Fairy Stakes

Horse race

Fairy Stakes
フェアリーステークス
Race information
Grade 3 race
Nakayama Racecourse Grandstand
Location	Nakayama Racecourse
Inaugurated	1984
Race type	Thoroughbred Flat racing
Distance	1600 metres
Surface	Turf
Track	Right-handed
Qualification	3-y-o f
Weight	55 kg
Purse	¥ 82,380,000 (as of 2024) 1st: ¥ 38,000,000 2nd: ¥ 15,000,000 3rd: ¥ 10,000,000

The Fairy Stakes (Japanese フェアリーステークス) is a Grade 3 horse race for three-year-old Thoroughbred fillies run in January over a distance of 1600 metres at Nakayama Racecourse.^[1]

The race was first run in 1984 and has been run as a Grade 3 level ever since. It was run over 1200 metres as race for two-year-olds in December until the distance and age specification were increased in 2009. The changes meant that the race was not run in 2008.

Winners since 2000

Year	Winner	Jockey	Trainer	Time
2000	Tenshino Kiseki	Teruo Eda	Kojiro Hashiguchi	1:09.4
2001	Saga Novel	Norihiro Yokoyama	Fumio Koga	1:07.8
2002	White Carnival	Dario Vargiu	Keizo Ito	1:09.2
2003	Maltese Heat	Dario Vargiu	Masahiro Sakaguchi	1:09.2
2004	Felicia	Norihiro Yokoyama	Hiroyuki Uehara	1:08.5
2005	Daiwa Passion	Kodai Hasegawa	Sueo Masuzawa	1:09.8
2006	Apollo Tiara	Masaki Katsuura	Isamu Shibasaki	1:09.4
2007	Le Lupin Bleu	Hayato Yoshida	Katsumi Sakamoto	1:09.8
2008	no race
2009	Germinal	Yuichi Fukunaga	Hideaki Fujiwara	1:36.5
2010	Cosmo Nemo Shin	Shu Ishibashi	Hidekatsu Shimizu	1:34.8
2011	Dance Fantasia	Anthony Crastus	Kazuo Fujisawa	1:33.7
2012	Tosen Benizakura	Akihide Tsumura	Isamu Shibazaki	1:35.5
2013	Crown Rose	Kousei Miura	Shoichi Temma	1:34.7
2014	Omega Heart Rock	Keita Tosaki	Noriyuki Hori	1:36.3
2015	Not Formal	Hiroto Mayuzumi	Eiji Nakano	1:35.2
2016	B B Barrel	Shu Ishibashi	Hideki Kakugawa	1:34.3
2017	Rising Reason	Kyosuke Maruta	Takeshi Okumura	1:34.7^[2]
2018	Primo Scene	Keita Kosaki	Tetsuya Kimura	1:34.6^[3]
2019	Figlia Pura	Genki Maruyama	Takanori Kikuzawa	1:36.0^[4]
2020	Smile Kana	Daichi Shibata	Yoshiyasu Takahashi	1:34.0
2021	Fine Rouge	Christophe Lemaire	Tetsuya Kimura	1:34.4
2022	Lilac	Mirco Demuro	Ikuo Aizawa	1:35.2
2023	Kita Wing	Makoto Sugihara	Shigeyuki Kojima	1:34.3
2024	Ipheion	Atsuya Nishimura	Yoshiaki Sugiyama	1:34.0

Earlier winners

1984 - Erebus
1985 - Mejiro Ramonu
1986 - Kosei
1987 - Shino Cross
1988 - Cutting Edge
1989 - Yamatake Sally
1990 - Blue Bay Bridge
1991 - Disco Hall
1992 - Mother Tosho
1993 - Nagara Flash
1994 - Prime Stages
1995 - Max Rose
1996 - Hishi Nile
1997 - Lady Stella
1998 - Tayasu Bloom
1999 - Berg Ticket

References

Netkeiba:^[5]^[6]
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^ "Fairy Stakes". Horse Racing in Japan.
^ "2017 result". Racing Post. 8 January 2017.
^ "2018 result". Racing Post. 7 January 2018.
^ "2019 result". Racing Post. 12 January 2018.
^ "フェアリーS". Netkeiba.
^ "Fairy Stakes". Netkeiba.

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