He was sired by Theft (GB), a son of Tetratema (IRE), out of Daini Tyrant's Queen, a daughter of Soldennis.
Theft was the sire of Bostonian who also won the Tokyo Yushun (Derby).
An important three-year-old stakes race called Tokino Minoru Kinen (Memorial) is named in his honour and held at the Tokyo Racecourse.
[2] Tokino Minoru was inducted into the Japan Racing Association Hall of Fame in 1984.
The owner of Tokino Minoru, Masaichi Nagata, who was the President of Daiei Film, commissioned a movie based on his life, titled The Phantom Horse, which was released in 1955.