Champions Cup (horse race)
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The Champions Cup is a Grade 1 flat horse race for thoroughbreds aged three and above contested in Japan in early December. Organized by Japan Racing Association, it is run at a distance of 1,800 mete
2022 Champions Cup winner Jun Light Bolt
Kurofune wins the 2001 Japan Cup Dirt
Hokko Tarumae, the winner of the 2014 edition
Le Vent Se Leve wins the 2018 edition as a 3-year-old
Kurofune (horse)
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Kurofune was an American-bred, Japanese-trained Thoroughbred racehorse and sire who won Grade 1 races on both turf and dirt. He showed promising form as a juvenile in 2000 when he won two of four race
Champions Cup (horse race)
…wins the 2018 edition as a 3-year-old Year Winner Age Jockey Trainer Owner Time 2000 Wing Arrow 5 Yukio Okabe Katsumi Minai Minoru Ikeda 2:07.2 2001 Kurofune 3 Yutaka Take Kunihide Matsuda Makoto Kaneko 2:05.9 2002 Eagle Café 5 Frankie Dettori Futoshi Kojima Kiyoshi Nishikawa 1:52.2 2003 Fleetstreet Dancer…
Kurofune in May 2001