November 25, 2012
Neck-and-neck
TOKYO, Japan — Japanese jockey Yasunari Iwata on Gentildonna (right)
competes with Orfevre ridden by Kenichi Ikezoe to win the 2,400-metre
(1.5 mile) Japan Cup horse race at the Tokyo Race Course here,
yesterday. Gentildonna edged past Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe runner-up
Orfevre by a nose to become the first three-year-old filly to win the
Japan Cup. (Photo: AFP)