Track Notes
Course Summary
Legendary right-handed 3200m marathon requiring more than one and a half laps of Kyoto’s outer loop. The field gets a clean 417m opening run, then faces the massive Yodo Hill climb and descent twice before the flat final stretch.
Fun Facts
• Yutaka Take is the youngest jockey to win the Tenno Sho Spring, the oldest jockey to win it, and the winningest jockey in the race, with victories aboard Inari One, Super Creek, Mejiro McQueen, Special Week, Deep Impact, and Kitasan Black.
• Mejiro McQueen, T. M. Opera O, Fenomeno, Kitasan Black, and Fierement won back-to-back Tenno Sho Spring titles. Rice Shower is the only other two-time winner, taking first in 1993 and 1995.
• Rice Shower stopped Mejiro McQueen's third-title bid in the 1993 Tenno Sho Spring in a stunning upset.
• This was the map for the first Gemini Cup Champions Meeting.
• The Tenno Sho Spring was Mayano Top Gun's retirement race, finishing his career with a fourth G1 win.
• Mejiro McQueen, T. M. Opera O, Fenomeno, Kitasan Black, and Fierement won back-to-back Tenno Sho Spring titles. Rice Shower is the only other two-time winner, taking first in 1993 and 1995.
• Rice Shower stopped Mejiro McQueen's third-title bid in the 1993 Tenno Sho Spring in a stunning upset.
• This was the map for the first Gemini Cup Champions Meeting.
• The Tenno Sho Spring was Mayano Top Gun's retirement race, finishing his career with a fourth G1 win.
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