Shinzan Kinen

The Shinzan Kinen (Japanese: シンザン記念), short for the Nikkan Sports Sho Shinzan Kinen(Japanese: 日刊スポーツ賞 シンザン記念),^[2] is a Japanese Grade III race for three-year-olds in the JRA.^[3]

Shinzan Kinen
シンザン記念

Guanciale wins the 2015 Shinzan Kinen
Class	Grade 3
Location	Kyoto Racecourse Kyoto, Japan
Inaugurated	1967[1]
Race type	Thoroughbred - Flat racing
Race information
Distance	1,600 meters (about 8 furlongs / 1 mile)
Surface	Turf
Track	Right-handed (inner course)
Qualification	Three-year-olds
Weight	57 kg Allowance: Fillies 2 kg
Purse	¥ 87,960,000 (as of 2025) 1st: ¥ 41,000,000 2nd: ¥ 16,000,000 3rd: ¥ 10,000,000

Statue of Shinzan at Kyoto Racecourse

Race details

The race was named to honor Shinzan, the Japanese racehorse who won the Japanese Triple Crown in 1961 and also won the Tenno Sho (Autumn) and the Arima Kinen.^[3]

The first edition of the race was held on January 15, 1967 in which Taigyo won. Since then, the race is traditionally held at Kyoto Racecourse in January.

Foreign horses are allowed to enter the race.^[1]

