Leopard Stakes

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

Leopard Stakes
レパードステークス

Niigata Racecourse
Class	Grade 3
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	57 kg Allowance: Fillies 2 kg
Purse	¥ 79,920,000 (as of 2024) 1st: ¥ 37,000,000 2nd: ¥ 15,000,000 3rd: ¥ 9,000,000

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

Winners since 2009

Year	Winner	Jockey	Trainer	Owner	Time
2009	Transcend	Masami Matsuoka	Takayuki Yasuda	Koji Maeda	1:49.5
2010	Miracle Legend [a]	Hiroshi Kitamura	Hideaki Fujiwara	Teruya Yoshida	1:51.8
2011	Boreas	Yutaka Take	Naohiro Yoshida	Kaneko Makoto Holdings	1:52.0
2012	Hokko Tarumae	Hideaki Miyuki	Katsuichi Nishiura	Koichi Yabe	1:51.8
2013	Incantation	Takuya Ono	Tomohiko Hatsuki	Turf Sport	1:50.3
2014	Asia Express	Keita Tosaki	Takahisa Tezuka	Yukio Baba	1:50.4
2015	Cross Krieger	Yasunari Iwata	Yasushi Shono	Takashi Tsuji	1:51.9
2016	Glanzend	Keita Tosaki	Yukihiro Kato	Silk Racing	1:50.6[2]
2017	Rose Princedom	Takuya Kowata	Yoshihiro Hatakeyama	Makio Okada	1:52.9[3]
2018	Grimm	Hiroyuki Uchida	Kenji Nonaka	Kanayama Holdings	1:52.0[4]
2019	Hayayakko	Hironobu Tanabe	Sakae Kunieda	Kaneko Makoto Holdings	1:51.3
2020	Kenshinko	Genki Maruyama	Kazuo Konishi	Katsuhiko Amano	1:49.2
2021	Meisho Murakumo	Yoshitomi Shibata	Yusuke Wada	Yoshio Matsumoto	1:51.3
2022	Kafuji Octagon	Vincent C Y Ho	Yoshito Yahagi	Mamoru Kato	1:51.9
2023	Riot Grrrl	Mirai Iwata	Naoya Nakamura	Hidaka Farm	1:50.8
2024	Mikki Fight	Keita Tosaki	Hiroyasu Tanaka	Mizuki Noda	1:51.2

^a The 2010 winner Miracle Legend was a filly

See also

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