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CBC Sho

Horse race in Aichi, Japan

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The CBC Sho (Japanese CBC賞) is a Grade 3 horse race for Thoroughbreds aged three and over, run in late June or early July over a distance of 1200 metres on turf at Chukyo Racecourse.

It was first run over the current distance in 1965. With the introduction of grading system, the race was rated as a Grade 3 race in 1984, elevated to Grade 2 status in 1990, and downgraded to Grade 3 status in 2006. The race was originally run over 1800 metres the distance was cut to 1400 metres in 1971 and again to 1200 metres in 1981. It was run at Kyoto Racecourse in 1993 and 2010, Kokura Racecourse in 1999, 2021, and 2022, and Hanshin Racecourse in 2011 and 2020. The race was historically held in June (1990 - 1995), November (1996 - 1999), and December (2000 - 2011).

01Winners since 2000

Year
Winner
Age
Jockey
Trainer
Owner
Time
2000 Trot Star 4 Masayoshi Ebina Eiji Nakano Minoru Takano 1:07.9
2001 Rikiai Tokan 3 Taisei Yamada Masahiro Matsuda Yukio Takayama 1:09.1
2002 Sunningdale 3 Kenichi Ikezoe Tsutomu Setoguchi Shigeki Goto 1:08.4
2003 She Is Tosho 3 Mitsuaki Ando Akio Tsurudome Tosho Sangyo 1:08.5
2004 Precious Cafe 5 Masayoshi Ebina Futoshi Kojima Kiyoshi Nishikawa 1:08.2
2005 Symboli Gran 3 Davy Bonilla Yoshihiro Hatakeyama Symboli Stud 1:08.7
2006 She Is Tosho 6 Kenichi Ikezoe Akio Tsurudome Shigeki Goto 1:09.0
2007 Black Bar Spin 4 Hirofumi Shii Takahisa Tezuka Yoshio Fujita 1:09.1
2008 Sleepless Night 4 Hiroyuki Uemura Kojiro Hashiguchi Sunday Racing 1:08.0
2009 Premium Box 6 Ryota Sameshima Hiroyuki Uehara Shadai Race Horse 1:08.0
2010[a] Headliner 6 Hideaki Miyuki Masato Nishizono Shadai Race Horse 1:08.9
2011[b] Dasher Go Go 4 Norihiro Yokoyama Takayuki Yasuda Shin Ashida 1:08.1
2012 Majin Prosper 5 Suguru Hamanaka Hidemasa Nakao Kazuhiro Sasaki 1:08.7
2013 Majin Prosper 6 Yuichi Fukunaga Hidemasa Nakao Kazuhiro Sasaki 1:08.0
2014 Toho Amapola 5 Yuichi Fukunaga Ryo Takahashi Toho Bussan 1:08.6
2015 Uliuli 5 Yasunari Iwata Hideaki Fujiwara Kaneko Makoto Holdings 1:09.1
2016 Red Falx 5 Mirco Demuro Tomohito Ozeki Tokyo Horse Racing 1:07.2
2017 Shining Lei 5 Yuichi Kitamura Tomokazu Takano Carrot Farm 1:08.0
2018 Ares Barows 6 Yuga Kawada Koichi Tsunoda Koji Inokuma 1:07.0
2019 Red En Ciel 5 Yuichi Fukunaga Yasushi Shono Tokyo Horse Racing 1:09.8
2020[b] Love Kampf 5 Arata Saito Naoyuki Morita Yoichi Masuda 1:08.7
2021[c] First Force 5 Katsuma Sameshima Masayuki Nishimura Koji Yasuhara 1:06.0
2022[c] T M Spada 3 Seina Imamura Tadao Igarashi Masatsugu Takezono 1:05.8
2023 Jasper Krone 4 Taisei Danno Hideyuki Mori Kazuo Kato 1:07.2
2024 Drop of Light 5 Hideaki Miyuki Yuichi Fukunaga Makio Okada 1:07.5
2025 Invincible Papa 4 Daisuke Sasaki Daishi Ito Mikako Sakota 1:07.4
2026 From Dusk 6 Yuji Nakai Hideyuki Mori Susumu Fujita 1:06.5

[a]The 2010 race ran at Kyoto Racecourse over the same distance.
[b]The 2011 and 2020 race ran at Hanshin Racecourse over the same distance.
[c]The 2021 and 2022 race ran at Kokura Racecourse over the same distance.

02Earlier winners

  • 1965 - Shogetsu-2
  • 1966 - Miss Nihon Pillow
  • 1967 - Midori O
  • 1968 - Midori Ace
  • 1969 - Atlas
  • 1970 - Ouja
  • 1971 - Erimo Silver
  • 1972 - Sugano Homare
  • 1973 - Lake Fire
  • 1974 - Kei Supako
  • 1975 - Aura Miharu
  • 1976 - Silver Land
  • 1977 - Riki Taiko
  • 1978 - Riki Taiko
  • 1979 - Yamanin Dandy
  • 1980 - Marry Joy
  • 1981 - Agnes Venture
  • 1982 - Happy Progress
  • 1983 - Nihon Pillow Winner
  • 1984 - Happy Progress
  • 1985 - Nishino Eve
  • 1986 - Lead Triple
  • 1987 - St Caesar
  • 1988 - Toa Falcon
  • 1989 - Mystic Star
  • 1990 - Passing Shot
  • 1991 - Fame of Lass
  • 1992 - Yuki Top Run
  • 1993 - Toshi Green
  • 1994 - Nihon Pillow Prince
  • 1995 - Towa Winner
  • 1996 - Eishin Washington
  • 1997 - Sugino Hayakaze
  • 1998 - Masa Lucky
  • 1999 - Agnes World
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