1. Arima Kinen Latest News
2. Arima Kinen 2024 Entries Horse
3. Arima Kinen 2024 Notable runners
4. Arima Kinen race overview
5. Racecourse Feature
6. Arima Kinen Past Winners

Arima Kinen Latest News

Arima Kinen 2024 Entries Horse

2024 JAPAN CUP (G1) and TENNO SHO (AUTUMN) (G1) winner Do Deuce, 2024 KIKUKA SHO (G1) winner Urban Chic, etc are scheduled to run.

＊Please check the entries, Field, result, and other data against JRA official data.

Arima Kinen 2024 Notable runners

Do Deuce

Do Deuce won the G1 Japan Cup in the previous race. He has won a G1 every year since his debut and has accumulated five G1 wins to date. His strength is his strong final leg, and although the small Nakayama racecourse is a disadvantage, he overcame it in last year's Arima Kinen. He will be retiring from this race and we look forward to seeing him end his career on a high note.

Urban Chic

Urban Chic to win the G2 St.Lite Kinen and the G1 Kikuka Sho. His qualities have been highly regarded since he was two years old, but his spring classic ended incomplete. With the stamina and leading abirities of his father Suave Richard, we hope to see the first three-year-old to win the Grand Prix in a long time.

Danon Decile

Danon Decile finished sixth as the favourite in the G1 Kikuka Sho. He is the type of horse that can lead from the front and does not mind the small Nakayama racecourse, as he proved when he won the G3 Keisei Hai in January. He will be looking to show the strength on the Grand Prix that won him this year's Japanese Derby in spite of the ninth favourite.

Stunning Rose

Stunning Rose won the last race, the G1 Queen Elizabeth 2 Cup, for the first time in two years since the G1 Shuka Sho. She has a good sense of the start and can get ahead, which makes the Nakayama course her forte. She has won twice from three starts on this course and should not be underestimated, even though she is a mare.

Blow the Horn

Blow the Horn won this year's Takarazuka Kinen, but failed to show his true potential in two autumn races, the G1 Tenno Sho (Autumn) and the G1 Japan Cup. With Epiphaneia as his sire, he is well suited to a track that requires power and if it rains, it would not be surprising to see him come back.

Arima Kinen race overview

The Arima Kinen is a horse race held at Nakayama Racecourse. It is a G1 race run on turf over a distance of 2500 meters. Horses aged three and above are eligible to participate. The full field consists of 16 horses. Known as the grand finale of the Japan Racing Association (JRA) calendar, it is a major race that takes place at the end of the year at Nakayama Racecourse, alongside the Japanese Derby, and is highly renowned.

Established in 1956 as the "Nakayama Grand Prix," the Arima Kinen is a Grand Prix race where the participating horses are determined by fan voting.

Racecourse Feature

Nakayama 2500m turf course : One-and-a-half laps of inner course starting from the outer course and approximately 192m to the first corner. Home straight is approximately 310m with a height difference of 2.4m. Front runners on the rail have an advantage.

Arima Kinen Past Winners

ARIMA KINEN Feature

Latest information on the Arima Kinen (G1).