Ocean Stakes

The Ocean Stakes (Japanese オーシャンステークス) is a Grade 3 horse race for Thoroughbreds aged four and over, run in March over a distance of 1200 meters on turf at Nakayama Racecourse.^[1]

Ocean Stakes
オーシャンステークス

Grade 3 race
Vento Voce winning the 2023 Ocean Stakes
Location	Nakayama Racecourse
Inaugurated	1996
Race type	Thoroughbred Flat racing
Race information
Distance	1200 meters
Surface	Turf
Track	Right-handed
Qualification	4-y-o+
Weight	56 kg, fillies and mares allowed 2 kg
Purse	¥ 92,980,000 (as of 2024) 1st: ¥ 43,000,000 2nd: ¥ 17,000,000 3rd: ¥ 11,000,000

The Ocean Stakes was first run in 1996 at 1,800 meters. The distance was changed to 1,200 meters in 1997 and has held Grade 3 status since 2009. It serves as a trial race for the Takamatsunomiya Kinen.

Winners

Year	Winner	Age	Jockey	Trainer	Time
1996	Meiner Gabe	5	Seiji Ebisawa	Ryuichi Inaba	1:47.0
1997	Cheers Silence	5	Olivier Peslier	Kenji Yamauchi	1:09.3
1998	Shinko Forest	6	Yoshitomi Shibata	Hironori Kurita	1:09.0
1999	Izumi Success	5	Masaki Katsura	Kazuhiko Hongo	1:09.3
2000	Taiki Bridle	6	Yukio Okabe	Masanori Ito	1:09.1
2001	Key Gold	6	Masayoshi Ebina	Toru Miya	1:09.8
2002	Shonan Kampf	4	Yutaka Yoshida	Yokichi Okubo	1:07.3
2003	Native Heart	5	Takayuki Ishizaki	Kazuo Oyama	1:09.7
2004	Silky Lagoon	4	Junichi Kobayashi	Masahiro Ikegami	1:08.1
2005	Silky Lagoon	5	Yoshitomi Shibata	Masahiro Ikegami	1:07.9
2006	Native Heart	8	Hiroyuki Uchida	Noboru Sakamoto	1:08.6
2007	I'll Love Again	5	Masami Matsuoka	Takahisa Tezuka	1:08.2
2008	Premium Box	5	Hayato Yoshida	Hiroyuki Uehara	1:08.9
2009	Urbanity	5	Norihiro Yokoyama	Masaaki Koga	1:09.2
2010	Kinshasa No Kiseki	7	Hirofumi Shii	Noriyuki Hori	1:09.8
2011	Dasher Go Go	4	Yuga Kawada	Takayuki Yasuda	1:07.8
2012	One Carat	6	Yusuke Fujioka	Keichi Fujioka	1:09.2
2013	Sakura Gospel	5	Norihiro Yokoyama	Tomohito Ozeki	1:08.5
2014	Smart Orion	4	Norihiro Yokoyama	Yuichi Shikato	1:08.9
2015	Sakura Gospel	7	Keita Tosaki	Tomohito Ozeki	1:08.7
2016	A Shin Bullseye	5	Shu Ishibashi	Kenji Nonaka	1:07.5
2017	Melagrana	5	Keita Tosaki	Manabu Ikezoe	1:08.3^[2]
2018	King Heart	5	Hiroshi Kitamura	Shinobu Hoshino	1:08.3^[3]
2019	Mozu Superflare	4	Christophe Lemaire	Hidetaka Otonashi	1:07.1^[4]
2020	Danon Smash	5	Yuga Kawada	Takayuki Yasuda	1:07.4
2021	Contra Check	5	Genki Maruyama	Kazuo Fujisawa	1:08.4
2022	Gendarme	7	Kiwamu Ogino	Yasutoshi Ikee	1:07.9
2023	Vento Voce	6	Christophe Lemaire	Mitsunori Makiura	1:07.4
2024	Toshin Macau	5	Takeshi Yokoyama	Mizuki Takayanagi	1:08.0

See also

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

References

• Netkeiba:^[5][6]
  • 1996 en, 1997 en, 1998 en, 1999 en, 2000 en, 2001 en, 2002 en, 2003 en, 2004 en, 2005 en, 2006 en, 2007 en, 2008 en, 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

1. "Ocean Stakes". Horse Racing in Japan.
2. "2017 result". Racing Post. 4 March 2017.
3. "2018 result". Racing Post. 3 March 2018.
4. "2019 result". Racing Post. 2 March 2019.
5. "オーシャンS". Netkeiba.
6. "Yukan Fuji Sho Ocean Stakes". Netkeiba.