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Tulip Sho

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Kokorono Ai wins the 2015 Tulip Sho
Grade 2
Hanshin Racecourse, Takarazuka, Hyogo.
1984
Thoroughbred Flat racing
1600 metres
Turf
Right-handed
3-y-o fillies
55 kg
¥ 112,520,000 (as of 2026).mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}
1st: ¥ 52,000,000
2nd: ¥ 21,000,000
3rd: ¥ 13,000,000

The Tulip Sho (チューリップ賞) is a Japanese Grade 2 flat horse race in Japan for three-year-old Thoroughbred fillies run over a distance of 1,600 metres at Hanshin Racecourse, Takarazuka, Hyogo. The race is run in March and serves as a major trial race for the Oka Sho, which is run at the same racecourse in early April.

The Tulip Sho was first run in 1984. It became a Grade 3 race in 1994 and was elevated to Grade 2 status in 2018. Among the winners of the race have been Air Groove, Sweep Tosho, Vodka, Buena Vista, Harp Star and Sinhalite.

Year	Winner	Jockey	Trainer	Owner	Time
1984	Urakawa Miyuki	Masahiro Matsunaga	Yoshiharu Matsunaga	Hachiro Sasaki	1:37.8
1985	Aino Sachi	Hiroshi Masui	Kenji Domon	Kyoko Tanaka	1:38.1
1986	Reiho Tholon	Yoshiyuki Muramoto	Minoru Kobayashi	Tatsuo Nomura	1:36.9
1987	Max Beauty	Seiki Tabara	Yuji Ito	Yu Tadokoro	1:38.2
1988	Shiyono Roman	Yutaka Take	Hozumi Shono	Akihiko Shono	1:37.5
1989	Youngest City	Masaru Honda	Izumi Shimizu	Yushun Horse Club	1:36.8
1990	Agnes Flora	Hiroshi Kawachi	Hiroyuki Nagahama	Takao Watanabe	1:36.4
1991	Sister Tosho	Koichi Tsunoda	Akio Tsurudome	Tosho Sangyo	1:44.1
1992	Adorable	Yoshiyuki Muramoto	Minoru Kobayashi	Haruo Negishi	1:38.5
1993	Vega	Yutaka Take	Hiroyoshi Matsuda	Kazuko Yoshida	1:36.8
1994	Agnes Parade	Hiroshi Kawachi	Hiroyuki Nagahama	Takao Watanabe	1:43.8
1995	Yuki Vivace	Mitsuo Matsunaga	Hitoshi Arai	Hideki Yukimoto	1:35.1
1996	Air Groove	Olivier Peslier	Yuji Ito	Tsunebumi Yoshihara	1:34.2
1997	Orange Peel	Hiroshi Kawachi	Kenji Yamauchi	Shadai Race Horse	1:37.7
1998	Dantsu Sirius	Hirofumi Shii	Kenji Yamauchi	Tetsuji Yamamoto	1:36.9
1999	Eishin Rudens	Akiyoshi Nomoto	Akira Nomoto	Toyomitsu Hirai	1:35.1
2000	Jo De Shiraoki	Koshiro Take	Kunihide Matsuda	Taisei Bokujo	1:39.7
2001	T M Ocean	Masaru Honda	Katsuichi Nishiura	Masatsugu Takezono	1:35.3
2002	Health Wall	Mirco Demuro	Hideyuki Mori	Yoshitaka Suzuki	1:35.2
2003	Osumi Haruka	Katsumi Ando	Masatoshi Ando	Hidenori Yamaji	1:35.9
2004	Sweep Tosho	Kenichi Ikezoe	Akio Tsurudome	Tosho Sangyo	1:35.5
2005	Eishin Tender	Koshiro Take	Kunihiko Take	Toyomitsu Hirai	1:35.3
2006	Admire Kiss	Yutaka Take	Hiroyoshi Matsuda	Riichi Kondo	1:36.5
2007	Vodka	Hirofumi Shii	Katsuhiko Sumii	Yuzo Tanimizu	1:33.7
2008	Air Pascale	Yusuke Fujioka	Yasutoshi Ikee	Lucky Field	1:35.8
2009	Buena Vista	Katsumi Ando	Hiroyoshi Matsuda	Sunday Racing	1:36.5
2010	Shoryu Moon	Takeshi Kimura	Shozo Sasaki	Wataru Ueda	1:36.1
2011	Reve d'Essor	Yuichi Fukunaga	Hiroyoshi Matsuda	Sunday Racing	1:34.5
2012	Hana's Goal	Cristian Demuro	Kazuhiro Kato	Michael Tabert	1:35.5
2013	Kurofune Surprise	Yutaka Take	Hidetaka Tadokoro	Seisuke Hata	1:34.9
2014	Harp Star	Yuga Kawada	Hiroyoshi Matsuda	Carrot Farm	1:34.3
2015	Kokorono Ai	Norihiro Yokoyama	Tomohito Ozeki	Sakai Bokujo	1:37.47
2016	Sinhalite	Kenichi Ikezoe	Sei Ishikawa	Carrot Farm	1:32.8
2017	Soul Stirring	Christophe Lemaire	Kazuo Fujisawa	Shadai Race Horse	1:33.2
2018	Lucky Lilac	Shu Ishibashi	Mikio Matsunaga	Sunday Racing	1:33.4
2019	Danon Fantasy	Yuga Kawada	Mitsumasa Nakauchida	Danox	1:34.1
2020	Maltese Diosa	Hironobu Tanabe	Takahisa Tezuka	Yoshio Fujita	1:33.3
2021	Elizabeth Tower (DH)	Yuga Kawada	Tomokazu Takano	Shadai Race Horse	1:33.8
Meikei Yell (DH)	Yutaka Take	Hidenori Take	Nagoya Keiba
2022	Namur	Takeshi Yokoyama	Tomokazu Takano	Carrot Farm	1:33.2
2023	Mozu Meimei	Yutaka Take	Hidetaka Otonashi	Capital System	1:34.0
2024	Sweep Feet	Yutaka Take	Yasushi Shono	YGG Horse Club	1:33.1
2025	Kurino Mei	Manabu Sakai	Naosuke Sugai	Eriko Kurimoto	1:34.0
2026	Taisei Vogue	Atsuya Nishimura	Takeshi Matsushita	Seiho Tanaka	1:34.3

Horse racing in Japan
List of Japanese flat horse races
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