[@Makado14]

Bates motel was a bay.

[@FadeMouse]

@@Makado14 I think they're speaking on the way the horse runs. Not the coat color.

[@Makado14]

@@FadeMouse oh, maybe your right. But I saw Bates Motel many times and I don't know how they see any similarities in him and this horse.

[@FadeMouse]

@@Makado14 Oh well. Just an opinion they had I guess?

[@avaflamehrt9444]

Wow such a pretty filly

[@kentuckylady2990]

I have never seen a white horse in a race. Amazing

[@fredeast2408]

Beautiful beast

[@karencallahan6176]

Love it! Need more horses of color (that is what horses are called that are not your standard basic colors, Black, Bay/Brown, Chestnut/sorrel) to participate and win in horse racing! Love to see paints, palys, buckys, perlinos, cremellos, in the starting gate and winner's circle.

[@Makado14]

Most of those colors don't exist in the Thoroughbred breed.

[@tfrank896]

@@Makado14 you are quite mistaken.

[@Makado14]

@@tfrank896 no I'm not.

[@lizroberts1569]

There are very few purebred TB that are coloured or good enough to run.

[@julieb3996]

@@Makado14 The reason we are only starting to see these colors in Thoroughbreds now is because of the knowledge of heredity traits and DNA tests. In the past, when an unusually colored Thoroughbred was born, its parentage was considered suspicious, and they were not allowed to be registered. Now that it is known these colors occur spontaneously, and thanks to DNA tests to prove it, we will see more horses like Sodashi in the future.

[@danaventura5998]

So unusual to see white thoroughbred. She is georgious.

[@dshe8637]

Nice looking horse. Hope she doesn't get damaged by the industry. Most racehorses are, sadly.

[@shelbykeesling5373]

Wow hope to see her in the race for the lilies next year here in Kentucky

[@patriciaguth6882]

The Kentucky Oaks is for 3 year-old fillies. Sodashi is currently 4 years-old. But I do hope she comes to the U.S. for the Breeder's Cup.

[@shelbykeesling5373]

@@patriciaguth6882 my apologies I didn't know what the fillies race was called but yes that would be awesome to she her at the breeders cup

[@patriciaguth6882]

@@shelbykeesling5373 She definitely is getting people's attention for both her beauty and her talent!

[@mcmchurch]

Nice to see the minorities doing well

[@user-vd8dj5zt8q]

Wow what a beautiful horse, the white one

[@secretariatgirl4249]

Pegasus come to life!💖

[@bashali696]

She is so beautiful❤️❤️❤️

[@lyndacompton1846]

What are unusual and gorgeous horse

[@george.6556]

Sweet little Angel

[@duckzncatz]

So beautiful

[@XOXO_claire_]

She looks so beautiful when galloping 🥺

[@sarahmatthews5878]

I think everybody saw her sprout wings and fly!

[@JohnDoe-qu8ny]

Wicked nice ♥️

[@Shannon-nl1dz]

She'll be having a foal at some point no doubt! What a cracking mare!

[@Loulou-sr3tk]

Sodashi should enter beauty contest, she would win for sure.she is so beautiful.