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Nojigiku Sho

Japanese thoroughbred race

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 1, 2025
Entity authorityQ11275156 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Nojigiku Sho (in Japanese: のじぎく賞), is a race for three-year-old mares from Japan's Tokai region in the Aichi Prefectural Horse Racing Association.

Race details

The race was established in 1963. It is held at Sonoda Racecourse on a 1,700 meter track.

The award is named after a Japanese flower, the Chrysanthemum japonense.

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This entry incorporates text from “Nojigiku Sho” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.