Just A Way

Just A Way
Just A Way at Kyoto in February 2013
Sire	Heart's Cry
Grandsire	Sunday Silence
Dam	Sibyl
Damsire	Wild Again
Sex	Stallion
Foaled	8 March 2009
Country	Japan
Colour	Bay
Breeder	Shadai Corporation Inc
Owner	Akatsuki Yamatoya
Trainer	Naosuke Sugai
Record	22:6-6-1
Earnings	£5,128,564
Major wins
Arlington Cup (2012) Tenno Sho (2013) Nakayama Kinen (2014) Dubai Duty Free (2014) Yasuda Kinen (2014)
Honours
JRA Award for Best Older Male Horse (2014) World's Best Racehorse (2014)

Just A Way (Japanese ジャスタウェイ, foaled 8 March 2009) is a Japanese Thoroughbred racehorse. After showing useful, but unexceptional form in his early career he emerged as a major talent with a win in the 2013 Autumn edition of the Tenno Sho. In March 2014 he ran outside Japan for the first time and won the Dubai Duty Free by more than six lengths. By April 2014 he was the top-rated in the world and retained his position throughout the year.

Just A Way is a bay horse with a white star and white socks on his hind legs bred in Hokkaido by the Shadai Corporation. He was from the second crop of foals sired by Heart's Cry a horse whose wins included the Arima Kinen and the Dubai Sheema Classic. His dam, Sibyl was a Japanese-bred daughter of the Breeders' Cup Classic winner Wild Again and the CCA Oaks winner Charon. As a descendant of the broodmare Venturesome, Charon was distantly related to several major winners including Silver Patriarch, Touch Gold, Discreet Cat, With Approval and Izvestia.

In July 2010, the yearling was consigned by the Shiraoi Farm to the JRHA Select Sale and was bought for 12 million yen by Akatsuki Yamatoya. The name came from that of a winning racehorse in episode 155 of the anime series Gintama, the script for which was written by Yamatoya.