AFROBEAT Thoroughbred



Afrobeat is a thoroughbred horse born in Japan in 2020. Race horse Afrobeat is by Drefong (USA) out of Armandii (JPN) , trained by Toru Kurita. Afrobeat form is available here. Owned by Koichiro Yamaguchi.


Pedigree :
Sire DREFONG (USA) 2013
Dam ARMANDII (JPN) 2013
Dam Sire DAIWA MAJOR (JPN) 2001

About the horse :
Foal Date 25 Mar 2020
Description 5yo B Horse
Trainer Toru Kurita
Owner Koichiro Yamaguchi
Career 4 Wins (10%) - 6 Placings (24%) - 42 starts
Wins 1000m (1), 1200m (3)
PM Japan : JPY ¥5,367,000



Starts:

42

Win Rate:

10%

Place Rate:

24%










AFROBEAT Current Nominations/Acceptances

24 Jul 2025

Thursday

19:00

At

Monbetsu (JPN)

Race 9 - Race 9

1800m - JPY ¥1,105,000




Afrobeat Past Races

9 of 11, 10 Jul 2025, R11 TOKUBETSU(THREE YEAR OLD & UP) 1600m | JPY ¥ 1,060,000 | 57.0kg | J: F ONO | T: KUNIO HIMORI | OP-Never in it | 1:43.40 | Winner: KURA WAR
8 of 9, 26 Jun 2025, R9 TOKUBETSU(THREE YEAR OLD & UP) 1700m | JPY ¥ 1,060,000 | 54.0kg | J: J WATANABE | T: KUNIO HIMORI | Led-Compounded badly | 1:51.70 | Winner: LILABAD
6 of 7, 12 Jun 2025, R11 TOKUBETSU(THREE YEAR OLD & UP) 1800m | JPY ¥ 1,060,000 | 57.0kg | J: F ONO | T: KUNIO HIMORI | Got Bk-Moderate effort | 1:57.90 | Winner: MY MOMENT
3 of 11, 29 May 2025, R12 TOKUBETSU(THREE YEAR OLD & UP) 1700m | JPY ¥ 1,060,000 | 57.0kg | J: F ONO | T: KUNIO HIMORI | OP-Never really a threat | 1:51.60 | Winner: KURA WAR
10 of 13, 14 May 2025, R10 TOKUBETSU(THREE YEAR OLD & UP) 1200m | JPY ¥ 1,060,000 | 57.0kg | J: HIDEKI SAKASHITA | T: KUNIO HIMORI | Got Bk-Never looked likely | 1:14.90 | Winner: DIOS MESSAGE
8 of 14, 30 Apr 2025, R11 TOKUBETSU(THREE YEAR OLD & UP) 1200m | JPY ¥ 1,060,000 | 57.0kg | J: SHINYA MATSUI | T: KUNIO HIMORI | Got Bk-Never looked likely | 1:14.20 | Winner: SWAGGER
9 of 10, 16 Apr 2025, R10 TOKUBETSU(THREE YEAR OLD & UP) 1000m | JPY ¥ 897,000 | 54.0kg | J: J WATANABE | T: KUNIO HIMORI | Last-Never in the race | 0:59.30 | Winner: MANO LEA
6 of 13, 26 Mar 2025, R7 THREE YEAR OLD & UP 1200m | JPY ¥ 1,800,000 | 56.0kg | J: RYUJI TATSUSHIRO | T: T ARAI | MF-Solid effort late | 1:13.90 | Winner: FESTIVE LUDI
4 of 13, 12 Mar 2025, R4 THREE YEAR OLD & UP 1200m | JPY ¥ 1,800,000 | 56.0kg | J: RYUJI TATSUSHIRO | T: T ARAI | MF-Closed off well | 1:13.60 | Winner: YUMEGOTEN
7 of 15, 19 Feb 2025, R6 THREE YEAR OLD & UP 1200m | JPY ¥ 1,800,000 | 56.0kg | J: SEIJI YAMAZAKI | T: T ARAI | OP-Couldn't capitalise | 1:13.90 | Winner: URBAN AIR



Horse Stat

Jockey
Win
Win%
Place
Place%
Starts
PM
Profit
POT
SEIJI YAMAZAKI 3 27% 0 0% 11 $36,395 240 291
GENTA OCHIAI 1 17% 1 17% 6 $6,678 -42 13
TAKESHI YOKOYAMA 0 0% 0 0% 3 $0 -30 0
KOJI NISHIZUKA 0 0% 0 0% 1 $0 -10 0
MAKOTO SUGIHARA 0 0% 0 0% 1 $0 -10 0
SHOMA SATO 0 0% 0 0% 1 $0 -10 0
FUMA ONO 0 0% 2 29% 7 $4,445 -70 0
MASAAKI KUWAMURA 0 0% 1 50% 2 $1,487 -20 0
AKIRA HARITA 0 0% 2 100% 2 $5,140 -20 0
KEITA NISHI 0 0% 0 0% 1 $0 -10 0
RYOTA SUGAWARA 0 0% 0 0% 1 $0 -10 0
RYUJI TATSUSHIRO 0 0% 0 0% 2 $1,602 -20 0
Watanabe 0 0% 0 0% 2 $0 -20 0
SHINYA MATSUI 0 0% 0 0% 1 $0 -10 0
HIDEKI SAKASHITA 0 0% 0 0% 1 $0 -10 0

Course
Win
Win%
Place
Place%
Starts
PM
Profit
POT
OHI 3 18% 2 12% 17 $43,137 180 188
MONBETSU 1 5% 4 21% 19 $12,610 -172 4
HAKODATE 0 0% 0 0% 1 $0 -10 0
TOKYO 0 0% 0 0% 2 $0 -20 0
NAKAYAMA 0 0% 0 0% 3 $0 -30 0