Kyoto Himba Stakes

Kyoto Himba Stakes
京都牝馬ステークス
Grade 3 race
Donau Blue wins the 2012 Kyoto Himba Stakes
LocationKyoto Racecourse
Inaugurated1986
Race typeThoroughbred Flat racing
Race information
Distance1400 metres
SurfaceTurf
TrackRight-handed
Qualification4-y-o+ fillies and mares
Weight55 kg
Purse¥ 82,380,000 (as of 2024)
1st: ¥ 38,000,000
2nd: ¥ 15,000,000
3rd: ¥ 10,000,000

The Kyoto Himba Stakes (Japanese 京都牝馬ステークス) is a Grade 3 horse race for Thoroughbred fillies and mares aged four and over, run in February over a distance of 1400 metres on turf at Kyoto Racecourse.[1]

The Kyoto Himba Stakes was first run in 1954 and has held Grade 3 status since 1984. The distance was usually 1600 metres before being cut to 1400 metres in 2016. The race was run at Chukyo Racecourse in 1979 and at Hanshin Racecourse in 1980, 1990 and 1994.

Winners since 2000

Year
 Winner
 Age
 Jockey
 Trainer
 Time
2000 Stinger 4 Olivier Peslier Kazuo Fujisawa 1:34.9
2001 Grace Namura 5 Tetsuya Kobayashi Tetsuya Meno 1:35.2
2002 Behind The Mask 6 Yuichi Fukunaga Shuji Kitahashi 1:36.0
2003 Happy Path 5 Olivier Peslier Kazuo Fujisawa 1:34.6
2004 Cheers Message 4 Masaru Honda Masazo Ryoke 1:34.1
2005 Azuma Sanders 4 Yusuke Fujioka Kenichi Fujioka 1:35.0
2006 Meine Samantha 6 Yasunari Iwata Hitoshi Nakamura 1:33.5
2007 Dia de la Novia 5 Yasunari Iwata Katsuhiko Sumii 1:33.0
2008 Admire Kiss 5 Katsumi Ando Hiroyoshi Matsuda 1:36.0
2009 Celebrita 4 Yutaka Take Yoshiyuki Arakawa 1:35.1
2010 Hikaru Amaranthus 4 Mirco Demuro Yasuo Ikee 1:36.4
2011 Shoryu Moon 4 Suguru Hamanaka Shozo Sasaki 1:33.7
2012 Donau Blue 4 Cristian Demuro Sei Ishizaka 1:33.8
2013 Hana's Goal 4 Suguru Hamanaka Kazuhiro Kato 1:34.3
2014 Uliuli 4 Suguru Hamanaka Hideaki Fujiwara 1:33.0
2015 Keiai Elegant 6 Hiroyuki Uchida Mitsuhiro Ogata 1:33.9
2016 Queens Ring 4 Mirco Demuro Keiji Yoshimura 1:22.9
2017 Let's Go Donki 5 Yasunari Iwata Tomoyuki Umeda 1:22.5[2]
2018 Miss Panthere 4 Norihiro Yokoyama Mitsugu Kon 1:23.0[3]
2019 Dea Regalo 5 Kenichi Ikezoe Masahito Otake 1:21.0[4]
2020 Sound Chiara 5 Kohei Matsuyama Akio Adachi 1:23.2
2021 Iberis[a] 5 Manabu Sakai Koichi Tsunoda 1:20.0
2022 Lotus Land[a] 5 Mirai Iwata Yasuyuki Tsujino 1:19.7
2023 La La Christine[a] 5 Akira Sugawara Takashi Saito 1:20.4
2024 So Dazzling 4 Yutaka Take Hidetaka Otonashi 1:20.3

a The 2021, 2022 and 2023 runnings took place at Hanshin while Kyoto was closed for renovation.

Earlier winners

  • 1984 - Calstone Dancer
  • 1985 - Fire Dancer
  • 1986 - Dominus Rose
  • 1987 - Pot Tesco Lady
  • 1988 - Mayano Jo O
  • 1989 - Rikiai Northern
  • 1990 - Rikiai Northern
  • 1991 - Daiichi Ruby
  • 1992 - Scarlet Bouquet
  • 1993 - Nuevo Tosho
  • 1994 - North Flight
  • 1995 - Sistina
  • 1996 - Syourinomegami
  • 1997 - Eishin Berlin
  • 1998 - Biwa Heidi
  • 1999 - Maruka Kimachi

See also

References

  1. ^ "Kyoto Himba Stakes". Horse Racing in Japan.
  2. ^ "2017 result". Racing Post. 18 February 2017.
  3. ^ "2018 result". Racing Post. 17 February 2018.
  4. ^ "2019 result". Racing Post. 16 February 2019.
  5. ^ "京都牝馬S". Netkeiba.
  6. ^ "Kyoto Himba Stakes". Netkeiba.