The Tokyo Daishōten is a Japanese thoroughbred horse race

Thoroughbred horse race

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  on dirt track for three years old and above. It is run over a distance of 2,000 meters (about 10 furlongs) at Ōi Racecourse

Oi Racecourse

, also known as Tokyo City Keiba , is located in Shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan. Built in 1950 for horse racing, on weekends it also hosts one of the largest Tokyo-area flea markets...

 in the Shinagawa

Shinagawa, Tokyo

is one of the 23 special wards of Tokyo, Japan. In English, it is called Shinagawa City. The ward is home to nine embassies.As of 2008, the ward has an estimated population of 344,461 and a density of 15,740 persons per km². The total area is 22.72 km²....

, Tokyo

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, ; officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan. Tokyo is the capital of Japan, the center of the Greater Tokyo Area, and the largest metropolitan area of Japan. It is the seat of the Japanese government and the Imperial Palace, and the home of the Japanese Imperial Family...

 in December.

It was first held in 1955, at that time named Aki-no-Kura, meaning 'The Race of Autumn race meeting', with a distance of 2,600 meters. In 1966, its name was changed to Tokyo Daishōten.

Its distance has been changed three times. From 1962 to 1988, it was 3,000 meters long, from 1989 to 1997, 2,800 meters and after 1998, 2,000 meters.

Winners since 1995

Year	Winner	Age	Jockey	Trainer	Owner	Time
1995	Admire Bosatsu	5	Junichi Serizawa	Mitsuru Hashida	Riichi Kondo	3:01.7
1996	Kyoto City	5	Mikio Matsunaga	Kentaro Nakao	Yushun Horse Club Co.	3:01.2
1997	Toyo Seattle	4	Masahiro Matsunaga	Yoshiharu Matsunaga	Toyo Club Co.	3:00.4
1998	Abukuma Poro	6	Takayuki Ishizaki	Katsumi Degawa	Akinori Yarimizu	2:05.4
1999	World Cleek	4	Kazuhiro Kato	Hitoshi Arai	International Horse Co.	2:04.9
2000	Fast Friend	6	Masayoshi Ebina Masayoshi Ebina is a Japanese jockey. Nicknamed Ebi-Shō.He is best known for riding El Condor Pasa.That won the Japan Cup and second in Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe .In 2010 he won the Japanese Fillies' Triple Crown with Apapane....	Keiji Takaichi	Hiroaki Takezaki	2:04.9
2001	Toho Emperor	5	Isao Sugawara	Yotsumi Chiba	Toho Bussan Co.	2:05.2
2002	Gold Allure	3	Yutaka Take Yutaka Take is a Japanese jockey who is a multiple champion in his homeland and won the Japan Cup in 1999 on the horse Special Week...	Yasuo Ikee	Shadai Racehorse Co.	2:05.6
2003	Star King Man	4	Yutaka Take Yutaka Take is a Japanese jockey who is a multiple champion in his homeland and won the Japan Cup in 1999 on the horse Special Week...	Hideyuki Mori	Gold Racing Co.	2:03.7
2004	Adjudi Mitsuo	3	Hiroyuki Uchida	Masayuki Kawashima	Masao Orido	2:02.6
2005	Adjudi Mitsuo	4	Hiroyuki Uchida	Masayuki Kawashima	Masao Orido	2:03.1
2006	Blue Concorde	6	Hideaki Miyuki	Toshiyuki Hattori	Ogifushi Racing Club Co.	2:03.5
2007	Vermilion	5	Yutaka Take Yutaka Take is a Japanese jockey who is a multiple champion in his homeland and won the Japan Cup in 1999 on the horse Special Week...	Sei Ishizaka	Sunday Racing Co.	2:03.2
2008	Kane Hekili Kane Hekili Kane Hekili is a Thoroughbred racehorse named after "The Thunder God" in Polynesian mythology. In 2005 and 2006 he won four Grade 1 races on dirt in Japan and finished fourth to Electrocutionist in the 2006 Dubai World Cup....	6	Christophe Lemaire Christophe Lemaire Christophe Patrice Lemaire is a French-born jockey. He takes his middle name from his father, who made a name for himself in the world of French handicap racing.In 1999 he obtained the licence required for a French jockey, and began racing...	Katsuhiko Sumii Katsuhiko Sumii is a Japanese horse trainer.He trained the first and second placing horses in the 2006 Melbourne Cup, Delta Blues and Pop Rock.- Famous Horses :* Delta Blues - Won Melbourne Cup , Kikuka Sho (born March 28, 1964, Kanazawa, Ishikawa) is a Japanese horse trainer.He trained the first and second...	Makoto Kaneko Makoto Kaneko is the President, CEO and Representative Director of Zuken Inc., a public listed multinational corporation in the Tokyo Stock Exchange.Makoto Kaneko is better known as a prominent horse owner in Japan...	2:04.5
2009	Success Brocken	4	Hiroyuki Uchida	Hideaki Fujiwara	Tetsu Takashima	2:05.9
2010	Smart Falcon	5	Yutaka Take	Ken Kozaki	Toru Okawa	2:00.4