Mermaid Stakes (Japan)

The Mermaid Stakes (Japanese マーメイドステークス) is a Grade 3 horse race for Thoroughbred fillies and mares aged three and over, run in June over a distance of 2000 metres on turf at Hanshin Racecourse.^[1]

Mermaid Stakes
マーメイドステークス

Grade 3 race
Gullveig wins the 2012 Mermaid Stakes
Location	Hanshin Racecourse
Inaugurated	1990
Race type	Thoroughbred Flat racing
Race information
Distance	2000 metres
Surface	Turf
Track	Right-handed
Qualification	3-y-o+ fillies and mares
Weight	Handicap
Purse	¥77,360,000 (total), ¥36,000,000 (winner)

It was first run in 1996 and has held Grade 3 status ever since. The 2006 contest took place at Kyoto Racecourse.

Winners

Year	Winner	Age	Jockey	Trainer	Time
1996	Shinin Racer	5	Hiroshi Kawachi	Takashi Takahashi	2:00.6
1997	Air Groove	4	Yutaka Take	Yuji Ito	2:02.6
1998	Run For The Dream	4	Hiroshi Kawachi	Kotaro Tanaka	2:00.0
1999	Erimo Excel	4	Hitoshi Matoba	Keiji Kato	2:03.6
2000	Fusaichi Airedale	4	Katsumi Ando	Kunihide Matsuda	1:58.9
2001	Taiki Polar	5	Katsumi Ando	Shigeki Matsumoto	1:59.2
2002	Yakamatsu Suzuran	5	Kenichi Ikezoe	Kaneo Ikezoe	1:59.1
2003	Rosebud	5	Norihiro Yokoyama	Kojiro Hashiguchi	2:03.7
2004	Admire Groove	4	Yutaka Take	Mitsuru Hashida	2:00.0
2005	Daiwa El Cielo	4	Yuichi Fukunaga	Kunihide Matsuda	2:00.5
2006	Solid Platinum	3	Yukio Abe	Norihiro Tanaka	2:01.1
2007	Dear Chance	6	Yutaka Take	Izumu Shimizu	1:58.4
2008	Toho Shine	5	Yosuke Kono	Hiroki Sakiyama	2:03.5
2009	Cosmo Platina	6	Ryuji Wada	Toru Miya	2:00.2
2010	Brightia Pulse	5	Kota Fujioka	Osamu Hirata	1:59.5
2011	Fumino Imagine	5	Keisuke Dazai	Masaru Honda	2:00.4
2012	Gullveig	4	Craig Williams	Katsuhiko Sumii	1:59.9
2013	Marcellina	5	Yuga Kawada	Hiroyoshi Matsuda	1:59.4
2014	Dia De La Madre	4	Kota Fujioka	Katsuhiko Sumii	1:59.4
2015	Chateau Blanche	5	Kota Fujioka	Yoshitada Takahashi	2:00.5
2016	Lilavati	5	Fuma Matsuwaka	Sei Ishizaka	1:59.3^[2]
2017	Maximum de Paris	5	Yusuke Fujioka	Shigeki Matsumo	1:59.5^[3]
2018	Andriette	6	Kyosuke Kokubun	Kazuya Makita	1:59.1^[4]
2019	Solace	4	Fuma Matsuwaka	Masayuki Nishimura	2:00.3
2020	Summer Scent	4	Manabu Sakai	Takashi Saito	2:01.1
2021	Shamrock Hill	4	Takashi Fujikake	Shozo Sasaki	2:00.4
2022	Win Mighty	5	Ryuji Wada	Tadao Igarashi	1:58.3
2023	Big Ribbon	5	Atsuya Nishimura	Mitsumasa Nakauchida	1:58.5

See also

• Horse racing in Japan
• List of Japanese flat horse races

References

• Netkeiba:^[5][6]
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1. "Mermaid Stakes". Horse Racing in Japan.
2. "2016 result". Racing Post. 12 June 2016.
3. "2017 result". Racing Post. 11 June 2017.
4. "2018 result". Racing Post. 10 June 2018.
5. "マーメイドS". Netkeiba.
6. "Mermaid Stakes". Netkeiba.