Tulip Sho

Tulip Sho
チューリップ賞
	Kokorono Ai wins the 2015 Tulip Sho
Class	Grade 2
Location	Hanshin Racecourse, Takarazuka, Hyogo.
Inaugurated	1986
Race type	Thoroughbred Flat racing
Race information
Distance	1600 metres
Surface	Turf
Track	Right-handed
Qualification	3-y-o fillies
Weight	55 kg
Purse	¥ 112,520,000 (as of 2025); 1st: ¥ 52,000,000; 2nd: ¥ 21,000,000; 3rd: ¥ 13,000,000

The Tulip Sho (Japanese チューリップ賞) is a Japanese Grade 2 flat horse race in Japan for three-year-old Thoroughbred fillies run over a distance of 1,600 metres at Hanshin Racecourse, Takarazuka, Hyogo. The race is run in March and serves as a major trial race for the Oka Sho, which is run at the same racecourse in early April.^[1]

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The Tulip Sho was first run in 1986. It became a Grade 3 race in 1994 and was elevated to Grade 2 status in 2018.^[2] Among the winners of the race have been Air Groove, Sweep Tosho, Vodka, Buena Vista, Harp Star and Sinhalite.

Year	Winner	Jockey	Trainer	Time
2000	Jo De Shiraoki	Koshiro Take	Kunihide Matsuda	1:39.7
2001	T M Ocean	Masaru Honda	Katsuichi Nishiura	1:35.3
2002	Health Wall	Mirco Demuro	Hideyuki Mori	1:35.2
2003	Osumi Haruka	Katsumi Ando	Masatoshi Ando	1:35.9
2004	Sweep Tosho	Kenichi Ikezoe	Akio Tsurudome	1:35.5
2005	Eishin Tender	Koshiro Take	Kohei Take	1:35.3
2006	Admire Kiss	Yutaka Take	Hiroyoshi Matsuda	1:36.5
2007	Vodka	Hirofumi Shii	Katsuhiko Sumii	1:33.7
2008	Air Pascale	Yusuke Fujioka	Yasutoshi Ikee	1:35.8
2009	Buena Vista	Katsumi Ando	Hiroyoshi Matsuda	1:36.5
2010	Shoryu Moon	Takeshi Kimura	Shozo Sasaki	1:36.1
2011	Reve d'Essor	Yuichi Fukunaga	Hiroyoshi Matsuda	1:34.5
2012	Hana's Goal	Cristian Demuro	Kazuhiro Kato	1:35.5
2013	Kurofune Surprise	Yutaka Take	Hidetaka Tadokoro	1:34.9
2014	Harp Star	Yuga Kawada	Hiroyoshi Matsuda	1:34.3
2015	Kokorono Ai	Norihiro Yokoyama	Tomohito Ozeki	1:37.47
2016	Sinhalite	Kenichi Ikezoe	Sei Ishikawa	1:32.8^[3]
2017	Soul Stirring	Christophe Lemaire	Kazuo Fujisawa	1:33.2^[4]
2018	Lucky Lilac	Shu Ishibashi	Mikio Matsunaga	1:33.4^[5]
2019	Danon Fantasy	Yuga Kawada	Mitsumasa Nakauchida	1:34.1
2020	Maltese Diosa	Hironobu Tanabe	Takahisa Tezuka	1:33.3
2021	Elizabeth Tower (DH)	Yuga Kawada	Tomokazu Takano	1:33.8
2021	Meikei Yell (DH)	Yutaka Take	Hidenori Take	1:33.8
2022	Namur	Takeshi Yokoyama	Tomokazu Takano	1:33.2
2023	Mozu Meimei	Yutaka Take	Hidetaka Otonashi	1:34.0
2024	Sweep Feet	Yutaka Take	Yasushi Shono	1:33.1
2025	Kurino Mei	Manabu Sakai	Naosuke Sugai	1:34.0

Winners since 2000