Aston Machan

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Aston Machan (Japanese: アストンマーチャン, Hepburn: Asuton Maachan; 5 March 2004 – 21 April 2008) was a Japanese Thoroughbred racehorse and multiple graded stakes winner. Owned by Mayumi Tosa and trained primarily by Sei Ishizaka, Aston Machan partook mostly in sprint-length races, and competed against leading racehorses such as Daiwa Scarlet and Vodka. In the 2007 Sprinters Stakes, she led from start to finish against older horses to claim her only Group 1 title, becoming only the second 3-year-old filly after Nishino Flower in 1992 to win the race since the JRA's introduction of the grading system. Aston Machan's career was cut short in the spring of her four-year-old season, when she contracted Colitis-X from unknown causes and died prematurely from acute heart failure.

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