Daiwa Major

Daiwa Major
Daiwa Major at Tokyo Racecourse in 2005
Sire	Sunday Silence
Grandsire	Halo
Dam	Scarlet Bouquet
Damsire	Northern Taste
Sex	Stallion
Foaled	2001
Country	Japan
Colour	Chestnut
Breeder	Shadai Farm
Owner	Keizo Oshiro
Trainer	Hiroyuki Uehara
Record	28: 9-4-5
Earnings	¥1,061,810,900
Major wins
Satsuki Shō (2004) Lord Derby Challenge Trophy (2005) Milers' Cup (2006) Mainichi Ōkan (2006) Tennō Shō (Autumn 2006) Mile Championship (2006, 2007) Yasuda Kinen (2007)
Awards
JRA Award for Best Sprinter or Miler (2006, 2007)

Daiwa Major (Japanese ダイワメジャー) is a retired Japanese Thoroughbred racehorse and active sire. A horse who excelled at distances of one mile to one and a quarter miles (1600–2000 metres) he won the Satsuki Shō, the first leg of the Japanese Triple Crown in 2004. His greatest success, however, came later in his career when he won several of Japan's most important weight-for-age races including the Tennō Shō, the Yasuda Kinen and two runnings of the Mile Championship. He was twice named Japan's champion miler. Daiwa Major made a successful start to his stud career, siring a Group One winner in his first crop.

Daiwa Major is a chestnut horse with a white blaze bred by the Shadai Farm in Hokkaido. He is an unusually large Thoroughbred, standing 16 hands 2½ inches high and weighing more than 530 kilograms during his racing career. He was sired by Sunday Silence, who won the 1989 Kentucky Derby, before retiring to stud in Japan where he was champion sire on thirteen consecutive occasions. His dam, Scarlet Bouquet, was a successful racemare, winning four times at Group Three level, who produced several other winners, most notably the filly Daiwa Scarlet. As a descendant of the American broodmare Your Hostess, she came from the same branch of Thoroughbred family 4-d which produced Majestic Prince, Secreto and Real Quiet. The horse was trained throughout his racing career by Hiroyuki Uehara.