Past winners

Year	Winner	Jockey	Trainer	Owner	Time
1967	Taigyo	Kunihiko Take	Heizo Take	Yoshio Nakayama	1:39.0
1968	Hikari O	Masazo Ryoke	Yoshio Tanaka	Ichisaburo Matsumoto	1:41.0
1969	Fine Happy	Yoshinori Yanada	Juubee Tsubo	Hisahiro Yoshida	1:38.8
1970	High Prince	Shigetada Takahashi	Isamu Sato	Kazunori Yoshimine	1:36.9
1971	Fi Dor	Yoshito Matsumoto	Bungo Takeda	Obara Kikue	1:42.3
1972	Shinmoedake	Norihito Fujioka	Isao Tanoue	Mitsuyoshi Kubo	1:38.5
1973	Dicta Boy	Masami Shibata	Tadashi Fuse	Shigeo Imai	1:38.8
1974	Naniwa Light	Eiji Shimizu	Mitsuo Ogino	Aya Nishida	1:37.0
1975	Erimo George	Yoichi Fukunaga	Masaaki Okubo	Shinichi Yamamoto	1:38.4
1976	Bambton Shade	Toshifumi Kubo	Shuji Ito	Shozo Higuchi	1:39.3
1977	Tenzan Sakura	Hiroshi Kawachi	Yoshiharu Matsunaga	Saburo Hirano	1:38.1
1978	Lovely Tosho	Hideo Koyauchi	Tameo Toyama	Tosho Sangyo	1:37.0
1979	Teruno Eight	Akihiro Iida	Hisao Shimizu	Teruhiko Nakamura	1:37.2
1980	Noto Diver	Tadashi Kayo	Shuji Kitahashi	Noto	1:38.4
1981	Hirono Wakakoma	Hiroshi Kawachi	Shuji Ito	Yuko Ito	1:35.8
1982	Silk Tenzan O	Kiyoaki Ito	Shuji Ito	Shinichi Nakayama	1:36.8
1983	Mejiro Mont Cenis	Eiji Shimizu	Masaaki Okubo	Shoji Mejiro	1:36.7
1984	Kitayama Zakura	Sadahiro Kojima	Tameo Toyama	Tatsuya Fujimoto	1:36.3
1985	Life Tateyama	Shigetoshi Saruhashi	Isao Yasuda	Yukio Tsuji	1:37.5
1986	Fresh Voice	Shigeo Koshoji	Naoyuki Sakai	Kazuo Enjo	1:37.3
1987	Yamanin Arden	Nobuyuki Tajima	Yasuo Ikee	Koji Doi	1:38.4
1988	Rugger Black	Yoshiyuki Muramoto	Masaaki Okubo	Keiji Okumura	1:37.2
1989	Foundry Popo	Katsuichi Nishiura	Tatsuo Natsumura	Tomio Mito	1:37.4
1990	Nichido Thunder	Hiroshi Masui	Toshiaki Shirai	Toshio Yamada	1:36.0
1991	Milford Slew	Hiroshi Kawachi	Kotaro Tanaka	Kiyoshi Noritake	1:35.7
1992	Mayano Petrews	Seiki Tabara	Masahiro Sakaguchi	Yu Tadokoro	1:35.8
1993	Amber Lion	Hidetaka Tadokoro	Yukiharu Shikato	Ribot	1:35.9
1994	Kokuo Namura	Hiroyuki Uemura	Akihiko Nomura	Nobushige Namura	1:36.8
1995	Meisho Tesoro	Katsuhito Uegomori	Kaoru Hoshikawa	Yoshio Matsumoto	1:34.5
1996	Generalist	Mikio Matsunaga	Shoji Yamamoto	Maeko Farm	1:34.5
1997	Seeking the Pearl	Yutaka Take	Shozo Sasaki	Tomoko Uenaka	1:34.6
1998	Dantsu Sirius	Hirofumi Shii	Kenji Yamauchi	Tetsuji Yamamoto	1:36.8
1999	Fusaichi Airedale	Yutaka Take	Kunihide Matsuda	Fusao Sekiguchi	1:34.6
2000	Daitaku Riva	Ryo Takahashi	Kojiro Hashiguchi	Taiyo Farm	1:35.4
2001	Derby Regno	Hideaki Miyuki	Shigetada Takahashi	Derby Corporation	1:35.4
2002	Tanino Gimlet	Yutaka Take	Kunihide Matsuda	Yuzo Tanimizu	1:34.8
2003	Silent Deal	Yutaka Take	Yasuo Ikee	Makoto Kaneko	1:34.8
2004	Great Journey	Yutaka Take	Yasuo Ikee	North Hills Management	1:35.4
2005	Peer Gynt	Yutaka Take	Kojiro Hashiguchi	Sunday Racing	1:35.7
2006	Go Go Kirishima	Mamoru Ishibashi	Yasuo Umeda	Shinichiro Nishimura	1:34.4
2007	Admire Aura	Yasunari Iwata	Hiroyoshi Matsuda	Riichi Kondo	1:35.1
2008	Dream Signal	Yasunari Iwata	Masato Nishizono	Saison Race Horse	1:35.4
2009	Antonio Barows	Koichi Tsunoda	Hiroshi Takeda	Hirotsugu Inokuma	1:35.3
2010	Garbo	Kenichi Ikezoe	Hidekatsu Shimizu	Kazuyoshi Ishikawa	1:34.3
2011	Red Davis	Suguru Hamanaka	Hidetaka Otonashi	Tokyo Horse Racing	1:34.0
2012	Gentildonna	Christophe Lemaire	Sei Ishizaka	Sunday Racing	1:34.3
2013	A Shin Top	Suguru Hamanaka	Masato Nishizono	Eishindo k.k.	1:34.3
2014	Mikki Isle	Suguru Hamanaka	Hidetaka Otonashi	Mizuki Noda	1:33.8
2015	Guanciale	Yutaka Take	Yoshihito Kidate	Shunsuke Matsumoto	1:34.8
2016	Logi Cry	Suguru Hamanaka	Naosuke Sugai	Masaaki Kumeda	1:34.1
2017	Kyohei	Ryo Takakura	Hiroshi Miyamoto	Takao Seya	1:37.6
2018	Almond Eye[4]	Keita Tosaki	Sakae Kunieda	Silk Racing	1:37.1
2019[5]	Val d'Isere	Yuichi Kitamura	Kunihiko Watanabe	G1 Racing	1:35.7
2020	Sanctuaire	Christophe Lemaire	Kazuo Fujisawa	U Carrot Farm	1:35.9
2021[a]	Pixie Knight	Yuichi Fukunaga	Hidetaka Otonashi	Sunday Racing	1:33.3
2022[a]	Matenro Orion	Norihiro Yokoyama	Mitsuku Kon	Chiyono Terada	1:34.1
2023[a]	Light Quantum	Yutaka Take	Koshiro Take	Shadai Race Horse	1:33.7
2024	Noble Roger	Yuga Kawada	Tatsuya Yoshioka	Normandy Thoroughbred Racing Co Ltd	1:34.5
2025[b]	Lila Emblem	Suguru Hamanaka	Koshiro Take	G Riviere Racing Co. Ltd.	1:34.6

^a The Runnings from 2021 to 2023 were held at Chukyo Racecourse due to construction at Kyoto Racecourse.
^b The 2025 running was held at Chukyo Racecourse due to construction at Hanshin Racecourse.

See also

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