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The grey Gold Ship galloping at Hanshin Racecourse

REAL RACING ARCHIVE(documented racing history)

GREAT RACE · Hanshin Racecourse

Takarazuka Kinen

宝塚記念

2200MRight-handed (inner course)GI

Hanshin’s midsummer Grand Prix, named after Takarazuka, the city where the racecourse stands.

Gold Ship — Hanshin Daishoten, Hanshin Racecourse, 2015 — Photo: Nadaraikon / CC BY-SA 3.0

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Current conditions

These are today’s conditions; past runnings may have differed.
Distance
2200m
Grade (current)
GI
Racecourse
Hanshin Racecourse
Direction
Right-handed (inner course)
Eligibility
Three-year-olds and up
Surface
Turf
First run
26 Jun 1960

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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.

1985

1990

  • 2ndOguri CapJunichiro OkaWinner: オサイチジョージGI · 2200m · 2:14.6

1991

1993

1998

1999

2000

  • 1stT.M. Opera ORyuji Wada2nd: メイショウドトウGI · 2200m · 2:13.8

2001

  • 2ndT.M. Opera ORyuji WadaWinner: メイショウドトウGI · 2200m · 2:11.9

2006

2007

  • 8thVodkaHirofumi ShiiWinner: アドマイヤムーンGI · 2200m · 2:14.0

2012

2013

  • 1stGold ShipHiroyuki Uchida2nd: ダノンバラードGI · 2200m · 2:13.2

2014

2015

2016

2017

2023

FILM

On film

Published on the JRA official YouTube channel.

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The venue

A view of Hanshin Racecourse

Hanshin Racecourse

阪神競馬場

Stage of the Takarazuka Kinen and the Oka Sho, also called “Nigawa” after its station.

SOURCES & REFERENCES

Sources & References

  1. 01
    宝塚記念 — Wikipedia（日本語版）

    Wikipedia · Reference · Accessed 2026-09-26

  2. 02
    Takarazuka Kinen — 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.