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2018 World All-Star Jockeys

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WASJ is an international event launched by the Japan Racing Association and will be held at Sapporo.

2018 World All-Star Jockeys. Picture: Japan Racing Association

The World All-Star Jockeys (WASJ) is an international event launched by the Japan Racing Association. Formerly called the World Super Jockeys Series since its establishment in 1987, it has welcomed more than 230 top-caliber jockeys from Europe, North America, Oceania and Asia. The event is held on the last weekend of August at Sapporo Racecourse in northern Japan.

This year’s event welcomes six outstanding jockeys from the United States, New Zealand, Ireland, France, Brazil and Hong Kong in joining one NAR (National Association of Racing; local public racing) jockey and seven JRA jockeys in their bid for the title. A team competition was added to the regular individual contest in 2015, in which the overseas and NAR jockeys form “Team WAS (World All-Star)” and compete against “Team JRA” to attain the most points as a team.

The first two of the four-race series will be conducted on August 25th (Sat), while the third and fourth will be held the following day.

The 2018 World All-Star Jockeys

Date
Saturday, August 25, 2018
Sunday, August 26, 2018

Venue
Sapporo Racecourse 

Races
Saturday, August 25

10th race  :  2018 World All-Star Jockeys First Leg
               Three-Year-Olds & Up, Allowance (10Million & Less)
               turf, 1,200 meters (about 6 furlongs)

11th race  :  2018 World All-Star Jockeys Second Leg
               Three-Year-Olds & Up, Allowance (16Million & Less)
               turf, 2,000 meters (about 10 furlongs)

Sunday, August 26
10th race  :  2018 World All-Star Jockeys Third Leg
               Three-Year-Olds & Up, Allowance (10Million & Less)
               dirt, 1,700 meters (about 8.5 furlongs)

12th race  :  2018 World All-Star Jockeys Fourth Leg
               Three-Year-Olds & Up, Allowance (10Million & Less)
               turf, 1,800 meters (about 9 furlongs)

Awards
The top three jockeys will receive the following awards:
1st  :  ¥ 3 million (about US$ 27,273) & trophy valued at ¥ 300,000 (about US$ 2,727)
2nd  :  ¥ 2 million (about US$ 18,182)
3rd  :  ¥ 1 million (about US$ 9,091)

Note : US$1 = ¥110