Keeneland Cup

The Keeneland Cup (Japanese キーンランドカップ) is a Grade 3 horse race for Thoroughbreds aged three and over, run in August over a distance of 1200 metres on turf at Sapporo Racecourse.[1] It serves as a trial race for the Sprinters Stakes.

Keeneland Cup

Grade 3 race
Location	Sapporo Racecourse
Inaugurated	1966
Race type	Thoroughbred Flat racing
Race information
Distance	1200 metres
Surface	Turf
Track	Right-handed
Qualification	3-y-o+
Weight	4-y-o+ 56 kg, 3-y-o 53 kg, fillies allowed 2 kg
Purse	¥87,960,000 (total), ¥41,000,000 (winner)

The Keeneland Cup was first run in 1996 and has held Grade 3 status since 2006. It was run at Hakodate Racecourse in 2013. The race was contested over 1000 metres until 2000.

Winners since 2006

Year	Winner	Age	Jockey	Trainer	Time
2006	Cheerful Smile	6	Yasunari Iwata	Yasuo Ikee	1:08.4
2007	Couverture	3	Norihiro Yokoyama	Sakae Kunieda	1:08.6
2008	Tanino Martini	8	Shinichiro Akiyama	Hikozo Sugai	1:07.9
2009	B B Guldan	5	Katsumi Ando	Masazo Ryoke	1:08.4
2010	One Carat	4	Yusuke Fujioka	Kenichi Fujioka	1:08.4
2011	Curren Chan	4	Kenichi Ikezoe	Takayuki Yasuda	1:08.6
2012	Pas de Trois	5	Katsumi Ando	Ippo Sameshima	1:07.6
2013	Forever Mark	5	Issei Murata	Eiichi Yano	1:11.7
2014	Robe Tissage	4	Kosei Miura	Naosuke Sugai	1:09.0
2015	Ukiyono Kaze	5	Hirofumi Shii	Takanori Kikuzawa	1:08.6
2016	Blanc Bonheur	3	Keita Tosaki	Kazuya Nakatake	1:08.5[2]
2017	Epoisses	9	Christophe Lemaire	Kazuo Fujisawa	1:09.0[3]
2018	Nac Venus	5	Joao Moreira	Hiroaki Sugiura	1:09.4[4]
2019	Danon Smash	4	Yuga Kawada	Takayuki Yasuda	1:09.2

See also

• Horse racing in Japan
• List of Japanese flat horse races

References

1. "Keeneland Cup". Horse Racing in Japan.
2. "2016 result". Racing Post. 28 August 2016.
3. "2017 result". Racing Post. 27 August 2017.
4. "2018 result". Racing Post. 26 August 2018.