 Bellagio Opera, winner of the 2023 Spring Stakes | |
| Class | Grade 2 |
|---|---|
| Location | Nakayama Racecourse, Funabashi, Chiba. |
| Inaugurated | 1952 |
| Race type | Thoroughbred Flat racing |
| Race information | |
| Distance | 1800 metres |
| Surface | Turf |
| Track | Right-handed |
| Qualification | 3-y-o Colts & Fillies |
| Weight | 57 kg Allowance: Fillies 2 kg |
| Purse | ¥ 117,540,000 (as of 2025) 1st: ¥ 54,000,000 2nd: ¥ 22,000,000 3rd: ¥ 14,000,000 |
The Spring Stakes (スプリングステークス, supuringu sutēkusu) is a Grade 2 flat horse race in Japan for three-year-old Thoroughbred colts and fillies run over a distance of 1,800 metres at Nakayama Racecourse, Funabashi, Chiba. The race is run in March and serves as a major trial race for the Satsuki Sho, which is run at the same racecourse in April.[1]
It was first run in 1952. Among the winners of the race have been Shinzan, Narita Brian, Bubble Gum Fellow, Neo Universe, Meisho Samson and Orfevre.
| Year |
Winner |
Jockey |
Trainer |
Owner | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | Narita Brian | Katsumi Minai | Masaaki Ookubo | Hidenori Yamaji | 1:49.1 |
| 1995 | Narita King O | Katsumi Minai | Kentaro Nakao | Hidenori Yamaji | 1:54.5 |
| 1996 | Bubble Gum Fellow | Yukio Okabe | Kazuo Fujisawa | Shadai Race Horse | 1:50.1 |
| 1997 | Big Sunday | Masayoshi Ebina | Tadashi Nakao | Big | 1:52.2 |
| 1998 | Courir Cyclone | Masayoshi Ebina | Ryuichi Inaba | Shuji Yokoyama | 1:49.8 |
| 1999 | Wonder Fang | Miyuki Hideaki | Masazo Ryoke | Nobuyuki Yamamoto | 1:51.2 |
| 2000 | Daitaku Riva | Ryo Takahashi | Kojiro Hashiguchi | Taiyo Farm | 1:49.1 |
| 2001 | Agnes Gold | Hiroshi Kawachi | Hiroyuki Nagahama | Takao Watanabe | 1:50.1 |
| 2002 | Tanino Gimlet | Hirofumi Shii | Kunihide Matsuda | Yuzo Tanimizu | 1:46.9 |
| 2003 | Neo Universe | Mirco Demuro | Tsutomu Setoguchi | Shadai Race Horse | 1:48.2 |
| 2004 | Black Tide | Norihiro Yokoyama | Yasuo Ikee | Makoto Kaneko | 1:48.3 |
| 2005 | Dance in the More | Masayoshi Ebina | Ikuo Aizawa | Iwao Kinami | 1:47.3 |
| 2006 | Meisho Samson | Mamoru Ishibashi | Tsutomu Setoguchi | Yoshio Matsumoto | 1:48.9 |
| 2007 | Flying Apple | Noriyuki Hori | Kazuo Fujisawa | Hidetoshi Yamamoto | 1:49.0 |
| 2008 | Smile Jack | Futoshi Komaki | Satoru Kobiyama | Yomoji Saito | 1:48.9 |
| 2009 | Unrivaled | Yasunari Iwata | Yasuo Tomomichi | Sunday Racing | 1:50.8 |
| 2010 | Aliseo | Norihiro Yokoyama | Noriyuki Hori | Shadai Race Horse | 1:48.2 |
| 2011 | Orfevre | Kenichi Ikezoe | Yasutoshi Ikee | Sunday Racing | 1:46.4 |
| 2012 | Grandezza | Mirco Demuro | Oamu Hirata | Shadai Race Horse | 1:50.7 |
| 2013 | Logotype | Cristian Demuro | Tsuyoshi Tanaka | Teruya Yoshida | 1:47.8 |
| 2014 | Rosa Gigantea | Mirco Demuro | Kazuo Fujisawa | Shadai Race Horse | 1:48.4 |
| 2015 | Kitasan Black | Hiroshi Kitamura | Hisashi Shimizu | Ono Shoji | 1:49.1 |
| 2016 | Mount Robson | Andrasch Starke | Noriyuki Hori | Kaneko Makoto Holdings | 1:48.1 |
| 2017 | Win Bright | Masami Matsuoka | Yoshihiro Hatakeyama | Win | 1:48.4 |
| 2018 | Stelvio | Christophe Lemaire | Tetsuya Kimura | Sunday Racing | 1:48.1 |
| 2019 | Emeral Fight | Yukito Ishikawa | Ikuo Aizawa | Tsutomu Takahashi | 1:47.8 |
| 2020 | Galore Creek | Lyle Hewitson | Hiroyuki Uehara | Yukio Minakami | 1:49.8 |
| 2021 | Victipharus | Kenichi Ikezoe | Manabu Ikezoe | G1 Racing | 1:52.0 |
| 2022 | Be Astonished | Yasunari Iwata | Yuzo Iida | Toru Muranaka | 1:48.4 |
| 2023 | Bellagio Opera | Takeshi Yokoyama | Hiroyuki Uemura | Shorai Hayashida | 1:48.9 |
| 2024 | Sixpence | Christophe Lemaire | Sakae Kunieda | Carrot Farm | 1:49.4 |
| 2025 | Piko Chan Black | Shu Ishibashi | Yuki Uehara | Mieko Ishibe | 1:51.5 |
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