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 a Japanese Oaks winner Cesario and a half-brother to the Japan Cup winner Epiphaneia and the 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. His first crop hit the track in 2020. He has sired some good winners including Another Lyric, who won the Grade 3 Fukushima Himba Stakes; T O Royal, who captured the Grade 3 Diamond Stakes and finished 3rd in the Grade 1 Tenno Sho (Spring); and Justin Rock, who won the Grade 3 Kyoto Nisai Stakes.
Leontes was awarded Best Two-Year-Old Colt in Japan in 2015. Leontes, out of a Japanese Oaks winner Cesario and a half-brother to the Japan Cup winner Epiphaneia and the 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. His first crop hit the track in 2020. He has sired some good winners including Another Lyric, who won the Grade 3 Fukushima Himba Stakes; T O Royal, who captured the Grade 3 Diamond Stakes and finished 3rd in the Grade 1 Tenno Sho (Spring); and Justin Rock, who won the Grade 3 Kyoto Nisai Stakes.