Sunday Silence, 13-time champion of the Japanese sire horses
The sire horse championship in Japan is an annual award for the most successful racehorse sire who tops the stallion list in Japan.
For each stallion , the winnings of his sons and daughters in the past year are determined. What counts is the prize money that the sons and daughters have won in flat races .
The most successful stallion in Japan so far is Sunday Silence with 13 titles. In the
Blood-Horse magazine List of the Top 100 US Racehorses of the 20th Century, Sunday Silence is ranked 31st, ahead of Northern Dancer , who is represented in the Japanese Championship for sire horses with his son Northern Taste. Northern Taste topped the Japanese stallion list ten times.
