Tokyo Shimbun Hai

Tokyo Shimbun Hai
東京新聞杯
Win Carnelian winning the 2023 Tokyo Shimbun Hai
ClassGrade 3
LocationTokyo Racecourse
Inaugurated1951
Race typeThoroughbred Flat racing
Race information
Distance1600 metres
SurfaceTurf
TrackLeft-handed
Qualification4-y-o+
WeightSpecial Weight
Purse¥ 87,960,000 (as of 2026)
  • 1st: ¥ 41,000,000
  • 2nd: ¥ 16,000,000
  • 3rd: ¥ 10,000,000

The Tokyo Shimbun Hai (Japanese 東京新聞杯) is a Grade 3 horse race for Thoroughbreds aged four and over in Japan, run in February over a distance of 1600 metres on turf at Tokyo Racecourse.[1]

The Tokyo Shimbun Hai was first run in 1951 and has held Grade 3 status since 1984. The race was originally run over 2400 metres but the distance was cut to 2200 metres in 1968, 2100 metres in 1969, 2000 metres in 1971 and to 1600 metres in 1984. It was run at Nakayama Racecourse in 1965, 1968 and 2003.

Weight

57 kg for four-year-olds above.[2]

Allowances:

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

Past winners

Year
 Winner
 Age
 Length (in m) Jockey
 Trainer
 Owner
 Time
1951 Tosa Midori 5 T2400m Yasuzo Tanaka Torai Hieda Kenjiro Saito 2:30.2
1952 Mitsuhata 4 T2400m Masato Watanabe Yukio Yano Shinichi Kono 2:29.2
1953 Morimatsu 4 T2400m Yasuzo Tanaka Morikichi Fukuzono Akimatsu Morishima 2:36.3
1954 Hakuryo 4 T2400m Takayoshi Yasuda Tokichi Ogata Nishi Hiroshi 2:30.2
1955 Taka O 4 T2400m Ryoji Furuyama Daijiro Uemura Ginjiro Takasu 2:30.1
1956 Otokitsu 4 T2400m Toshio Nihon'yanagi Fusamatsu Okubo Washitaro Kawaguchi 2:31.2
1957 Haku Chikara 4 T2400m Takayoshi Yasuda Tokichi Ogata Nishi Hiroshi 2:32.2
1958 Mitsuru 5 T2400m Yuji Nohira Tokichi Ogata Masaichi Nagata 2:29.4
1959 Kuripero 4 T2400m Hiroaki Moriyasu Tokichi Ogata Tomoji Kuribayashi 2:30.0
1960 Komatsu Hikari 4 T2400m Takeo Ito Fusamatsu Okubo Shigeo Komatsu 2:28.8
1961 Takamagahara 4 T2400m Kaga Takemi Kizo Konishi Taro Hirai 2:29.4
1962 Tokon 4 T2400m Tsutomu Yamaoka Yukio Yano Nozomi Shiwaku 2:28.7
1963 Asama Fuji 4 T2400m Kaga Takemi Yukio Yano Miya Kitano 2:29.7
1964 Myosotis 4 T2400m Santa Takamatsu Takeichi Kawakami Date Masashi 2:30.4
1965 Yamadori 4 T2400m Hiroaki Moriyasu Suenosuke Mori Yutaro Shimizu 2:29.5
1966 Korehide 4 D2400m Takayoshi Yasuda Tokichi Ogata Yasushi Chigira 2:28.9
1967 Theftway 5 T2400m Yuji Nohira Shozo Nohira Haru Suzuki 2:31.4
1968 Onward Hill 5 T2200m Mitsuo Makino Hiroshi Nakamura Junzo Kashiyama 2:16.1
1969 Takeshiba O 4 D2100m Takayoshi Yasuda Suetaro Mitsui Masao Obata 2:09.5
