Cattleya Stakes

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The Cattleya Stakes is a flat horse race in Japan open to two-year-old horses. It is run at Tokyo Racecourse over a distance of 1,600 metres.

Cattleya Stakes
カトレアステークス
Open race
Tokyo Racecourse
LocationTokyo Racecourse, Fuchū, Tokyo, Japan
Inaugurated1975
Race typeThoroughbred
Websitejapanracing.jp/
Race information
Distance1,600 meters
SurfaceDirt
TrackLeft-handed
Qualification2-y-o Thoroughbreds
Weight2-y-o 56 kg
Allowance : Fillies 2kg
Purse¥ 34,560,000 (as of 2023)
1st: ¥ 16,000,000
2nd: ¥ 6,400,000
3rd: ¥ 4,000,000

The race was first run as Cattleya Sho in 1975 and then discontinued between 2008 and 2014.[1] The race was reintroduced in 2015. In 2016, the race began to be included as part of the Road to the Kentucky Derby series.[2] It was renamed to Cattleya Stakes in 2020.

The inaugural race in 1975 was run at 1,600 metres, the next year it was run at 1,700 metres on turf, but was brought back to 1,600 meters on dirt the year after. It has since run at 1,600 metres except for 2003 when it was run at 1,800 metres in Nakayama Racecourse.[2][3][4]

Winners

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Year Winner Jockey Trainer Owner Time
2023 Amante Bianco Christophe Lemaire Keisuke Miyata Silk Racing Co Ltd 1:37.5
2022 Continuar Damian Lane Yoshito Yahagi Lion Race Horse Co Ltd 1:36.6
2021 Consigliere Christophe Lemaire Yukio Inagaki Kazumi Yoshida 1:38.0
2020[5] Lemon Pop Keita Tosaki Hiroyasu Tanaka Godolphin 1:36.4
2019[6] Dieu du Vin Frankie Dettori Yukihiro Kato Three H Racing Co Ltd 1:36.2
2018[7] Make Happy Christophe Lemaire Koichi Shinkai Kazuko Yoshida 1.38.3
2017[8] Ruggero Keita Tosaki Yuichi Shikato Takashi Muraki 1.38.2
2016 Mont Saint Legame Takuya Kowata Koji Maki Shinichi Yamashita 1:37.8
2015 Lani Hiroyuki Uchida Mikio Matsunaga Yoko Maeda 1:37.4
Discontinued from 2008 to 2014
2007 Domingo City Hiroki Goto Yasuhito Tamura Yushun Horse Co Ltd 1:38.8
2006 Red Bar Spin Hiroki Goto Masanori Sakaguchi Yoshio Fujita 1:40.1
2005 Daiwa King Con Hiroshi Kitamura Sueo Masuzawa Keizo Oshiro 1:40.0
2004 Gaily Snowman Eiji Nakadate Akio Tsurudome Hiroaki Nakamura 1:39.1
2003 Dantsu Energy Shinji Fujita Kenji Yamauchi Tetsuji Yamamoto 1:54.7

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "カトレアS 歴代勝ち馬【おうまのアイコン wire-to-wire】". horseicon.web.fc2.com (in Japanese). Retrieved 2024-03-04.
  2. ^ a b The Cattleya Sho
  3. ^ Mont Saint Legame in Kentucky Derby Picture
  4. ^ Cattleya Sho Race History
  5. ^ 2020 Cattleya Sho
  6. ^ 2019 Cattleya Sho
  7. ^ 9R CATTLEYA SHO 2018
  8. ^ 9R CATTLEYA SHO 2017