JRA Award for Best Dirt Horse

Japanese Best Dirt Horse is a title awarded annually by the Japan Racing Association (JRA). Since 1987 the honor has been part of the JRA Awards.

Records

Most successful horse (2 wins):

Leading trainer (2 wins):

Katsumi Minai – Wing Arrow (1998, 2000)
Hiroyoshi Matsuda – Admire Don (2003, 2004)
Sei Ishizaka – Alondite (2006), Vermilion (2007)
Katsuhiko Sumii - Kane Hekili (2005, 2008)
Akio Adachi – Espoir City (2009, 2010)
Kunihide Matsuda – Kurofune (2001), Belshazzar (2013)

Leading owner (4 wins):

Year	Horse	Trainer	Owner	Age
1987	No Award
1988	No Award
1989	Dyna Letter	Toshio Nihon'yanagi	Shadai Racing	5
1990	Caribbean Song	Osamu Kato Hajime	Ogifuji Ranch	4
1991	Narita Falcon	Kentaro Nakao	Hidenori Yamaji	4
1992	No Award
1993	Meisho Homura	Takahashi Shigetada	Yoshio Matsumoto	5
1994	Fujino Makken O	Yoshio Nakamura	Hiroshi Nakamura	3
1995	Lively Mount	Fujio Shibata	Tetsuro Kato	4
1996	Hokuto Vega	Takao Nakano	Kanamori Shoji Mori	6
1997	No Award
1998	Wing Arrow	Katsumi Minai	Minoru Ikeda	3
1999	No Award
2000	Wing Arrow	Katsumi Minai	Makoto Kaneko	3
2001	Kurofune	Kunihide Matsuda	Makoto Kaneko	5
2002	Gold Allure	Yasutoshi Ikee	Shadai Racing	4
2003	Admire Don	Hiroyoshi Matsuda	Riichi Kondo	4
2004	Admire Don	Hiroyoshi Matsuda	Riichi Kondo	5
2005	Kane Hekili	Katsuhiko Sumii	Makoto Kaneko	3
2006	Alondite	Sei Ishizaka	Carrot Farm Co.	3
2007	Vermilion	Sei Ishizaka	Sunday Racing	5
2008	Kane Hekili	Katsuhiko Sumii	Makoto Kaneko	6
2009	Espoir City	Akio Adachi	Yushun Horse	4
2010	Espoir City	Akio Adachi	Yushun Horse	5
2011	Transcend	Yasuda Takayuki	Koji Maeda	5
2012	Nihonpiro Ours	Yuki Ohashi	Hyakutaro Kobayashi	5
2013	Belshazzar	Kunihide Matsuda	Shadai Race Horse	5
2014	Hokko Tarumae	Katsuichi Nishiura	Michiaki Yabe	5
2015	Copano Rickey	Akira Murayama	Sachiaki Kobayashi	5

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