1970 Masu Minoru 4 D2100m Kaga Takemi Shotaro Abe Eiichi Masuyama 2:11.3
1971 Trentam 4 T2000m Masami Tsuboi Toshio Nihon'yanagi Kono Michi 2:02.4
1972 Akane Tenryu 6 T2000m Nobuyuki Hoshino Teruo Hashimoto Eiichi Sekino 2:07.3
1973 Sugano Homare 4 T2000m Yuji Nohira Shiro Akiyama Kotaro Sugahara 2:01.1
1974 Yushio 4 T2000m Hiroyuki Gohara Kazuo Kikuchi Katsusaburo Usui 2:02.1
1975 Fujino Parthia 4 T2000m Shoichi Osaki Yokichi Okubo Toshio Kitano 2:02.5
1976 Agnes Beauty 5 T2000m Shoichi Osaki Hiroshi Shibata Shigeji Sanada 2:02.2
1977 Tofuku Sedan 4 T2000m Hitoshi Miyata Suekichi Okubo Yoshiharu Inoue 2:02.2
1978 Suzu Saffron 5 T2000m Hiroyuki Nakajima Yoshio Nakazumi Yoshio Komurasaki 2:01.5
1979 Mejiro Phantom 4 T2000m Hitoshi Miyata Yokichi Okubo Toshio Kitano 2:02.0
1980 Fuji Admirable 4 T2000m Hiroyuki Nakajima Tsuneyoshi Mikami Eiichi Araki 2:02.4
1981 Droppo Lord 4 T2000m Eiji Nakano Shizuo Araki Shuzo Takimura 2:01.7
1982 Monte Prince 5 T2000m Masato Yoshinaga Kichisaburo Matsuyama Kihachi Mori 2:00.8
1983 Takara Tenryu 4 T2000m Isao Shimada Tsuguyoshi Sasaki Sachiko Harada 2:02.1
1984 Symboli York 5 T1600m Eiji Nakano Takayoshi Yasuda Symboli Stud 1:37.6
1985 Dokan Yashima 5 T1600m Eizaburo Otsuka Tomojiro Tanaka Arai Kogyo Co., Ltd. 1:35.4
1986 Gallop Dyna 6 T1600m Isamu Shibazaki Susumu Yano Shadai Race Horse Co. Ltd. 1:35.0
1987 Ebisu George 6 T1600m Chiaki Sakai Katsutoshi Aikawa Tomosaburo Kato 1:35.1
1988 Kailas Amon 4 T1600m Tomio Yasuda Kichisaburo Matsuyama Amon Co., Ltd. 1:34.7
1989 Tosho Mario 4 T1600m Masato Shibata Shinji Okuhira Tosho Sangyo 1:35.6
1990 Hokuto Helios 6 T1600m Yoshitomi Shibata Takao Nakano Kanamori Mori Shoji Co., Ltd. 1:34.6
1991 Horino Winner 4 T1600m Yutaka Take Kunihiko Take Masao Horiuchi 1:33.9
1992 Narcisse Noir 6 T1600m Yasuo Sugawara Isao Tanoue Osamu Awata 1:34.4
1993 Kyowa Hoseki 4 T1600m Yutaka Take Kunihiko Take Yoshio Asakawa 1:33.9
1994 Sekitei Ryu O 5 T1600m Katsuharu Tanaka Toshifumi Fujiwara Shingen Kanko 1:33.6
1995 Golden Eye 7 D1600m Tsuyoshi Tanaka Takashi Tsukazaki Kenichi Takahashi 1:37.8
1996 Trot Thunder 7 T1600m Norihiro Yokoyama Kazuo Naito Teruo Fujimoto 1:34.4
1997 Best Tie Up 5 T1600m Yukio Okabe Yasuhisa Matsuyama Teruya Yoshida 1:33.7
1998 Big Sunday 4 T1600m Masayoshi Ebina Tadashi Naka Big Co., Ltd. 1:34.2
1999 King Halo 4 T1600m Yoshitomi Shibata Masahiro Sakaguchi Yoshio Asakawa 1:33.5
2000 Daiwa Caerleon 7 T1600m Hiroshi Kitamura Yoshitaka Ninomiya Daiwa Shoji K. 1:33.6
2001 Checkmate 6 T1600m Shinji Fujita Kenji Yamauchi Tomiro Fukami 1:34.2
