Ushba Tesoro

Ushba Tesoro (Japanese: ウシュバテソーロ、Foaled March 4, 2017) is a Japanese thoroughbred racehorse who won the Tokyo Daishōten in 2022, before going on to win the Kawasaki Kinen and the Dubai World Cup in 2023.

The name "Ushba" is derived from a mountain in Georgia, while "Tesoro" is the eponym (冠名; kanmei) used by his owner.

Ushba Tesoro was bought by Kenji Ryotokuji, founder of Ryotokuji University, at the JRHA Select Sale Foal Session for 25 million yen.

He would make his debut at a maiden race on August 25, 2019, at the Niigata Racecourse, finishing in fifth place.

Ushba Tesoro would win his first race after seven unsuccessful races at a maiden race held at Tokyo Racecourse. The following month, the horse entered the Principal Stakes, a trial race for the Japanese Derby, but came in fourth place. The horse would return to allowance races but could not win a second race for the rest of that year.

On his third race of his four-year old season, Ushba Tesoro won his first race in over a year. Later that year, on November, he scored his third victory at the Sanriku Tokubetsu.

Ushba Tesoro ran three allowance races but lost all three of them. After coming in 6th place in the last of those three, it was decided that the horse's next race would be on a dirt track. On April 30, Ushba Tesoro entered the Yokohama Stakes (dirt 2100m) and was the 7th favored. Once the race started, Ushba Tesoro passed all the other horses from the back on the final stretch, finishing his first dirt race in a victory.

On the Radio Nippon Sho in September, the horse came up from 10th place and covered the last three furlongs the fastest but came in third place.