Queen Elizabeth II Cup
エリザベス女王杯
Grade 1 race
2022 Queen Elizabeth II Cup winner Geraldina
LocationKyoto Racecourse, Fushimi-ku, Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture
Inaugurated1976
Race typeThoroughbred
Websitejapanracing.jp/
Race information
Distance2200 meters
(About 11 furlongs / 1+3⁄8 miles)
SurfaceTurf
TrackRight-handed
Qualification3-y-o & Up, Fillies & Mares only, Thoroughbreds
Weight3-y-o 54 kg \ 4-y-o & up 56 kg
Purse¥ 281,800,000 (as of 2023)
1st: ¥ 130,000,000

The Queen Elizabeth II Cup (Queen Elizabeth II Commemorative Cup until 2012) is an International Grade 1 flat horse race in Japan for three-year-old and above thoroughbred fillies and mares run over a distance of 2,200 metres (approximately 1 mile 3 furlongs) on the turf at Kyoto Racecourse in November.

History

The race was first run in 1976 over a distance of 2,400 metres (1 mile 4 furlongs). It was originally for three-year-old fillies only and was the third leg of the Japanese Fillies' Triple Crown. In 1996, it was opened to older female horses and was reduced to its present distance. In the same year the Shuka Sho was established and became the third leg of the Fillies' Triple Crown.

Since 1999 it turned into International Grade 1 race. In 2010 Snow Fairy from England, being the first winner outside Japan. The following year she made Japanese flat racing history of being the first ever non-Japanese trained horse to win the same Grade 1 flat race back-to-back (second ever including Steeplechase, which Karasi winning Nakayama Grand Jump between 2005 and 2007).

It is the only Grade 1 race that is restricted to fillies and mares aged three or above. The other Grade 1 races for older female horses in Japan, the Victoria Mile, excludes three-year-olds.

Records

Most successful horse (2 wins):

