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REAL RACING ARCHIVE(documented racing history)

GREAT RACE · Kyoto Racecourse

Kikuka Sho

菊花賞 — Japanese St. Leger

3000MRight-handedGI

The final leg of the Triple Crown — 3,000 metres at Kyoto.

Deep Impact at Kyoto Racecourse
Deep Impact at Kyoto Racecourse on Kikuka Sho day, 23 October 2005
Photo: Goki · CC BY-SA 3.0

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Current conditions

These are today’s conditions; past runnings may have differed.
Distance
3000m
Grade (current)
GI
Racecourse
Kyoto Racecourse
Direction
Right-handed
Eligibility
Three-year-old colts and fillies
Surface
Turf
First run
11 Dec 1938

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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

1990

  • 1stMejiro McQueenKoichi Uchida2nd: ホワイトストーンGI · 3000m · 3:06.2

1994

  • 1stNarita BrianKatsumi MinaiGI · 3000m · 3:04.6 R

1998

1999

  • 2ndT.M. Opera ORyuji WadaWinner: ナリタトップロードGI · 3000m · 3:07.7

2005

2011

2012

  • 1stGold ShipHiroyuki Uchida2nd: スカイディグニティGI · 3000m · 3:02.9

2015

  • 1stKitasan BlackHiroshi Kitamura2nd: リアルスティールGI · 3000m · 3:03.9

FILM

On film

Published on the JRA official YouTube channel.

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The venue

The new grandstand at Kyoto Racecourse

Kyoto Racecourse

京都競馬場

Home of the Kikuka Sho and the spring Tenno Sho — known as “Yodo” after its nearest station.

SOURCES & REFERENCES

Sources & References

  1. 01
    菊花賞 — Wikipedia（日本語版）

    Wikipedia · Reference · Accessed 2026-09-26

  2. 02
    Kikuka-shō — 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.