a half months Fierement returned in the Grade 1 Kikuka Sho over 3000 metres at Kyoto Racecourse on 21 October in which he was ridden by Christophe Lemaire and started at odds of 13.5/1 in an eighteen-runner field. Blast Onepiece started favourite, while the other contenders included Etario, Epoca d'Oro, Generale Uno (St Lite Kinen), Meisho Tekkon, Grail (Kyoto Nisai Stakes), Time Flyer (Hopeful Stakes) and Stay Foolish (Kyoto Shimbun Hai). Generale Uno set a steady pace from Kafuji Vanguard and Cosmic Force with Fierement settled in seventh place before threading his way through the field as the runners fanned out on the final turn. Etario, ridden by Mirco Demuro, hit the front in the straight but Fierement joined him 200 metres and got the better of a closely contested finish to win by a nose. After the race Lemaire said "I had confidence in him as he felt good during the training. We briefly met traffic in the straight but my mount stretched really well with his bursting kick. I congratulated Mirco right after crossing the wire, thinking that we had lost, so it's unbelievable that we were able to win the race". In the 2018 World's Best Racehorse Rankings Fierement was rated the 21st best three-year-old colt in the world and the 118th best horse of any age or sex. 2019: four-year-old season On his four-year-old debut Fierement was made the odds-on favourite for the Grade 2 American Jockey Club Cup over 2200 metres at Nakayama on 20 January. With Lemaire in the saddle he raced in mid-division before finishing strongly, but failed by a head to catch the six-year-old Sciacchetra. Tezuka said that the horse had returned from the race with a "slight fever". On 28 April the colt contested the spring edition of the Tenno Sho over 3200 metres at Kyoto: it was the 159th running of the race (which is run twice a year) and the last of the Heisei era. He was made the 1.8/1 favourite ahead of his old rival Etario, while the other eleven runners included You Can Smile (Diamond Stakes), Clincher (Kyoto Kinen), Meisho Tekkon, Glory Vase (Nikkei Shinshun Hai) and Perform A Promise (Copa Republica Argentina). The outsider Vosges set the pace from Lord Vent d'Or and Meisho Tekkon with settling in seventh place until Lemaire made a forward move and sent the favourite into the lead on the final