Leontes was born in 2013. He is by King Kamehameha out of Cesario by Special Week.
Leontes was awarded Best Two-Year-Old Colt in Japan in 2015.
Leontes, out of Japanese Oaks winner Cesario and a half-brother to Japan Cup winner Epiphaneia and Satsuki Sho (Japanese 2000 Guineas) winner Saturnalia, unleashed a powerful late run to win the Grade 1 Asahi Hai Futurity Stakes in only his second career start and became the first horse in the history of the race to accomplish the feat.
Leontes entered stud in Japan in 2017.
In 2024, T O Royal earned his first Grade 1 victory in the Tenno Sho (Spring). He also won the Grade 2 Hanshin Daishoten in 2024 and the Grade 3 Diamond Stakes in 2022 and 2024.
Among his other best progeny are Industria, who took the Grade 3 Lord Derby Challenge Trophy; Another Lyric, who won the Grade 3 Fukushima Himba Stakes and the Listed Anemone Stakes; and Justin Rock, who took the Grade 3 Kyoto Nisai Stakes.
Tenno Sho(spring)(2024)
Leontes was awarded Best Two-Year-Old Colt in Japan in 2015. Leontes, out of Japanese Oaks winner Cesario and a half-brother to Japan Cup winner Epiphaneia and Satsuki Sho (Japanese 2000 Guineas) winner Saturnalia, unleashed a powerful late run to win the Grade 1 Asahi Hai Futurity Stakes in only his second career start and became the first horse in the history of the race to accomplish the feat.
Leontes entered stud in Japan in 2017. In 2024, T O Royal earned his first Grade 1 victory in the Tenno Sho (Spring). He also won the Grade 2 Hanshin Daishoten in 2024 and the Grade 3 Diamond Stakes in 2022 and 2024.
Among his other best progeny are Industria, who took the Grade 3 Lord Derby Challenge Trophy; Another Lyric, who won the Grade 3 Fukushima Himba Stakes and the Listed Anemone Stakes; and Justin Rock, who took the Grade 3 Kyoto Nisai Stakes.