Benefactor (JPN) Horse

Country

Japan

Foal Date

01-Jan-23

Colour

bay

Sire

Saturnalia

Dam

Cafe Brilliant

Owners

Morihiro Sato

About

Benefactor is a 2yo bay horse from Japan trained by Makoto Saito. He is by the stallion Saturnalia out of the dam Cafe Brilliant. Benefactor has not yet broken his maiden status, having failed to win in two starts. In his most recent race at Kokura on 1 February 2026, Benefactor was ridden by Miku Kobayashi and finished eighth, behind winner Derma Rishiri.

Raced At

Kokura Tokyo

Race Record

Event SummaryRunner StatsRank
Kokura 01-Feb-26 1200m R2 Md (of $11,280,000) Barrier 12, Winning Time: 01:07.800, SP: 12.00 1st Derma Rishiri ( Y Fujioka 121 ) 2nd Moonlit Isle ( H Yoshida 121 ) 0.75L 3rd Lyra Vega ( G Maruyama 121 ) 4.75L 8th Benefactor ( M Kobayashi 119 ) 8.40L See full resultsM Kobayashi 54kg 8.40L8 (18)
Tokyo 11-Oct-25 1600m GOOD R5 Newcomer Race (newc) (of $14,250,000) Barrier 1, Winning Time: 01:36.500, SP: 9.00 1st Sperling ( A Tsumura 123 ) 2nd T O Kaiser ( T Yokoyama 123 ) 0.30L 3rd Ecoro Lover ( R Sakai 121 ) 0.50L 11th Benefactor ( Y Tannai 123 ) 5.05L See full resultsY Tannai 55.8kg 5.05L11 (14)