Trainer Kojiro Hashiguchi and champion Gentildonna will become the newest members of the Japan Racing Association's Racing Hall of Fame Oct. 10, at an induction ceremony conducted at Kyoto Racecourse.

Kojiro Hashiguchi, 70, was born in Miyazaki, where his family owned an Arabian farm. After working as an assistant for several trainers, Hashiguchi started his own stable at Ritto Training Center in 1982.

Hashiguchi went on to train 991 winners, including 96 JRA graded stakes winners. In 2014, he won the Japanese Derby (Jpn-I) with Koji Maeda’s One and Only, his 20th contender in the Derby. He finished second four times prior. Hashiguchi also trained Heart’s Cry, who won the 2006 Dubai Sheema Classic (Jpn-I).

Gentildonna, the 2012 Japanese filly Triple Crown winner and five-time Japanese champion, as well as 2014 highweighted older mare in the UAE, has also earned her place in the JRA's Racing Hall of Fame.

Bred by Katsumi Yoshida's Northern Farm and owned by Sunday Racing Club, a syndication run by Yoshida's son, Gentildonna won 10 races from 19 starts.

The Deep Impact filly, out of Donna Blini, not only completed the Triple Tiara, she was the first 3-year-old filly to win and the only horse to achieve back-to-back wins in the Japan Cup (Jpn-I).

Her first foal, a filly by King Kamehameha, was born Feb. 15 and she is back in foal to King Kamehameha.