Hanshin Daishōten

The Hanshin Daishōten is a Japanese Grade 2 flat horse race in Japan for Thoroughbred colts and fillies aged four and over run over a distance of 3,000 metres at the Hanshin Racecourse, Takarazuka, Hyogo. The race was run in late November or early December until 1987 when it was moved to a date in March. The race now serves as a trial for the spring edition of the Tenno Sho.
It was first run in 1953.

Race details

The race is run at Hanshin Racecourse over a distance of 3,000 meters on turf using the inner curve.

Weight

56 kg for four-year-olds, and 57 kg for five-year-olds and above.
Allowances:

2 kg for fillies / mares
1 kg for southern hemisphere bred three-year-olds

Penalties :

If a graded stakes race has been won within a year:
* 2 kg for a grade 1 win
* 1 kg for a grade 2 win
If a graded stakes race has been won for more than a year:
* 1 kg for a grade 1 win

Winners since 1995

Year	Winner	Age	Jockey	Trainer	Owner	Time
1995	Narita Brian	4	Katsuyuki Minai	Masaaki Ookubo	Hidenori Yamaji	3:08.2
1996	Narita Brian	5	Yutaka Take	Masaaki Ookubo	Hidenori Yamaji	3:04.9
1997	Mayano Top Gun	5	Seiki Tabara	Masahiro Sakaguchi	Yu Tadokoro	3:07.2
1998	Mejiro Bright	4	Hiroshi Kawashi	Hidekazu Asami	Mejiro Farm	3:09.3
1999	Special Week	4	Yutaka Take	Toshiaki Shirai	Hiroyoshi Usuda	3:13.4
2000	T M Opera O	4	Ryuji Wada	Ichizo Iwamoto	Masatsugu Takezono	3:09.4
2001	Narita Top Road	5	Kunihiko Watanabe	Hidenori Yamaji	Hidenori Yamaji	3:02.5
2002	Narita Top Road	6	Kunihiko Watanabe	Hidenori Yamaji	Hidenori Yamaji	3:07.9
2003	Daitaku Bertram	5	Yutaka Take	Kojiro Hashiguchi	Taiyo Farm	3:05.9
2004	Lincoln	4	Yutaka Take	Hidetaka Otonashi	Hideko Kondo	3:08.4
2005	My Sole Sound	6	Masaru Honda	Katsuichi Nishiura	Kiyoshi Sano	3:06.2
2006	Deep Impact	4	Yutaka Take	Yasuo Ikee	Kaneko Makoto Holdings	3:08.8
2007	Eye Popper	7	Yutaka Take	Izumi Shimizu	Sunday Racing	3:08.3
2008	Admire Jupiter	5	Yasunari Iwata	Yasuo Tomomichi	Riichi Kondo	3:08.7
2009	Asakusa Kings	5	Hirofumi Shii	Ryuji Okubo	Keiko Tabara	3:13.2
2010	Tokai Trick	8	Shinji Fujita	Kenji Nonaka	Masanori Uchimura	3:07.3
2011	Namura Crescent	6	Ryuji Wada	Nobuharu Fukushima	Nobushige Namura	3:04.4
2012	Gustave Cry	4	Yuichi Fukunaga	Yoshiyuki Arakawa	Shadai Race Horse	3:11.8
2013	Gold Ship	4	Hiroyuki Uchida	Naosuke Sugai	Eiichi Kobayashi	3:05.0
2014	Gold Ship	5	Yasunari Iwata	Naosuke Sugai	Eiichi Kobayashi	3:06.6
2015	Gold Ship	6	Yasunari Iwata	Naosuke Sugai	Eiichi Kobayashi	3:05.9
2016	Cheval Grand	4	Yuichi Fukunaga	Yasuo Tomomichi	Kazuhiro Sasaki	3:05.8
2017	Satono Diamond	4	Christophe Lemaire	Yasutoshi Ikee	Hajime Satomi	3:02.6
2018	Rainbow Line	5	Yasunari Iwata	Hidekazu Asami	Masahiro Mita	3:03.6
2019	Sciacchetra	6	Keita Tosaki	Katsuhiko Sumii	Kaneko Makoto Holdings	3:06.5
2020	You Can Smile	5	Yasunari Iwata	Yasuo Tomomichi	Kaneko Makoto Holdings	3:03.0
2021	Deep Bond	4	Ryuji Wada	Ryuji Okubo	Shinji Maeda	3:07.3
2022	Deep Bond	5	Ryuji Wada	Ryuji Okubo	Shinji Maeda	3:05.0
2023	Justin Palace	4	Christophe Lemaire	Haruki Sugiyama	Masahiro Miki	3:06.1
2024	T O Royal	6	Yuji Hishida	Inao Okada	Tomoya Ozasa	3:06.8
2025	Sunrise Earth	4	Kenichi Ikezoe	Koichi Ishizaka	Life House	3:03.3

Earlier winners

1953 - Koran
1954 - Hiya Kiogan
1955 - Sekai O
1956 - Dainana Hoshu
1957 - Top Run
1958 - Katsura Shuho
1959 - Tokitsuhiro
1960 - Yamanin More
1961 - Helios
1962 - Motoichi
1963 - Hikaru Pola
1964 - Kotaro
1965 - Chitose O
1966 - Ryu Pharos
1967 - Finis
1968 - Muo
1969 - Date Hakutaka
1970 - Speedy Wonder
1971 - Suin Hoshu
1972 - Hamano Parade
1973 - Dicta Boy
1974 - Kuri Onward
1975 - Long Hawk
1976 - Hokuto Boy
1977 - Takino Chester
1978 - Captain Namura
1979 - Fine Dragon
1980 - Great Titan
1981 - Arena O
1982 - Hanki Inari
1983 - Shin Brown
1984 - Shin Brown
1985 - Nishino Raiden
1986 - Mejiro Boir
1987 - Suda Hawk
1988 - Tamamo Cross
1989 - Namura Mononofu
1990 - Osumi Shadai
1991 - Mejiro McQueen
1992 - Mejiro McQueen
1993 - Mejiro Palmer
1994 - Monsieur Siecle