Lord Derby Challenge Trophy

Lord Derby Challenge Trophy
ダービー卿チャレンジトロフィー
Industria, winner of the 2023 Lord Derby Challenge Trophy
ClassGrade 3
LocationNakayama Racecourse
Inaugurated1969
Race typeThoroughbred Flat racing
Race information
Distance1600 metres
SurfaceTurf
TrackRight-handed
Qualification4-y-o+
WeightHandicap
Purse¥ 87,960,000 (as of 2025)
1st: ¥ 41,000,000
2nd: ¥ 16,000,000
3rd: ¥ 10,000,000

The Lord Derby Challenge Trophy (Japanese ダービー卿チャレンジトロフィー) is a Japanese Grade 3 horse race for Thoroughbreds aged four and over. Organized by Japan Racing Association, it is run in March over a distance of 1600 metres on turf at Nakayama Racecourse.[1]

It was first run in 1969 and has held Grade 3 status since 1984. The race was run at Tokyo Racecourse until 1980 and was run over 1800 metres until 1979.

Winners since 2000

Year
 Winner
 Age
 Jockey
 Trainer
 Owner Time
2000 Fusaichi Airedale 4 Yutaka Take Kunihide Matsuda Fusao Sekiguchi 1:33.0
2001 Check Mate 6 Shinji Fujita Kenji Yamauchi Tomiro Fukami 1:35.2
2002 Grass World 6 Shinji Fujita Katsumi Suzuki Hanzawa 1:32.4
2003 Dantsu Judge 4 Ryuji Wada Kenji Yamauchi Tetsuji Yamamoto 1:33.9
2004 Meiner Morgen 4 Hiroki Goto Masahiro Horii Thoroughbred Club Ruffian 1:33.4
2005 Daiwa Major 4 Yoshitomi Shibata Hiroyuki Uehara Keizo Oshiro 1:32.3
2006 Great Journey 5 Tetsuzo Sato Yasuo Ikee North Hills Management 1:32.4
2007 Picaresque Coat 5 Shinichiro Akiyama Yasutoshi Ikee Kaneko Makoto Holdings 1:33.1
2008 Silent Pride 5 Norihiro Yokoyama Sakae Kunieda Shadai Race Horse 1:34.2
2009 Take Mikazuchi 4 Yoshitomi Shibata Satoshi Oehara Shadai Race Horse 1:33.7
2010 Showa Modern 6 Hiroki Goto Hiroaki Sugiura Keiichi Yamagishi 1:34.3
2011 Blitzen 5 Yoshitomi Shibata Yoshitaka Ninomiya Hiroo Race 1:33.3
2012 Garbo 5 Shu Ishibashi Hidekatsu Shimizu Kazuyoshi Ishikawa 1:33.5
2013 Tokei Halo 4 Masami Matsuoka Hisashi Shimizu Nobuhiko Kimura 1:32.6
2014 Curren Black Hill 5 Shinichiro Akiyama Osamu Hirata Takashi Suzuki 1:34.6
2015 Maurice 4 Keita Tosaki Noriyuki Hori Kazumi Yoshida 1:32.2
2016 Magic Time 5 Andrasch Starke Tadanari Nakagawa Sunday Racing 1:32.8
2017 Logi Chalice 5 Hiroyuki Uchida Sakae Kunieda Masaaki Kumeta 1:34.7[2]
2018 He's In Love 5 Kota Fujioka Kenichi Fujioka Silk Racing 1:32.2[3]
2019 Fiano Romano 5 Yuga Kawada Tomokazu Takano Kazumi Yoshida 1:31.7[4]
2020 Kluger 8 Shu Ishibashi Tomokazu Takano Carrot Farm 1:32.8
2021 Terzetto 4 Mirco Demuro Shoichiro Wada Silk Racing 1:32.6
2022 Time To Heaven 4 Takuya Ono Hirofumi Toda DMM Dream Club 1:32.3
2023 Industria 4 Keita Tosaki Keisuke Miyata Sunday Racing 1:33.2
2024 Parallel Vision 5 Keita Tosaki Sakae Kunieda Carrot Farm 1:32.9
2025 Trovatore 4 João Moreira Yuichi Shikato Sunday Racing 1:32.4

Earlier winners

  • 1984 - Tosho Pegasus
  • 1985 - Suzu Parade
  • 1986 - Suzu Parade
  • 1987 - Windstoss
  • 1988 - Windstoss
  • 1989 - Ivy Toko
  • 1990 - Yamano Tampopo
  • 1991 - Nice Power
  • 1992 - Tomoe Regent
  • 1993 - Tomoe Regent
  • 1994 - Sakura Bakushin O
  • 1995 - Ogi Tiffany
  • 1996 - Fujino Makken O
  • 1997 - Royal Suzuka
  • 1998 - Black Hawk
  • 1999 - Keiwan Viking

See also

References

  1. ^ "Lord Derby Challenge Trophy". Horse Racing in Japan.
  2. ^ "2017 result". Racing Post. 1 April 2017.
  3. ^ "2018 result". Racing Post. 31 March 2018.
  4. ^ "2019 result". Racing Post. 30 March 2019.
  5. ^ "ダービー卿CT". Netkeiba.
  6. ^ "Lord Derby Challenge Trophy". Netkeiba.
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