Satsuki Shō

Satsuki Shō
Japanese 2,000 Guineas
皐月賞

Grade 1 race
Location	Nakayama Racecourse, Funabashi, Chiba
Inaugurated	1939
Race type	Thoroughbred Flat racing
Race information
Distance	2000 meters
Surface	Turf
Track	Right-handed
Qualification	3-y-o, Colts & Fillies
Weight	Colt 57 kg, Filly 55 kg
Purse	¥ 184,700,000 (as of 2015) 1st: ¥ 97,000,000

The Satsuki Shō (皐月賞) is a Japanese Grade 1 flat horse race in Japan for three-year-old thoroughbred colts and fillies run over a distance of 2,000 metres (approximately  1 ¹⁄₄ mile) at the Nakayama Racecourse, Funabashi, Chiba, in April.

It was first run in 1939 and is the Japanese equivalent of the English 2,000 Guineas. (Note that the original 2,000 Guineas is currently run at 1,609 metres, or one mile, about two furlongs shorter than the Satsuki Shō.)

Winners since 2001

Year	Winner	Jockey	Trainer	Owner	Time
1995	Genuine	Yukio Okabe	Yasuhisa Matsuyama	Sunday Racing Co. Ltd.	2:02.5
1996	Ishino Sunday	Hirofumi Shii	Kenji Yamauchi		2:00.7
1997	Sunny Brian	N Onishi	S Nakao	Moriyasu Miyazaki	2:02.0
1998	Seiun Sky	Norihiro Yokoyama	Kazutaka Yasuda	Masayuki Nishiyama	2:01.3
1999	T M Opera O	Ryuji Wada	Ichizo Iwamoto	Masatsugu Takezono	2:00.7
2000	Air Shakur	Yutaka Take	Hideyuki Mori	Lucky Field Co Ltd	2:01.8
2001	Agnes Tachyon	Hiroshi Kawachi	Hiroyuki Nagahama	Takao Watanebe	2:00.3
2002	No Reason	Brett Doyle	Yasuo Ikee	Shinji Maeda	1:58.5
2003	Neo Universe	Mirco Demuro	Tsutomu Setoguchi	Shadai Racehorse Co. Ltd.	2:01.2
2004	Daiwa Major	Mirco Demuro	Hiroyuki Uehara	Daiwa Shoji Co.	1:58.6
2005	Deep Impact	Yutaka Take	Yasuo Ikee	Makoto Kaneko	1:59.2
2006	Meisho Samson	Mamoru Ishibashi	Tsutomu Setoguchi	Yoshio Matsumoto	1:59.9
2007	Victory	Katsuharu Tanaka	Hidetaka Otonashi	Hideko Kondo	1:59.9
2008	Captain Thule	Yuuga Kawada	Hideyuki Mori	Shadai Racehorse Co. Ltd.	2:01.7
2009	Unrivaled	Yasunari Iwata	Yasuo Tomomichi	Sunday Racing Co. Ltd.	1:58:7
2010	Victoire Pisa	Yasunari Iwata	Katsuhiko Sumii	Yoshimi Ichikawa	2:00.8
2011^[1]	Orfevre	Ken-ichi Ikezoe	Yasutoshi Ikee	Sunday Racing Co. Ltd.	2:00.6
2012	Gold Ship	Hirouki Uchida	Naosuke Sugai	Hidekazu Kobayashi	2:01.3
2013	Logotype	Mirco Demuro	Tsuyoshi Tanaka	Teruya Yoshida	1:58.0
2014	Isla Bonita	Masayoshi Ebina	Hironori Kurita	Shadai Race Horse Co Ltd	1:59.6
2015	Duramente	Mirco Demuro	Noriyuki Hori	Sunday Racing Co. Ltd.	1:58.2
2016	Dee Majesty	Masayoshi Ebina	Yoshitaka Ninomiya	Masaru Shimada	1:57.9

¹ The 2011 race took place at Tokyo Racecourse due to the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami.

Earlier winners

• 1939 - Rock Park
• 1940 - World Mine
• 1941 - St Lite
• 1942 - Arbeit
• 1943 - Dielec
• 1944 - Kuri Yamato
• 1945 - no race
• 1946 - no race
• 1947 - Tokitsukaze
• 1948 - Hide Hikari
• 1949 - Tosa Midori
• 1950 - Kumono Hana
• 1951 - Tokino Minoru
• 1952 - Kurino Hana
• 1953 - Bostonian
• 1954 - Dainana Hoshu
• 1955 - Kegon
• 1956 - Hekiraku
• 1957 - Kazuyoshi
• 1958 - Taisei Hope
• 1959 - Wildeal
• 1960 - Kodama
• 1961 - Shin Tsubame
• 1962 - Yamano O
• 1963 - Meizui
• 1964 - Shinzan
• 1965 - Chitose O
• 1966 - Nihon Pillow Ace
• 1967 - Ryuzuki
• 1968 - Martis
• 1969 - Wild More
• 1970 - Tanino Moutiers
• 1971 - Hikaru Imai
• 1972 - Land Prince
• 1973 - Haiseiko
• 1974 - Kitano Kachidoki
• 1975 - Kaburaya O
• 1976 - Tosho Boy
• 1977 - Hard Berge
• 1978 - Fantast
• 1979 - Bingo Garoo
• 1980 - Hawaiian Image
• 1981 - Katsu Top Ace
• 1982 - Azuma Hunter
• 1983 - Mr. C.B.
• 1984 - Symboli Rudolf
• 1985 - Miho Shinzan
• 1986 - Dyna Cosmos
• 1987 - Sakura Star O
• 1988 - Yaeno Muteki
• 1989 - Doctor Spurt
• 1990 - Haku Taisei
• 1991 - Tokai Teio
• 1992 - Mihono Bourbon
• 1993 - Narita Taishin
• 1994 - Narita Brian