NHK Mile Cup
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, colts & Fillies only, Thoroughbreds |
Weight |
Colt 57 kg, Filly 55 kg; 2 kg allowance for Southern Hemisphere-breds |
Purse |
¥175,200,000 (2011)[1] |
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 colts and fillies, run over a distance of 1,600 metres (approximately 1 mile) on the turf at Tokyo Racecourse in May.[2]
The NHK Mile Cup is sponsored by the Japanese public broadcasting organization NHK, and as such, this race is broadcasted not only on Fuji TV (one of NHK's competitors) but on both of the NHK channels that cover horse racing (General TV and BS-hi).
It is considered one of the prep races for both the Yushun Himba (the Japanese Oaks) and the Tokyo Yushun (the Japanese Derby).[3]
Step Races
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Race name |
Grade |
Racecourse |
Distance |
1 |
Mainichi Hai |
GIII |
Hanshin |
Turf 1800m |
2 |
Margelet Stakes |
OP |
Hanshin |
Turf 1400m |
3 |
New Zealand Trophy |
GII |
Nakayama |
Turf 1600m |
4 |
Oka Sho |
GI |
Hanshin |
Turf 1600m |
5 |
Satsuki Sho |
GI |
Nakayama |
Turf 2000m |
Winners
Year
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Winner
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Jockey
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Trainer
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Owner
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Time
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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 |
2009 |
Jo Cappuccino |
Kota Fujioka |
Kazuya Nakatake |
Keiko Ueda |
1:32.4 |
2010 |
Danon Chantilly |
Katsumi Ando |
Kunihide Matsuda |
Danox Co. Ltd. |
1:31.4 |
2011 |
Grand Prix Boss |
Craig Williams |
Yoshihito Yahagi |
Grand Prix Co. Ltd. |
1:32.2 |
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International Races (regular GI races) |
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Domestic Races (JPN I races) |
Kawasaki Kinen (dirt) · Kashiwa Kinen (dirt) · Teio sho (dirt) · Japan Dirt Derby (3-year-old;dirt) · Mile Championship Nambu Hai (dirt) · Japan Breeding farm's Cup Sprint (dirt) · Japan Breeding farm's Cup Classic (dirt) · Zen-Nippon Nisai Yushun (dirt; 2-year-olds)
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Steeplechase Races (J-GI races) |
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See also |
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References