Japan Cup

The Japan Cup is the most important horse race in Japan. It is held at the end of November in the Tokyo Racecourse. The race is 2400 metres long and the winner gets about ¥533 million (about US $4.6 million) as an award (the highest reward for horse racing in the world).

Winners

Year	Winner	Age	Jockey	Trainer	Owner	Time
1981	Mairzy Doates	5	Cash Asmussen	John Fulton	Arno Schefler	2:25.3
1982	Half Iced	3	Don MacBeth	Stanley M. Hough	Bertram R. Firestone	2:27.1
1983	Stanerra	5	Brian Rouse	Frank Dunne	Frank Dunne	2:27.6
1984	Katsuragi Ace	4	Katsuichi Nishiura	Kazumi Domon	Ichizo Node	2:26.3
1985	Symboli Rudolf	4	Yukio Okabe	Yuji Nohira	Symboli Bokujo	2:28.8
1986	Jupiter Island	7	Pat Eddery	Clive Brittain	Marquess of Tavistock	2:25.0
1987	Le Glorieux	3	Alain Lequeux	Robert Collet	Sieglinde Wolf	2:24.9
1988	Pay The Butler	4	Chris McCarron	Robert J. Frankel	Edmund A. Gann	2:25.5
1989	Horlicks	6	Lance O'Sullivan	Dave O'Sullivan	Graham de Gruchy	2:22.2
1990	Better Loosen Up	5	Michael Clarke	David Hayes	Gabe Farrah, et al.	2:23.2
1991	Golden Pheasant	5	Gary Stevens	Charles Whittingham	McNall / Gretzky	2:24.7
1992	Tokai Teio	4	Yukio Okabe	Shoichi Matsumoto	Masanori Uchimura	2:24.6
1993	Legacy World	4	Hiroshi Kawachi	Hideyuki Mori	Horse Tajima Co.	2:24.4
1994	Marvelous Crown	4	Katsumi Minai	Makoto Osawa	Sadao Sasahara	2:23.6
1995	Lando	5	Michael Roberts	Heinz Jentzsch	Gestüt Haus Ittlingen	2:24.6
1996	Singspiel	4	Frankie Dettori	Michael Stoute	Sheikh Mohammed	2:23.8
1997	Pilsudski	5	Michael Kinane	Michael Stoute	Lord Weinstock	2:25.8
1998	El Condor Pasa	3	Masayoshi Ebina	Yoshitaka Ninomiya	Takashi Watanabe	2:25.9
1999	Special Week	4	Yutaka Take	Toshiaki Shirai	Hiroyoshi Usuda	2:25.5
2000	T M Opera O	4	Ryuji Wada	Ichizo Iwamoto	Masatsugu Takezono	2:26.1
2001	Jungle Pocket	3	Olivier Peslier	Sakae Watanabe	Yomoji Saito	2:23.8
2002	Falbrav	4	Frankie Dettori	Luciano d'Auria	Scuderia Rencati	2:12.2
2003	Tap Dance City	6	Tetsuzo Sato	Shozo Sasaki	Yushun Horse Syndicate	2:28.7
2004	Zenno Rob Roy	4	Olivier Peslier	Kazuo Fujisawa	Shinobu Oosako	2:24.2
2005	Alkaased	5	Frankie Dettori	Luca Cumani	Michael Charlton	2:22.1
2006	Deep Impact	4	Yutaka Take	Yasuo Ikee	Kaneko Makoto Holdings Co.	2:25.1
2007	Admire Moon	4	Yasunari Iwata	Hiroyoshi Matsuda	Darley Japan Farm Co. Ltd.	2:24.7
2008	Screen Hero	4	Mirco Demuro	Yuichi Shikato	Teruya Yoshida	2:25.5

¹ The 2002 race took place at Nakayama Racecourse over a distance of 2,200 metres.