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New Zealand Trophy
ニュージーランドトロフィー
Grade 2 race
Nakayama Racecourse
LocationNakayama Racecourse
Race typeThoroughbred Flat racing
Race information
Distance1600 metres
SurfaceTurf
TrackRight-handed
Qualification3-y-o
Weight57 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 (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]

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.

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References[edit]

  1. ^ "New Zealand Trophy". Horse Racing in Japan.
  2. ^ "2016 result". Racing Post. 9 April 2016.
  3. ^ "2017 result". Racing Post. 8 April 2017.
  4. ^ "2018 result". Racing Post. 7 April 2018.
  5. ^ "NZT". Netkeiba.
  6. ^ "New Zealand Trophy". Netkeiba.
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