Epsom Cup

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Horse race
Epsom Cup
エプソムカップ
Grade 3 race
2021 Epsom Cup Winner, Zadar
LocationTokyo Racecourse
Inaugurated1984
Race typeThoroughbred Flat racing
Race information
Distance1800 metres
SurfaceTurf
TrackLeft-handed
Qualification3-y-o+
WeightSpecial Weight
Purse¥ 92,980,000 (as of 2024)
1st: ¥ 43,000,000
2nd: ¥ 17,000,000
3rd: ¥ 11,000,000

The Epsom Cup (Japanese エプソムカップ) is a Grade 3 Handicap horse race for Thoroughbreds aged three and over, run in June over a distance of 1800 metres at Tokyo Racecourse.[1]

It was first run in 1984 and has held Grade 3 status ever since.[2]

Weight

53 kg for three-year-olds, 57 kg for four-year-olds and above.[3]

Allowances:

  • 2 kg for fillies / mares
  • 2 kg for southern hemisphere bred three-year-olds
  • 1 kg for southern hemisphere bred four-year-olds

Penalties (excluding two-year-old race performance):

  • If a graded stakes race has been won within a year:
    • 3 kg for a grade 1 win (2 kg for fillies / mares)
    • 2 kg for a grade 2 win (1 kg for fillies / mares)
    • 1 kg for a grade 3 win
  • If a graded stakes race has been won for more than a year:
    • 2 kg for a grade 1 win (1 kg for fillies / mares)
    • 1 kg for a grade 2 win

Winners since 1984

Year
 Winner
 Age
 Jockey
 Trainer
 Owner Time
1984 Sakura Symboli 5 Futoshi Kojima Kubota Hikoyuki Jeon Yong Shook 1:51.7
1985 Suzu Mach 4 Shoichi Osaki Yoshio Nakazumi Yoshio Komurasaki 1:50.4
1986 Super Gura Third 4 Eiji Nakano Yoshinami Shimizu Masahiro Hiranoi 1:50.1
1987 Dyna Fairy 4 Sueo Masuzawa Yasuhiro Suzuki Shadai Race Horse 1:48.1
1988 Soshin Hoju 4 Shoji Kashiwazaki Suoki Koga Fusako Soman 1:48.1
1989 Nihon Pillow Brave 4 Masato Shibata Yuji Ito Hyakutaro Kobayashi 1:50.2
1990 Samantha Tojo 5 Koichi Tsunoda Sakae Watanabe Tosho Sangyo 1:47.7
1991 Prekrasnie 4 Teruo Eda Terumasa Yano Eijiro Tajima 1:47.2
1992 Marumatsu Ace 4 Tomio Yasuda Yoshio Nakazumi Toshio Matsuda 1:47.1
1993 Sakura Sakai O 4 Futoshi Kojima Masakatsu Sakai Sakura Commerce 1:46.8
1994 Wako Chikako 4 Yukio Okabe Yuji Ito Takao Ishida 1:47.5
1995 Kanetsu Cross 4 Hitoshi Matoba Yasuo Nishizuka Kanetsu Kyosoba 1:48.0
1996 Marvelous Sunday 4 Yutaka Take Makoto Osawa Sadao Sasahara 1:45.7
1997 Taiki Marshal 5 Yukio Okabe Kazuo Fujisawa Taiki Farm 1:46.6
1998 Tsukuba Symphony 5 Norihiro Yokoyama Masanori Ito Akio Hosoya 1:48.2
1999 American Boss 4 Teruo Eda Fuyuki Tago Abiru Fudosan 1:46.0
2000 American Boss 5 Teruo Eda Fuyuki Tago Abiru Fudosan 1:49.5
2001 Admire Kaiser 5 Jun'ichi Serizawa Mitsuru Hashida Riichi Kondo 1:45.1
2002 Joten Brave 5 Masayoshi Ebina Ikuo Aizawa Hisao Tanabe 1:46.9
2003 Meiner Amundsen 4 Masayoshi Ebina Kiyotaka Tanaka Thoroughbred Club Ruffian 1:47.7
2004 Meiner Amundsen 5 Naohiro Onishi Kiyotaka Tanaka Thoroughbred Club Ruffian 1:47.8
2005 Suzuno March 5 Hiroshi Kitamura Kazuo Fujisawa Yoshio Koshiba 1:46.6
2006 Top Gun Joe 4 Hiroki Goto Masamichi Wada Takao Kawachi 1:49.2
2007 Eishin Deputy 5 Katsuhara Tanaka Akira Nomoto Toyomitsu Hirai 1:48.3
2008 Sunrise Max 4 Norihiro Yokoyama Yutaka Masumoto Takao Matsuoka 1:45.9
2009 Shingen 6 Shinji Fujita Hirofumi Toda Teruhito Hanaki 1:45.5
2010 Seiun Wonder 4 Yuichi Fukunaga Masazo Ryoke Takao Otani 1:46.1
2011 Dark Shadow 4 Yuichi Fukunaga Noriyuki Hori Tomokazu Iizuka 1:47.3
2012 Tosen Reve 4 Craig Williams Yasutoshi Ikee Takaya Shimakawa 1:46.7
2013 Clarente 4 Yasunari Iwata Kojiro Hashiguchi Shinji Maeda 1:45.7
2014 Decipher 5 Hirofumi Shii Futoshi Kojima Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum 1:46.2
2015 A Shin Hikari 4 Yutaka Take Masanori Sakaguchi Eishindo 1:45.4
2016 Rouge Buck 4 Keita Tosaki Masahiro Otake Carrot Farm 1:46.2[4]
2017 Dashing Blaze 5 Suguru Hamanaka Keiji Yoshimura Green Fields 1:45.9[5]
2018 Satono Arthur 4 Keita Tosaki Yasutoshi Ikee Satomi Horse Company 1:47.4[6]
2019 Leyenda 4 Christophe Lemaire Kazuo Fujisawa Carrot Farm 1:49.1
2020 Daiwa Cagney 6 Hiroyuki Uchida Takanori Kikuzawa Keizo Oshiro 1:47.7
2021 Zadar 5 Shu Ishibashi Masahiro Otake Carrot Farm 1:45.1
2022 North Bridge 4 Yasunari Iwata Takeshi Okumura Noboru Iyama 1:46.7
2023 Justin Cafe 5 Kazuo Yokoyama Shogo Yasuda Masahiro Miki 1:45.5
2024 Lebensstil 4 Christophe Lemaire Hiroyasu Tanaka Carrot Farm 1:44.7

See also

References

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  2. ^ "歴史・コース：エプソムカップ　今週の注目レース　JRA". jra.jp. Retrieved 2024-05-27.
  3. ^ "List of JRA Graded Races 2024｜List of JRA Graded Races｜Horse Racing in Japan". Horse Racing in Japan. Retrieved 2024-06-09.
  4. ^ "2016 result". Racing Post. 12 June 2016.
  5. ^ "2017 result". Racing Post. 11 June 2017.
  6. ^ "2018 result". Racing Post. 10 June 2018.
  7. ^ "エプソムカップ". Netkeiba.
  8. ^ "Epsom Cup". Netkeiba.
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