Lord Derby Challenge Trophy

Lord Derby Challenge Trophy
ダービー卿チャレンジトロフィー
	Industria, winner of the 2023 Lord Derby Challenge Trophy
Class	Grade 3
Location	Nakayama Racecourse
Inaugurated	1969
Race type	Thoroughbred Flat racing
Race information
Distance	1600 metres
Surface	Turf
Track	Right-handed
Qualification	4-y-o+
Weight	Handicap
Purse	¥ 87,960,000 (as of 2025) 1st: ¥ 41,000,000; 2nd: ¥ 16,000,000; 3rd: ¥ 10,000,000;

The Lord Derby Challenge Trophy (Japanese ダービー卿チャレンジトロフィー) is a Japanese Grade 3 horse race for Thoroughbreds aged four and over. Organized by Japan Racing Association, it is run in March over a distance of 1600 metres on turf at Nakayama Racecourse.^[1]

Quick facts Class, Location ...

It was first run in 1969 and has held Grade 3 status since 1984. The race was run at Tokyo Racecourse until 1980 and was run over 1800 metres until 1979.

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Year	Winner	Age	Jockey	Trainer	Owner	Time
2000	Fusaichi Airedale	4	Yutaka Take	Kunihide Matsuda	Fusao Sekiguchi	1:33.0
2001	Check Mate	6	Shinji Fujita	Kenji Yamauchi	Tomiro Fukami	1:35.2
2002	Grass World	6	Shinji Fujita	Katsumi Suzuki	Hanzawa	1:32.4
2003	Dantsu Judge	4	Ryuji Wada	Kenji Yamauchi	Tetsuji Yamamoto	1:33.9
2004	Meiner Morgen	4	Hiroki Goto	Masahiro Horii	Thoroughbred Club Ruffian	1:33.4
2005	Daiwa Major	4	Yoshitomi Shibata	Hiroyuki Uehara	Keizo Oshiro	1:32.3
2006	Great Journey	5	Tetsuzo Sato	Yasuo Ikee	North Hills Management	1:32.4
2007	Picaresque Coat	5	Shinichiro Akiyama	Yasutoshi Ikee	Kaneko Makoto Holdings	1:33.1
2008	Silent Pride	5	Norihiro Yokoyama	Sakae Kunieda	Shadai Race Horse	1:34.2
2009	Take Mikazuchi	4	Yoshitomi Shibata	Satoshi Oehara	Shadai Race Horse	1:33.7
2010	Showa Modern	6	Hiroki Goto	Hiroaki Sugiura	Keiichi Yamagishi	1:34.3
2011	Blitzen	5	Yoshitomi Shibata	Yoshitaka Ninomiya	Hiroo Race	1:33.3
2012	Garbo	5	Shu Ishibashi	Hidekatsu Shimizu	Kazuyoshi Ishikawa	1:33.5
2013	Tokei Halo	4	Masami Matsuoka	Hisashi Shimizu	Nobuhiko Kimura	1:32.6
2014	Curren Black Hill	5	Shinichiro Akiyama	Osamu Hirata	Takashi Suzuki	1:34.6
2015	Maurice	4	Keita Tosaki	Noriyuki Hori	Kazumi Yoshida	1:32.2
2016	Magic Time	5	Andrasch Starke	Tadanari Nakagawa	Sunday Racing	1:32.8
2017	Logi Chalice	5	Hiroyuki Uchida	Sakae Kunieda	Masaaki Kumeta	1:34.7^[2]
2018	He's In Love	5	Kota Fujioka	Kenichi Fujioka	Silk Racing	1:32.2^[3]
2019	Fiano Romano	5	Yuga Kawada	Tomokazu Takano	Kazumi Yoshida	1:31.7^[4]
2020	Kluger	8	Shu Ishibashi	Tomokazu Takano	Carrot Farm	1:32.8
2021	Terzetto	4	Mirco Demuro	Shoichiro Wada	Silk Racing	1:32.6
2022	Time To Heaven	4	Takuya Ono	Hirofumi Toda	DMM Dream Club	1:32.3
2023	Industria	4	Keita Tosaki	Keisuke Miyata	Sunday Racing	1:33.2
2024	Parallel Vision	5	Keita Tosaki	Sakae Kunieda	Carrot Farm	1:32.9
2025	Trovatore	4	João Moreira	Yuichi Shikato	Sunday Racing	1:32.4

Lord Derby Challenge Trophy

Winners since 2000

Earlier winners

See also

References

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