Unicorn Stakes

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Unicorn Stakes
Grade 3 race
I-am-actress20110604.jpg
I Am Actress wins the 2011 Unicorn Stakes
LocationTokyo Racecourse
Inaugurated1996
Race typeThoroughbred Flat racing
Race information
Distance1600 metres
SurfaceDirt
TrackLeft-handed
Qualification3-y-o
WeightColts 56 kg, fillies 54 kg
Purse¥75,700,000 (total), ¥35,000,000 (winner)

The Unicorn Stakes (Japanese ユニコーンステークス) is a Grade 3 horse race for three-year-old Thoroughbreds run in June over a distance of 1600 metres on dirt at Tokyo Racecourse.[1]

The race was first run in 1996 and has held Grade 3 status ever since. The race was run over 1800 metres at Nakayama Racecourse in 1996, 1998, 1999 and 2000. Past winners of the race have included Taiki Shuttle, Agnes Digital and Kane Hekili.

Records[]

Record time (1600 metres):

  • 1:34.9 - Cafe Pharoah 2020

Most wins by a jockey:

Most wins by a trainer:

  • 2 - Sei Ishizaka 2001, 2013
  • 2 - Katsuhiko Sumii 2005, 2019
  • 2 - Noriyuki Hori 2012, 2020

Winners[]

Year
 Winner
 Jockey
 Trainer
 Time
1996 Shinko Windy Yukio Okabe Kiyotaka Tanaka 1:52.8
1997 Taiki Shuttle Yukio Okabe Kazuo Fujisawa 1:36.8
1998 Katsumi Minai Yoshimi Kudo 1:52.0
1999 Gold Tiara[a] Katsuharu Tanaka Kunihide Matsuda 1:52.6
2000 Agnes Digital Hiroshi Matoba Toshiaki Shirai 1:50.7
2001 Nasdaq Power Teruo Eda Sei Ishizawa 1:36.4
2002 Himitsu Heiki Seiji Sakai Mitsuhiro Okabayashi 1:36.4
2003 Katsumi Ando Kojiro Hashiguchi 1:35.8
2004 Top of World Hirofumi Shii Kenichi Fujioka 1:36.0
2005 Kane Hekili Yutaka Take Katsuhiko Sumii 1:36.5
2006 Nike Earthwork Norihiro Yokoyama Masayuki Kawashima 1:37.2
2007 Long Pride Yutaka Take Yukiharu Ono 1:36.9
2008 Ubiquitous Katsumi Ando Nobuhiro Suzuki 1:35.1
2009 Silk Mobius Hiroyasu Tanaka Masazo Ryoke 1:35.5
2010 Birdie Birdie Masami Matsuoka Yasutoshi Ikee 1:36.6
2011 I Am Actress[a] Shinichiro Akiyama Hiroshi Nagahama 1:36.2
2012 Straw Hat Yuichi Fukunaga Noriyuki Hori 1:36.5
2013 Keita Tosaki Sei Ishizaka 1:36.0
2014 Red Alvis Masayoshi Ebina Takayuki Yasuda 1:36.0
2015 Christophe Lemaire Yukihiro Kato 1:35.9
2016 Yuga Kawada Osamu Hirata 1:35.8[2]
2017 Sunrise Nova Keita Tosaki Hidetaka Otonashi 1:35.9[3]
2018 Mirco Demuro Kiyoshi Hagiwara 1:35.0[4]
2019 Wide Pharaoh Yuichi Fukunaga Katsuhiko Sumii 1:35.5
2020 Cafe Pharoah Damian Lane Noriyuki Hori 1:34.9
2021 Smasher Ryusei Sakai Tatsuya Yoshioka 1:34.4

a Gold Tiara and I Am Actress were fillies

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ "Unicorn Stakes". Horse Racing in Japan.
  2. ^ "2016 result". Racing Post. 19 June 2016.
  3. ^ "2017 result". Racing Post. 18 June 2017.
  4. ^ "2018 result". Racing Post. 17 June 2018.
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