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Do Deuce and Yutaka Take after the 2022 Tokyo Yushun

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GREAT RACE · Tokyo Racecourse

Tokyo Yushun

東京優駿（日本ダービー） — Japanese Derby

2400MLeft-handedGI

The pinnacle for three-year-olds and the festival of Japanese racing — in Japan, “the Derby” means this race.

Do Deuce and Yutaka Take — the 89th Tokyo Yushun, 29 May 2022 — Photo: 江戸村のとくぞう / CC BY-SA 4.0

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Current conditions

These are today’s conditions; past runnings may have differed.
Distance
2400m
Grade (current)
GI
Racecourse
Tokyo Racecourse
Direction
Left-handed
Eligibility
Three-year-old colts and fillies
Surface
Turf
First run
24 Apr 1932

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Historical context

  • The second leg of the Triple Crown; its prizes include the Prime Minister’s Award.

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Runnings in the archive

Race records are taken from the “Racing record” tables of each horse’s Japanese Wikipedia article (which cite netkeiba.com and JBIS-Search) and cross-checked against the career start count. Grades are shown as printed for that year’s running — current grades are never applied retroactively.

1984

1991

  • 1stTokai TeioTakayuki YasudaGI · 2400m · 2:25.9

1994

  • 1stNarita BrianKatsumi MinaiGI · 2400m · 2:25.7

1997

1998

1999

  • 3rdT.M. Opera ORyuji WadaWinner: アドマイヤベガGI · 2400m · 2:25.6

2005

2007

  • 1stVodkaHirofumi Shii2nd: アサクサキングスJpnI · 2400m · 2:24.5

2011

2012

  • 5thGold ShipHiroyuki UchidaWinner: ディープブリランテGI · 2400m · 2:24.0

2015

  • 14thKitasan BlackHiroshi KitamuraWinner: ドゥラメンテGI · 2400m · 2:25.5

2022

FILM

On film

Published on the JRA official YouTube channel.

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The venue

The main stand of Tokyo Racecourse on Japan Cup day

Tokyo Racecourse

東京競馬場

Home of the Japanese Derby, the Japan Cup and the autumn Tenno Sho — its long home straight has staged countless great finishes.

SOURCES & REFERENCES

Sources & References

  1. 01
    東京優駿 — Wikipedia（日本語版）

    Wikipedia · Reference · Accessed 2026-09-26

  2. 02
    Tōkyō Yūshun — Wikipedia (English)

    Wikipedia · Reference · Accessed 2026-09-26

IMAGE CREDITS

Image credits

Each photograph was checked on its individual Wikimedia Commons file page for author and licence.