Winners

Year
 Winner
 Age
 Distance (meters) Jockey
 Trainer
 Owner
 Time
1976 Diamante 3 2400 Yukiharu Matsuda Yukio Inaba Hiroyoshi Sato 2:28.5
1977 Inter Gloria 3 2400 Yoichi Fukunaga Tsugio Yanagida Masao Matsuoka 2:28.7
1978 Lead Swallow 3 2400 Kunihiko Take Masatoshi Hattori Yoshio Kumamoto 2:29.1
1979 Miss Kaburaya 3 2400 Yukio Okabe Tokachi Nishizuka Kaburaya 2:32.6
1980 Hagino Top Lady 3 2400 Kiyoaki Ito Shuji Ito Kokichi Hinokuma 2:27.9
1981 Agnes Tesco 3 2400 Katsuichi Nishiura Michio Kubo Takao Watanabe 2:28.1
1982 Victoria Crown 3 2400 Isao Shimada Yukio Inaba Masahi Iida 2:29.2
1983 Long Grace 3 2400 Hiroshi Kawachi Minoru Kobayashi Choichi Nakai 2:30.1
1984 Kyowa Thunder 3 2400 Hiroshi Higuchi Hachiro Yoshioka Yoshio Asakawa 2:28.4
1985 Reward Wing 3 2400 Kunio Uchida Akio Tsurudome Tadahiko Miyazaki 2:26.8
1986 Mejiro Ramonu 3 2400 Hiroshi Kawachi Shinji Okuhira Mejiro Bokujo 2:29.1
1987 Talented Girl 3 2400 Seiji Ebisawa Hironori Kurita Masako Iida 2:29.3
1988 Miyama Poppy 3 2400 Yukiharu Matsuda Yoshitaro Matsuda Ryogo Omiya 2:27.2
1989 Sand Peeress 3 2400 Shigehiko Kishi Shinobu Yoshioka Hidaka Breeders Union 2:28.8
1990 Kyoei Tap 3 2400 Norihiro Yokoyama Kenji Hieda Masao Matsuoka 2:25.5
1991 Rinden Lilly 3 2400 Junichiro Oka Akira Nomoto Akitoshi Hayashida 2:29.6
1992 Takeno Velvet 3 2400 Shinji Fujita Minoru Kobayashi Daikichi Takeoka 2:27.1
1993 Hokuto Vega 3 2400 Kazuhiro Kato Takao Nakano Kanamorimori Shoji 2:24.9
1994 Hishi Amazon 3 2400 Eiji Nakadate Takao Nakano Masaichiro Abe 2:24.3
1995 Sakura Candle 3 2400 Futoshi Kojima Kazunori Sakai Sakura Commerce 2:27.3
1996 Dance Partner 4 2200 Hirofumi Shii Toshiaki Shirai Katsumi Yoshida 2:14.3
1997 Erimo Chic 4 2200 Hitoshi Matoba Yoshio Oki Shinichi Yamamoto 2:12.5
1998 Mejiro Dober 4 2200 Yutaka Yoshida Yokichi Okubo Mejiro Shoji 2:12.8
1999 Mejiro Dober 5 2200 Yutaka Yoshida Yokichi Okubo Mejiro Shoji 2:13.5
2000 Phalaenopsis 5 2200 Mikio Matsunaga Mitsumasa Hamada North Hills Management Co Ltd 2:12.8
2001 To the Victory 5 2200 Yutaka Take Yasuo Ikee Makoto Kaneko 2:11.2
2002 Fine Motion 3 2200 Yutaka Take Yuji Ito Tatsuo Fushikida 2:13.2
2003 Admire Groove 3 2200 Yutaka Take Mitsuru Hashida Riichi Kondo 2:11.8
2004 Admire Groove 4 2200 Yutaka Take Mitsuru Hashida Riichi Kondo 2:13.6
2005 Sweep Tosho 4 2200 Kenichi Ikezoe Akio Tsurudome Tosho Sangyo 2:12.5
2006 Fusaichi Pandora [a] 3 2200 Yuichi Fukunaga Toshiaki Shirai Fusao Sekiguchi 2:11.6
2007 Daiwa Scarlet 3 2200 Katsumi Ando Kunihide Matsuda Keizo Oshiro 2:11.9
2008 Little Amapola 3 2200 Christophe Lemaire Hiroyuki Nagahama Shadai Racehorse Co 2:12.1
2009 Queen Spumante 5 2200 Hiroyasu Tanaka Shigeyuki Kojima Green Farm 2:13.6
2010 Snow Fairy 3 2200 Ryan Moore Ed Dunlop Anamoine Ltd 2:12.5
2011 Snow Fairy 4 2200 Ryan Moore Ed Dunlop Anamoine Ltd 2:11.6
2012 Rainbow Dahlia 5 2200 Yoshitomi Shibata Yoshitaka Ninomiya Yoshiko Tanaka 2:16.3
2013 Meisho Mambo 3 2200 Koshiro Take Akihiro Iida Yoshio Matsumoto 2:16.6
2014 Lachesis 4 2200 Yuga Kawada Katsuhiko Sumii Masaya Oshima 2:12.3
2015 Marialite 4 2200 Masayoshi Ebina Takashi Kubota U Carrot Farm 2:14.9
2016 Queens Ring 4 2200 Mirco Demuro Keiji Yoshimura Chizu Yoshida 2:12.9
2017 Mozu Katchan 3 2200 Mirco Demuro Ippo Sameshima Capital System Co. Ltd 2:14.3
2018 Lys Gracieux 4 2200 João Moreira Yoshito Yahagi U Carrot Farm 2:13.1
2019 Lucky Lilac 4 2200 Christophe Soumillon Mikio Matsunaga Sunday Racing 2:14.1
2020 Lucky Lilac [b] 5 2200 Christophe Lemaire Mikio Matsunaga Sunday Racing 2:10.3
2021 Akai Ito [b] 4 2200 Hideaki Miyuki Kazuya Nakatake Koji Oka 2:12.1
2022 Geraldina [b] 4 2200 Cristian Demuro Takashi Saito Sunday Racing 2:13.0
2023 Brede Weg 3 2200 Christophe Lemaire Keisuke Miyata Sunday Racing 2:12.6

a Kawakami Princess finished first in 2006 but was demoted to 12th place following a Stewards' Inquiry.

b The 2020, 2021 and 2022 races took place at Hanshin Racecourse over a distance of 2200 metres.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "エリザベス女王杯". Netkeiba.
  2. ↑ "Queen Elizabeth 2 Cup". Netkeiba.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.