2002 Admire Cozzene 6 T1600m Hiroki Goto Mitsuru Hashida Riichi Kondo 1:37.7
2003 Bold Brian 4 T1600m Yoshitomi Shibata Kazuo Fujisawa Eiichi Kobayashi 1:32.3
2004 Win Radius 6 T1600m Katsuharu Tanaka Kazuo Fujisawa Win Co. Ltd. 1:33.0
2005 Hat Trick 4 T1600m Yutaka Take Katsuhiko Sumii U.Carrot Farm 1:33.7
2006 Fuji Silence 6 T1600m Teruo Eda Fuyuki Tako Yasuhide Asano 1:33.7
2007 Suzuka Phoenix 5 T1600m Yutaka Take Mitsuru Hashida Keiji Nagai 1:32.7
2008 Laurel Guerreiro 4 T1600m Shinji Fujita Mitsugu Kon Laurel Racing Co .Ltd. 1:32.8
2009 Absolute 5 T1600m Katsuharu Tanaka Yoshitada Munakata Hiroyuki Sonobe 1:36.9
2010 Red Spada 4 T1600m Norihiro Yokoyama Kazuo Fujisawa Tokyo Horse Racing Co. Ltd. 1:32.1
2011 Smile Jack 6 T1600m Kousei Miura Satoru Kobiyama Yomoji Saito 1:32.5
2012 Garbo 5 T1600m Shu Ishibashi Hidekatsu Shimizu Kazuyoshi Ishikawa 1:32.8
2013 Clarente 4 T1600m Yasunari Iwata Kojiro Hashiguchi Shinji Maeda 1:32.9
2014 Whale Capture 6 T1600m Masayoshi Ebina Kiyotaka Tanaka Masaru Shimada 1:33.2
2015 Vincennes 6 T1600m Yuichi Fukunaga Mikio Matsunaga Shadai Race Horse Co. Ltd. 1:35.7
2016 Smart Layer 6 T1600m Hayato Yoshida Ryuji Okubo Toru Okawa 1:34.1
2017 Black Spinel 4 T1600m Mirco Demuro Hidetaka Otonashi Sunday Racing Co. Ltd. 1:34.9[3]
2018 Lys Gracieux 4 T1600m Yutaka Take Yoshito Yahagi U.Carrot Farm 1:34.1[4]
2019 Indy Champ 4 T1600m Yuichi Fukunaga Hidetaka Otonashi Silk Racing Co. Ltd. 1:31.9[5]
2020 Primo Scene 5 T1600m Mirco Demuro Tetsuya Kimura Silk Racing Co. Ltd. 1:33.0
2021 Karate 5 T1600m Akira Sugawara Yoshiyasu Takahashi Hikaru Odagiri 1:32.4
2022 Elusive Panther 4 T1600m Hironobu Tanabe Takashi Kubota Tsunefumi Kusama 1:32.3
2023 Win Carnelian 6 T1600m Kousei Miura Yuichi Shikato Win Co. Ltd. 1:31.8
2024 Sakura Toujours 7 T1600m Rachel King Noriyuki Hori Sakura Commerce Co. Ltd. 1:32.1
2025 Water Licht 4 T1600m Akira Sugawara Hiroshi Kawachi Masato Yamaoka 1:32.6
2026 Trovatore 5 T1600m Christophe Lemaire Yuichi Shikato Sunday Racing Co. Ltd. 1:32.2

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Tokyo Shimbun Hai". Horse Racing in Japan.
  2. ↑ "List of JRA Graded Races 2025｜List of JRA Graded Races｜Horse Racing in Japan". Horse Racing in Japan. Retrieved 2025-02-09.
  3. ↑ "2017 result". Racing Post. 5 February 2017.
  4. ↑ "2018 result". Racing Post. 4 February 2018.
  5. ↑ "2019 result". Racing Post. 3 February 2019.
  6. ↑ "東京新聞杯". Netkeiba.
  7. ↑ "Tokyo Shimbun Hai". Netkeiba.
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