| Surface: | Turf |
| Class: | Grade 2 |
| Horse Race: | Kyōto Daishōten 京都大賞典 |
| Location: | Kyoto Racecourse, Fushimi-ku, Kyoto |
| Inaugurated: | 1966 |
| Race Type: | Thoroughbred Flat racing |
| Distance: | 2400 metres |
| Track: | Right-handed |
| Qualification: | 3-y-o +, Colts & Fillies |
| Weight: | 3-y-o 53kg, 4-y-o+ 56kg. Fillies & mares allowed 2kg. G1 winners 2kg extra. |
| Purse: | ¥67,000,000 (winner) ¥145,120,000 (total) |
The Kyōto Daishōten (京都大賞典, kyōto daishōten) is a Japanese Grade 2 flat horse race in Japan for Thoroughbred colts and fillies aged three and over run over a distance of 2,400 metres at the Kyoto Racecourse, Fushimi-ku, Kyoto.
The race is run in October and serves as a trial race for the autumn edition of the Tenno Sho.[1]
It was first run in 1966. Among the winners of the race have been Mejiro McQueen, Marvelous Crown, T M Opera O, Tap Dance City, Rose Kingdom and Lovely Day.
Speed record:
Most successful horse (2 wins):
| Year | Winner | Age | Jockey | Trainer | Owner | Time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | Marvelous Crown | 4 | Katsumi Minai | Makoto Osawa | Sadao Sasahara | 2:31.0 | |
| 1995 | Hishi Amazon | 4 | Eiji Nakdate | Takao Nakano | Masaichiro Abe | 2:25.3 | |
| 1996 | Marvelous Sunday | 4 | Yutaka Take | Makoto Osawa | Sadao Sasahara | 2:25.1 | |
| 1997 | Silk Justice | 3 | Shinji Fujita | Masaaki Okubo | Silk | 2:26.2 | |
| 1998 | Seiun Sky | 3 | Norihiro Yokoyama | Kazutaka Yasuda | Masayuki Nishiyama | 2:25.6 | |
| 1999 | Tsurumaru Tsuyoshi | 4 | Shinji Fujita | Nibun Hisao | Takao Tsuruta | 2:24.3 | |
| 2000 | T M Opera O | 4 | Ryuji Wada | Ichizo Iwamoto | Masatsugu Takezono | 2:26.0 | |
| 2001 | T M Opera O | 5 | Ryuji Wada | Ichizo Iwamoto | Masatsugu Takezono | 2:25.0 | |
| 2002 | Narita Top Road | 6 | Hirofumi Shii | Yoshio Oki | Hidenori Yamaji | 2:23.6 | |
| 2003 | Tap Dance City | 6 | Tetsuzo Sato | Shozo Sasaki | Yushun Horse Club | 2:26.6 | |
| 2004 | Narita Century | 5 | Hirokazu Tajima | Norio Fujisawa | Hidenori Yamaji | 2:25.2 | |
| 2005 | Lincoln | 5 | Yutaka Take | Hidetaka Otonashi | Hideko Kondo | 2:25.4 | |
| 2006 | Sweep Tosho | 5 | Kenichi Ikezoe | Akio Tsurudome | Tosho Sangyo | 2:31.5 | |
| 2007 | Inti Raimi | 5 | Tetsuzo Sato | Shozo Sasaki | Sunday Racing | 2:24.8 | |
| 2008 | Toho Alan | 5 | Ryota Sameshima | Hideaki Fujiwara | Toho Bussan | 2:26.9 | |
| 2009 | Oken Bruce Lee | 4 | Hiroyuki Uchida | Hidetaka Otonashi | Akira Fukui | 2:24.3 | |
| 2010 | Meisho Beluga | 5 | Kenichi Ikezoe | Kaneo Ikezoe | Yoshio Matsumoto | 2:25.0 | |
| 2011 | Rose Kingdom | 4 | Hiroki Goto | Kojiro Hashiguchi | Sunday Racing | 2:24.1 | |
| 2012 | Meisho Kampaku | 5 | Kenichi Ikezoe | Yoshiyuki Arakawa | Yoshio Matsumoto | 2:23.4 | |
| 2013 | Hit The Target | 5 | Yuichi Kitamura | Keiji Kato | Shinji Maeda | 2:22.9 | |
| 2014 | Last Impact | 4 | Yuga Kawada | Hiroyoshi Matsuda | Silk Racing | 2:24.2 | |
| 2015 | Lovely Day | 5 | Yuga Kawada | Yasutoshi Ikee | Kaneko Makoto Holdings | 2:23.6 | |
| 2016 | Kitasan Black | 4 | Yutaka Take | Hisashi Shimizu | Ono Shoji | 2:25.5 | |
| 2017 | Smart Layer | 7 | Yutaka Take | Ryuji Okubo | Toru Okawa | 2:23.0 | |
| 2018 | Satono Diamond | 5 | Yuga Kawada | Yasutoshi Ikee | Satomi Horse Company | 2:25.4 | |
| 2020 | Glory Vase | 5 | Yuga Kawada | Tomohito Ozeki | Carrot Farm | 2:25.6 | |
| 2021 | Makahiki | 8 | Kota Fujioka | Yasuo Tomomichi | Kaneko Makoto Holdings | 2:24.5 | |
| 2022 | Vela Azul | 5 | Kohei Matsuyama | Kunihiko Watanabe | Carrot Farm | 2:24.3 | |
| 2023 | Pradaria | 4 | Kenichi Ikezoe | Manabu Ikezoe | Nagoya Yuho | 2:25.30 |
Stay Gold came in first in the 2001 runnings. However, as he had cut off Narita Top Road and caused his jockey to fall, he was disqualified from the race.
The 2021 and 2022 runnings took place at Hanshin while Kyoto was closed for redevelopment.