The Radio Nikkei Sho (Japanese ラジオNIKKEI賞) is a Grade 3 horse race for three-year-old Thoroughbreds in Japan run in late June or early July over a distance of 1800 metres at Fukushima Racecourse.
The race was first run in 1952 and was promoted to Grade 3 status in 1984. The race was run at Tokyo Racecourse and Nakayama Racecourse before moving to its current venue in 1979. It was run at Niigata Racecourse in 1989, Tokyo in 2000 and Nakayama in 2011.
Winners since 2000 YearWinnerJockeyTrainerOwner Time 2000 Renaissance Naohiro Onishi Yutaka TakahashiYukiyoshi Nakazawa 1:49.4 2001 Trust Fire Katsuharu Tanaka Michifumi KonoMitsuru Suganami 1:49.4 2002 Kattsu Mi Hiroyuki Uchida Masaaki MinamidaShigeo Abe 1:48.3 2003 Vita Rosa Masayoshi Ebina Kojiro HashiguchiSunday Racing Co. Ltd. 1:48.4 2004 Keiai Guard Mikio Matsunaga Taira FurakawaMorihiro Kameda 1:47.1 2005 Conrad Norihiro Yokoyama Takahisa TezukaSunday Racing Co. Ltd. 1:47.2 2006 Tamamo Support Akihide Tsumura Kenichi FujiokaTamamo Co. Ltd. 1:50.5 2007 Roc de Cambes Yuichi Shibayama Noriyuki HoriKazumi Yoshida 1:47.7 2008 Leo Meister Hiroyuki Uchida Masaaki KogaLeo Co. Ltd. 1:46.8 2009 Strong Garuda Masayoshi Ebina Takashi KubotaAtsushi Muraki 1:48.3 2010 Aroma Cafe Yoshitomi Shibata Futoshi KojimaKoichi Nishikawa 1:47.3 2011 Frere Jacques Yuichi Fukunaga Yasuo TomomichiCarrot Farm Co. Ltd. 1:46.9 2012 Final Form Keita Tosaki Noriyuki HoriShadai Race Horse Co. Ltd. 1:47.9 2013 K I Chosan Norihiro Yokoyama Michihiro OgasaChosan Co. Ltd. 1:47.9 2014 Win Malerei Masami Matsuoka Noboru TakagiWin Co. Ltd. 1:45.9 2015 Ambitious Christophe Lemaire Hidetaka OtonashiHideko Kondo 1:46.4 2016 Seewind Keita Tosaki Tetsuya KimuraSilk Racing Co. Ltd. 1:47.0 2017 Seda Brillantes Yukito Ishikawa Takahisa TezukaSilk Racing Co. Ltd. 1:46.6 2018 Meisho Tekkon Kohei Matsuyama Yoshitada TakahashiYoshio Matsumoto 1:46.1 2019 Breaking Dawn Hironobu Tanabe Kazuya NakatakeKoki Maeda 1:49.8 2020 Babbitt Hiroyuki Uchida Tamio HamadaNaoya Miyata 1:47.3 2021 Weiss Meteor Genki Maruyama Tetsuya KimuraSilk Racing Co. Ltd. 1:48.0 2022 Feengrotten Fuma Matsuwaka Hiroshi MiyamotoSunday Racing Co. Ltd. 1:46.7 2023 Elton Barows Atsuya Nishimura Haruki SugiyamaHirotsugu Inokuma 1:46.92024Off TrailHironobu TanabeKeiji YoshimuraGodolphin1:45.32025Excite BioKiwamu OginoTeiichi KonnoBio K.1:46.92026Sanono GreaterHironobu TanabeKazuyuki OgataNobuyuki Sano1:45.2
The 2000 race took place at Tokyo The 2011 race took place at Nakayama
Earlier winners
1952 - Asatomo 1953 - Cheerio 1954 - Golden Wave 1955 - Hide Homare 1956 - Fair Manna 1957 - Onward There 1958 - Katsutoshi 1959 - Shigeminoru 1960 - Big Yoruka 1961 - Azuma Tenran 1962 - Suzu Hope 1963 - Kaneno Hikaru 1964 - Flower Wood 1965 - Verona 1966 - Hiro Isami 1967 - Munehisa 1968 - Asaka O 1969 - Haku Eiho 1970 - Higashi Light 1971 - Mineral Symboli 1972 - Sugano Homare 1973 - Ichifuji Isami 1974 - Suruga Sumpujo 1975 - Hakuchi Chikatsu 1976 - Toridejo 1977 - Maruzensky 1978 - Kitano Kongo 1979 - Hokusei Midori 1980 - Hawaiian Image 1981 - Eighty Tosho 1982 - Aki Bingo 1983 - Umeno Shin O 1984 - Suzu Parade 1985 - Derby Rich 1986 - Dyna Cosmos 1987 - Leo Tenzan 1988 - Takara Flash 1989 - Daiwa Gehrig 1990 - Tsurumai Aswan 1991 - Twin Turbo 1992 - Shinko Lovely 1993 - A P Grand Prix 1994 - Yashima Sovereign 1995 - Prest Symboli 1996 - Big Baillamont 1997 - Air Guts 1998 - Biwa Takehide 1999 - Silk Guardian
See also Horse racing in Japan List of Japanese flat horse races
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