Tags: Horse Race, Race.
The Satsuki Shō (皐月賞) is a Japanese Grade 1 flat horse race in Japan for three-year-old thoroughbred colts and fillies run over a distance of 2000 metres (approximately 11⁄4 mile) at the Nakayama Racecourse Funabashi Chiba in April.It was first run in 1939 and is the Japanese equivalent of the English 2000 Guineas. (Note that the original 2000 Guineas is currently run at 1609 metres or one mile about two furlongs shorter than the Satsuki Shō.)