Gold Ship

Gold Ship
Sire	Stay Gold
Grandsire	Sunday Silence
Dam	Point Flag
Damsire	Mejiro McQueen
Sex	Colt
Foaled	6 March 2009
Country	Japan
Colour	Grey
Breeder	Eiichi Kobayashi
Owner	Eiichi Kobayashi
Trainer	Naosuke Sugai
Record	28: 13-3-2
Earnings	1,397,767,000 JPY
Major wins
Tokinominoru Kinen (2012) Satsuki Shō (2012) Kobe Shimbun Hai (2012) Kikuka Shō (2012) Arima Kinen (2012) Hanshin Daishoten (2013, 2014) Takarazuka Kinen (2013, 2014) Tennō Shō (2015)
Awards
JRA Award for Best Three-Year-Old Colt (2012)

Gold Ship (Japanese ゴールドシップ) is a Japanese Thoroughbred racehorse. In a racing career which began in July 2011, he has run twenty-six times and won thirteen races. As a two-year-old in 2011, he won his two of his four races. In 2012, he won the Satsuki Shō and the Kikuka Shō, the first and third legs of the Japanese Triple Crown. In December, he defeated a strong field in the weight-for-age invitational Arima Kinen, which led to his being rated the best three-year-old racehorse in the world by some authorities. As a four-year-old, he ran disappointingly in the Tennō Shō but returned to form to win the Takarazuka Kinen. As a five-year-old, Gold Ship became the first horse to record a second victory in the Takarazuka Kinen and in 2015 he added a win in the Tennō Shō. He is known for his unpredictable temperament, with major wins being interspersed with inexplicably poor efforts.

Gold Ship is a light-coloured grey colt bred in Japan by his owner Eiichi Kobayashi. His sire, Stay Gold, a son of the thirteen-time Leading sire in Japan Sunday Silence, was a successful international performer, winning the Dubai Sheema Classic and the Hong Kong Vase. Standing at stud at the Big Red Farm in Hokkaido, he has produced numerous important winners including Dream Journey, Orfevre, and Nakayama Festa. Gold Ship's dam, Point Flag, from whom he inherited his grey coat, was a daughter of the Hall of Fame inductee Mejiro McQueen.

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