The Epsom Cup (Japanese エプソムカップ) is a Japanese Grade 3 Handicap horse race for Thoroughbreds aged three and over, run in May over a distance of 1800 metres at Tokyo Racecourse.
It was first run in 1984 and has held Grade 3 status ever since.
Weight 53 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 1 kg for southern hemisphere bred four-year-olds
Penalties (excluding two-year-old race performance):
If a graded stakes race has been won within a year: 3 kg for a grade 1 win (2 kg for fillies / mares) 2 kg for a grade 2 win (1 kg for fillies / mares) 1 kg for a grade 3 win If a graded stakes race has been won for more than a year: 2 kg for a grade 1 win (1 kg for fillies / mares) 1 kg for a grade 2 win
Winners since 1984 Year Winner Age Jockey TrainerOwner Time 1984 Sakura Symboli 5 Futoshi Kojima Kubota HikoyukiJeon Yong Shook 1:51.7 1985 Suzu Mach 4 Shoichi Osaki Yoshio NakazumiYoshio Komurasaki 1:50.4 1986 Super Gura Third 4 Eiji Nakano Yoshinami ShimizuMasahiro Hiranoi 1:50.1 1987 Dyna Fairy 4 Sueo Masuzawa Yasuhiro SuzukiShadai Race Horse 1:48.1 1988 Soshin Hoju 4 Shoji Kashiwazaki Suoki KogaFusako Soman 1:48.1 1989 Nihon Pillow Brave 4 Masato Shibata Yuji ItoHyakutaro Kobayashi 1:50.2 1990 Samantha Tojo 5 Koichi Tsunoda Sakae WatanabeTosho Sangyo 1:47.7 1991 Prekrasnie 4 Teruo Eda Terumasa YanoEijiro Tajima 1:47.2 1992 Marumatsu Ace 4 Tomio Yasuda Yoshio NakazumiToshio Matsuda 1:47.1 1993 Sakura Sakai O 4 Futoshi Kojima Masakatsu SakaiSakura Commerce 1:46.8 1994 Wako Chikako 4 Yukio Okabe Yuji ItoTakao Ishida 1:47.5 1995 Kanetsu Cross 4 Hitoshi Matoba Yasuo NishizukaKanetsu Kyosoba 1:48.0 1996 Marvelous Sunday 4 Yutaka Take Makoto OsawaSadao Sasahara 1:45.7 1997 Taiki Marshal 5 Yukio Okabe Kazuo FujisawaTaiki Farm 1:46.6 1998 Tsukuba Symphony 5 Norihiro Yokoyama Masanori ItoAkio Hosoya 1:48.2 1999 American Boss 4 Teruo Eda Fuyuki TagoAbiru Fudosan 1:46.0 2000 American Boss 5 Teruo Eda Fuyuki TagoAbiru Fudosan 1:49.5 2001 Admire Kaiser 5 Jun'ichi Serizawa Mitsuru HashidaRiichi Kondo 1:45.1 2002 Joten Brave 5 Masayoshi Ebina Ikuo AizawaHisao Tanabe 1:46.9 2003 Meiner Amundsen 4 Masayoshi Ebina Kiyotaka TanakaThoroughbred Club Ruffian 1:47.7 2004 Meiner Amundsen 5 Naohiro Onishi Kiyotaka TanakaThoroughbred Club Ruffian 1:47.8 2005 Suzuno March 5 Hiroshi Kitamura Kazuo FujisawaYoshio Koshiba 1:46.6 2006 Top Gun Joe 4 Hiroki Goto Masamichi WadaTakao Kawachi 1:49.2 2007 Eishin Deputy 5 Katsuhara Tanaka Akira NomotoToyomitsu Hirai 1:48.3 2008 Sunrise Max 4 Norihiro Yokoyama Yutaka MasumotoTakao Matsuoka 1:45.9 2009 Shingen 6 Shinji Fujita Hirofumi TodaTeruhito Hanaki 1:45.5 2010 Seiun Wonder 4 Yuichi Fukunaga Masazo RyokeTakao Otani 1:46.1 2011 Dark Shadow 4 Yuichi Fukunaga Noriyuki HoriTomokazu Iizuka 1:47.3 2012 Tosen Reve 4 Craig Williams Yasutoshi IkeeTakaya Shimakawa 1:46.7 2013 Clarente 4 Yasunari Iwata Kojiro HashiguchiShinji Maeda 1:45.7 2014 Decipher 5 Hirofumi Shii Futoshi KojimaMohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum 1:46.2 2015 A Shin Hikari 4 Yutaka Take Masanori SakaguchiEishindo 1:45.4 2016 Rouge Buck 4 Keita Tosaki Masahiro OtakeCarrot Farm 1:46.2 2017 Dashing Blaze 5 Suguru Hamanaka Keiji YoshimuraGreen Fields 1:45.9 2018 Satono Arthur 4 Keita Tosaki Yasutoshi IkeeSatomi Horse Company 1:47.4 2019 Leyenda 4 Christophe Lemaire Kazuo FujisawaCarrot Farm 1:49.1 2020 Daiwa Cagney 6 Hiroyuki Uchida Takanori KikuzawaKeizo Oshiro 1:47.7 2021 Zadar 5 Shu Ishibashi Masahiro OtakeCarrot Farm 1:45.1 2022 North Bridge 4 Yasunari Iwata Takeshi OkumuraNoboru Iyama 1:46.7 2023 Justin Cafe 5 Kazuo Yokoyama Shogo YasudaMasahiro Miki 1:45.52024Lebensstil4Christophe LemaireHiroyasu TanakaCarrot Farm1:44.72025Seiun Hades6Hideaki MiyukiShinsuke HashiguchiShigeyuki Nishiyama1:43.92026Trovatore5Christophe LemaireYuichi ShikatoSunday Racing1:45.3
See also Horse racing in Japan List of Japanese flat horse races
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