Al Ain, (, foaled 1 May 2014) is a Japanese Thoroughbred racehorse. After winning two minor races in the autumn of 2016 he made significant improvement in the following spring to take the Mainichi Hai and the Satsuki Sho. Later that year he finished fifth in the Tokyo Yushun and second in the St Lite Kinen. As a four-year-old in 2018 he failed to win in six starts but ran well in several major races, finishing third in the Osaka Hai and the Mile Championship and fourth in the autumn edition of the Tenno Sho. In 2019 he recorded his first victory in almost two years when he won the Osaka Hai. Background Al Ain is a bay horse with a white star and two white socks bred in Japan by Northern Farm. The horse entered the ownership of Sunday Racing and was sent into training with Yasutoshi Ikee. He was named after a city in Abu Dhabi. He was from the seventh 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. Al Ain's dam Dubai Majesty was a top class performer on dirt in the United States, recording her biggest win when taking the Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Sprint as a five-year-old in 2010. Two days after her Breeders' Cup win the mare was put up for auction at the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky November select breeding stock sale and bought for $1,100,000 by Northern Farm's Katsumi Yoshida. She was a descendant of the Virginia-bred mare Knight's Gal who was the female-line ancestor of many good winners including Palace Malice and Mutafaweq. The mare went on to produce the Tokyo Yushun winner Shahryar. Racing career 2016: two-year-old season Al Ain began his racing career with a win in an event for previously unraced juveniles over 1600 metres at Kyoto Racecourse on 29 October. On 13 December at Hanshin Racecourse he followed up by taking the Senryo Sho over the same distance, beating Kyohei and thirteen others. 2017: three-year-old season On his three-year-old debut, sixteen days after his final run of 2016, Al Ain was moved up in class to contest the Grade 3 Shinzan Kinen at Kyoto on 8 January and