Her story
She was real. She ran, she won, and she was gone before anyone thought to keep looking. This page exists so that the looking never stops.
- 2004
A foal in Japan
Aston Machan is born. She would grow into a filly fast enough, and brave enough, to run against the best of her generation.
- 2007
Sprinters Stakes
On 30 September 2007 she takes the Sprinters Stakes, beating a field of the country's fastest sprinters. It is the peak of a career that should have had many more chapters.
- 2008
21 April
At four years old she dies of colitis X — sudden, cruel, and far too early. With Daiwa Scarlet and Vodka still dominating the headlines, her story quietly slips out of the record.
- Today
The wish
Her owner, Mayumi Tosa, reached out so that her horse would never be forgotten. That request became a character whose only goal is to be remembered — who wears a crown so you will look, and a ribbon so you will stay tied together.
“She wears a crown so that you will remember her, and a ribbon so that everyone who remembers her stays tied together.”