Ocean Stakes
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| Grade 3 race | |
 Vento Voce winning the 2023 Ocean Stakes | |
| Location | Nakayama Racecourse |
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| Inaugurated | 1996 |
| Race type | Thoroughbred Flat racing |
| Race information | |
| Distance | 1200 meters |
| Surface | Turf |
| Track | Right-handed |
| Qualification | 4-y-o |
| Weight | 56 kg, fillies and mares allowed 2 kg |
| Purse | ¥ 92,980,000 (as of 2024) 1st: ¥ 43,000,000 2nd: ¥ 17,000,000 3rd: ¥ 11,000,000 |
The Ocean Stakes (Japanese オーシャンステークス) is a Grade 3 horse race for Thoroughbreds aged four and over, run in March over a distance of 1200 meters on turf at Nakayama Racecourse.[1]
The Ocean Stakes was first run in 1996 at 1,800 meters. The distance was changed to 1,200 meters in 1997 and has held Grade 3 status since 2006. From 2014, the race serves as a trial race for the Takamatsunomiya Kinen.[2]
Winners
[edit]| Year |
Winner |
Age |
Jockey |
Trainer |
Trainer | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | Meiner Gabe | 5 | Seiji Ebisawa | Ryuichi Inaba | Thoroughbred Club Ruffian | 1:47.0 |
| 1997 | Cheers Silence | 5 | Olivier Peslier | Kenji Yamauchi | Kiyoko Kitamura | 1:09.3 |
| 1998 | Shinko Forest | 6 | Yoshitomi Shibata | Hironori Kurita | Osamu Yasuda | 1:09.0 |
| 1999 | Izumi Success | 5 | Masaki Katsura | Kazuhiko Hongo | Takeshi Saito | 1:09.3 |
| 2000 | Taiki Bridle | 6 | Yukio Okabe | Masanori Ito | Taiki Farm | 1:09.1 |
| 2001 | Key Gold | 6 | Masayoshi Ebina | Toru Miya | Koichiro Kitasaki | 1:09.8 |
| 2002 | Shonan Kampf | 4 | Yutaka Yoshida | Yokichi Okubo | Tetsuhide Kunimoto | 1:07.3 |
| 2003 | Native Heart | 5 | Takayuki Ishizaki | Kazuo Oyama | Soryu Ikeda | 1:09.7 |
| 2004 | Silky Lagoon | 4 | Junichi Kobayashi | Masahiro Ikegami | Silk | 1:08.1 |
| 2005 | Silky Lagoon | 5 | Yoshitomi Shibata | Masahiro Ikegami | Silk | 1:07.9 |
| 2006 | Native Heart | 8 | Hiroyuki Uchida | Noboru Sakamoto | Soryu Ikeda | 1:08.6 |
| 2007 | I'll Love Again | 5 | Masami Matsuoka | Takahisa Tezuka | Yomoji Saito | 1:08.2 |
| 2008 | Premium Box | 5 | Hayato Yoshida | Hiroyuki Uehara | Shadai Race Horse | 1:08.9 |
| 2009 | Urbanity | 5 | Norihiro Yokoyama | Masaaki Koga | Shadai Race Horse | 1:09.2 |
| 2010 | Kinshasa No Kiseki | 7 | Hirofumi Shii | Noriyuki Hori | Kazumi Yoshida | 1:09.8 |
| 2011 | Dasher Go Go | 4 | Yuga Kawada | Takayuki Yasuda | Shin Ashida | 1:07.8 |
| 2012 | One Carat | 6 | Yusuke Fujioka | Keichi Fujioka | Yoichi Aoyama | 1:09.2 |
| 2013 | Sakura Gospel | 5 | Norihiro Yokoyama | Tomohito Ozeki | Sakura Commerce | 1:08.5 |
| 2014 | Smart Orion | 4 | Norihiro Yokoyama | Yuichi Shikato | Toru Okawa | 1:08.9 |
| 2015 | Sakura Gospel | 7 | Keita Tosaki | Tomohito Ozeki | Sakura Commerce | 1:08.7 |
| 2016 | A Shin Bullseye | 5 | Shu Ishibashi | Kenji Nonaka | Eishindo | 1:07.5 |
| 2017 | Melagrana | 5 | Keita Tosaki | Manabu Ikezoe | Kazumi Yoshida | 1:08.3[3] |
| 2018 | King Heart | 5 | Hiroshi Kitamura | Shinobu Hoshino | Yoichi Masuda | 1:08.3[4] |
| 2019 | Mozu Superflare | 4 | Christophe Lemaire | Hidetaka Otonashi | Capital Systems | 1:07.1[5] |
| 2020 | Danon Smash | 5 | Yuga Kawada | Takayuki Yasuda | Danox | 1:07.4 |
| 2021 | Contra Check | 5 | Genki Maruyama | Kazuo Fujisawa | Carrot Farm | 1:08.4 |
| 2022 | Gendarme | 7 | Kiwamu Ogino | Yasutoshi Ikee | Koji Maeda | 1:07.9 |
| 2023 | Vento Voce | 6 | Christophe Lemaire | Mitsunori Makiura | Eden Association | 1:07.4 |
| 2024 | Toshin Macau | 5 | Takeshi Yokoyama | Mizuki Takayanagi | Sato | 1:08.0 |
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Ocean Stakes". Horse Racing in Japan.
- ^ "歴史・コース：夕刊フジ賞オーシャンステークス 今週の注目レース JRA". jra.jp (in Japanese). Japan Racing Association. Archived from the original on 2024-02-25. Retrieved 2024-05-27.
- ^ "2017 result". Racing Post. 4 March 2017.
- ^ "2018 result". Racing Post. 3 March 2018.
- ^ "2019 result". Racing Post. 2 March 2019.
- ^ "オーシャンS". Netkeiba.
- ^ "Yukan Fuji Sho Ocean Stakes". Netkeiba.