Special Week
| Special Week | |
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| Sire | Sunday Silence |
| Grandsire | Halo |
| Dam | Campaign Girl |
| Damsire | Maruzensky |
| Sex | Stallion |
| Foaled | 2 May 1995 |
| Country | Japan |
| Colour | Dark Bay or Brown |
| Breeder | Hidaka Taiyo Bokujo |
| Owner | Hiroyoshi Usuda |
| Trainer | Toshiaki Shirai |
| Record | 17: 10-4-2 |
| Earnings | ¥1,092,623,000 |
| Major wins | |
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Kisaragi Sho (1998) Hochi Hai Yayoi Sho (1998) Tokyo Yushun (1998) Kyoto Shimbun Hai (1998) American Jockey Club Cup (1999) Hanshin Daishoten (1999) Tenno Sho (Spring) (1999) Tenno Sho (Autumn) (1999) Japan Cup (1999) |
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| Awards | |
| JRA Special Award | |
Special Week (Japanese スペシャルウィーク, foaled 2 May 1995) is a Japanese Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. Between 1997 and 1999 he won ten of his seventeen races including three at Grade I level. After winning his only start as a juvenile he emerged as a top-class performer in the following season: he won the Tokyo Yushun (Japanese Derby) and three other Graded races as well as being placed in the Satsuki Sho, Kikuka Sho and the Japan Cup. He was even better as a four-year-old in 1999 winning the Hanshin Daishoten, the spring and autumn editions of the Tenno Sho, and the Japan Cup. In the last-named race he defeated a strong international field including the winners of the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe and the Epsom Derby. He later became a successful breeding stallion siring the Japanese Horse of the Year Buena Vista.
Special Week is a brown horse with a white blaze standing 16.1¾ hands high, bred in Japan by Hidaka Taiyo Bokujo. 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. Special Week's dam Campaign Girl was an unraced daughter of Maruzensky and was a great-granddaughter of the leading Japanese broodmare Shiraoki, whose other descendants have included Vodka, Kodama (Satsuki Sho, Tokyo Yushun), Shin Tsubame (Satsuki Sho), Matikanefukukitaru (Kikuka Sho) and Sister Tosho (Oka Sho). Campaign Girl died shortly after foaling Special Week and the colt had to be hand-fed by stable staff. During his racing career the colt was owned by Hiroyoshi Usuda, trained by Toshiaki Shirai and ridden in most of his races by Yutaka Take.
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