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
レパードステークス

Grade 3 race
Niigata Racecourse
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	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
2021	Meisho Murakumo	Yoshitomi Shibata	Yusuke Wada	1:51.3
2022	Kafuji Octagon	Chak Yiu Ho	Yoshito Yahagi	1:51.9
2023	Riot Grrrl	Mirai Iwata	Naoya Nakamura	1:50.8
2024	Mikki Fight	Keita Tosaki	Hiroyasu Tanaka	1:51.2

^a The 2010 winner Miracle Legend was a filly

See also

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

References

• Netkeiba:^[5][6]
  • 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. "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.
5. "レパードS". Netkeiba.
6. "Leopard Stakes". Netkeiba.