Shūka Sho

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.

Shūka Sho
秋華賞

Grade 1 race
Location	Kyoto Racecourse, Fushimi-ku, Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture
Inaugurated	1996
Race type	Thoroughbred Flat racing
Race information
Distance	2000 meters
Surface	Turf
Track	Right-handed
Qualification	3-y-o, Fillies
Weight	55 kg
Purse	¥ 199,200,000 1st: ¥ 92,000,000 (2017)[1]

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.

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 Co Ltd	1:58.4
2011	Aventura	Yasunari Iwata	Katsuhiko Sumii	U Carrot Farm	1:58.2
2012	Gentildonna	Yasunari Iwata	Sei Ishizaka	Sunday Racing Co., Ltd.	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

See also

• Horse racing in Japan
• List of Japanese flat horse races

References

1. "List of JRA Graded Races 2017:Shuka Sho". Horse Racing in Japan.

• Racing Post:
  • 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005
  • 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015
  • 2016