- Mile Championship
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Grade 1 race
Mile Championship
マイルチャンピオンシップLocation Kyoto Racecourse, Fushimi-ku, Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture Inaugurated 1984 Race type Thoroughbred Website japanracing.jp/ Race information Distance 1600 meters
(About 8 furlongs / 1 mile)Track Turf, Right-handed Qualification 3-y-o & Up, Thoroughbreds Weight 3-y-o 56 kg / 4-y-o & up 57 kg Purse ¥213,000,000 (as of 2007) The Mile Championship is an International Grade I flat horse race in Japan for three-year-old and above thoroughbreds run over a distance of 1,600 metres (approximately 1 mile) on the turf at Kyoto Racecourse in November. It was first run in 1984.
It has now become common for horses who do well in this race to travel to Hong Kong and race in the Hong Kong Mile held in mid December.
Winners since 1994
Year Winner Age Jockey Trainer Owner Time 1994 North Flight 4 Koichi Tsunoda Keiji Kato Taihoku Bokujo 1:33.0 1995 Trot Thunder 6 Norihiro Yokoyama Katsutoshi Aikawa Teruo Fujimoto 1:33.7 1996 Genuine 4 Yukio Okabe Yasuhisa Matsuyama Shadai Race Horse Co Ltd 1:33.8 1997 Taiki Shuttle 3 Norihiro Yokoyama Kazuo Fujisawa Taiki Farm 1:33.3 1998 Taiki Shuttle 4 Yukio Okabe Kazuo Fujisawa Taiki Farm 1:33.3 1999 Air Jihad 4 Masayoshi Ebina Masanori Ito Lucky Field Co Ltd 1:32.8 2000 Agnes Digital 3 Hitoshi Matoba Toshiaki Shirai Takao Watanabe 1:32.6 2001 Zenno El Cid 4 Olivier Peslier Kazuo Fujisawa Shinobu Oosako 1:33.2 2002 Tokai Point 6 Masayoshi Ebina Yoshiyuki Goto Masanori Uchimura 1:32.8 2003 Durandal 4 Kenichi Ikezoe Masahiro Sakaguchi Teruya Yoshida 1:33.3 2004 Durandal 5 Kenichi Ikezoe Masahiro Sakaguchi Teruya Yoshida 1:33.0 2005 Hat Trick 4 Olivier Peslier Katsuhiko Sumii Carrot Farm Co Ltd 1:32.1 2006 Daiwa Major 5 Katsumi Ando Hiroyuki Uehara Keizo Oshiro 1:32.7 2007 Daiwa Major 6 Katsumi Ando Hiroyuki Uehara Keizo Oshiro 1:32.7 2008 Blumenblatt 5 Yutaka Yoshida Sei Ishizaka Carrot Farm 1:32.6 2009 Company 8 Norihiro Yokoyama Hidetaka Otonashi Hideko Kondo 1:33.2 2010 A Shin Forward 5 Yasunari Iwata Masato Nishizono Eishindo Co. Ltd. 1:31.8 Earlier winners
- 1984 - Nihon Pillow Winner
- 1985 - Nihon Pillow Winner
- 1986 - Takara Steel
- 1987 - Nippo Teio
- 1988 - Soccer Boy
- 1989 - Oguri Cap
- 1990 - Passing Shot
- 1991 - Daitaku Helios
- 1992 - Daitaku Helios
- 1993 - Shinko Lovely
External links
International Races (regular GI races) February Stakes (dirt) · Takamatsunomiya Kinen · Oka Sho (Japanese 1000 Guineas; 3-year-old fillies) · Satsuki Sho (Japanese 2000 Guineas; 3-year-olds) ·Tenno Sho (Spring) · NHK Mile Cup (3-year-olds) · Victoria Mile (fillies and mares) · Yushun Himba (Japanese Oaks; 3-year-old fillies) · Tokyo Yūshun (Japanese Derby; 3-year-olds) · Yasuda Kinen · Takarazuka Kinen · Sprinters Stakes · Shūka Sho (3-year-old fillies) · Kikuka Shō (Japanese St. Leger; 3-year-olds) · Tenno Sho (Autumn) · Queen Elizabeth II Commemorative Cup (fillies and mares) · Mile Championship · Japan Cup Dirt (invitational dirt) · Japan Cup (invitational) · Hanshin Juvenile Fillies (2-year-old fillies) · Asahi Hai Futurity Stakes (2-year-olds) · Arima Kinen (Grand Prix) · Tokyo Daishōten (dirt)Domestic Races (JPN I races) Kawasaki Kinen (dirt) · Kashiwa Kinen (dirt) · Teio sho (dirt) · Japan Dirt Derby (3-year-old;dirt) · Mile Championship Nambu Hai (dirt) · Japan Breeding farm's Cup Sprint (dirt) · Japan Breeding farm's Cup Classic (dirt) · Zen-Nippon Nisai Yushun (dirt; 2-year-olds)Steeplechase Races (J-GI races) Nakayama Grand Jump (international invitational) · Nakayama Daishogai (international)See also Categories:- Open mile category horse races
- Turf races in Japan
- Horse race stubs
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