Mermaid Stakes (Japan)

The Mermaid Stakes (Japanese マーメイドステークス) is a Grade 3 horse race for Thoroughbred fillies and mares aged three and over, run in June over a distance of 2000 metres on turf at Hanshin Racecourse.[1]

Mermaid Stakes
Grade 3 race
Gullveig wins the 2012 Mermaid Stakes
LocationHanshin Racecourse
Inaugurated1990
Race typeThoroughbred Flat racing
Race information
Distance2000 metres
SurfaceTurf
TrackRight-handed
Qualification3-y-o+ fillies and mares
WeightHandicap
Purse¥77,360,000 (total), ¥36,000,000 (winner)

It was first run in 1996 and has held Grade 3 status ever since. The 2006 contest took place at Kyoto Racecourse.

Winners
Year
 Winner
 Age
 Jockey
 Trainer
 Time
1996 Shinin Racer 5 Hiroshi Kawachi Takashi Takahashi 2:00.6
1997 Air Groove 4 Yutaka Take Yuji Ito 2:02.6
1998 Run For The Dream 4 Hiroshi Kawachi Kotaro Tanaka 2:00.0
1999 Erimo Excel 4 Hitoshi Matoba Keiji Kato 2:03.6
2000 Fusaichi Airedale 4 Katsumi Ando Kunihide Matsuda 1:58.9
2001 Taiki Polar 5 Katsumi Ando Shigeki Matsumoto 1:59.2
2002 Yakamatsu Suzuran 5 Kenichi Ikezoe Kaneo Ikezoe 1:59.1
2003 Rosebud 5 Norihiro Yokoyama Kojiro Hashiguchi 2:03.7
2004 Admire Groove 4 Yutaka Take Mitsuru Hashida 2:00.0
2005 Daiwa El Cielo 4 Yuichi Fukunaga Kunihide Matsuda 2:00.5
2006 Solid Platinum 3 Yukio Abe Norihiro Tanaka 2:01.1
2007 Dear Chance 6 Yutaka Take Izumu Shimizu 1:58.4
2008 Toho Shine 5 Yosuke Kono Hiroki Sakiyama 2:03.5
2009 Cosmo Platina 6 Ryuji Wada Toru Miya 2:00.2
2010 Brightia Pulse 5 Kota Fujioka Osamu Hirata 1:59.5
2011 Fumino Imagine 5 Keisuke Dazai Masaru Honda 2:00.4
2012 Gullveig 4 Craig Williams Katsuhiko Sumii 1:59.9
2013 Marcellina 5 Yuga Kawada Hiroyoshi Matsuda 1:59.4
2014 Dia De La Madre 4 Kota Fujioka Katsuhiko Sumii 1:59.4
2015 Chateau Blanche 5 Kota Fujioka Yoshitada Takahashi 2:00.5
2016 Lilavati 5 Fuma Matsuwaka Sei Ishizaka 1:59.3[2]
2017 Maximum de Paris 5 Yusuke Fujioka Shigeki Matsumo 1:59.5[3]
2018 Andriette 6 Kyosuke Kokubun Kazuya Makita 1:59.1[4]
2019 Solace 4 Fuma Matsuwaka Masayuki Nishimura 2:00.3
2020 Summer Scent 4 Manabu Sakai Takashi Saito 2:01.1
2021 Shamrock Hill 4 Takashi Fujikake Shozo Sasaki 2:00.4
2022 Win Mighty 5 Ryuji Wada Tadao Igarashi 1:58.3
2023 Big Ribbon 5 Atsuya Nishimura Mitsumasa Nakauchida 1:58.5

See also

References
  1. "Mermaid Stakes". Horse Racing in Japan.
  2. "2016 result". Racing Post. 12 June 2016.
  3. "2017 result". Racing Post. 11 June 2017.
  4. "2018 result". Racing Post. 10 June 2018.
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