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Fine Needle (ファインニードル foaled 26 April 2013) is a Japanese Thoroughbred racehorse and sire.

Background
Fine Needle is a bay horse with no white markings bred in Japan by his owner Sheikh Mohammed's Darley Japan Farm. He was sent into training with Yoshitada Takahashi and raced in the ownership of Godolphin.

He was from the fifth crop of foals sired by Admire Moon the 2007 Japanese Horse of the Year. Fine Needle's dam Needlecraft showed high class form in Europe winning the Group 3 Prix Chloe in 2005. Her grand-dam, Nice Point was a half-sister to the 2000 Guineas winner Tirol.

2015: two-year-old season
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2016: three-year-old season
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2017: four-year-old season
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2018: five-year-old season
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