 Niigata Racecourse | |
| Class | Grade 3 |
|---|---|
| Location | Niigata Racecourse |
| Inaugurated | 2009 |
| Race type | Thoroughbred Flat racing |
| Race information | |
| Distance | 1800 metres |
| Surface | Dirt |
| Track | Left-handed |
| Qualification | 3-y-o |
| Weight | 57 kg Allowance: Fillies 2 kg |
| Purse | ¥ 79,920,000 (as of 2025)
|
The Leopard Stakes (Japanese レパードステークス) is a Grade 3 horse race in Japan for three-year-old Thoroughbreds run in August over a distance of 1800 metres at Niigata Racecourse.[1]
The race was first run in 2009 and was promoted to Grade 3 status in 2011.
Winners since 2009
| Year |
Winner |
Jockey |
Trainer |
Owner | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | Transcend | Masami Matsuoka | Takayuki Yasuda | Koji Maeda | 1:49.5 |
| 2010 | Miracle Legend [a] | Hiroshi Kitamura | Hideaki Fujiwara | Teruya Yoshida | 1:51.8 |
| 2011 | Boreas | Yutaka Take | Naohiro Yoshida | Kaneko Makoto Holdings | 1:52.0 |
| 2012 | Hokko Tarumae | Hideaki Miyuki | Katsuichi Nishiura | Koichi Yabe | 1:51.8 |
| 2013 | Incantation | Takuya Ono | Tomohiko Hatsuki | Turf Sport | 1:50.3 |
| 2014 | Asia Express | Keita Tosaki | Takahisa Tezuka | Yukio Baba | 1:50.4 |
| 2015 | Cross Krieger | Yasunari Iwata | Yasushi Shono | Takashi Tsuji | 1:51.9 |
| 2016 | Glanzend | Keita Tosaki | Yukihiro Kato | Silk Racing | 1:50.6[2] |
| 2017 | Rose Princedom | Takuya Kowata | Yoshihiro Hatakeyama | Makio Okada | 1:52.9[3] |
| 2018 | Grimm | Hiroyuki Uchida | Kenji Nonaka | Kanayama Holdings | 1:52.0[4] |
| 2019 | Hayayakko | Hironobu Tanabe | Sakae Kunieda | Kaneko Makoto Holdings | 1:51.3 |
| 2020 | Kenshinko | Genki Maruyama | Kazuo Konishi | Katsuhiko Amano | 1:49.2 |
| 2021 | Meisho Murakumo | Yoshitomi Shibata | Yusuke Wada | Yoshio Matsumoto | 1:51.3 |
| 2022 | Kafuji Octagon | Vincent C Y Ho | Yoshito Yahagi | Mamoru Kato | 1:51.9 |
| 2023 | Riot Grrrl | Mirai Iwata | Naoya Nakamura | Hidaka Farm | 1:50.8 |
| 2024 | Mikki Fight | Keita Tosaki | Hiroyasu Tanaka | Mizuki Noda | 1:51.2 |
| 2025 | Don in the Mood | Kohei Matsuyama | Teiichi Konno | Koichi Yamada | 1:50.5 |
a The 2010 winner Miracle Legend was a filly
See also
References
- Netkeiba:[5][6]
- 2009 en, 2010 en, 2011 en, 2012 en, 2013 en, 2014 en, 2015 en, 2016 en, 2017 en, 2018 en, 2019 en, 2020 en, 2021 en, 2022 en, 2023 en, 2024 en, 2025 en
- ^ "Leopard Stakes". Horse Racing in Japan.
- ^ "2016 result". Racing Post. 7 August 2016.
- ^ "2017 result". Racing Post. 6 August 2017.
- ^ "2018 result". Racing Post. 5 August 2018.
- ^ "レパードS". Netkeiba.
- ^ "Leopard Stakes". Netkeiba.
