Shūka Sho

Shūka Sho
秋華賞
Grade 1 race
2021 Shūka Sho winner Akaitorino Musume
LocationKyoto Racecourse, Fushimi-ku, Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture
Inaugurated1996
Race typeThoroughbred Flat racing
Race information
Distance2000 meters
SurfaceTurf
TrackRight-handed
Qualification3-y-o, Fillies
Weight55 kg
Purse¥ 238,100,000 (as of 2024)
1st: ¥ 110,000,000
2nd: ¥ 44,000,000
3rd: ¥ 28,000,000
BonusesFillies Triple Crown
Winner of Oka Sho, Yushun Himba, Shūka Sho[1]
¥ 100,000,000

The Shūka Shō (秋華賞) is a Grade 1 flat horse race in Japan for three-year-old thoroughbred fillies run over a distance of 2,000 metres (approximately 1 1/4 miles) at the Kyoto Racecourse, Fushimi-ku, Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture in October.

The Shūka Shō is the final leg of the Japanese Fillies' Triple Crown, preceded by the Oka Sho and the Yushun Himba. In 1996 it was established as Domestic Grade 1 race, and in 2009 it was granted International Grade 1 status.

Trial races

Trial races provide automatic berths to the winning horses or placed horses as specified.[2]

Race Grade Racecourse Distance Condition
Shion Stakes II Nakayama 2,000 meters Top 3 horses
Rose Stakes II Hanshin 1,800 meters Top 3 horses

Winners

Year
 Winner
 Jockey
 Trainer
 Owner
 Time
1996 Fabulous la Fouine Mikio Mastunaga Hiroyuki Nagahama Kazuko Yoshida 1:58.1
1997 Mejiro Dober Yutaka Yoshida Yokichi Okubo Mejiro Shoji 2:00.1
1998 Phalaenopsis Yutaka Take Mitsumasa Hamada North Hills Management Co Ltd 2:02.4
1999 Buzen Candle Yasuhiko Yasuda Hiroyoshi Matsuda Ueda Bokujo 1:59.3
2000 Tico Tico Tac Koshiro Take Masahiro Matsuda Bamboo Bokujo 1:59.9
2001 T M Ocean Masaru Honda Katsuichi Nishiura Masatsugu Takezono 1:58.5
2002 Fine Motion Yutaka Take Yuji Ito Tatsuo Fushikida 1:58.1
2003 Still in Love Hideaki Miyuki Shoichi Matsumoto North Hills Management Co Ltd 1:59.1
2004 Sweep Tosho Kenichi Ikezoe Akio Tsurudome Tosho Sangyo 1:58.4
2005 Air Messiah Yutaka Take Yuji Ito Lucky Field Co., Ltd. 1:59.2
2006 Kawakami Princess Masaru Honda Katsuichi Nishiura Mitsuishi Kawakami Bokujo 1:58.2
2007 Daiwa Scarlet Katsumi Ando Kunihide Matsuda Keizo Oshiro 1:59.1
2008 Black Emblem Yasunari Iwata Shigeyuki Kojima Kunio Tahara 1:58.4
2009 Red Desire Hirofumi Shii Mikio Matsunaga Tokyo Horse Racing Co., Ltd. 1:58.2
2010 Apapane Masayoshi Ebina Sakae Kunieda Kaneko Makoto Holdings 1:58.4
2011 Aventura Yasunari Iwata Katsuhiko Sumii U Carrot Farm 1:58.2
2012 Gentildonna Yasunari Iwata Sei Ishizaka Sunday Racing 2:00.4
2013 Meisho Mambo Koshiro Take Akihiro Iida Yoshio Matsumoto 1:58.6
2014 Shonan Pandora Suguru Hamanaka Tomokazu Takano Tetsuhide Kunimoto 1:57.0
2015 Mikki Queen Suguru Hamanaka Yasutoshi Ikee Mizuki Noda 1:56.9
2016 Vivlos Yuichi Fukunaga Yasuo Tomomichi Kazuhiro Sasaki 1:58.6
2017 Deirdre Christophe Lemaire Mitsuru Hashida Toji Morita 2:00.2
2018 Almond Eye Christophe Lemaire Sakae Kunieda Silk Racing 1:58.5
2019 Chrono Genesis Yuichi Kitamura Takashi Saito Sunday Racing 1:59.9
2020 Daring Tact Kohei Matsuyama Haruki Sugiyama Normandy Thoroughbred Racing 2:00.6
2021 Akaitorino Musume[a] Keita Tosaki Sakae Kunieda Kaneko Makoto Holdings 2:01.2
2022 Stunning Rose[a] Ryusei Sakai Tomokazu Takano Sunday Racing 1:58.6
2023 Liberty Island Yuga Kawada Mitsumasa Nakauchida Sunday Racing 2.01.1
2024 Cervinia Christophe Lemaire Tetsuya Kimura Sunday Racing 1:57.1

a The 2021 and 2022 runnings were contested at Hanshin Racecourse, due to construction at Kyoto Racecourse.

See also

References

  1. ^ "同一年度に本会が定める競走に優勝した馬に対する褒賞金交付基準" (PDF) (in Japanese). Japan Racing Association.
  2. ^ "競馬番組一般事項(Horseracing Program General Information) - Page 19" (PDF). JRA. Retrieved April 3, 2024.
  3. ^ "秋華賞". Netkeiba.
  4. ^ "Shuka Sho". Netkeiba.