5yo Bay Mare, Jolie's Halo (USA) - Endearing Quality (USA)
Career: 20-9-3-4 : $1,319,162
Group & Listed: 7-3-0-3 : $1,046,209
Trainer: Mr. Hideyuki Takaoka at Singapore
Owner: Dr. Tan Kai Chah
Video of previous races
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Trainer: Mr. Hideyuki Takaoka at Singapore
Date of Birth: April 29, 1956
Horses in Training: 43
Hideyuki Takaoka had been training horses for more than 10 years with the National Association of Racing (NAR) in Japan until December 2002 when he moved his operations to Kranji, Singapore.
A jockey-turned-trainer, he received his professional trainer's license in 1992. In his Hokkaido training base, he bagged 337 winners including several in graded races. He saddled CROW RIVER in the 1996 Hokkai Yusyun and then sent out TOSHO LUCKY to win the 1998 Young Challenge Cup. In 1999, his charge, TAKINO SPECIAL captured the Hokkaido Yusyun for 2-year-olds and another charge, NAMI won the Edelweiss Yusyun in 2000.
He topped the NAR Trainers Championship in 2000 with 54 winners. In that year, he was also voted the best trainer of the Hokkaido Racing NAR Grand Prix. In Singapore, he has taken a while to show his wares, but after a period of adaptation, is now firmly entrenched in the Kranji training ranks.
Takaoka enjoyed his first grand moment in Singapore in 2006 when DIAMOND DUST captured his first feature win in the Committee's Prize, while 2008 and 2009 have been watershed years capturing the 2008 Singapore Gold Cup with El Dorado before Jolie's Shinju ran off with the 2009 four-year-old ‘Triple Crown', culminating with her success in the Singapore Derby.
Major Achievements in Singapore
Singapore Derby 2009
Singapore Derby Trial 2009
Singapore Gold Cup 2008
Committee's Prize 2006