NHK Mile Cup

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Grade 1 race
NHK Mile Cup
Location Tokyo Racecourse, Fuchu, Tokyo, Tokyo
Inaugurated 1996
Race type Thoroughbred
Website japanracing.jp/
Race information
Distance 1600 meters
(About 8 furlongs / 1 mile)
Track Turf, Left-handed
Qualification 3-y-o, Fillies & Mares only, Thoroughbreds
Weight Colt 57 kg, Filly 55 kg
Purse
The 6th(2001) winner Kurofune
The 6th(2001) winner Kurofune

The NHK Mile Cup (NHKマイルカップ (NHK Mairu Kappu?)) is a Grade 1 flat horse race in Japan for three-year-old and above thoroughbred fillies and mares run over a distance of 1,600 metres (approximately 1 mile) on the turf at Tokyo Racecourse in May.

[edit] Step Races

Race name Grade Racecourse Distance
1 Mainichi hai JpnIII Hanshin Turf 1800m
2 Margelet Stakes OP Hanshin Turf 1400m
3 New Zealand Trophy JpnII Nakayama Turf 1600m
4 Oka sho JpnI Hanshin Turf 1600m
5 Satsuki sho JpnI Nakayama Turf 2000m

[edit] Winners

Year
 Winner
 Jockey
 Trainer
 Owner
 Time
1996 Taiki Fortune Yoshitomi Shibata Yoshiyasu Takahashi Taiki Farm 1:32.6
1997 Seeking the Pearl Yutaka Take Hideyuki Mori Tomoko Uenaka 1:33.1
1998 El Condor Pasa Hitoshi Matoba Yoshitaka Ninomiya Takashi Watanabe 1:33.7
1999 Symboli Indｙ Norihiro Yokoyama Kazuo Fujisawa Symboli Bokujo 1:33.8
2000 Eagle Cafe Yukio Okabe Futoshi Kojima Kiyoshi Nishikawa 1:33.5
2001 Kurofune Yutaka Take Kunihide Matsuda Makoto Kaneko 1:33.0
2002 Telegnosis Masaki Katsuura Hiroaki Sugiura Shadai Racehorse co. 1:33.1
2003 Win Kluger Koshiro Take Shigeki Matsumoto Win Co. Ltd. 1:34.2
2004 King Kamehameha Katsumi Ando Kunihide Matsuda Makoto Kaneko 1:32.5
2005 Rhein Kraft Yuichi Fukunaga Tsutomu Setoguchi Shigemasa Ohsawa 1:33.6
2006 Logic Yutaka Take Kojiro Hashiguchi Koji Maeda 1:33.2
2007 Pink Kameo Hiroyuki Uchida Sakae Kunieda Kaneko Makoto Holdings co. ltd 1:34.3
2008 Deep Sky Hirofumi Shii Mitsugu Kon Toshio Fukami 1:34.2
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List of Japanese Grade I horse races

International Races (regular GI races)

February Stakes (dirt) | Takamatsunomiya Kinen | Tenno Sho (Spring) | Yasuda Kinen | Takarazuka Kinen | Sprinters Stakes | Tenno Sho (Autumn) | Queen Elizabeth II Commemorative Cup (fillies and mares) | Mile Championship | Japan Cup Dirt (invitational dirt) | Japan Cup (invitational) | Arima Kinen (Grand Prix)


Domestic Races (JPN I races)

Kawasaki Kinen (dirt) | Oka Sho (Japanese 1000 Guineas; 3-year-old fillies) | Satsuki Sho (Japanese 2000 Guineas; 3-year-olds) | Kashiwa Kinen(dirt) | NHK Mile Cup (3-year-olds) | Victoria Mile (fillies and mares; open to international horses) | Yushun Himba (Japanese Oaks; 3-year-old fillies) | Tokyo Yushun (Japanese Derby; 3-year-olds) | Teiou sho (dirt) | Japan Dirt Derby (3-year-old;dirt) | Derby Grand Prix (3-year-old;dirt) | Mile Championship Nanbuhai (dirt) | Shuka Sho (3-year-old fillies) | Kikuka Sho (Japanese St. Leger; 3-year-olds) | Japan Breeding farm's Cup Sprint (dirt) | Japan Breeding farm's Cup Classic (dirt) | Hanshin Juvenile Fillies (2-year-old fillies) | Asahi Hai Futurity Stakes (2-year-olds) | Zen-Nippon Nisai Yushun (dirt; 2-year-olds) | Tokyo Daishoten (dirt)


Steeplechase Races (J-GI races)

Nakayama Grand Jump (international invitational) | Nakayama Daishogai (domestic)


See also

Japan Racing Association | Horse Racing in Japan, Wikipedia article "Horse racing" | Horse Racing in Japan, official website
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