Mainichi Ōkan

Mainichi Ōkan
毎日王冠

Grade 2 race
2017 Mainichi Okan
Location	Tokyo Racecourse, Fuchū
Inaugurated	1950
Race type	Thoroughbred Flat racing
Race information
Distance	1800 metres
Surface	Turf
Track	Left-handed
Qualification	3-y-o +, Colts & Fillies
Weight	Special Weight
Purse	¥ 145,220,000 (as of 2024) 1st: ¥ 67,000,000 2nd: ¥ 27,000,000 3rd: ¥ 17,000,000

The Mainichi Ōkan (毎日王冠, mainichi ōkan) is a Grade 2 horse race in for Thoroughbred colts and fillies aged three and over run over a distance of 1,800 metres at Tokyo Racecourse.

The race is run in October and serves as a trial race for the autumn edition of the Tenno Sho.

It was first run in 1950 over 2500 metres. The distance was reduced to 2300 metres in 1959 and to 2000 metres in 1962 before the race was run over its current distance for the first time in 1984. It has been rated JRA Grade II since that year and was promoted to International Grade II in 2001. 2014, winner is received priority ballot for Tenno Sho (Autumn).

Among the winners of the race have been Katsuragi Ace, Oguri Cap, Bubble Gum Fellow, Silence Suzuka, Grass Wonder, Eishin Preston, Daiwa Major and A Shin Hikari

Weight

55 kg for three-year-olds, 57 kg for four-year-olds and above.

Allowances:

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

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

Records

Speed record:

• 1:44.1 Salios 2022

Most successful horse (2 wins):

• Oguri Cap – 1988, 1989
• Salios - 2020, 2022

Winners since 1994

Year	Winner	Age	Jockey	Trainer	Time
1994	Nehai Caesar	4	Katsumi Shiomura	Tadashi Fuse	1:44.6
1995	Sugano Oji	4	Tomio Yasuda	Hiroyuki Uehara	1:48.4
1996	Annus Mirabilis	4	Darryll Holland	Saeed bin Suroor	1:45.8
1997	Bubble Gum Fellow	4	Yukio Okabe	Kazuo Fujisawa	1:46.1
1998	Silence Suzuka	4	Yutaka Take	Mituru Hashida	1:44.9
1999	Grass Wonder	4	Hitoshi Matoba	Mitsuhiro Ogata	1:45.8
2000	Tunante	5	Hideaki Miyuki	Shoichi Matsumoto	1:46.1
2001	Eishin Preston	4	Yuichi Fukunaga	Shuji Kitahashi	1:45.3
2002	Magnaten	6	Yukio Okabe	Kazuo Fujisawa	1:46.1
2003	Balance of Game	4	Katsuharu Tanaka	Yoshitada Munakata	1:45.7
2004	Telegnosis	5	Masaki Katsuura	Hiroaki Sugiura	1:46.0
2005	Sunrise Pegasus	7	Hiroshi Goto	Sei Ishizaka	1:46.5
2006	Daiwa Major	5	Katsumi Ando	Hiroyuki Uehara	1:45.5
2007	Chosan	5	Masami Matsuoka	Toshiaki Shimizu	1:44.2
2008	Super Hornet	5	Yusuke Fujioka	Yoshito Yahagi	1:44.6
2009	Company	8	Norihiro Yokoyama	Hideuki Otonashi	1:45.3
2010	Aliseo	3	Yuichi Fukunaga	Noriyuki Hori	1:46.4
2011	Dark Shadow	4	Yuichi Fukunaga	Noriyuki Hori	1:46.7
2012	Curren Black Hill	3	Shinichiro Akiyama	Osamu Hirata	1:45.0
2013	Eishin Flash	6	Yuichi Fukunaga	Hideaki Fujiwara	1:46.7
2014	Air Saumur	5	Yutaka Take	Katsuhiko Sumii	1:45.2
2015	A Shin Hikari	4	Yutaka Take	Masanori Sakaguchi	1:45.6
2016	Rouge Buck	4	Keita Tosaki	Masahiro Otake	1:46.6
2017	Real Steel	5	Mirco Demuro	Yoshito Yahagi	1:45.6
2018	Aerolithe	4	João Moreira	Takanori Kikuzawa	1:44.5
2019	Danon Kingly	3	Keita Tosaki	Kiyoshi Hagiwara	1:44.4
2020	Salios	3	Christophe Lemaire	Noriyuki Hori	1:45.5
2021	Schnell Meister	3	Christophe Lemaire	Takahisa Tezuka	1:44.8
2022	Salios	5	Kohei Matsuyama	Noriyuki Hori	1:44.1
2023	Elton Barows	3	Atsuya Nishimura	Haruki Sugiyama	1:45.3
2024	Sixpence	3	Christophe Lemaire	Sakae Kunieda	1:45.1

Earlier winners

• 1950 – Hatakaze
• 1952 – Mitsuhata
• 1952 – New Moana
• 1953 – Track O
• 1954 – Hakuryo
• 1955 – Susquehanna
• 1956 – Fair Manna
• 1957 – Hakuchikara
• 1958 – Hishi Maaru
• 1959 – Kuripero
• 1960 – Unebi Hikari
• 1961 – Harrow More
• 1962 – Emroan
• 1963 – Yamano O
• 1964 – Toast
• 1965 – Umeno Chikara
• 1966 – Theftway
• 1967 – Tama Queen
• 1968 – Shesky
• 1969 – Takeshiba O
• 1970 – Kurishiba
• 1971 – Tokino Shin O
• 1972 – Hustler
• 1973 – Takuma O
• 1974 – Takekuma Hikaru
• 1975 – White Fontaine
• 1976 – Harbor Young
• 1977 – C B Queen
• 1978 – Press Toko
• 1979 – C B Cross
• 1980 – Kane Minobu
• 1981 – Juji Arrow
• 1982 – Kyoei Promise
• 1983 – Takara Tenryu
• 1984 – Katsuragi Ace
• 1985 – Gold Way
• 1986 – Sakura Yutaka O
• 1987 – Dyna Actress
• 1988 – Oguri Cap
• 1989 – Oguri Cap
• 1990 – Lucky Guerlain
• 1991 – Prekrasnie
• 1992 – Daitaku Helios
• 1993 – Shinko Lovely

See also

• Horse racing in Japan
• List of Japanese flat horse races

References

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