Apapane (horse)

Apapane
Apapane in October 2010
Sire	King Kamehameha
Grandsire	Kingmambo
Dam	Salty Bid
Damsire	Salt Lake
Sex	Mare
Foaled	20 April 2007
Country	Japan
Colour	Bay
Breeder	Northern Farm
Owner	Kaneko Makoto Holdings
Trainer	Sakae Kunieda
Record	19-7-1-3
Earnings	558,592,000 yen
Major wins
Hanshin Juvenile Fillies (2009) Oka Sho (2010) Yushun Himba (2010) Shuka Sho (2010) Victoria Mile (2011)
Awards
JRA Award for Best Two-Year-Old Filly (2009) JRA Award for Best Three-Year-Old Filly (2010)

Apapane (Japanese: アパパネ, foaled 20 April 2007) is a Japanese Thoroughbred racehorse who won the Japanese Fillies' Triple Crown in 2010. As a two-year-old in 2009 she won three of her four races including the Grade I Hanshin Juvenile Fillies and won the JRA Award for Best Two-Year-Old Filly. In the following year she won the Oka Sho and Yushun Himba before completing the Triple Crown in the Shuka Sho and winning the JRA Award for Best Three-Year-Old Filly. In the following spring she won her fifth Grade I race when she defeated the Japanese Horse of the Year Buena Vista in the Victoria Mile. She never won again and was retired after developing a leg problem in September 2012. Apart from her victories she finished third in consecutive runnings of the Queen Elizabeth II Commemorative Cup.

Apapane is a bay mare with a white blaze and white socks on her hind legs bred in Japan by Northern Farm the breeding operation of her owner Makoto Kaneko. Apapane was trained throughout her racing career by Sakae Kunieda and was ridden in most of her starts by Masayoshi Ebina.

Her sire, King Kamehameha was one of the best Japanese colts of his generation, beating a field including Heart's Cry and Daiwa Major in the 2004 Japanese Derby. His other winners as a breeding stallion include Lord Kanaloa, Rose Kingdom, Belshazzar (Japan Cup Dirt) and Rulership (Queen Elizabeth II Cup). King Kamehameha was named after a Hawaiian monarch: his daughter Apapane was named after a native Hawaiian bird whose feathers were once used to decorate the capes of the island's nobility.