Meisho Mambo

Meisho Mambo
Meisho Mambo in April 2013
Sire	Suzuka Mambo
Grandsire	Sunday Silence
Dam	Meisho Momoka
Damsire	Grass Wonder
Sex	Mare
Foaled	25 February 2010
Country	Japan
Colour	Bay
Breeder	Kosho Bokujo
Owner	Yoshio Matsumoto
Trainer	Akihiro Iida Yuji Iida
Record	29-6-2-0
Earnings	435,195,000 yen
Major wins
Fillies' Revue (2013) Yushun Himba (2013) Shuka Sho (2010) Queen Elizabeth II Commemorative Cup (2013)
Awards
JRA Award for Best Three-Year-Old Filly (2013)

Meisho Mambo (Japanese: メイショウマンボ, foaled 25 February 2010) is a Japanese Thoroughbred racehorse who won the second and third legs of the Japanese Fillies' Triple Crown in 2013. She showed some promise as a juvenile in 2012 when winning on her debut. In the following spring she won the Grade II Fillies' Revue and rebounded from a poor run in the Oka Sho to win the Grade I Yushun Himba. She returned in the autumn to win the Shuka Sho before defeating older fillies and mares in the Queen Elizabeth II Commemorative Cup. She won the JRA Award for Best Three-Year-Old Filly of 2013. She stayed in training for three more seasons but failed to win again.

Meisho Mambo is a bay mare with a white sock on her right hind leg bred in Japan by Kosho Bokujo, the breeding farm of her owner Yoshio Matsumoto. She was sent into training with Akihiro Iida and was ridden in most of her races by Koshiro Take. In her races Meisho Mambo usually wore a hood in the blue and pink colours of her owner.

She was sired by Suzuka Mambo (a son of Sunday Silence) who recorded his biggest win in the spring edition of the 2005 Tenno Sho. The best of his other runners has been the Champions Cup winner Sambista. Meisho Mambo's dam Meisho Momoka showed no racing ability, failing to win or place in twelve starts. She was a female-line descendant of Dianne K, an American broodmare who was imported to Japan in the 1950s.

On 25 November Meisho Mambo made a successful racecourse debut when she won an event for previously unraced juveniles over 1400 metres at Kyoto Racecourse. She was the stepped up sharply in class for Japan's most prestigious race for two-year-old fillies, the Grade I Hanshin Juvenile Fillies over 1600 metres at Hanshin Racecourse in December and finished tenth of the eighteen runners, six lengths behind the winner Robe Tissage.