Zen-Nippon Nisai Yushun

The Zen-Nippon Nisai Yushun (全日本2歳優駿) is an internationally listed, Domestic Grade 1 flat horse race in Japan open to two-year-old Thoroughbreds. It is run at Kawasaki Racecourse over a distance of 1600 metres.

Zen-Nippon Nisai Yushun

2009 Zen-Nippon Nisai Yushun
Class	Domestic Grade 1 (JpnI)
Location	Kawasaki Racecourse
Inaugurated	1950
Race type	Thoroughbred - Flat racing
Race information
Distance	1,600 meters
Surface	Dirt
Track	Left-handed
Qualification	Two-years-olds
Weight	56 kg Allowances 1 kg for fillies
Purse	¥71,400,000 (as of 2024) 1st: ¥ 42,000,000 2nd: ¥ 14,700,000 3rd: ¥ 8,400,000

The race was first run in 1999 and is an important race in Japan for two-year-olds on dirt. In 2017, the race began to be included as part of the Road to the Kentucky Derby series.^[1]

Winners

Year	Winner	Jockey	Trainer	Owner	Organization	Time
2024	Myriad Love	Atsuya Nishimura	Koichi Shintani	Asuka Shiraishi	JRA	1:42.4
2023	Forever Young	Ryusei Sakai	Yoshito Yahagi	Susumu Fujita	JRA	1:43.5
2022	Derma Sotogake	Fuma Matsuwaka	Hidetaka Otonashi	Hiroyuki Asanuma	JRA	1:43.3
2021	Dry Stout	Keita Tosaki	Mitsunori Makiura	YGG Horse Club Co. Ltd.	JRA	1:39.2
2020	Alain Barows[2]	Seiji Sakai	Masato Hayashi	Hirotsugu Inokuma	Funabashi	1:40.7
2019	Vacation[3][4]	Hiroto Yoshihara	Kenichi Takatsuki	Masatoshi Suzuki	Kawasaki	1:41.9
2018	Nova Lenda[5]	Yuichi Kitamura	Takashi Saito	Carrot Farm Co. Ltd.	JRA	1:42.6
2017	Le Vent Se Leve	Mirco Demuro	Kiyoshi Hagiwara	G1 Racing Co. Ltd.	JRA	1:41:6
2016	Rieno Tesoro	Hayato Yoshida	Ryo Takei	Ryotokuji Kenji Holdings Co. Ltd.	JRA	1:42.8
2015	Sound Sky	Keita Tosaki	Masao Sato	Yuichi Masuda	JRA	1:43.1
2014	Dear Domus	Kousei Miura	Yutaka Takahashi	Hideo Takadaru	JRA	1:45.3
2013	Happy Sprint	Mitsuyuki Miyazaki	Junji Tanaka	Tsuji Farm	Hokkaido	1:40.4
2012	Someries	Yusuke Fujioka	Kenichi Fujioka	Godolphin	JRA	1:41.9
2011	Obruchev	Eiji Nakadate	Kiyoshi Hagiwara	Koji Maeda	JRA	1:41.6
2010	Big Romance	Katsuharu Tanaka	Michifumi Kono	Senji Nishimura	JRA	1:41.2
2009	Love Michan	Kusuhiko Hamaguchi	Hitoshi Yanae	Sachiaki Kobayashi	Kasamatsu	1:40.0
2008	Suni	Hiroyuki Uchida	Naohiro Yoshida	Kazumi Yoshida	JRA	1:40.5
2007	Iide Kenshin	Shinji Fujita	Mitsugu Kon	Naoichi Furukawa	JRA	1:41.8
2006	Furioso	Hiroyuki Uchida	Masayuki Kawashima	Darley Japan Farm Co. Ltd.	Funabashi	1:41.8
2005	Grace Tiara	Katsuharu Tanaka	Takahisa Tezuka	Shimokobe Farm	JRA	1:42.3
2004	Pride Kim	Kenichi Ikezoe	Kaneo Ikezoe	Tomiro Fukami	JRA	1:40.6
2003	Admire Hope	Yutaka Take	Mitsuru Hashida	Riichi Kondo	JRA	1:42.8
2002	Utopia	Hiroshi Kawachi	Kojiro Hashiguchi	Kaneko Makoto Holdings Co. Ltd.	JRA	1:42.4
2001	Principal River	Fuyuki Igarashi	Haruo Narita	Teruya Yoshida	Hokkaido	1:42.5
2000	Toshin Blizzard	Takayuki Ishizaki	Kenji Sato	Eiichi Waizumi	Funabashi	1:42.6
1999	Agnes Digital	Hitoshi Matoba	Toshiaki Shirai	Takao Watanabe	JRA	1:41.1

See also

• Horse racing in Japan