Kisaragi Sho

Kisaragi Sho
きさらぎ賞
	World Ace wins the 2012 Kisaragi Sho
Class	Grade 3
Location	Kyoto Racecourse
Inaugurated	1961
Race type	Thoroughbred Flat racing
Race information
Distance	1800 metres
Surface	Turf
Track	Right-handed
Qualification	3-y-o
Weight	Colts 57 kg, fillies 55 kg
Purse	¥ 87,960,000 (as of 2025); 1st: ¥ 41,000,000; 2nd: ¥ 16,000,000; 3rd: ¥ 10,000,000

The Kisaragi Sho (Japanese きさらぎ賞) is a Japanese Grade 3 horse race for three-year-old Thoroughbreds run in February over a distance of 1800 metres at Kyoto Racecourse.^[1] The race is also known as the NHK Sho.

Quick facts Class, Location ...

The race was first run in 1961 and was elevated to Grade 3 status in 1984. It was usually run at Chukyo Racecourse before being moved to its current venue in 1987. The race serves as a trial race for the Satsuki Sho, run in April. Past winners of the race include Special Week, Neo Universe, Tosen Ra and Satono Diamond.

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Year	Winner	Jockey	Trainer	Owner	Time
2000	Silver Cockpit	Yutaka Take	Takayuki Yasuda	Makoto Kaneko	1:48.0
2001	Agnes Gold	Hiroshi Kawachi	Hiroyuki Nagahama	Takao Watanabe	1:47.9
2002	Mejiro Meyer	Yuji Iida	Yoshiyasu Tajima	Mejiro Farm	1:47.6
2003	Neo Universe	Yuichi Fukunaga	Tsutomu Setoguchi	Shadai Race Horse	1:49.6
2004	Meiner Brook	Shinji Fujita	Yasuhito Tamura	Thoroughbred Club Ruffian	1:48.0
2005	Kongo Rikishio	Shinji Fujita	Kenji Yamauchi	Hisao Kaneoka	1:48.5
2006	Dream Passport	Katsumi Ando	Ryuichi Inaba	Joy Race Horse	1:47.4
2007	Asakusa Kings	Koshiro Take	Ryuji Okubo	Keiko Tabara	1:48.8
2008	Rainbow Pegasus	Olivier Peslier	Ippo Sameshima	Toshiharu Yoshimura	1:48.8
2009	Reach The Crown	Yutaka Take	Hiroaki Sugiura	Hiroyoshi Usuda	1:48.9
2010	Neo Vendome	Mirco Demuro	Hideaki Fujiwara	Kimiyuki Kobayashi	1:48.6
2011	Tosen Ra	Mirco Demuro	Hideaki Fujiwara	Takaya Shimakawa	1:47.6
2012	World Ace	Futoshi Komaki	Yasutoshi Ikee	Sunday Racing	1:47.0
2013	Tamamo Best Play	Ryuji Wada	Katsumi Minai	Tamamo	1:48.9
2014	Tosen Stardom	Yutaka Take	Yasutoshi Ikee	Takaya Shimakawa	1:47.6
2015	Rouge Buck ^[a]	Keita Tosaki	Masahiro Otake	Carrot Farm	1:48.6
2016	Satono Diamond	Christophe Lemaire	Yasutoshi Ikee	Hajime Satomi	1:46.9
2017	America's Cup	Fuma Matsuwaka	Hidetaka Otonashi	Tatsuo Tanikake	1:50.1 ^[2]
2018	Satono Favor	Yoshihiro Furukawa	Katsumi Minai	Satomi Horse Company	1:48.8^[3]
2019	Danon Chaser	Yuga Kawada	Yasutoshi Ikee	Danox	1:49.0^[4]
2020	Cortesia	Kohei Matsuyama	Takashi Suzuki	Koji Maeda	1:48.3
2021	Lagom ^[b]	Yuichi Kitamura	Takashi Saito	Masamichi Hayashi	2:01.0
2022	Matenro Leo ^[b]	Norihiro Yokoyama	Mitsugu Kon	Chiyono Terada	2:00.5
2023	Hrimfaxi ^[b]	Yuga Kawada	Naosuke Sugai	Kaneko Makoto Holdings	1:59.7
2024	Byzantine Dream	Rene Piechulek	Tomoyasu Sakaguchi	Kazumi Yoshida	1:46.8
2025	Satono Shining	Atsuya Nishimura	Haruki Sugiyama	Hajime Satomi	1:47.0

Kisaragi Sho

Winners since 2000

Earlier winners

See also

References

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