# Yayoi Sho

The Yayoi Sho (Deep Impact Kinen) (弥生賞ディープインパクト記念, Yayoi-shō (Deep Impact Kinen)) is a Grade 2 flat horse race in Japan for three-year-old Thoroughbred colts and fillies run over a distance of 2,000 metres at the Nakayama Racecourse, Funabashi, Chiba. The race is run in March and serves as a major trial race for the Satsuki Sho, which is run over the same distance in April. Yayoi means "March" in ancient Japanese calendar.
It was first run in 1964 as the Yayoi Sho (弥生賞, （Yayoi-shō）) . The race was run at Tokyo Racecourse in 1965, 1966, 1967, 1969, 1970 and 1988. Among the winners of the race have been Mr C B, Symboli Rudolf, Special Week, Agnes Tachyon, Deep Impact, Admire Moon and Victoire Pisa.
In October 2019, JRA decided to change the name to Yayoi Sho (Deep Impact Kinen) in memory of the late Deep Impact..

## Winners since 1995

| Year | Winner | Jockey | Trainer | Time |
| 1995 | Fuji Kiseki | Koichi Tsunoda | Sakae Watanabe | 2:03.7 |
| 1996 | Dance in the Dark | Yutaka Take | Kojiro Hashiguchi | 2:02.7 |
| 1997 | Running Gale | Yutaka Take | Tadashi Kayo | 2:02.2 |
| 1998 | Special Week | Yutaka Take | Toshiaki Shirai | 2:01.8 |
| 1999 | Narita Top Road | Kunihiko Watanabe | Yoshio Oki | 2:03.5 |
| 2000 | Fusaichi Zenon | Shinji Fujita | Seiki Tabara | 2:02.3 |
| 2001 | Agnes Tachyon | Hiroshi Kawachi | Hiroyuki Nagahama | 2:05.7 |
| 2002 | Balance of Game | Katsuharu Tanaka | Munakata Yoshitada | 2:02.0 |
| 2003 | Eishin Champ | Yuichi Fukunaga | Tsutomu Setoguchi | 2:02.3 |
| 2004 | Cosmo Bulk | Fuyuki Igarashi | Kazunori Tabe | 2:00.5 |
| 2005 | Deep Impact | Yutaka Take | Yasuo Ikee | 2:02.2 |
| 2006 | Admire Moon | Yutaka Take | Hiroyoshi Matsuda | 2:01.5 |
| 2007 | Admire Aura | Yutaka Take | Hiroyoshi Matsuda | 2:00.5 |
| 2008 | Meiner Charles | Masami Matsuoka | Ryuichi Inaba | 2:01.8 |
| 2009 | Logi Universe | Norihiro Yokoyama | Kiyoshi Hagiwara | 2:03.5 |
| 2010 | Victoire Pisa | Yutaka Take | Katsuhiko Sumii | 2:06.1 |
| 2011 | Sadamu Patek | Yasunari Iwata | Masato Nishizono | 2:01.0 |
| 2012 | Cosmo Ozora | Daichi Shibata | Yoshihiro Takahashi | 2:03.9 |
| 2013 | Camino Tassajara | Hiroyuki Uchida | Sakae Kunieda | 2:01.0 |
| 2014 | To The World | Yuga Kawada | Yasutoshi Ikee | 2:01.4 |
| 2015 | Satono Crown | Yuichi Fukunaga | Noriyuki Hori | 2:01.8 |
| 2016 | Makahiki | Christophe Lemaire | Yasuo Tomomichi | 1:59.9 |
| 2017 | Cadenas | Yuichi Fukunaga | Kazuya Nakatake | 2:03.2 |
| 2018 | Danon Premium | Yuga Kawada | Mitsumasa Nakauchida | 2:01.0 |
| 2019 | Meisho Tengen | Kenichi Ikezoe | Kaneo Ikezoe | 2:03.3 |
| 2020 | Satono Flag | Yutaka Take | Sakae Kunieda | 2:02.9 |
| 2021 | Titleholder | Takeshi Yokoyama | Toru Kurita | 2:02.0 |
| 2022 | Ask Victor More | Hironobu Tanabe | Yasuhito Tamura | 2:00.5 |
| 2023 | Tastiera | Kohei Matsuyama | Noriyuki Hori | 2:00.4 |
| 2024 | Cosmo Kuranda | Mirco Demuro | Shizuya Kato | 1:59.8 |
| 2025 | Faust Rasen | Makoto Sugihara | Masayuki Nishimura | 2:01.3 |

## Earlier winners

* 1964 - Tokino Parade
* 1965 - Keystone
* 1966 - Tama Shuho
* 1967 - Asa Denko
* 1968 - Asaka O
* 1969 - Wild More
* 1970 - Tanino Moutiers
* 1971 - Mejiro Gekko
* 1972 - Long Ace
* 1973 - Haiseko
* 1974 - Colonel Symboli
* 1975 - Kaburaya O
* 1976 - Climb Kaiser
* 1977 - Lucky Ruler
* 1978 - Fantast
* 1979 - Rikiai O
* 1980 - Tosho God
* 1981 - Todoroki Hiho
* 1982 - Saruno King
* 1983 - Mr C B
* 1984 - Symboli Rudolf
* 1985 - Suda Hawk
* 1986 - Daishin Fubuki
* 1987 - Sakura Star O
* 1988 - Sakura Chiyono O
* 1989 - Rainbow Amber
* 1990 - Mejiro Ryan
* 1991 - Ibuki Maikagura
* 1992 - Asaka Regent
* 1993 - Winning Ticket
* 1994 - Sakura Eiko O