# Epsom Cup

The Epsom Cup (Japanese エプソムカップ) is a Grade 3 Handicap horse race for Thoroughbreds aged three and over, run in June over a distance of 1800 metres at Tokyo Racecourse.
It was first run in 1984 and has held Grade 3 status ever since.

## Weight

53 kg for three-year-olds, 57 kg for four-year-olds and above.
Allowances:
* 2 kg for fillies / mares
* 2 kg for southern hemisphere bred three-year-olds
* 1 kg for southern hemisphere bred four-year-olds
Penalties (excluding two-year-old race performance):
* If a graded stakes race has been won within a year:
** 3 kg for a grade 1 win (2 kg for fillies / mares)
** 2 kg for a grade 2 win (1 kg for fillies / mares)
** 1 kg for a grade 3 win
* If a graded stakes race has been won for more than a year:
** 2 kg for a grade 1 win (1 kg for fillies / mares)
** 1 kg for a grade 2 win

## Winners since 1984

| Year | Winner | Age | Jockey | Trainer | Owner | Time |
| 1984 | Sakura Symboli | 5 | Futoshi Kojima | Kubota Hikoyuki | Jeon Yong Shook | 1:51.7 |
| 1985 | Suzu Mach | 4 | Shoichi Osaki | Yoshio Nakazumi | Yoshio Komurasaki | 1:50.4 |
| 1986 | Super Gura Third | 4 | Eiji Nakano | Yoshinami Shimizu | Masahiro Hiranoi | 1:50.1 |
| 1987 | Dyna Fairy | 4 | Sueo Masuzawa | Yasuhiro Suzuki | Shadai Race Horse | 1:48.1 |
| 1988 | Soshin Hoju | 4 | Shoji Kashiwazaki | Suoki Koga | Fusako Soman | 1:48.1 |
| 1989 | Nihon Pillow Brave | 4 | Masato Shibata | Yuji Ito | Hyakutaro Kobayashi | 1:50.2 |
| 1990 | Samantha Tojo | 5 | Koichi Tsunoda | Sakae Watanabe | Tosho Sangyo | 1:47.7 |
| 1991 | Prekrasnie | 4 | Teruo Eda | Terumasa Yano | Eijiro Tajima | 1:47.2 |
| 1992 | Marumatsu Ace | 4 | Tomio Yasuda | Yoshio Nakazumi | Toshio Matsuda | 1:47.1 |
| 1993 | Sakura Sakai O | 4 | Futoshi Kojima | Masakatsu Sakai | Sakura Commerce | 1:46.8 |
| 1994 | Wako Chikako | 4 | Yukio Okabe | Yuji Ito | Takao Ishida | 1:47.5 |
| 1995 | Kanetsu Cross | 4 | Hitoshi Matoba | Yasuo Nishizuka | Kanetsu Kyosoba | 1:48.0 |
| 1996 | Marvelous Sunday | 4 | Yutaka Take | Makoto Osawa | Sadao Sasahara | 1:45.7 |
| 1997 | Taiki Marshal | 5 | Yukio Okabe | Kazuo Fujisawa | Taiki Farm | 1:46.6 |
| 1998 | Tsukuba Symphony | 5 | Norihiro Yokoyama | Masanori Ito | Akio Hosoya | 1:48.2 |
| 1999 | American Boss | 4 | Teruo Eda | Fuyuki Tago | Abiru Fudosan | 1:46.0 |
| 2000 | American Boss | 5 | Teruo Eda | Fuyuki Tago | Abiru Fudosan | 1:49.5 |
| 2001 | Admire Kaiser | 5 | Jun'ichi Serizawa | Mitsuru Hashida | Riichi Kondo | 1:45.1 |
| 2002 | Joten Brave | 5 | Masayoshi Ebina | Ikuo Aizawa | Hisao Tanabe | 1:46.9 |
| 2003 | Meiner Amundsen | 4 | Masayoshi Ebina | Kiyotaka Tanaka | Thoroughbred Club Ruffian | 1:47.7 |
| 2004 | Meiner Amundsen | 5 | Naohiro Onishi | Kiyotaka Tanaka | Thoroughbred Club Ruffian | 1:47.8 |
| 2005 | Suzuno March | 5 | Hiroshi Kitamura | Kazuo Fujisawa | Yoshio Koshiba | 1:46.6 |
| 2006 | Top Gun Joe | 4 | Hiroki Goto | Masamichi Wada | Takao Kawachi | 1:49.2 |
| 2007 | Eishin Deputy | 5 | Katsuhara Tanaka | Akira Nomoto | Toyomitsu Hirai | 1:48.3 |
| 2008 | Sunrise Max | 4 | Norihiro Yokoyama | Yutaka Masumoto | Takao Matsuoka | 1:45.9 |
| 2009 | Shingen | 6 | Shinji Fujita | Hirofumi Toda | Teruhito Hanaki | 1:45.5 |
| 2010 | Seiun Wonder | 4 | Yuichi Fukunaga | Masazo Ryoke | Takao Otani | 1:46.1 |
| 2011 | Dark Shadow | 4 | Yuichi Fukunaga | Noriyuki Hori | Tomokazu Iizuka | 1:47.3 |
| 2012 | Tosen Reve | 4 | Craig Williams | Yasutoshi Ikee | Takaya Shimakawa | 1:46.7 |
| 2013 | Clarente | 4 | Yasunari Iwata | Kojiro Hashiguchi | Shinji Maeda | 1:45.7 |
| 2014 | Decipher | 5 | Hirofumi Shii | Futoshi Kojima | Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum | 1:46.2 |
| 2015 | A Shin Hikari | 4 | Yutaka Take | Masanori Sakaguchi | Eishindo | 1:45.4 |
| 2016 | Rouge Buck | 4 | Keita Tosaki | Masahiro Otake | Carrot Farm | 1:46.2 |
| 2017 | Dashing Blaze | 5 | Suguru Hamanaka | Keiji Yoshimura | Green Fields | 1:45.9 |
| 2018 | Satono Arthur | 4 | Keita Tosaki | Yasutoshi Ikee | Satomi Horse Company | 1:47.4 |
| 2019 | Leyenda | 4 | Christophe Lemaire | Kazuo Fujisawa | Carrot Farm | 1:49.1 |
| 2020 | Daiwa Cagney | 6 | Hiroyuki Uchida | Takanori Kikuzawa | Keizo Oshiro | 1:47.7 |
| 2021 | Zadar | 5 | Shu Ishibashi | Masahiro Otake | Carrot Farm | 1:45.1 |
| 2022 | North Bridge | 4 | Yasunari Iwata | Takeshi Okumura | Noboru Iyama | 1:46.7 |
| 2023 | Justin Cafe | 5 | Kazuo Yokoyama | Shogo Yasuda | Masahiro Miki | 1:45.5 |
| 2024 | Lebensstil | 4 | Christophe Lemaire | Hiroyasu Tanaka | Carrot Farm | 1:44.7 |