| Grade 3 race | |
2019 Kitakyushu Kinen winner Daimei Princess
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| Location | Kokura Racecourse, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan |
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| Inaugurated | 1966[1] |
| Race type | Thoroughbred – Flat racing |
| Race information | |
| Distance | 1,200 meters |
| Surface | Turf |
| Track | Right-handed (inner course) |
| Qualification | Fillies & mares |
| Weight | Handicap |
| Purse | ¥ 87,960,000 (as of 2024) 1st: ¥ 41,000,000 2nd: ¥ 16,000,000 3rd: ¥ 10,000,000 |
The Kitakyushu Kinen (in Japanese: 北九州記念), short for TV Nishinippon Corp. Sho Kitakyushu Kinen, is a Grade III Handicap race for fillies and mares in the JRA.
The first race was held in 1966.
The race is usually held in August, though in the past, they have been run in July.
Foreign horses are allowed to run, with up to 9 foreign horses at a time being allowed to run.[1]
There are no weight limits.
| Year |
Winner |
Age |
Jockey |
Trainer |
Owner |
Time |
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| 2014 | Little Gerda | 5 | Kyosuke Maruta | Ippo Samushima | Ryoko Kuriyama | 1:07.5 |
| 2015 | Bel Canto | 4 | Yutaka Take | Yuichi Kakuda | Koji Maeda | 1:07.3 |
| 2016 | Bakushin Teioh | 7 | Kota Fujioka | Hori Noriyuki | Masamichi Hayashi | 1:08.5 |
| 2017[2] | Diana Halo | 4 | Yutaka Take | Nobuharu Fukushima | Komahide Co. Ltd. | 1:07.5 |
| 2018[3] | Ares Barrows | 6 | Yuji Yoshida | Yuichi Sonoda | Koji Inokuma | 1:06.6 |
| 2019 | Daimei Princess | 6 | Shinichiro Akiyama | Naoyuki Morita | TokyoHorseRacing | 1:08.2 |
| 2020 | Red En Ciel | 6 | Yuichi Fukunaga | Yasushi Shono | Koichi Miyamoto | 1:07.8 |
| 2021 | Yoka Yoka | 3 | Hideaki Miyuki | Kiyoshi Tani | Koji Oka | 1:08.2 |
| 2022 | Buon Voyage | 5 | Haruhiko Kawasu | Tomoyuki Umeda | Toshihiro Hirosaki | 1:07.3 |
| 2023 | Jasper Krone | 4 | Taisei Danno | Tomoyuki Umeda | Hideyuki Mori | 1:06.9 |
| 2024 | Puro Magic | 3 | Kohei Matsuyama | Shogo Yasuda | Three H Racing Co. Ltd. | 1:07.9 |
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