The very day the change in rules was announced, it was also reported that Lt. Until this time, it was prohibited by the military for the soldiers to take animals back to the US. Rather, he was owned by Prince Ri, whose family was given royal status when Korea was taken over by Japan.Ībout a month after the rodeo, it was reported that Hatsushimo was sold to Lt. Later, the Imperial household stated that the Emperor never even owned Hatsushimo. Japanese sources claim that Hatsushimo was too high strung for parades and military inspections and was given to another member of the Royal family and eventually ended up in the Japanese Racing Association Stables where Ryan found him. The Emperor had one more white horse named Mineyuki (Snow Peak) that was kept at the Imperial Stables. When this horse died in 1957 at the age of 23, he was immortalized as a sacred horse at the great Isa Shrine, Japan’s leading Shinto shrine. Hatsushimo had a gelded brother, Hatsuyuki (First Snow) that the Emperor preferred to ride because he was gentler. Hatsushimo wasn’t even the Arabian that the Emperor was later seen riding. He was retired in 1942 and died in 1947 at the age of 27. The International News Service reported that Emperor Hirohito made 344 appearances on Shirayuki. He was actually a stock horse that was purchased in the United States in California. That horse was Shirayuki (White Snow), and he wasn’t even an Arabian.
What the crowd didn’t realize was that this was not the horse that Emperor Hirohito was seen riding most of the time.
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