Keeneland Cup
Appearance
Grade 3 race | |
Location | Sapporo Racecourse |
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Inaugurated | 1966 |
Race type | Thoroughbred Flat racing |
Race information | |
Distance | 1200 meters |
Surface | Turf |
Track | Right-handed |
Qualification | 3-y-o+ |
Weight | 4-y-o+ 56 kg, 3-y-o 53 kg, fillies allowed 2 kg |
Purse | ¥ 92,980,000 (as of 2024) 1st: ¥ 43,000,000 2nd: ¥ 17,000,000 3rd: ¥ 11,000,000 |
The Keeneland Cup (Japanese: キーンランドカップ) is a Grade 3 horse race for Thoroughbreds aged three and over, run in August over a distance of 1200 metres on turf at Sapporo Racecourse.[1] It serves as a trial race for the Sprinters Stakes.
The Keeneland Cup was first run in 1996 and has held Grade 3 status since 2006. It was run at Hakodate Racecourse in 2013. The race was contested over 1000 meters until 2000.
Weight
[edit]55 kg for three-year-old, 57 kg for four-year-old and above.[2]
Allowances:
- 2 kg for fillies / mares
- 1 kg for southern hemisphere bred three-year-old
Penalties (excluding two-year-old race performance):
- If a graded stakes race has been won within a year:
- 2 kg for a grade 1 win (1 kg for fillies / mares)
- 1 kg for a grade 2 win
- If a graded stakes race has been won for more than a year:
- 1 kg for a grade 1 win
Winners since 2006
[edit]Year |
Winner |
Age |
Jockey |
Trainer |
Owner | Time |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2006 | Cheerful Smile | 6 | Yasunari Iwata | Yasuo Ikee | Academy | 1:08.4 |
2007 | Couverture | 3 | Norihiro Yokoyama | Sakae Kunieda | Hidaka Breeders Union | 1:08.6 |
2008 | Tanino Martini | 8 | Shinichiro Akiyama | Hikozo Sugai | Yuzo Tanimizu | 1:07.9 |
2009 | B B Guldan | 5 | Katsumi Ando | Masazo Ryoke | Bando Bokujo | 1:08.4 |
2010 | One Carat | 4 | Yusuke Fujioka | Kenichi Fujioka | Yoichi Aoyama | 1:08.4 |
2011 | Curren Chan | 4 | Kenichi Ikezoe | Takayuki Yasuda | Takashi Suzuki | 1:08.6 |
2012 | Pas de Trois | 5 | Katsumi Ando | Ippo Sameshima | Teruya Yoshida | 1:07.6 |
2013 | Forever Mark | 5 | Issei Murata | Eiichi Yano | Yoichi Aoyama | 1:11.7 |
2014 | Robe Tissage | 4 | Kousei Miura | Naosuke Sugai | Silk | 1:09.0 |
2015 | Ukiyono Kaze | 5 | Hirofumi Shii | Takanori Kikuzawa | Jun Kokubu | 1:08.6 |
2016 | Blanc Bonheur | 3 | Keita Tosaki | Kazuya Nakatake | Yoko Maeda | 1:08.5[3] |
2017 | Epoisses | 9 | Christophe Lemaire | Kazuo Fujisawa | Nobutaka Tada | 1:09.0[4] |
2018 | Nac Venus | 5 | João Moreira | Hiroaki Sugiura | Kinya Komatsu | 1:09.4[5] |
2019 | Danon Smash | 4 | Yuga Kawada | Takayuki Yasuda | Danox | 1:09.2 |
2020 | Eighteen Girl | 4 | Ryusei Sakai | Yuji Iida | Yasushi Nakayama | 1:10.6 |
2021 | Lei Halia | 3 | Heart Kameda | Toshiaki Tajima | Hidaka Breeders Union | 1:09.1 |
2022 | Vento Voce | 5 | Christophe Lemaire | Mitsunori Makiura | Eden Association | 1:09.1 |
2023 | Namura Clair | 4 | Suguru Hamanaka | Kodai Hasegawa | Mutsuhiro Namura | 1:09.9 |
2024 | Satono Reve | 5 | Damian Lane | Noriyuki Hori | Hajime Satomi | 1:07.9 |
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Keeneland Cup". Horse Racing in Japan.
- ^ "List of JRA Graded Races 2024|List of JRA Graded Races|Horse Racing in Japan". Horse Racing in Japan. Retrieved 2024-08-25.
- ^ "2016 result". Racing Post. 28 August 2016.
- ^ "2017 result". Racing Post. 27 August 2017.
- ^ "2018 result". Racing Post. 26 August 2018.
- ^ "キーンランドC". Netkeiba.
- ^ "Keeneland Cup". Netkeiba.