Where is Super Gene now?

Tottori, Daisen Umanose Club / Reservation required / confirmed October 16, 2026

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Can you visit Super Gene?

According to the Racehorse Hometown Information Centre you may visit on Saturdays and Sundays, from 14:00 to 16:00 between November and June and from 16:00 to 17:00 between July and October. Contact the club at least seven days before your preferred date; group visits are not accepted. The retired merit horse support scheme lists viewing hours of 13:00-16:00, closed Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, with three days’ notice, and says a visit on one of those closed days must be arranged individually and that you may enter the stable itself. Because the notice period and the hours differ between sources, it is worth checking by telephone (080-6304-2293) before you travel. Pets and selfie sticks are not allowed, and you need permission on site before posting your photographs on social media.

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

Super Gene's racing career

8 wins from 29 JRA starts, 227,333,000 yen in earnings. He won the Niigata Kinen (GIII, Niigata, 2,000m turf) on 29 August 2004 as the third favourite, beating Leningrad by 0.2 seconds. That same year he was second in the All Comers (GII), third in the Argentine Republic Cup (GII), third in the Niigata Daishoten (GIII) and won the Fukushima TV Open in June, earning 120,253,000 yen from seven starts. All 29 of his starts were on turf, over distances from 1,400 to 3,200 metres. He was fifth in the 2003 Diamond Stakes (GIII).

Super Gene after racing

By Soccer Boy out of Meitaizan, whose own sire was Persian Boy, he was sold for 5.25 million yen at the Hokkaido November Sale in 1999 and made his debut for trainer Masanori Sakaguchi at Hanshin in September 2000. It took him eight starts to break his maiden, after which he climbed the conditions grades one win at a time over about 2,500 metres on turf, and he only came into his own in 2004 at the age of six. That year he took his first title in the Niigata Kinen and kept running well in the autumn middle-distance features, finishing second in the All Comers and third in the Argentine Republic Cup, before ending his racing career at Tokyo that November. He then moved to the Daisen Umanose Club in Daisen, Tottori, and has received a grant from the retired merit horse support scheme since 2019. In July 2026 the club announced it had joined the fresh-grass bank and posted photographs showing grass sent by supporters arriving for him.

How to support Super Gene

• Go and visit (Open to visitors with a reservation)
• Sending fresh grass through the grass bank

Official accounts that post updates: X

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 10 sources consulted as of October 16, 2026. They mix published information from the farms and organisations that confirmed the horse's whereabouts with material used to trace its racing career.

1. https://meiba.jp/horses/view/1998100595
2. https://meiba.jp/farms/view/1000297
3. https://meiba.jp/horses/list/all
4. https://meiba.jp/horses/newest
5. https://uma-furusato.com/search_horse/0000324045.html
6. https://uma-furusato.com/search_farm/99038.html
7. https://www.jbis.or.jp/horse/0000324045/
8. https://www.jbis.or.jp/horse/0000324045/record/all/
9. https://x.com/DaisenUmanoseC
10. https://namabokusobank.jp/article/%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BC%E3%83%91%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B8%E3%83%BC%E3%83%B3

Retired racehorses near Super Gene

Horses tagged "Graded stakes winner": Smile Jack, Super Station, Strong Blood, Seda Brillantes, Stella Lead

Horses here foaled in 1998: Sugar Coat, Nice Gold, Baldwina (4 on this site)