The Tulip Sho

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チューリップ賞} is a Japanese Grade 2

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for three-year-old

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run over a distance of 1,600 metres at

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, Takarazuka, Hyogo. The race is run in March and serves as a major trial race for the

Oka Sho The is a Japanese Grade 1 flat horse race in Japan. The race is restricted to three-year-old Thoroughbred fillies and is run over a distance of 1,600 metres (approximately 1 mile) at the Hanshin Racecourse, Takarazuka, Hyōgo in April. It was ...

. The Tulip Sho was first run in 1986. It became a Grade 3 race in 1994 and was elevated to Grade 2 status in 2018. Among the winners of the race have been

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, Sweep Tosho,

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and Sinhalite.

Winners since 2000

Earlier winners

* 1986 - Reiho Tholon * 1987 - Max Beauty * 1988 - Shiyono Roman * 1989 - Youngest City * 1990 -

Agnes Flora Agnes Flora (born June 18, 1987 - August 8, 2005) by Royal Ski, and out of Agnes Lady at Masayoshi Orite was a bay racehorse who won the Oka Sho in Japan. She is also known as the dam of Agnes Flight and Agnes Tachyon, the former a Derby winn ...

* 1991 - Sister Tosho * 1992 - Adorable * 1993 - Vega * 1994 - Agnes Parade * 1995 - Yuki Vivace * 1996 -

* 1997 - Orange Peel * 1998 - Dantsu Sirius * 1999 - Eishin Ruden

References

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Winners since 2000

Earlier winners

See also

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