Delta Blues (デルタブルース, May 3, 2001 - ) is a Japanese Thoroughbred racehorse best known for winning the 2006 Melbourne Cup. He was the first Japanese horse to win the Cup. In doing so it beat Pop Rock, another Japanese horse, also trained by Katsuhiko Sumii.
In the 2006 Melbourne Cup, Delta Blues was ridden by Japanese jockey Yasunari Iwata in his first race outside Japan. Iwata was winner of the 2005 19th World Super Jockey Series.
Prior to the ra...
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Delta Blues (デルタブルース, May 3, 2001 - ) is a Japanese Thoroughbred racehorse best known for winning the 2006 Melbourne Cup. He was the first Japanese horse to win the Cup. In doing so it beat Pop Rock, another Japanese horse, also trained by Katsuhiko Sumii.
In the 2006 Melbourne Cup, Delta Blues was ridden by Japanese jockey Yasunari Iwata in his first race outside Japan. Iwata was winner of the 2005 19th World Super Jockey Series.
Prior to the race, stable spokesman Keita Tanaka characterised Delta Blues as a "lazy horse", and trainer Sumii characterised him as "tough".
Delta Blues was virtually unknown until it won a spectacular upset victory in the Kikuka Sho. He beat Heart's Cry and Cosmo Bulk then.
Delta Blues placed third in the Japan Cup in November 2004, and third in the Caulfield Cup in 2006.
Other runs by Delta Blues include wins in the Domestic Grade One Kikuka Sho (Japanese St Leger) in October 2004, the Domestic Grade Two Stayers Stakes in December 2005, a third in the...
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