Where is Expedition now?

Tottori, Daisen Riding Center / Visits OK / confirmed October 18, 2026

Expedition now lives at Daisen Riding Center in Tottori, Japan. Foaled in 2007, this stallion is 19 years old as of 2026. Note that this farm accepts visitors without a reservation.

Daisen Riding Center keeps at least 1 other retired racehorses that this site has confirmed.

Where this horse lives was confirmed on October 18, 2026 from published sources (12 references). Farms change their visiting arrangements, so check the farm's own site or social media before you travel.

Where it lives now	Daisen Riding Center
Location	Tottori
Visiting	Open to visitors, no reservation needed
Foaled / age	foaled in 2007 (age 19)
Sex	stallion
Tags	Graded stakes winner／Meritorious horse
Listed or supported by	Listed on the Meritorious Horse Keeping Support Programme (meiba.jp)
Location confirmed	October 18, 2026

Can you visit Expedition?

Open to visitors year-round. Viewing is free and unguided with no advance contact required: hours are 9:00-16:00 (10:00-16:00 in winter), closed on Wednesdays, although the centre may open during Golden Week, the summer holidays and weeks containing a public holiday. Access inside the barn is restricted, and groups should telephone on the day of their visit (0859-53-8211). The centre asks visitors not to feed the grass growing on the grounds, and to let staff know before posting photographs on social media. Big Week is kept at the same centre.

Expedition's page on the Meritorious Horse Keeping Support Programme (meiba.jp)

Other horses at Daisen Riding Center: Big Week

Expedition's racing career

Six wins from 26 starts with JRA and earnings of 165,294,000 yen. He won the Kokura Kinen (GIII) on 5 August 2012 as the third favourite, ridden by Suguru Hamanaka, with Tosen Ra second. At four in 2011 he won four of his eight starts, taking the Kiyamachi Tokubetsu, the Kyushu Sports Hai and the Fusan Stakes in a row to move up to graded races. In 2013 he was second in both the Naruo Kinen (GIII) and the Niigata Kinen (GIII). All 26 starts came on turf over 1,600 to 2,400 metres, the last being the Niigata Daishoten in May 2014.

Expedition after racing

On 10 July 2010, in a three-year-old maiden at Hanshin, the horse that beat him by three-tenths of a second was Big Week, who would go on to win the Kikuka Sho that autumn. Expedition broke his maiden three weeks later, won three in a row at Kyoto and Kokura in the summer of his four-year-old season to reach graded company, and in the summer of 2012, at five, took the Kokura Kinen ahead of Tosen Ra for a graded title of his own. He is now a merit horse at the Daisen Riding Center in Tottori, where he and Big Week are the only two merit horses on the grounds, standing side by side in the same barn sixteen years after that debut race.

How to support Expedition

Go and visit (Open to visitors, no reservation needed)
Sending fresh grass through the grass bank
Buying products from the online shop

Official accounts that post updates: X, Instagram, YouTube

Simply turning up at the farm helps too: admission and anything you buy there goes towards upkeep. Five ways in are set out in how to support a retired racehorse.

Where this information comes from

The 12 sources consulted as of October 18, 2026. They mix published information from the farms and organisations that confirmed the horse's whereabouts with material used to trace its racing career.

Retired racehorses near Expedition

See all retired racehorses in Tottori3 horses listed

Horses tagged "Graded stakes winner": Eishin Cameron, S1 Spector, Air Saumur, M S World, Air Spinel

Horses here foaled in 2007: Eishin Flash, A Shin Whity, Kisakita, Kyoei Ashura, Stella Lead, Dark Shadow and more (12 on this site)