Manhattan Cafe

Manhattan Cafe
Manhattan Cafe winning at Kyoto in 2002
Sire	Sunday Silence
Grandsire	Halo
Dam	Subtle Change
Damsire	Law Society
Sex	Stallion
Foaled	5 March 1998
Country	Japan
Colour	Brown
Breeder	Shadai Farm
Owner	Ken Nishikawa
Trainer	Futoshi Kojima
Record	12: 6-0-1
Earnings	¥522,834,000
Major wins
Kikuka Sho (2001) Arima Kinen (2001) Tenno Sho (Spring 2002)
Awards
JRA Award for Best Older Male Horse (2002) Leading sire in Japan (2009)

Manhattan Cafe, (Japanese: マンハッタンカフェ, 5 March 1998 – August 2015) was a Japanese Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. Unraced as a juvenile he began his racing career as a three-year-old in 2001. He improved throughout the season, winning three minor races before developing into a top class stayer in autumn when he recorded Grade I wins in the Kikuka Sho and the Arima Kinen. He won the Tenno Sho as a four-year-old and was retired from racing after an unsuccessful bid for the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe. Manhattan Cafe later became a highly successful breeding stallion. He died in 2015.

Manhattan Cafe was a brown horse standing 16.3 hands (1.70 metres) with a narrow white blaze bred in Hokkaido, Japan by Shadai Farms. 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 other major winners included Deep Impact, Stay Gold, Heart's Cry, Zenno Rob Roy and Neo Universe. Manhattan Cafe's dam Subtle Change won three races in Ireland before being exported to become a broodmare in Japan. She was a descendant of the outstanding German broodmare Schwarzblaurot, the ancestor of numerous major winners including Sagace, Slip Anchor, Stacelita, Zagreb and Buena Vista.