The New Zealand Trophy (Japanese ニュージーランドトロフィー) is a Grade 2 flat horse race in Japan for three-year-old Thoroughbreds. It is run over a distance of 1600 metres at Nakayama Racecourse in April.
The New Zealand Trophy was first run in 1983, when it was held at Tokyo Racecourse, and was elevated to Grade 3 status in 1984 before being promoted to Grade 2 in 1987. Since 1996, the race serves as a trial race for the NHK Mile Cup. Following the inauguration of the NHK Mile Cup in 1996, the race was shortened to 1400 meters, before returning to 1600m and moved to Nakayama in 2000.
Among the winners of the race have been Oguri Cap, Eishin Preston and El Condor Pasa.
Winners Year Winner Jockey TrainerOwner Time 1983 Upsetter Yukio Okabe Kazuo TanakaHorseman 1:37.0 1984 Nippo Swallow Nobuhiro Ebina Kinzo KubotaYuichi Yamaishi 1:37.8 1985 Maruyo Plaid Seiji Sakuta Kohei TakeHaruyuki Nomura 1:38.6 1986 Nippo Teio Hiroyuki Gohara Kinzo KubotaYuichi Yamaishi 1:36.8 1987 Yuwa James Tomio Yasuda Kohei TakeYuwa 1:35.2 1988 Oguri Cap Hiroshi Kawachi Tsutomu SetoguchiIsoo Sahashi 1:34.0 1989 Aquavit Masato Shibata Isao ShimadaNasuno Bokujo 1:35.1 1990 Music Time Yukio Okabe Yasuhisa MatsuyamaZenya Yoshida 1:34.9 1991 Weiss Cedar Yoshitomi Shibata Yutaka MasumotoHideo Sugiura 1:35.3 1992 Shinko Lovely Yukio Okabe Kazuo FujisawaOsamu Yasuda 1:34.9 1993 Toyo Lyphard Masahiro Matsunaga Yoshiharu MatsunagaToyo Club 1:34.6 1994 Hishi Amazon Eiji Nakadate Takao NakanoMasaichiro Abe 1:35.8 1995 Shake Hand Junichi Serizawa Yoshio OkiMaeko Farm 1:35.3 1996 Fabulous La Fouine Shinji Fujita Hiroyuki NagahamaKazuko Yoshida 1:22.4 1997 Seeking The Pearl Yutaka Take Hideyuki MoriTomoko Uenaka 1:21.1 1998 El Condor Pasa Hitoshi Matoba Yoshitaka NinomiyaTakashi Watanabe 1:22.2 1999 Zachariah Hitoshi Matoba Yoshitaka NinomiyaHidekazu Date 1:23.4 2000 Eishin Preston Yuichi Fukunaga Shuji KitahashiToyomitsu Hirai 1:34.4 2001 Kitasan Channel Ryo Takahashi Kojiro HashiguchiOno Shoji 1:35.7 2002 Taiki Lion Yoshitomi Shibata Kiyotaka TanakaTaiki Farm 1:32.1 2003 Eishin Tsurugizan Norihiro Yokoyama Hideaki FujiwaraToyomitsu Hirai 1:34.6 2004 Seeking The Dia Yutaka Take Hideyuki MoriYoichi Aoyama 1:33.5 2005 Meiner Hearty Hiroyuki Uchida Hitoshi NakamuraThoroughbred Club Ruffian 1:33.4 2006 Meiner Scherzi Yoshitomi Shibata Ryuichi InabaThoroughbred Club Ruffian 1:33.5 2007 Toho Racer Hiroki Goto Yoshihiko KawamuraToho Bussan 1:33.9 2008 Satono Progress Norihiro Yokoyama Sakae KuniedaHajime Satomi 1:35.0 2009 San Carlo Yutaka Yoshida Yokichi OkuboShadai Race Horse 1:33.8 2010 Sunrise Prince Norihiro Yokoyama Hidetaka OtonashiTakao Matsuoka 1:32.9 2011 Eishin Osman Hideaki Miyuki Masahiro MatsuagaToyomitsu Hirai 1:34.5 2012 Curren Black Hill Shinichiro Akiyama Osamu HirataTakashi Suzuki 1:33.2 2013 A Shin Top Hiroyuki Uchida Masato NishizonoEishindo 1:34.8 2014 Shonan Achieve Hiroki Goto Sakae KuniedaTetsuhide Kunimoto 1:33.3 2015 Yamakatsu Ace Kenichi Ikezoe Kaneo IkezoeKazuo Yamada 1:34.8 2016 Dantsu Prius Genki Maruyama Kenji YamauchiTetsuji Yamamoto 1:33.9 2017 Jo Strictly Andrasch Starke Hisashi ShimizuKeiko Ueda 1:36.0 2018 Katsuji Kohei Matsuyama Kaneo IkezoeKanayama Holdings 1:34.2 2019 Wide Pharaoh Hiroyuki Uchida Katsuhiko SumiiMasanobu Habata 1:34.2 2020 Luftstrom Shu Ishibashi Noriyuki HoriSunday Racing 1:33.0 2021 Bathrat Leon Yusuke Fujioka Yoshito YahagiHiroo Race 1:33.1 2022 Jean Gros Yutaka Take Hideyuki MoriSusumu Fujita 1:33.5 2023 Eeyan Mirco Demuro Daishi ItoNisshin Industry 1:33.72024Ecoro BloomTakeshi YokoyamaYukihiro KatoMasatoshi Haramura1:34.42025Immigrant SongYukito IshikawaTetsuhide TsujiKatsumi Yoshida1:32.42026ReservationYusuke HaraTakeshi MatsushitaIsami Nakamura1:33.3
The 2011 race took place at Hanshin Racecourse.
See also Horse racing in Japan List of Japanese flat horse races
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