The Mainichi Ōkan (毎日王冠, mainichi ōkan) is a Grade 2 horse race in Japan for Thoroughbred colts and fillies aged three and over, run over a distance of 1,800 metres at Tokyo Racecourse.

The race is run in October and serves as a trial race for the autumn edition of the Tenno Sho.

It was first run in 1950 over 2500 metres. The distance was reduced to 2300 metres in 1959 and to 2000 metres in 1962 before the race was run over its current distance for the first time in 1984. It has been rated JRA Grade II since that year and was promoted to International Grade II in 2001. Since 2014, the race serves as a trial race for the Autumn Tenno Sho.

Among the winners of the race have been Katsuragi Ace, Oguri Cap, Bubble Gum Fellow, Silence Suzuka, Grass Wonder, Eishin Preston, Daiwa Major and A Shin Hikari

Weight 55 kg for three-year-olds, 57 kg for four-year-olds and above.

Allowances:

2 kg for fillies / mares 2 kg for southern hemisphere bred three-year-olds

Penalties (excluding two-year-old race performance):

If a graded stakes race has been won within a year: 2 kg for a grade 1 win (1 kg for fillies / mares) 1 kg for a grade 2 win If a graded stakes race has been won for more than a year: 1 kg for a grade 1 win

Records Speed record: 1:44.1 Salios 2022

Most successful horse (2 wins): Oguri Cap – 1988, 1989 Salios - 2020, 2022

Winners since 1994 Year Winner Age Jockey TrainerOwner Time 1994 Nehai Caesar 4 Katsumi Shiomura Tadashi FuseDaimaru Kigyo 1:44.6 1995 Sugano Oji 4 Tomio Yasuda Hiroyuki UeharaMotohide Sugawara 1:48.4 1996 Annus Mirabilis 4 Darryll Holland Saeed bin SuroorGodolphin 1:45.8 1997 Bubble Gum Fellow 4 Yukio Okabe Kazuo FujisawaShadai Race Horse 1:46.1 1998 Silence Suzuka 4 Yutaka Take Mituru HashidaKeiji Nagai 1:44.9 1999 Grass Wonder 4 Hitoshi Matoba Mitsuhiro OgataHanzawa 1:45.8 2000 Tunante 5 Hideaki Miyuki Shoichi MatsumotoShadai Race Horse 1:46.1 2001 Eishin Preston 4 Yuichi Fukunaga Shuji KitahashiToyomitsu Hirai 1:45.3 2002 Magnaten 6 Yukio Okabe Kazuo Fujisawa Takao Komai 1:46.1 2003 Balance of Game 4 Katsuharu Tanaka Yoshitada Munakata Hiroyuki Sonobe 1:45.7 2004 Telegnosis 5 Masaki Katsuura Hiroaki SugiuraShadai Race Horse 1:46.0 2005 Sunrise Pegasus 7 Hiroshi Goto Sei Ishizaka Takao Matsuoka 1:46.5 2006 Daiwa Major 5 Katsumi Ando Hiroyuki UeharaKeizo Oshiro 1:45.5 2007 Chosan 5 Masami Matsuoka Toshiaki ShimizuNaoyoshi Nagayama 1:44.2 2008 Super Hornet 5 Yusuke Fujioka Yoshito YahagiTokuo Morimoto 1:44.6 2009 Company 8 Norihiro Yokoyama Hideuki OtonashiHideko Kondo 1:45.3 2010 Aliseo 3 Yuichi Fukunaga Noriyuki HoriShadai Race Horse 1:46.4 2011 Dark Shadow 4 Yuichi Fukunaga Noriyuki HoriTomokazu Iida 1:46.7 2012 Curren Black Hill 3 Shinichiro Akiyama Osamu HirataTakashi Suzuki 1:45.0 2013 Eishin Flash 6 Yuichi Fukunaga Hideaki FujiwaraKatsuhiko Hirai 1:46.7 2014 Air Saumur 5 Yutaka Take Katsuhiko SumiiLucky Field 1:45.2 2015 A Shin Hikari 4 Yutaka Take Masanori SakaguchiEishindo 1:45.6 2016 Rouge Buck 4 Keita Tosaki Masahiro OtakeCarrot Farm 1:46.6 2017 Real Steel 5 Mirco Demuro Yoshito YahagiSunday Racing 1:45.6 2018 Aerolithe 4 João Moreira Takanori KikuzawaSunday Racing 1:44.5 2019 Danon Kingly 3 Keita Tosaki Kiyoshi HagiwaraDanox 1:44.4 2020 Salios 3 Christophe Lemaire Noriyuki HoriSilk Racing 1:45.5 2021 Schnell Meister 3 Christophe Lemaire Takahisa TezukaSunday Racing 1:44.8 2022 Salios 5 Kohei Matsuyama Noriyuki HoriSilk Racing 1:44.1 2023 Elton Barows 3 Atsuya Nishimura Haruki SugiyamaKoji Inokuma 1:45.32024Sixpence3Christophe LemaireSakae KuniedaCarrot Farm1:45.12025Lebensstil5Akihide TsumuraHiroyasu TanakaCarrot Farm1:44.02026Seiun Hades7Hideaki MiyukiShinsuke HashiguchiShigeyuki Nishiyama1:45.5

Earlier winners

1950 – Hatakaze 1952 – Mitsuhata 1952 – New Moana 1953 – Track O 1954 – Hakuryo 1955 – Susquehanna 1956 – Fair Manna 1957 – Haku Chikara 1958 – Hishi Maaru 1959 – Kuripero 1960 – Unebi Hikari 1961 – Harrow More 1962 – Emroan 1963 – Yamano O 1964 – Toast 1965 – Umeno Chikara 1966 – Theftway 1967 – Tama Queen 1968 – Shesky 1969 – Takeshiba O 1970 – Kurishiba 1971 – Tokino Shin O 1972 – Hustler 1973 – Takuma O 1974 – Takekuma Hikaru 1975 – White Fontaine 1976 – Harbor Young 1977 – C B Queen 1978 – Press Toko 1979 – C B Cross 1980 – Kane Minobu 1981 – Juji Arrow 1982 – Kyoei Promise 1983 – Takara Tenryu 1984 – Katsuragi Ace 1985 – Gold Way 1986 – Sakura Yutaka O 1987 – Dyna Actress 1988 – Oguri Cap 1989 – Oguri Cap 1990 – Lucky Guerlain 1991 – Prekrasnie 1992 – Daitaku Helios 1993 – Shinko Lovely

See also Horse racing in Japan List of Japanese flat horse races

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