Ban'ei Kinen

The Ban'ei Kinen (ばんえい記念) is a Grade 1 Ban'ei horse race, held in Obihiro, Hokkaido, Japan for four-year-olds and up. The full name is Nōrin Suisan Daijin Shōten Ban'ei Kinen (農林水産大臣賞典 ばんえい記念) (Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Award, Ban'ei Kinen).

Ban'ei Kinen
Ban'ei Grade 1 race
LocationObihiro Racecourse
Inaugurated1968
Race typeBanei
Websitewww.banei-keiba.or.jp
Race information
Distance200 meters
(About 1 furlongs)
SurfaceDirt
TrackBan'ei Track
Qualification4 years old or upper, Ban'ei
WeightWeight-for-age (4yo or 5yo: 990kg, 6yo or upper: 1,000kg; -20kg for mare)
Purse¥3,000,000 (as of 2013)

The race is the championship race held in the end of the season (March) with the highest weight and prize money among all ban'ei races.

Winners since 2001

Year
Winner
Jockey
Trainer
Time
2001 Sakano Taison Kazuo Okawara Haruo Nishimura 3:42.3
2002 Sakano Taison Takumi Fujimoto Haruo Nishimura 4:16.4
2003 Super Pegasus Toshiharu Iwamoto Eito Otomo 4:19.8
2004 Super Pegasus Toshiharu Iwamoto Eito Otomo 3:07.8
2005 Super Pegasus Shunichi Fujino Eito Otomo 3:15.3
2006 Super Pegasus Shunichi Fujino Eito Otomo 4:36.1
2007 Tomoe Power Toichi Sakamoto Hirofumi Matsui 4:50.6
2008 Tomoe Power Hiromi Nishi Hirofumi Matsui 5:35.8
2009 Tomoe Power Hiromi Nishi Hirofumi Matsui 4:50.8
2010 Nishiki Daijin Shunichi Fujino Isamu Kaneta 4:24.8
2011 Kanesa Black Michiaki Matsuda Hirofumi Matsui 4:07.7
2012 Nishiki Daijin Keisuke Suzuki Shinichi Murakami 2:34.0
2013 Kanesa Black Michiaki Matsuda Hirofumi Matsui 3:43.1


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