His sire Mogami raced in France where he won the valuable Prix des Foals at Deauville Racecourse in 1978[2] before retiring to become a breeding stallion in Japan.

On September 13 the gelding finished second to the four-year-old filly Janis at Hakodate and was then moved up in class for the Grade II St Lite Kinen over 2200 metres at Nakayama Racecourse two weeks later.

Ridden by Hiroshi Kawachi he finished fourth of the fourteen runners behind Tokai Teio, Naturalism and the Arlington Million winner Dear Doctor.

[7] On his final appearance of the year, Legacy World was invited to compete in the Arima Kinen over 2500 metres at Nakayama on 27 December and finished second of the sixteen runners behind the five-year-old Mejiro Palmer with Nice Nature in third.

Legacy World returned in January 1993 at Nakayama and finished second to the six-year-old White Stone in the Grade II American Jockey Club Cup over 2200 metres.

After an absence of more than eight months, Legacy World returned in the Grade II Kyoto Daishoten over 2400 metres on 10 October and finished second of the ten runners to Mejiro McQueen.

On 28 November, in front of a record crowd of 175,000,[8] the gelding made his second attempt to win the Japan Cup, a race which pitted seven Japanese horses against nine overseas challengers, and started at odds of 11.5/1.

[9] Kent Desormeaux, the rider of the runner-up, was fined by the racecourse stewards after he mistook the finish line and stopped riding 100 metres from the end of the race.