Grade 1 race
Mile Championship マイルチャンピオンシップ
Location	Kyoto Racecourse, Fushimi-ku, Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture
Inaugurated	1984
Race type	Thoroughbred
Website	japanracing.jp/
Race information
Distance	1600 meters (About 8 furlongs / 1 mile)
Track	Turf, Right-handed
Qualification	3-y-o & Up, Thoroughbreds
Weight	3-y-o 56 kg / 4-y-o & up 57 kg
Purse	¥213,000,000 (as of 2007)

The Mile Championship is a International Grade I flat horse race in Japan for three-year-old and above thoroughbreds run over a distance of 1,600 metres (approximately 1 mile) on the turf at Kyoto Racecourse in November. Physical attributes Kyoto Race Course has two turf courses a dirt course and a jump course is one of the eleven wards in the city of Kyoto, in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. WikipediaWikiProject Japanese prefectures for guidelines --> is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kinki region of the island of Honshū A graded stakes race is a term applied by the American Graded Stakes Committee of the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association to a Thoroughbred horse race in Flat racing is a term commonly used to denote a form of Horse racing which is run over a level track at a predetermined distance This article is about the sport For other uses see Horserace (drinking game or Horse race (politics. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Japan topics. The Thoroughbred is a horse breed Physical attributes Kyoto Race Course has two turf courses a dirt course and a jump course It was first run in 1984.

It has now become common for horses who do well in this race to travel to Hong Kong and race in the Hong Kong Mile held in mid December. Hong Kong ( officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, is a territory located on China 's south coast on the Pearl River Delta, and borders The Hong Kong Mile is a Group 1 flat horse race in Hong Kong for three-year-old and above Thoroughbreds run over a distance of 1600

Winners since 1994

Year	Winner	Age	Jockey	Trainer	Owner	Time
1994	North Flight	4	Koichi Tsunoda	Keiji Kato	Taihoku Bokujo	1:33. 0
1995	Trot Thunder	6	Norihiro Yokoyama	Katsutoshi Aikawa	Teruo Fujimoto	1:33. 7
1996	Genuine	4	Yukio Okabe	Yasuhisa Matsuyama	Shadai Race Horse Co Ltd	1:33. 8
1997	Taiki Shuttle	3	Norihiro Yokoyama	Kazuo Fujisawa	Taiki Farm	1:33. Taiki Shuttle (foaled 1994 in the United States) is a Japanese Thoroughbred Race horse who was voted Japanese Horse of the Year in Kazuo Fujisawa (born September 22, 1951 in Tomakomai, Hokkaido, Japan) is a trainer of Thoroughbred Race horses 3
1998	Taiki Shuttle	4	Yukio Okabe	Kazuo Fujisawa	Taiki Farm	1:33. Taiki Shuttle (foaled 1994 in the United States) is a Japanese Thoroughbred Race horse who was voted Japanese Horse of the Year in Kazuo Fujisawa (born September 22, 1951 in Tomakomai, Hokkaido, Japan) is a trainer of Thoroughbred Race horses 3
1999	Air Jihad	4	Masayoshi Ebina	Masanori Ito	Lucky Field Co Ltd	1:32. 8
2000	Agnes Digital	3	Hitoshi Matoba	Toshiaki Shirai	Takao Watanabe	1:32. 6
2001	Zenno El Cid	4	Olivier Peslier	Kazuo Fujisawa	Shinobu Oosako	1:33. Olivier Peslier (born January 12, 1973 in Château-Gontier, Mayenne Département, France) is a Thoroughbred horse Kazuo Fujisawa (born September 22, 1951 in Tomakomai, Hokkaido, Japan) is a trainer of Thoroughbred Race horses 2
2002	Tokai Point	6	Masayoshi Ebina	Yoshiyuki Goto	Masanori Uchimura	1:32. 8
2003	Durandal	4	Kenichi Ikezoe	Masahiro Sakaguchi	Teruya Yoshida	1:33. 3
2004	Durandal	5	Kenichi Ikezoe	Masahiro Sakaguchi	Teruya Yoshida	1:33. 0
2005	Hat Trick	4	Olivier Peslier	Katsuhiko Sumii	Carrot Farm Co Ltd	1:32. Olivier Peslier (born January 12, 1973 in Château-Gontier, Mayenne Département, France) is a Thoroughbred horse ( March 28, 1964, came from Kanazawa, Ishikawa) is a Japanese Horse trainer. 1
2006	Daiwa Major	5	Katsumi Ando	Hiroyuki Uehara	Keizo Oshiro	1:32. 7
2007	Daiwa Major	6	Katsumi Ando	Hiroyuki Uehara	Keizo Oshiro	1:32. 7

Earlier winners

External links

• Horse Racing in Japan

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