The New Zealand Trophy (Japanese ニュージーランドトロフィー) is a Japanese Grade 2 flat horse race in Japan for three-year-old Thoroughbreds. It is run over a distance of 1600 metres at Nakayama Racecourse in April.[1]
| Grade 2 race | |
 Nakayama Racecourse | |
| Location | Nakayama Racecourse |
|---|---|
| Race type | Thoroughbred Flat racing |
| Race information | |
| Distance | 1600 metres |
| Surface | Turf |
| Track | Right-handed |
| Qualification | 3-y-o |
| Weight | 57 kg Allowance: Fillies 2 kg |
| Purse | ¥ 117,540,000 (as of 2024) 1st: ¥ 54,000,000 2nd: ¥ 22,000,000 3rd: ¥ 14,000,000 |
The New Zealand Trophy was first run in 1983 and was elevated to Grade 3 status in 1984 before being promoted to Grade 2 in 1987. It serves as a trial race for the NHK Mile Cup.
Among the winners of the race have been Oguri Cap, Eishin Preston and El Condor Pasa.
Winners edit
| Year |
Winner |
Jockey |
Trainer |
Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 | Upsetter | Yukio Okabe | Kazuo Tanaka | 1:37.0 |
| 1984 | Nippo Swallow | Nobuhiro Ebina | Kubota Kinzo | 1:37.8 |
| 1985 | Maruyo Plaid | Seiji Sakuta | Kohei Take | 1:38.6 |
| 1986 | Nippo Teio | Hiroyuki Gohara | Kubota Kinzo | 1:36.8 |
| 1987 | Yuwa James | Tomio Yasuda | Kohei Take | 1:35.2 |
| 1988 | Oguri Cap | Hiroshi Kawachi | Tsutomu Setoguchi | 1:34.0 |
| 1989 | Aquavit | Masato Shibata | Isao Shimada | 1:35.1 |
| 1990 | Music Time | Yukio Okabe | Yasuhisa Matsuyama | 1:34.9 |
| 1991 | Weiss Cedar | Yoshitomi Shibata | Yutaka Masumoto | 1:35.3 |
| 1992 | Shinko Lovely | Yukio Okabe | Kazuo Fujisawa | 1:34.9 |
| 1993 | Toyo Lyphard | Masahiro Matsunaga | Yoshiharu Matsunaga | 1:34.6 |
| 1994 | Hishi Amazon | Eiji Nakadate | Takao Nakano | 1:35.8 |
| 1995 | Shake Hand | Junichi Serizawa | Yoshio Oki | 1:35.3 |
| 1996 | Fabulous La Fouine | Shinji Fujita | Hiroyuki Nagahama | 1:22.4 |
| 1997 | Seeking The Pearl | Yutaka Take | Hideyuki Mori | 1:21.1 |
| 1998 | El Condor Pasa | Hitoshi Matoba | Yoshitaka Ninomiya | 1:22.2 |
| 1999 | Zachariah | Hitoshi Matoba | Yoshitaka Ninomiya | 1:23.4 |
| 2000 | Eishin Preston | Yuichi Fukunaga | Shuji Kitahashi | 1:34.4 |
| 2001 | Kitasan Channel | Ryo Takahashi | Kojiro Hashiguchi | 1:35.7 |
| 2002 | Taiki Lion | Yoshitomi Shibata | Kiyotaka Tanaka | 1:32.1 |
| 2003 | Eishin Tsurugizan | Norihiro Yokoyama | Hideaki Fujiwara | 1:34.6 |
| 2004 | Seeking The Dia | Yutaka Take | Hideyuki Mori | 1:33.5 |
| 2005 | Meiner Hearty | Hiroyuki Uchida | Hitoshi Nakamura | 1:33.4 |
| 2006 | Meiner Scherzi | Yoshitomi Shibata | Ryuichi Inaba | 1:33.5 |
| 2007 | Toho Racer | Hiroki Goto | Yoshihiko Kawamura | 1:33.9 |
| 2008 | Satono Progress | Norihiro Yokoyama | Sakae Kunieda | 1:35.0 |
| 2009 | San Carlo | Yutaka Yoshida | Yokichi Okubo | 1:33.8 |
| 2010 | Sunrise Prince | Norihiro Yokoyama | Hidetaka Otonashi | 1:32.9 |
| 2011 [1] | Eishin Osman | Hideaki Miyuki | Masahiro Matsuaga | 1:34.5 |
| 2012 | Curren Black Hill | Shinichiro Akiyama | Osamu Hirata | 1:33.2 |
| 2013 | A Shin Top | Hiroyuki Uchida | Masato Nishizono | 1:34.8 |
| 2014 | Shonan Achieve | Hiroki Goto | Sakae Kunieda | 1:33.3 |
| 2015 | Yamakatsu Ace | Kenichi Ikezoe | Kaneo Ikezoe | 1:34.8 |
| 2016 | Dantsu Prius | Genki Maruyama | Kenji Yamauchi | 1:33.9[2] |
| 2017 | Jo Strictly | Andrasch Starke | Hisashi Shimizu | 1:36.0[3] |
| 2018 | Katsuji | Kohei Matsuyama | Kaneo Ikezoe | 1:34.2[4] |
| 2019 | Wide Pharaoh | Hiroyuki Uchida | Katsuhiko Sumii | 1:34.2 |
| 2020 | Luftstrom | Shu Ishibashi | Noriyuki Hori | 1:33.0 |
| 2021 | Bathrat Leon | Yusuke Fujioka | Yoshito Yahagi | 1:33.1 |
| 2022 | Jean Gros | Yutaka Take | Hideyuki Mori | 1:33.5 |
| 2023 | Eeyan | Mirco Demuro | Daishi Ito | 1:33.7 |
| 2024 | Ecoro Bloom | Takeshi Yokoyama | Yukihiro Kato | 1:34.4 |
1 The 2011 race took place at Hanshin Racecourse.
See also edit
References edit
- ^ "New Zealand Trophy". Horse Racing in Japan.
- ^ "2016 result". Racing Post. 9 April 2016.
- ^ "2017 result". Racing Post. 8 April 2017.
- ^ "2018 result". Racing Post. 7 April 2018.
- ^ "NZT". Netkeiba.
- ^ "New Zealand Trophy". Netkeiba.