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Horse race
Fuji Stakes
Grade 2 race
Mount Fuji, the namesake of the race
LocationTokyo Racecourse
Inaugurated1986
Race typeThoroughbred Flat racing
Race information
Distance1600 metres
SurfaceTurf
TrackLeft-handed
Qualification3-y-o+
WeightSpecial Weight
Purse¥ 128,140,000 (as of 2024)
1st: ¥ 59,000,000
2nd: ¥ 24,000,000
3rd: ¥ 15,000,000

The Fuji Stakes (Japanese 富士ステークス) is a Grade 2 horse race for Thoroughbreds aged three and over, run in October over a distance of 1600 metres at Tokyo Racecourse.

It was first run in 1984 and held Grade 3 status from 1998 until 2019. The race was run over 1800 metres until 1996, and over 1400 metres from 1997 to 1999. It serves as a trial race for the Mile Championship.

Weight

55 kg for three-year-olds, 57 kg for four-year-olds and above.

Allowances:

Penalties (excluding two-year-old race performance):

  • If a graded stakes race has been won within a year:
    • 2 kg for a grade 1 win (1 kg for fillies / mares)
    • 1 kg for a grade 2 win
  • If a graded stakes race has been won for more than a year:
    • 1 kg for a grade 1 win

Winners since 2000

Year
 Winner
 Age
 Jockey
 Trainer
 Time
2000 Daiwa Caerleon 7 Hiroki Tanaka Yoshitaka Ninomiya 1:33.9
2001 Kris The Brave 7 Yutaka Yoshida Masakazu Akiyama 1:33.2
2002 Meisho Ramses 4 Yoshitomi Shibata Yuji Ito 1:32.3
2003 Millenium Bio 5 Yutaka Take Masaozo Ryoke 1:32.0
2004 Admire Max 5 Yutaka Take Mitsuru Hashida 1:33.2
2005 Win Radius 7 Katsuharu Tanaka Kazuo Fujisawa 1:32.9
2006 Kinetics 7 Megumu Shinkawa Megumu Shinkawa 1:32.8
2007 Meiner Segal 3 Hiroki Goto Sakae Kunieda 1:33.3
2008 Silent Pride 5 Norihiro Yokoyama Sakae Kunieda 1:32.7
2009 Absolute 5 Katsuharu Tanaka Yoshitada Munakata 1:33.3
2010 Danon Yoyo 4 Kousei Miura Hidetaka Otonashi 1:32.8
2011 Eishin Apollon 4 Hironobu Tanabe Masahiro Matsunaga 1:35.0
2012 Clarente 3 Yasunari Iwata Kojiro Hashiguchi 1:32.4
2013 Danon Shark 5 Suguru Hamanaka Ryuji Okubo 1:33.5
2014 Staphanos 3 Keita Tosaki Hideaki Fujiwara 1:33.2
2015 Danon Platina 3 Masayoshi Ebina Sakae Kunieda 1:32.7
2016 Young Man Power 4 Keita Tosaki Takahisa Tezuka 1:34.0
2017 Air Spinel 4 Yutaka Take Kazuhide Sasada 1:34.8
2018 Logi Cry 5 Christophe Lemaire Naosuke Sugai 1:31.7
2019 Normcore 4 Christophe Lemaire Kiyoshi Hagiwara 1:33.0
2020 Vin de Garde 4 Yuichi Fukunaga Hideaki Fujiwara 1:33.4
2021 Songline 3 Kenichi Ikezoe Toru Hayashi 1:33.2
2022 Serifos 3 Yusuke Fujioka Mitsumasa Nakauchida 1:32.0
2023 Namur 4 Joao Moreira Tomokazu Takano 1:31.4
2024 Jun Blossom 5 Keita Tosaki Yasuo Tomomichi 1:32.1

Earlier winners

  • 1986 - Waverley Star
  • 1987 - Triptych
  • 1988 - Salem Drive
  • 1989 - Oracle Asuka
  • 1990 - Mogami Champion
  • 1991 - Stabilizer
  • 1992 - Shinko Lovely
  • 1993 - Matikanetannhauser
  • 1994 - Sakura Chitose O
  • 1995 - Fujiyama Kenzan
  • 1996 - Shinko King
  • 1997 - Biko Alpha
  • 1998 - Air Jihad
  • 1999 - Red Chili Pepper

See also

References

  1. "Fuji Stakes". Horse Racing in Japan.
  2. "List of JRA Graded Races 2024｜List of JRA Graded Races｜Horse Racing in Japan". Horse Racing in Japan. Retrieved 2024-10-19.
  3. "2016 result". Racing Post. 22 October 2016.
  4. "2017 result". Racing Post. 21 October 2017.
  5. "2018 result". Racing Post. 20 October 2018.
  6. "富士Ｓ". Netkeiba.
  7. "Fuji Stakes". Netkeiba.
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