Keeneland Cup

Horse race
Keeneland Cup
キーンランドカップ
Grade 3 race
2022 Keeneland Cup winner, Vento Voce
LocationSapporo Racecourse
Inaugurated1966
Race typeThoroughbred Flat racing
Race information
Distance1200 metres
SurfaceTurf
TrackRight-handed
Qualification3-y-o+
Weight4-y-o+ 56 kg, 3-y-o 53 kg, fillies allowed 2 kg
Purse¥87,960,000 (total), ¥41,000,000 (winner)

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 metres until 2000.

Winners since 2006

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[2]
2017 Epoisses 9 Christophe Lemaire Kazuo Fujisawa Nobutaka Tada 1:09.0[3]
2018 Nac Venus 5 João Moreira Hiroaki Sugiura Kinya Komatsu 1:09.4[4]
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

See also

References

  • Netkeiba:[5][6]
    • 1996 en, 1997 en, 1998 en, 1999 en, 2000 en, 2001 en, 2002 en, 2003 en, 2004 en, 2005 en, 2006 en, 2007 en, 2008 en, 2009 en, 2010 en, 2011 en, 2012 en, 2013 en, 2014 en, 2015 en, 2016 en, 2017 en, 2018 en, 2019 en, 2020 en, 2021 en, 2022 en, 2023 en
  1. ^ "Keeneland Cup". Horse Racing in Japan.
  2. ^ "2016 result". Racing Post. 28 August 2016.
  3. ^ "2017 result". Racing Post. 27 August 2017.
  4. ^ "2018 result". Racing Post. 26 August 2018.
  5. ^ "キーンランドC". Netkeiba.
  6. ^ "Keeneland Cup". Netkeiba.
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