Leopard Stakes

The Leopard Stakes (Japanese レパードステークス) is a Grade 3 horse race for three-year-old Thoroughbreds run in August over a distance of 1800 metres at Niigata Racecourse.[1]

Leopard Stakes

Grade 3 race
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	Colts 56 kg, fillies 54 kg
Purse	¥86,400,000 (total), ¥40,000,000 (winner)

The race was first run in 2009 and was promoted to Grade 3 status in 2011.

Winners since 2009

Year	Winner	Jockey	Trainer	Time
2009	Transcend	Masami Matsuoka	Takayuki Yasuda	1:49.5
2010	Miracle Legend ^[a]	Hiroshi Kitamura	Hideaki Fujiwara	1:51.8
2011	Boreas	Yutaka Take	Naohiro Yoshida	1:52.0
2012	Hokko Tarumae	Hideaki Miyuki	Katsuichi Nishiura	1:51.8
2013	Incantation	Takuya Ono	Tomohiko Hatsuki	1:50.3
2014	Asia Express	Keita Tosaki	Takahisa Tezuka	1:50.4
2015	Cross Krieger	Yasunari Iwata	Yasushi Shono	1:51.9
2016	Glanzend	Keita Tosaki	Yukihiro Kato	1:50.6[2]
2017	Rose Princedom	Tahuya Kawata	Yoshihiro Hatakeyama	1:52.9[3]
2018	Grimm	Hiroyuki Uchida	Kenji Nonaka	1:52.0[4]
2019	Hayayakko	Hironobu Tanabe	Sakae Kunieda	1:51.3
2020	Kenshinko	Genki Maruyama	Kazuo Konishi	1:49.2

^a The 2010 winner Miracle Legend was a filly

See also

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

References

1. "Leopard Stakes". Horse Racing in Japan.
2. "2016 result". Racing Post. 7 August 2016.
3. "2017 result". Racing Post. 6 August 2017.
4. "2018 result". Racing Post. 5 August 2018.