Track Notes
Course Summary
Right-handed outer 3000m marathon starting on a gentle uphill before the first pass through Corner 3. Runners cover about one and a half laps and must handle the Yodo Hill climb and descent twice.
Fun Facts
• Hosts the Kikuka Sho, the final leg of the Japanese Triple Crown.
• Rice Shower defeated Mejiro McQueen here in the 1992 Kikuka Sho.
• Gold Ship’s 2012 Kikuka Sho featured his famous downhill “warp.”
• Super Creek won his first G1 here in the 1988 Kikuka Sho.
• Rice Shower defeated Mejiro McQueen here in the 1992 Kikuka Sho.
• Gold Ship’s 2012 Kikuka Sho featured his famous downhill “warp.”
• Super Creek won his first G1 here in the 1988 Kikuka Sho.
