Zenno Rob Roy

Zenno Rob Roy
Zenno Rob Roy in March 2004
Sire	Sunday Silence
Grandsire	Halo
Dam	Roamin' Rachel
Damsire	Mining
Sex	Stallion
Foaled	2000
Country	Japan
Colour	Bay
Breeder	Shiraoi Farm
Owner	Shinobu Osako Kumiko Osako
Trainer	Kazuo Fujisawa
Record	20: 7-6-4
Major wins
Aoba Hai (2003) Kobe Shimbun Hai (2003) Tenno Sho (autumn 2004) Japan Cup (2004) Arima Kinen (2004)
Awards
JRA Award for Best Older Male Horse (2004) Japanese Horse of the Year (2004)

Zenno Rob Roy (ゼンノロブロイ^?) is a retired Japanese Thoroughbred racehorse and active sire. In a racing career which lasted from February 2003 until December 2005, he ran twenty times, winning seven races and being placed on ten further occasions. As a three-year-old in 2003, he won two Group races and finished second in the Tokyo Yushun (Japanese Derby). His greatest success came as a four-year-old in the following year when he was named Japanese Horse of the Year after winning the three all-aged Group One races which comprise Japan's Autumn Triple Crown: the Autumn Tenno Sho, the Japan Cup and the Arima Kinen. In 2005, he failed to win but was placed in the International Stakes in Britain as well as in the Tenno Sho and Japan Cup. He was then retired to stud where he has had some success as a sire of winners.

Zenno Rob Roy is a bay horse with one white foot, standing just under 16.2 hands high. He was bred in Japan by the Shiraoi Farm, from parents both of whom had been imported from the United States. 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 dam Roamin' Rachel was a successful racemare who excelled over sprint distances, winning the Grade I Ballerina Handicap in 1994 before being sold for $750,000 and exported to Japan in 1998.

Zenno Rob Roy made his first appearance in a one-mile maiden race at Nakayama Racecourse in February, and won by two and a half lengths. He then finished third to Lincoln at Hanshin Racecourse before winning again at Nakayama in April. On 3 May at Tokyo Racecourse, Zenno Rob Roy recorded his first important victory when he won the one and a half mile Aoba an important trial race for the Tokyo Yushun. Over the same course and distance a month later, the colt finished second in the Tokyo Yushun, half a length behind the winner Neo Universe.