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Keeneland Cup

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 meters
SurfaceTurf
TrackRight-handed
Qualification3-y-o+
Weight4-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

55 kg for three-year-old, 57 kg for four-year-old and above.[2]

Allowances:

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

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

References

  1. ^ "Keeneland Cup". Horse Racing in Japan.
  2. ^ "List of JRA Graded Races 2024|List of JRA Graded Races|Horse Racing in Japan". Horse Racing in Japan. Retrieved 2024-08-25.
  3. ^ "2016 result". Racing Post. 28 August 2016.
  4. ^ "2017 result". Racing Post. 27 August 2017.
  5. ^ "2018 result". Racing Post. 26 August 2018.
  6. ^ "キーンランドC". Netkeiba.
  7. ^ "Keeneland Cup". Netkeiba.