Daily Hai Queen Cup

Horse race

Daily Hai Queen Cup
クイーンカップ
Race information
Grade 3 race
2024 Queen Cup winner Queen's Walk
Location	Tokyo Racecourse
Inaugurated	1966
Race type	Thoroughbred Flat racing
Distance	1600 metres
Surface	Turf
Track	Left-handed
Qualification	3-y-o fillies
Weight	54 kg
Purse	¥ 82,380,000 (as of 2024) 1st: ¥ 38,000,000 2nd: ¥ 15,000,000 3rd: ¥ 10,000,000

The Daily Hai Queen Cup (Japanese クイーンカップ) is a Grade 3 horse race for three-year-old Thoroughbred fillies run in February over a distance of 1600 metres at Tokyo Racecourse.^[1]

The race was first run in 1966 and was elevated to Grade 3 status in 1984. It was contested at variety of venues but has been run over its current course and distance since 1981. The race serves as a trial race for the Oka Sho.

Winners since 2000

Year	Winner	Jockey	Trainer	Time
2000	Future Sunday	Norihiro Yokoyama	Masanori Ito	1:36.1
2001	Success Strain	Hatsuhiro Kowata	Ryuichi Inaba	1:34.7
2002	Shinin Ruby	Yukio Okabe	Kazuo Fujisawa	1:34.6
2003	Chunyi	Hiroki Goto	Nobuhiro Suzuki	1:35.6
2004	Daiwa El Cielo	Yuichi Fukunaga	Kunihide Matsuda	1:34.3
2005	Lailaps	Yutaka Take	Kunihide Matsuda	1:38.1
2006	Koiuta	Christophe Lemaire	Masashi Okuhira	1:35.6
2007	Excuse	Hiroshi Kitamura	Yuichi Shikato	1:34.5
2008	Little Amapola	Koshiro Take	Hiroyuki Nagahama	1:35.5
2009	Dear Geena	Hiroyuki Uchida	Yasuhito Tamura	1:35.7
2010	Apricot Fizz	Masayoshi Ebina	Futoshi Kojima	1:34.4
2011	Whale Capture	Kenichi Ikezoe	Kiyotaka Tanaka	1:35.4
2012	Verxina	Yasunari Iwata	Yasuo Tomomichi	1:36.6
2013	Ukiyono Kaze	William Buick	Takanori Kikuzawa	1:34.6
2014	Forevermore	Masayoshi Ebina	Yuichi Shikato	1:35.7
2015	Cat Coin	Yoshitomi Shibata	Yoshitaka Ninomiya	1:34.0
2016	Major Emblem	Christophe Lemaire	Yasuhito Tamura	1:32.5
2017	Admire Miyabi	Christophe Lemaire	Yasuo Tomomichi	1:33.2^[2]
2018	Tetradrachm	Hironobu Tanabe	Kazuo Konishi	1:33.7^[3]
2019	Chrono Genesis	Yuichi Kitamura	Takashi Saito	1:34.2^[4]
2020	Miyamazakura	Yuichi Fukunaga	Hideaki Fujiwara	1:34.0
2021	Akaitorino Musume	Keita Tosaki	Sakae Kunieda	1:33.3
2022	Presage Lift	Keita Tosaki	Tetsuya Kimura	1:34.1
2023	Harper	Yuga Kawada	Yasuo Tomomichi	1:33.1
2024	Queen's Walk	Yuga Kawada	Mitsumasa Nakauchida	1:33.1

Earlier winners

1984 - Aino Feather
1985 - Takara Steel
1986 - Super Shot
1987 - Nakami Julianne
1988 - Circle Showa
1989 - Cutting Edge
1990 - Sweet Mithuna
1991 - Scarlet Bouquet
1992 - Sanei Thank You
1993 - Mother Tosho
1994 - Hishi Amazon
1995 - Eishin Berlin
1996 - Ibuki Perceive
1997 - Orange Peel
1998 - Edai Queen
1999 - Umeno Fiber

References

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^ "Daily Hai Queen Cup". Horse Racing in Japan.
^ "2017 result". Racing Post. 11 February 2017.
^ "2018 result". Racing Post. 12 February 2018.
^ "2019 result". Racing Post. 11 February 2019.
^ "クイーンC". Netkeiba.
^ "Daily Hai Queen Cup". Netkeiba.

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