Grade 2 race | |
Location | Nakayama Racecourse |
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Race type | Thoroughbred Flat racing |
Race information | |
Distance | 2500 metres |
Surface | Turf |
Track | Right-handed |
Qualification | 4-y-o+ |
Weight | Special Weight |
Purse | ¥ 145,220,000 (as of 2024) 1st: ¥ 67,000,000 2nd: ¥ 27,000,000 3rd: ¥ 17,000,000 |
The Nikkei Sho (Japanese 日経賞) is a Japanese Grade 2 flat horse race in Japan for Thoroughbreds of at least four years of age. It is run over a distance of 2,500 metres at Nakayama Racecourse in March.[1]
The Nikkei Sho was first run in 1953 and was elevated to Grade 2 status in 1984.
Among the winners of the race have been Symboli Rudolf, Rice Shower, Meisho Doto, Matsurida Gogh, Fenomeno and Gold Actor.
The race is run at Nakayama Racecourse over a distance of 2,500 meters on turf using the inner curve.
56 kg for four-year-olds, and 57 kg for five-year-olds and above.[2]
Allowances:
2 kg for fillies / mares
Penalties:
Year |
Winner |
Age |
Jockey |
Trainer |
Owner | Time |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2000 | Leo Ryuho | 5 | Takanori Kikuzawa | Hiroaki Sugiura | Leo | 2:35.4 |
2001 | Meisho Doto | 5 | Yasuhiko Yasuda | Isao Yasuda | Yoshio Matsumoto | 2:33.7 |
2002 | Active Bio | 5 | Hiroki Goto | Hiroki Sakiyama | Bio | 2:37.0 |
2003 | Ingrandire | 4 | Junichi Kobayashi | Yoshinami Shimizu | Chizu Yoshida | 2:31.3 |
2004 | Win Generale | 4 | Masayoshi Ebina | Sakae Kunieda | WIN | 2:32.8 |
2005 | Yukina Sun Royal | 8 | Jiro Ono | Sueo Masuzawa | Motoyuki Ito | 2:33.3 |
2006 | Lincoln | 6 | Norihiro Yokoyama | Hidetaka Otonashi | Eiko Kondo | 2:33.0 |
2007 | Never Bouchon | 4 | Hiroshi Kitamura | Masanori Ito | T H | 2:31.8 |
2008 | Matsurida Gogh | 5 | Masayoshi Ebina | Sakae Kunieda | Fumie Takahashi | 2:32.7 |
2009 | Al Nasrain | 5 | Masayoshi Ebina | Shigeki Matsumoto | Sunday Racing | 2:31.2 |
2010 | Meiner Kitz | 7 | Masami Matsuoka | Sakae Kunieda | Thoroughbred Club Ruffian | 2:34.1 |
2011 | To The Glory [1] | 4 | Yuichi Fukunaga | Yasutoshi Ikee | Carrot Farm | 2:25.4 |
2012 | Neko Punch | 6 | Teruo Eda | Shinobu Hoshino | Shigeru Kiritani | 2:37.4 |
2013 | Fenomeno | 4 | Masayoshi Ebina | Hirofumi Toda | Sunday Racing | 2:32.0 |
2014 | Win Variation | 6 | Yasunari Iwata | Masahiro Matsunaga | WIN | 2:34.4 |
2015 | Admire Deus | 4 | Yasunari Iwata | Mitsuru Hashida | Riichi Kondo | 2:30.2 |
2016 | Gold Actor | 5 | Hayato Yoshida | Tadashige Nakagawa | Kaname Ishiro | 2:36.8[3] |
2017 | Sciacchetra | 4 | Hironobu Tanabe | Katsuhiko Sumii | Makoto Kaneko | 2:32.8[4] |
2018 | Ganko | 5 | Yusuke Fujioka | Shigeki Matsumoto | Mitsuo Sugisawa | 2:33.9[5] |
2019 | Meisho Tekkon | 4 | Yutaka Take | Yoshitada Takahashi | Yoshio Matsumoto | 2:34.2 |
2020 | Mikki Swallow | 6 | Norihiro Yokoyama | Takanori Kikuzawa | Mizuki Noda | 2:32.9 |
2021 | Win Marilyn | 4 | Takeshi Yokoyama | Takahisa Tezuka | WIN | 2:33.3 |
2022 | Titleholder | 4 | Kazuo Yokoyama | Toru Kurita | Hiroshi Yamada | 2:35.4 |
2023 | Titleholder | 5 | Kazuo Yokoyama | Toru Kurita | Hiroshi Yamada | 2:36.8 |
2024 | Struve | 5 | Katsuma Sameshima | Noriyuki Hori | Katsuko Muraki | 2:31.4 |
1 The 2011 race took place at Hanshin Racecourse over a distance of 2,400 metres.