Mile Championship

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Mile Championship
マイルチャンピオンシップ
Grade 1 race
Eishin-Apollon20111120.jpg
The 28th (2011) winner Eishin Apllon
LocationKyoto Racecourse, Fushimi-ku, Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture
Inaugurated1984
Race typeThoroughbred
Websitejapanracing.jp/
Race information
Distance1600 meters
(About 8 furlongs / 1 mile)
SurfaceTurf
TrackRight-handed
Qualification3-y-o & Up, Thoroughbreds
Weight3-y-o 56 kg / 4-y-o & up 57 kg
Purse¥ 190,000,000 (as of 2014)
1st: ¥ 100,000,000[1]

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 is traditionally considered as a step race of Hong Kong Mile in Japan Racing. Particularly before the introduction of Hanshin Cup (Grade 2, 1400m) in 2006, as being the last graded event in mile distance in the Japan racing season and most of the winners or runners-up will travel to Hong Kong pursuing extra prize money. Including the only Japanese winner by then .

Winners[]

Year
 Winner
 Age
 Jockey
 Trainer
 Owner
 Time
1984 4 1:35.3
1985 5 Hiroshi Kawachi Masatoshi Hattori Hyakutaro Kobayashi 1:35.3
1986 4 1:35.3
1987 4 1:34.9
1988 3 Hiroshi Kawachi 1:34.6
1989 Oguri Cap 4 Shunsuke Kondo 1:34.6
1990 Passing Shot 5 1:33.6
1991 Daitaku Helios 4 1:34.8
1992 Daitaku Helios 5 Shigehiko Kishi Yasuo Umeda Masaichi Nakamura 1:33.3
1993 Shinko Lovely 4 Yukio Okabe Kazuo Fujisawa Osamu Yasuda 1:35.7
1994 4 Taihoku Bokujo 1:33.0
1995 6 1:33.7
1996 Genuine 4 Yukio Okabe 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 4 Masayoshi Ebina Lucky Field Co., Ltd. 1:32.8
2000 Agnes Digital 3 1:32.6
2001 4 Olivier Peslier Kazuo Fujisawa 1:33.2
2002 6 Masayoshi Ebina 1:32.8
2003 4 Teruya Yoshida 1:33.3
2004 Durandal 5 Ken-ichi Ikezoe Masahiro Sakaguchi Teruya Yoshida 1:33.0
2005 4 Olivier Peslier Katsuhiko Sumii Carrot Farm Co., Ltd. 1:32.1
2006 Daiwa Major 5 1:32.7
2007 Daiwa Major 6 Katsumi Ando Hiroyuki Uehara Keizo Oshiro 1:32.7
2008 5 Carrot Farm 1:32.6
2009 Company 8 Norihiro Yokoyama 1:33.2
2010 A Shin Forward 5 Yasunari Iwata [2] 1:31.8
2011 Eishin Apollon 4 Ken-ichi Ikezoe Masahiro Matsunaga 1:33.9
2012 Sadamu Patek 4 Yutaka Take Masato Nishizono Sadamu Onishi 1:32.9
2013 Tosen Ra 5 Yutaka Take Takaya Shimakawa 1:32.4
2014 Danon Shark 6 Yasunari Iwata Ryuji Okubo Danox Co Ltd 1:31.5
2015 Maurice 4 Ryan Moore Noriyuki Hori Kazumi Yoshida 1:32.8
2016 Mikki Isle 5 Suguru Hamanaka Hidetaka Otonashi Mizuki Noda 1:33.1
2017 Persian Knight 3 Mirco Demuro Yasutoshi Ikee G1 Racing Co Ltd 1:33.8
2018 Stelvio 3 William Buick Tetsuya Kimura Sunday Racing 1:33.3
2019 Indy Champ 4 Kenichi Ikezoe Hidetaka Otonashi Silk Racing 1:33.0
2020 Gran Alegria[a] 4 Christophe Lemaire Kazuo Fujisawa Sunday Racing 1:32.0
2021 Gran Alegria[a] 5 Christophe Lemaire Kazuo Fujisawa Sunday Racing 1:32.6

a The 2020 and 2021 runnings took place at Hanshin while Kyoto was closed for redevelopment.

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ "Mikki Isle Championship". Retrieved 22 May 2017.
  2. ^ Eishindo

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