 Win Carnelian winning the 2023 Tokyo Shimbun Hai | |
| Class | Grade 3 |
|---|---|
| Location | Tokyo Racecourse |
| Inaugurated | 1951 |
| Race type | ThoroughbredFlat racing |
| Race information | |
| Distance | 1600 metres |
| Surface | Turf |
| Track | Left-handed |
| Qualification | 4-y-o+ |
| Weight | Special Weight |
| Purse | ¥ 87,960,000 (as of 2025) 1st: ¥ 41,000,000 2nd: ¥ 16,000,000 3rd: ¥ 10,000,000 |
TheTokyo Shimbun Hai (Japanese東京新聞杯) is aGrade 3horse race forThoroughbreds aged four and over in Japan, run in February over a distance of 1600 metres on turf atTokyo Racecourse.[1]
The Tokyo Shimbun Hai was first run in 1951 and has held Grade 3 status since 1984. The race was originally run over 2400 metres but the distance was cut to 2200 metres in 1968, 2100 metres in 1969, 2000 metres in 1971 and to 1600 metres in 1984. It was run atNakayama Racecourse in 1965, 1968 and 2003.
57 kg for four-year-olds above.[2]
Allowances:
Penalties (excluding two-year-old race performance):
| Year | Winner | Age | Jockey | Trainer | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Daiwa Caerleon | 7 | Hiroshi Kitamura | Yoshitaka Ninomiya | 1:33.6 |
| 2001 | Checkmate | 6 | Shinji Fujita | Kenji Yamauchi | 1:34.2 |
| 2002 | Admire Cozzene | 6 | Hiroki Goto | Mitsuru Hashida | 1:37.7 |
| 2003 | Bold Brian | 4 | Yoshitomi Shibata | Kazuo Fujisawa | 1:32.3 |
| 2004 | Win Radius | 6 | Katsuharu Tanaka | Kazuo Fujisawa | 1:33.0 |
| 2005 | Hat Trick | 4 | Yutaka Take | Katsuhiko Sumii | 1:33.7 |
| 2006 | Fuji Silence | 6 | Teruo Eda | Fuyuki Tako | 1:33.7 |
| 2007 | Suzuka Phoenix | 5 | Yutaka Take | Mitsuru Hashida | 1:32.7 |
| 2008 | Laurel Guerreiro | 4 | Shinji Fujita | Mitsugu Kon | 1:32.8 |
| 2009 | Absolute | 5 | Katsuharu Tanaka | Yoshitada Munakata | 1:36.9 |
| 2010 | Red Spada | 4 | Norihiro Yokoyama | Kazuo Fujisawa | 1:32.1 |
| 2011 | Smile Jack | 6 | Kousei Miura | Satoru Kobiyama | 1:32.5 |
| 2012 | Garbo | 5 | Shu Ishibashi | Hidekatsu Shimizu | 1:32.8 |
| 2013 | Clarente | 4 | Yasunari Iwata | Kojiro Hashiguchi | 1:32.9 |
| 2014 | Whale Capture | 6 | Masayoshi Ebina | Kiyotaka Tanaka | 1:33.2 |
| 2015 | Vincennes | 6 | Yuichi Fukunaga | Mikio Matsunaga | 1:35.7 |
| 2016 | Smart Layer | 6 | Hayato Yoshida | Ryuji Okubo | 1:34.1 |
| 2017 | Black Spinel | 4 | Mirco Demuro | Hidetaka Otonashi | 1:34.9[3] |
| 2018 | Lys Gracieux | 4 | Yutaka Take | Yoshito Yahagi | 1:34.1[4] |
| 2019 | Indy Champ | 4 | Yuichi Fukunaga | Hidetaka Otonashi | 1:31.9[5] |
| 2020 | Primo Scene | 5 | Mirco Demuro | Tetsuya Kimura | 1:33.0 |
| 2021 | Karate | 5 | Akira Sugawara | Yoshiyasu Takahashi | 1:32.4 |
| 2022 | Elusive Panther | 4 | Hironobu Tanabe | Takashi Kubota | 1:32.3 |
| 2023 | Win Carnelian | 6 | Kousei Miura | Yuichi Shikato | 1:31.8 |
| 2024 | Sakura Toujours | 7 | Rachel King | Noriyuki Hori | 1:32.1 |
| 2025 | Water Licht | 4 | Akira Sugawara | Hiroshi Kawachi | 1:32.6 |