The Yayoi-shō (Deep Impact Kinen) is a Conditions races Flat racing Horse racing in Japan for three-year-old Thoroughbred colts and Filly run over a distance of 2,000 metres at the Nakayama Racecourse, Funabashi, Chiba Prefecture. 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-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. .
1995 | Fuji Kiseki | Koichi Tsunoda | Sakae Watanabe | Yomoji Saito | 2:03.7 |
1996 | Dance in the Dark | Yutaka Take | Kojiro Hashiguchi | Shadai Race Horse | 2:02.7 |
1997 | Running Gale | Yutaka Take | Tadashi Kayo | Hidemasa Takahashi | 2:02.2 |
1998 | Special Week | Yutaka Take | Toshiaki Shirai | Hiroyoshi Usuda | 2:01.8 |
1999 | Narita Top Road | Kunihiko Watanabe | Yoshio Oki | Hidenori Yamaji | 2:03.5 |
2000 | Fusaichi Zenon | Shinji Fujita | Seiki Tabara | Fusao Sekiguchi | 2:02.3 |
2001 | Agnes Tachyon | Hiroshi Kawachi | Hiroyuki Nagahama | Takao Watanabe | 2:05.7 |
2002 | Balance of Game | Katsuharu Tanaka | Munakata Yoshitada | Hiroyuki Sonobe | 2:02.0 |
2003 | Eishin Champ | Yuichi Fukunaga | Tsutomu Setoguchi | Toyomitsu Hirai | 2:02.3 |
2004 | Cosmo Bulk | Fuyuki Igarashi | Kazunori Tabe | Misako Okada | 2:00.5 |
2005 | Deep Impact | Yutaka Take | Yasuo Ikee | Makoto Kaneko | 2:02.2 |
2006 | Admire Moon | Yutaka Take | Hiroyoshi Matsuda | Riichi Kondo | 2:01.5 |
2007 | Admire Aura | Yutaka Take | Hiroyoshi Matsuda | Riichi Kondo | 2:00.5 |
2008 | Meiner Charles | Masami Matsuoka | Ryuichi Inaba | Thoroughbred Club Ruffian | 2:01.8 |
2009 | Logi Universe | Norihiro Yokoyama | Kiyoshi Hagiwara | Masaaki Kumeda | 2:03.5 |
2010 | Victoire Pisa | Yutaka Take | Katsuhiko Sumii | Yoshimi Ichikawa | 2:06.1 |
2011 | Sadamu Patek | Yasunari Iwata | Masato Nishizono | Sada Onishi | 2:01.0 |
2012 | Cosmo Ozora | Daichi Shibata | Yoshihiro Takahashi | Big Red Farm | 2:03.9 |
2013 | Camino Tassajara | Hiroyuki Uchida | Sakae Kunieda | Kaneko Makoto Holdings | 2:01.0 |
2014 | To The World | Yuga Kawada | Yasutoshi Ikee | Carrot Farm | 2:01.4 |
2015 | Satono Crown | Yuichi Fukunaga | Noriyuki Hori | Hajime Satomi | 2:01.8 |
2016 | Makahiki | Christophe Lemaire | Yasuo Tomomichi | Kaneko Makoto Holdings | 1:59.9 |
2017 | Cadenas | Yuichi Fukunaga | Kazuya Nakatake | Koji Maeda | 2:03.2 |
2018 | Danon Premium | Yuga Kawada | Mitsumasa Nakauchida | Danox | 2:01.0 |
2019 | Meisho Tengen | Kenichi Ikezoe | Kaneo Ikezoe | Yoshio Matsumoto | 2:03.3 |
2020 | Satono Flag | Yutaka Take | Sakae Kunieda | Hajime Satomi | 2:02.9 |
2021 | Titleholder | Takeshi Yokoyama | Toru Kurita | Hiroshi Yamada | 2:02.0 |
2022 | Ask Victor More | Hironobu Tanabe | Yasuhito Tamura | Hirosaki Toshihiro HD | 2:00.5 |
2023 | Tastiera | Kohei Matsuyama | Noriyuki Hori | Carrot Farm | 2:00.4 |
2024 | Cosmo Kuranda | Mirco Demuro | Shizuya Kato | Big Red Farm | 1:59.8 |
2025 | Faust Rasen | Makoto Sugihara | Masayuki Nishimura | Toshiya Miyazaki | 2:01.3 |
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