Danon Fantasy (, foaled 30 January 2016) is a Japanese Thoroughbred racehorse. After finishing second in her first appearance as a two-year-old in 2018 she won her three remaining races including the Fantasy Stakes and Hanshin Juvenile Fillies and took the JRA Award for Best Two-Year-Old Filly. In the following year she won the Tulip Sho and the Rose Stakes. In 2020 she was well beaten in her first three races but ended the year with a win in the Hanshin Cup. Background Danon Fantasy is a bay filly with a narrow white blaze bred in Hokkaido by Northern Farm. As a yearling in 2017 she was consigned to the Select Sale and was bought for ¥97,200,000 by Danox Co Ltd. She was sent into training with Mitsumasa Nakauchida. She was from the ninth crop of foals sired by Deep Impact, who was the Japanese Horse of the Year in 2005 and 2006, winning races including the Tokyo Yushun, Tenno Sho, Arima Kinen and Japan Cup. Deep Impact's other progeny include Gentildonna, Harp Star, Kizuna, A Shin Hikari, Marialite and Saxon Warrior. Danon Fantasy's dam Life For Sale was a top class racehorse in Argentina where she won twice at Group 1 level before being exported to Japan at the end of her track career. She was a female-line descendant of Roussette (foaled 1941), a British mare who was exported to Brazil. Racing career 2018: two-year-old season Danon Fantasy made her first appearance on 3 June in a contest for previously unraced juveniles over 1600 metres at Tokyo Racecourse and finished second of the fifteen runners behind Gran Alegria. After a break of more than three months she returned for a maiden race over the same distance at Hanshin Racecourse and recorded her first success as she won by two lengths from Red Vita and seven others. On 3 November Danon Fantasy was stepped up in class for the Grade 3 Fantasy Stakes over 1400 metres at Kyoto Racecourse and started the 1/2 favourite in a nine-runner field. Ridden by Yuga Kawada she won by one and three quarter lengths from Belle Soeurs. As Kawada was booked to ride at the Hong Kong International meeting the filly was partnered by Cristian Demuro on 9 December when she was moved up to Group 1 level for the Hanshin Juvenile Fillies over 1600 metres. She started the 1.6/1 favourite ahead of Chrono