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Fusako Shigenobu of the Japanese Red Army and Ghassan Kanafani of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, 1972

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The devaluation of fillies & mares (and filly & mare races) in thoroughbred horse racing in comparison to their colt & stallion peers is an extension of the same force of misogyny that affects human women, in sports & otherwise.

Almond Eye is still the only Japanese horse to have won nine G1 races. The only horses that come close are all tied at seven G1 races. There is an implied sentiment here that her nine G1 record is devalued due to four of those races being filly & mare-only races (the 2018 Triple Tiara and 2020 Victoria Mile), and discussion of her legacy has sprung up again following the recent 2025 Japan Cup.

Almond Eye is a racemare that has left her mark on the history of the Japan Cup, setting the record time for that race in 2018 with a 2:20.6 finish. This year, Calandagan (IRE) just barely beat that record with a 2:20.3 time, which is doubtlessly impressive. (Admire Terra, jockeyless and disqualified, has technically also beat this time this year, but cannot truly be compared, due to running the final stretch without the weight of an entire human being on his back.) However, that is still no reason to diminish Almond Eye's legacy. Even with the time record aside, notably, she still holds another Japan Cup record - being one of the only horses to have won it twice, in 2018 and 2020. The only other horse she's tied with? Gentildonna, another mare, having won the race in 2012 and 2013. Yet the running joke is still to laugh at Almond Eye for one fewer standing record from her illustrious career.

Time and time again has Japan shown us that fillies & mares can stand toe-to-toe (or, perhaps, hoof-to-hoof) with their male contemporaries. When will we learn to recognize this fact, as well as what the way we treat these equine athletes says about ourselves?

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"Meet the Jockeys"

I went on a bit of research spree so if you want to know some bits of Umamusume Horse Lore and the origin of a whole bunch of Uma's quirk, design, personality and story, I got you.

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