Tosen Ra

Tosen's first race was on November 7, 2010 in Kyoto in which she came in 1st place. He then won the Kisaragi Sho on February 6, 2011 which was the first graded race win in his career.^[1] He was prepared to trained for the classic races that year but few weeks before the Satsuki Sho, The Great Tohoku Earthquakes hit but he managed to survive.^[3] He finished in seventh at the Satsuki Sho, eleventh at the Tokyo Yushun and snatched the third place at the Kikuka Sho.^[4]

His start for the 2012 season was not excellent when he only got fourth-place in the Kyōto Kinen at best.^[4] But as season progress, he improved in the autumn campaign when he managed to placed 2nd in two Group 3 races, the Tanabata Sho and Kokura Kinen.^[5][6] He ended the mediocre season with a seventh-place finish at the Niigata Kinen.^[7]

The bad season start flipped in the new calendar year as on the February 10, 2013, he won the Kyōto Kinen.^[1][8] He made a good stretch along the earlier part of the race, moved outside and surpassed Shonan Mighty at the straight to bring it home.^[8] His biggest feat of this season would happen on the November 17. On this day, Yutaka Take put his absolute best when he rode him from near the back of the 18-horse field in upper stretch and urged a sweeping outside rally to catch Daiwa Maggiore and Danon Shark to grab his 100th Group 1 win in the Mile Championship.^[9] This first G1 win gained by Tosen Ra eventually proved to be the last win of his career.^[10][1]

In 2014, he only placed in second and failed to defend his win in the Kyoto Kinen.^[11] On December 28, 2014, he came in 8th on his last race in the 2014 Arima Kinen.^[1] Shortly after the Arima Kinen race, he was being retired as a racehorse, assigned to be a stud at Rex Stud in Shizunai, Shinhidaka Town and removed from the race registration list.^[12] A look back on his career had shown that all his career win came on the Kyoto Racecourse. This consistency on that particular racecourse earned him the nickname of Kyoto Expert or Kyoto Demon when he was active.^[13][14] He was also known as a horse that have powerful late kicks when he gained momentum on the uphill phase of the third corner at that racecourse, which was clearly shown in his Mile Championship win.^[14] His main jockey, Take described him as the one who had the footwork of Deep Impact, can ran on good tracks but really bad with the muddy tracks.^[15]

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  Tosen Ra in the 2011 Kisaragi Sho winning ceremony
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  Tosen Ra with the winning sash of the 2013 Kyoto Kinen

Tosen Ra won four races out of 25 starts. This data is available on JBIS and netkeiba.^[16][4]

Legend:
  Turf

He was put to stud at Rex Stud and moved to the Breeders' Stallion Station on 2016. Since then, he acted as shuttling stud between those two breeding farm.^[17] He moved out from Rex Stud to S. T. Farm in 2024 and continues his job as shuttling stud from there.^[18]