Kikuka-shō

Kikuka-shō
Japanese St. Leger
菊花賞
Grade 1 race
2022 Kikuka-shō winner Ask Victor More
LocationKyoto Racecourse, Fushimi-ku, Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture
Inaugurated1938
Race typeThoroughbred Flat racing
Race information
Distance3000 meters
SurfaceTurf
TrackRight-handed
Qualification3-y-o, Colts & Fillies
WeightColt 57 kg, Filly 55 kg
Purse¥ 432,000,000 (as of 2024)
1st: ¥ 200,000,000
2nd: ¥ 80,000,000
3rd: ¥ 50,000,000[1]
BonusesClassic Triple Crown
Winner of Satsuki Shō, Tokyo Yūshun, Kikuka-shō[2]
¥ 300,000,000

The Kikuka-shō (菊花賞, pronounced Kikka-shō) is a Japanese Grade 1 flat horse race in Japan for three-year-old thoroughbred colts and fillies run over a distance of 3,000 metres (approximately 1 7/8 miles) at the Kyoto Racecourse, Fushimi-ku, Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture in October.

It was first run in 1938 and is the Japanese equivalent of the English St. Leger Stakes.

Trial races

Trial races provide automatic berths to the winning horses or placed horses as specified.[3]

Race Grade Racecourse Distance Condition
St Lite Kinen II Nakayama 2,200 meters Top 3 horses
Kobe Shimbun Hai II Hanshin 2,400 meters Top 3 horses

Winners since 1990

Year
 Winner
 Jockey
 Trainer
 Owner
 Time
1990 Mejiro McQueen Koichi Uchida Yasuo Ikee Mejiro Farm 3:06.2
1991 Leo Durban Yukio Okabe Shinji Okuhira Ryu Tanaka 3:09.5
1992 Rice Shower Hitoshi Matoba Yoshiji Iizuka Hideo Kuribayashi 3:05.0
1993 Biwa Hayahide Yukio Okabe Mitsumasa Hamada Biwa Co Ltd 3:04.7
1994 Narita Brian Katsumi Minai Masaaki Okubo Hidenori Yamaji 3:04.6
1995 Mayano Top Gun Seiki Tabara Masahiro Sakaguchi Yu Tadokoro 3:04.4
1996 Dance in the Dark Yutaka Take Kojiro Hashiguchi Shadai Race Horse 3:05.1
1997 Matikanefukukitaru Katsumi Minai Hisao Nibun Masuo Hosokawa 3:07.7
1998 Seiun Sky Norihiro Yokoyama Kazutaka Yasuda Masayuki Nishiyama 3:03.2
1999 Narita Top Road Kunihiko Watanabe Yoshio Oki Hidenori Yamaji 3:07.6
2000 Air Shakur Yutaka Take Hideyuki Mori Lucky Field Co Ltd 3:04.7
2001 Manhattan Cafe Masayoshi Ebina Futoshi Kojima Kiyoshi Nishikawa 3:07.2
2002 Hishi Miracle Koichi Tsunoda Masaru Sayama Masaichiro Abe 3:05.9
2003 That's the Plenty Katsumi Ando Kojiro Hashiguchi Shadai Racehorse Co. 3:04.8
2004 Delta Blues Yasunari Iwata Katsuhiko Sumii Sunday Racing Co. Ltd. 3:04.8
2005 Deep Impact Yutaka Take Yasuo Ikee Kaneko Makoto Holdings Co. 3:04.6
2006 Song of Wind Koshiro Take Hidekazu Asami Shadai Racehorse Co. 3:02.7
2007 Asakusa Kings Hirofumi Shii Ryuji Okubo Keiko Tahara 3:05.1
2008 Oken Bruce Lee Hiroyuki Uchida Hidetaka Otonashi Akira Fukui 3:05.7
2009 Three Rolls Suguru Hamanaka Kohei Take Nagai Shoji Co. 3:03.5
2010 Big Week Yuga Kawada Hiroyuki Nagahama Yuzo Tanimizu 3:06.1
2011 Orfevre Kenichi Ikezoe Yasutoshi Ikee Sunday Racing Co., Ltd. 3:02.8
2012 Gold Ship Hiroyuki Uchida Naosuke Sugai Eiichi Kobayshi 3:02.9
2013 Epiphaneia Yuichi Fukunaga Katsuhiko Sumii U Carrot Farm 3:05.2
2014 Toho Jackal Manabu Sakai Kiyoshi Tani Toho Bussan Co Ltd 3:01.0
2015 Kitasan Black Hiroshi Kitamura Hisashi Shimizu Ono Shoji 3:03.9
2016 Satono Diamond Christophe Lemaire Yasutoshi Ikee Hajime Satomi 3:03.3
2017 Kiseki Mirco Demuro Katsuhiko Sumii Tatsue Ishikawa 3:18.9
2018 Fierement Christophe Lemaire Takahisa Tezuka Sunday Racing 3:06.1
2019 World Premiere Yutaka Take Yasuo Tomomichi Ryoichi Otsuka 3:06.0
2020 Contrail Yuichi Fukunaga Yoshito Yahagi Shinji Maeda 3:05.5
2021 Titleholder[a] Takeshi Yokoyama Toru Kurita Hiroshi Yamada 3:04.6
2022 Ask Victor More[a] Hironobu Tanabe Yasuhito Tamura Hirosaki Toshihiro HD Co. Ltd. 3:02.4
2023 Durezza Christophe Lemaire Tomohito Ozeki U Carrot Farm 3:03.1
2024 Urban Chic Christophe Lemaire Ryo Takei Silk Racing Co. Ltd. 3:04.1

a The 2021 and 2022 editions were contested at Hanshin Racecourse, due to renovations held at the Kyoto Racecourse.[4]

Earlier winners

See also

References

  1. ^ "List of JRA Graded Races 2022 Kikuka Sho". Horse Racing in Japan.
  2. ^ "同一年度に本会が定める競走に優勝した馬に対する褒賞金交付基準" (PDF) (in Japanese). Japan Racing Association.
  3. ^ "競馬番組一般事項(Horseracing Program General Information) - Page 19" (PDF). JRA. Retrieved April 3, 2024.
  4. ^ "京都競馬場２０２３年春からリニューアル 京都開催は来年１１月から２年４か月間の休止". スポーツ報知 (in Japanese). 2019-06-24. Retrieved 2023-04-17.
  5. ^ "菊花賞". Netkeiba.
  6. ^ "Kikuka Sho (Japanese St.leger)". Netkeiba.