Principal Stakes

Principal Stakes
プリンシパルステークス
2025 Principal Stakes winner Readiness
ClassListed
LocationTokyo
Inaugurated1996
Race typeThoroughbred - Flat racing
Race information
Distance2,000 meters[1]
SurfaceTurf
TrackTokyo Racecourse
QualificationThree-year-old Fillies and Colts
Weight57 kg
Allowance: Fillies 2 kg
Purse¥ 43,200,000 (as of 2024)
  • 1st: ¥ 20,000,000
  • 2nd: ¥ 8,000,000
  • 3rd: ¥ 5,000,000

The Principal Stakes (in Japanese: プリンシパルステークス) is a listed race for three-year-old stallions and mares in the Japan Racing Association.

Race details

The race was established in 1996 as a qualifying race for the Tokyo Yūshun, which is run in late May or early June. The winner of this race will be given Priority entry rights to the Japanese Derby. To those who wish to qualify for Tokyo Yūshun, winning this race is normally the final chance.

It is an international race,[2] typically held in May.[1]

Past winners

Year
 Winner
 Jockey
 Trainer
 Owner
 Time
1996 Dance in the Dark Yutaka Take Kojiro Hashiguchi Shadai Race Horse 2:13.9
1997 Silence Suzuka Hiroyuki Uemura Mitsuru Hashida Keiji Nagai 2:13.4
1998 Taiki Bridle Yukio Okabe Masanori Ito Taiki Farm 2:13.8
1999 Black Tuxedo Hitoshi Matoba Mitsuhiro Ogata Makoto Kaneko 2:13.6
2000 Toho Shiden Masayoshi Ebina Kiyotaka Tanaka Toho Bussan 2:13.9
2001 Miscast Norihiro Yokoyama Keiji Kato North Hills Management 2:12.9
2002 Mega Stardom Mikio Matsunaga Shoji Yamamoto North Hills Management 2:14.6
2003 Meiner Solomon Hiroki Goto Sakae Kunieda Thoroughbred Club Ruffian 2:01.2
2004 Pisa no Kukai Damien Oliver Kazuo Fujisawa Yoshimi Ichikawa 2:00.2
2005 Eishin Niizan Masayoshi Ebina Masanori Sakaguchi Toyomitsu Hirai 2:01.2
2006 Victory Run Masayoshi Ebina Kiyohiro Tadokoro Toshiharu Yamamoto 2:00.2
2007 Golden Dahlia Yoshitomi Shibata Yoshitaka Ninomiya Yoshiko Tanaka 1:59.6
2008 Venture Nine Tomoharu Bushizawa Satoru Kobiyama Yoshiro Motosugi 2:01.5
2009 Keiai Raijin Yoshitomi Shibata Mitsuhiro Ogata Keiai Orthopedic Appliances 1:59.9
2010 Rulership Norihiro Yokoyama Katsuhiko Sumii Sunday Racing 1:59.1
2011 Tosen Reve Craig Williams Yasutoshi Ikee Takaya Shimakawa 2:01.0
2012 Spielberg Hiroyuki Uchida Kazuo Fujisawa Hidetoshi Yamamoto 2:00.9
2013 Samson's Pride Hironobu Tanabe Hiroaki Sugiura Silk 2:01.4
2014 Bell Canyon Keita Tosaki Noriyuki Hori Kaneko Makoto Holdings 2:01.0
2015 Ambitious Christophe Lemaire Hidetaka Otonashi Hideko Kondo 2:00.2
2016 Azure Rose Hugh Bowman Masaaki Koga Carrot Farm 1:59.2
2017 Daiwa Cagney Hiroshi Kitamura Takanori Kikuzawa Keizo Oshiro 1:58.3
2018 Cosmic Force[3] Christophe Lemaire Sakae Kunieda Sunday Racing 1:58.2
2019 Zadar[4] Shuu Ishibashi Masahiro Ootake Carrot Farm 1:58.3
2020 Bitterender[5] Akihide Tsumura Ikuo Aizawa Hidaka Breeders Union 1:59.8
2021 Baji O[6] Akihide Tsumura Hiroyasu Tanaka Takeshi Suzuki 1:59.3
2022 Seiun Hades[7] Hideaki Miyuki Shinsuke Hashiguchi Shigeyuki Nishiyama 1:59.0
2023 Pax Ottomanica Hironobu Tanabe Takashi Kubota Yoshiro Kubota 2:01.0
2024 Danon Ayers Rock João Moreira Noriyuki Hori Danobx 1:59.6
2025 Readiness Norihiro Yokoyama Mitsugu Kon Koji Yasuhara 1:59.3

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "10R PRINCIPAL STAKES (L)". Umanity. Retrieved 6 August 2019.
  2. ^ "List of other races which foreign horses can run". JapanRacing. Retrieved 6 August 2019.
  3. ^ "Cosmic Force". Equibase. Retrieved 6 August 2019.
  4. ^ "Zadar". JBIS. Retrieved 1 April 2019.
  5. ^ "Bitterender". JBIS. Retrieved 1 April 2019.
  6. ^ "【プリンシパルＳ】２番人気バジオウが２番手から抜け出して快勝". サンスポZBAT！競馬 (in Japanese). 2021-05-08. Retrieved 2023-04-30.
  7. ^ "【プリンシパルＳ】セイウンハーデス＆幸がダービー最終便制す 橋口調教師「距離が延びた方が競馬はしやすい」". 東スポ競馬 (in Japanese). 2022-05-07. Retrieved 2023-04-30.
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