Ban'ei Kinen
| Ban'ei Grade 1 race | |
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| Location | Obihiro Racecourse |
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| Inaugurated | 1968 |
| Race type | Banei |
| Website | www |
| Race information | |
| Distance | 200 meters (About 1 furlongs) |
| Surface | Dirt |
| Track | Ban'ei Track |
| Qualification | 4 years old or upper, Ban'ei |
| Weight | Weight-for-age (4yo or 5yo: 990kg, 6yo or upper: 1,000kg; -20kg for mare) |
| Purse | ¥3,000,000 (as of 2013) |
The Ban'ei Kinen (ばんえい記念) is a Grade 1 Ban'ei horse race, held in Obihiro, Hokkaido, Japan for four-year-olds and up. The full name is Nōrin Suisan Daijin Shōten Ban'ei Kinen (農林水産大臣賞典 ばんえい記���) (Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Award, Ban'ei Kinen).
The race is the championship race held in the end of the season (March) with the highest weight and prize money among all ban'ei races.
Winners since 2001[]
| Year |
Winner |
Jockey |
Trainer |
Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | Sakano Taison | Kazuo Okawara | Haruo Nishimura | 3:42.3 |
| 2002 | Sakano Taison | Takumi Fujimoto | Haruo Nishimura | 4:16.4 |
| 2003 | Super Pegasus | Toshiharu Iwamoto | Eito Otomo | 4:19.8 |
| 2004 | Super Pegasus | Toshiharu Iwamoto | Eito Otomo | 3:07.8 |
| 2005 | Super Pegasus | Shunichi Fujino | Eito Otomo | 3:15.3 |
| 2006 | Super Pegasus | Shunichi Fujino | Eito Otomo | 4:36.1 |
| 2007 | Tomoe Power | Toichi Sakamoto | Hirofumi Matsui | 4:50.6 |
| 2008 | Tomoe Power | Hiromi Nishi | Hirofumi Matsui | 5:35.8 |
| 2009 | Tomoe Power | Hiromi Nishi | Hirofumi Matsui | 4:50.8 |
| 2010 | Nishiki Daijin | Shunichi Fujino | Isamu Kaneta | 4:24.8 |
| 2011 | Kanesa Black | Michiaki Matsuda | Hirofumi Matsui | 4:07.7 |
| 2012 | Nishiki Daijin | Keisuke Suzuki | Shinichi Murakami | 2:34.0 |
| 2013 | Kanesa Black | Michiaki Matsuda | Hirofumi Matsui | 3:43.1 |
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