Kyoto Himba Stakes
Horse race
Grade 3 race | |
Donau Blue wins the 2012 Kyoto Himba Stakes | |
Location | Kyoto Racecourse |
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Inaugurated | 1986 |
Race type | Thoroughbred Flat racing |
Race information | |
Distance | 1400 metres |
Surface | Turf |
Track | Right-handed |
Qualification | 4-y-o+ fillies and mares |
Weight | 55 kg |
Purse | ¥ 82,380,000 (as of 2024) 1st: ¥ 38,000,000 2nd: ¥ 15,000,000 3rd: ¥ 10,000,000 |
The Kyoto Himba Stakes (Japanese 京都牝馬ステークス) is a Grade 3 horse race for Thoroughbred fillies and mares aged four and over, run in February over a distance of 1400 metres on turf at Kyoto Racecourse.[1]
The Kyoto Himba Stakes was first run in 1954 and has held Grade 3 status since 1984. The distance was usually 1600 metres before being cut to 1400 metres in 2016. The race was run at Chukyo Racecourse in 1979 and at Hanshin Racecourse in 1980, 1990 and 1994.
Winners since 2000
Year | Winner | Age | Jockey | Trainer | Time |
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2000 | Stinger | 4 | Olivier Peslier | Kazuo Fujisawa | 1:34.9 |
2001 | Grace Namura | 5 | Tetsuya Kobayashi | Tetsuya Meno | 1:35.2 |
2002 | Behind The Mask | 6 | Yuichi Fukunaga | Shuji Kitahashi | 1:36.0 |
2003 | Happy Path | 5 | Olivier Peslier | Kazuo Fujisawa | 1:34.6 |
2004 | Cheers Message | 4 | Masaru Honda | Masazo Ryoke | 1:34.1 |
2005 | Azuma Sanders | 4 | Yusuke Fujioka | Kenichi Fujioka | 1:35.0 |
2006 | Meine Samantha | 6 | Yasunari Iwata | Hitoshi Nakamura | 1:33.5 |
2007 | Dia de la Novia | 5 | Yasunari Iwata | Katsuhiko Sumii | 1:33.0 |
2008 | Admire Kiss | 5 | Katsumi Ando | Hiroyoshi Matsuda | 1:36.0 |
2009 | Celebrita | 4 | Yutaka Take | Yoshiyuki Arakawa | 1:35.1 |
2010 | Hikaru Amaranthus | 4 | Mirco Demuro | Yasuo Ikee | 1:36.4 |
2011 | Shoryu Moon | 4 | Suguru Hamanaka | Shozo Sasaki | 1:33.7 |
2012 | Donau Blue | 4 | Cristian Demuro | Sei Ishizaka | 1:33.8 |
2013 | Hana's Goal | 4 | Suguru Hamanaka | Kazuhiro Kato | 1:34.3 |
2014 | Uliuli | 4 | Suguru Hamanaka | Hideaki Fujiwara | 1:33.0 |
2015 | Keiai Elegant | 6 | Hiroyuki Uchida | Mitsuhiro Ogata | 1:33.9 |
2016 | Queens Ring | 4 | Mirco Demuro | Keiji Yoshimura | 1:22.9 |
2017 | Let's Go Donki | 5 | Yasunari Iwata | Tomoyuki Umeda | 1:22.5[2] |
2018 | Miss Panthere | 4 | Norihiro Yokoyama | Mitsugu Kon | 1:23.0[3] |
2019 | Dea Regalo | 5 | Kenichi Ikezoe | Masahito Otake | 1:21.0[4] |
2020 | Sound Chiara | 5 | Kohei Matsuyama | Akio Adachi | 1:23.2 |
2021 | Iberis[a] | 5 | Manabu Sakai | Koichi Tsunoda | 1:20.0 |
2022 | Lotus Land[a] | 5 | Mirai Iwata | Yasuyuki Tsujino | 1:19.7 |
2023 | La La Christine[a] | 5 | Akira Sugawara | Takashi Saito | 1:20.4 |
2024 | So Dazzling | 4 | Yutaka Take | Hidetaka Otonashi | 1:20.3 |
a The 2021, 2022 and 2023 runnings took place at Hanshin while Kyoto was closed for renovation.
Earlier winners
- 1984 - Calstone Dancer
- 1985 - Fire Dancer
- 1986 - Dominus Rose
- 1987 - Pot Tesco Lady
- 1988 - Mayano Jo O
- 1989 - Rikiai Northern
- 1990 - Rikiai Northern
- 1991 - Daiichi Ruby
- 1992 - Scarlet Bouquet
- 1993 - Nuevo Tosho
- 1994 - North Flight
- 1995 - Sistina
- 1996 - Syourinomegami
- 1997 - Eishin Berlin
- 1998 - Biwa Heidi
- 1999 - Maruka Kimachi
See also
References
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