Zen-Nippon Nisai Yushun

Zen-Nippon Nisai Yushun
Domestic Grade 1 (JpnI) race
2009 Zen-Nippon Nisai Yushun
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 55 kg
Allowances
1 kg for fillies
Purse ¥71,400,000 (as of 2023)
1st: ¥ 42,000,000

2nd: ¥ 14,700,000

3rd: ¥ 8,400,000

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 horses. It is run at Kawasaki Racecourse over a distance of 1600 metres.

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.

Winners

Year
Winner
Jockey
Trainer
Owner
Organization
Time
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 Seiji Sakai Masato Hayashi Hirotsugu Inokuma Funabashi 1:40.7
2019 Vacation Hiroto Yoshihara Kenichi Takatsuki Masatoshi Suzuki Kawasaki 1:41.9
2018 Nova Lenda 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