Where is Trouver le Bonheur now?
Gunma, Mobydick Riding Club / Reservation required / confirmed November 2, 2026
Trouver le Bonheur now lives at Mobydick Riding Club in Gunma, Japan. Foaled in 2016, this gelding is 10 years old as of 2026. Note that a reservation or an enquiry is needed before visiting.
Mobydick Riding Club keeps at least 1 other retired racehorses that this site has confirmed.
Where this horse lives was confirmed on November 2, 2026 from published sources (11 references). Farms change their visiting arrangements, so check the farm's own site or social media before you travel.
| Where it lives now | Mobydick Riding Club |
|---|---|
| Location | Gunma |
| Visiting | Open to visitors with a reservation |
| Foaled / age | foaled in 2016 (age 10) |
| Sex | gelding |
| Tags | Unsung campaigner/Well bred |
| Listed or supported by | TCC Japan |
| Location confirmed | November 2, 2026 |
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Can you visit Trouver le Bonheur?
Visits are possible through TCC's hands-on booking system (options are contact, photos and being led on foot; reservations required, accepted from 3 months to 3 days ahead, 9:00–17:30, open every day).
Trouver le Bonheur's page on TCC Japan
Other horses at Mobydick Riding Club: Dragon Barows
Trouver le Bonheur's racing career
Winless in 3 starts in Japan (2 JRA races plus 1 JRA-invitational race at a regional track), with no prize money. He debuted on 1 July 2018 in a 1,800 m turf newcomer race at Fukushima (11th) and finished 12th in a 1,700 m dirt maiden at Sapporo in August. After being gelded he ran 10th in the Twin Saddle Tokubetsu (JRA invitational) at Urawa on 12 February 2019, and was retired with a tendon injury to his right foreleg.
Trouver le Bonheur after racing
A bay by King's Best out of Seiun Kunoichi, whose earlier foals include Seiun Wonder, ten years his senior and winner of the 2008 Asahi Hai Futurity Stakes. Sold at the 2018 JRA Breeze-Up Sale, he ran three times for Hiroyasu Tanaka's stable at Miho without a win. After retiring he joined TCC Japan's Uma Share programme, spent time at a riding facility in Ibaraki, and since December 2021 has lived at the Moby Dick Riding Club in Ota, Gunma, where the club shares updates of him being exercised alongside fellow TCC horse Dragon Barows.
How to support Trouver le Bonheur
- Go and visit (Open to visitors with a reservation)
- UmaShare owner (share support, 5,500 yen per share per month)
- Horse supporter scheme
- Donation (TCC Mirai Fund)
Official accounts that post updates: X, Instagram
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 11 sources consulted as of November 2, 2026. They mix published information from the farms and organisations that confirmed the horse's whereabouts with material used to trace its racing career.
- https://tcc-japan.com/umashare/horse/detail/?id=1041
- https://tcc-japan.com/umashare/horse/detail/report.php?id=1041
- https://tcc-japan.com/deposit/detail/?id=47
- https://tcc-japan.com/reserve/facility/?area=kanto
- https://tcc-japan.com/umashare/horse/detail/report.php?id=1055
- https://tcc-japan.com/umashare/horse/
- http://www.mobydickriding.jp/
- https://www.jbis.or.jp/horse/0001214112/
- https://www.jbis.or.jp/horse/0001214112/record/all/
- https://www.jbis.or.jp/horse/0000327315/broodmare/info/
- https://www.jbis.or.jp/horse/0000992914/
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