Real Shadai (1979-2004) was an American-born Thoroughbred racehorse who raced in France and who became a leading sire in Japan. A descendant of Nearco, he was sired by Epsom Derby winner Roberto and out of the U.S. Racing Hall of Fame mare, Desert Vixen.
Real Shadai was bred by Franklin Groves' North Ridge Farm near Lexington, Kentucky and sold at the 1980 Keeneland July yearling sale for $360,000 to the renowned Japanese horseman, Zenya Yoshida....
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Real Shadai (1979-2004) was an American-born Thoroughbred racehorse who raced in France and who became a leading sire in Japan. A descendant of Nearco, he was sired by Epsom Derby winner Roberto and out of the U.S. Racing Hall of Fame mare, Desert Vixen.
Real Shadai was bred by Franklin Groves' North Ridge Farm near Lexington, Kentucky and sold at the 1980 Keeneland July yearling sale for $360,000 to the renowned Japanese horseman, Zenya Yoshida. As he had done before with his Champion colt Northern Taste, Yoshida turned Real Shadai over to trainer John Cunnington, Jr. at the Great Stables in Chantilly.
In 1981, Real Shadai was a non winner in his two starts at age two but of his six races the following year, he won twice, the most important of which was the 1982Grand Prix de Deauville. His other significant outing was a second place finish in the 1982 GI Prix du Jockey Club to Robert Sangster's colt Assert.
Entered in the 1982 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, Real Shadai was up against a...
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