| Grade 3 race | |
The finish of the 2009 Sapporo Nisai Stakes
| |
| Location | Sapporo Racecourse |
|---|---|
| Inaugurated | 1966 |
| Race type | Thoroughbred Flat racing |
| Race information | |
| Distance | 1800 metres |
| Surface | Turf |
| Track | Right-handed |
| Qualification | 2-y-o |
| Weight | 54 kg |
| Purse | ¥66,660,000 (total), ¥31,000,000 (winner) |
The Sapporo Nisai Stakes (Japanese 札幌2歳ステークス) is a Grade 3 horse race for two-year-old Thoroughbreds run in late August or early September over a distance of 1800 metres at Sapporo Racecourse.[1]
The race was first run in 1966 and was promoted to Grade 3 status in 1984. Originally run over 1200 metres the race was increased to its current distance in 1997. It was run at Hakodate Racecourse in 1989. Past winners have included Jungle Pocket, Admire Moon and Logi Universe.
| Year |
Winner |
Jockey |
Trainer |
Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Jungle Pocket | Teruhiko Chida | Sakae Watanabe | 1:49.6 |
| 2001 | Yamano Blizzard | Hiroto Kawashima | Kawada Takayoshi | 1:50.9 |
| 2002 | Sakura President | Katsuharu Tanaka | Futoshi Kojima | 1:51.7 |
| 2003 | Moere Espoir | Tsuyoshi Chiba | Yoshinori Doyama | 1:54.1 |
| 2004 | Stormy Cafe | Hirofumi Shii | Futoshi Kojima | 1:49.9 |
| 2005 | Admire Moon | Masaru Honda | Hiroyoshi Matsuda | 1:50.4 |
| 2006 | Namura Mars | Yusuke Fujioka | Nobuharu Fukushima | 1:49.7 |
| 2007 | Oriental Rock | Yutaka Take | Hidetaka Tadokoro | 1:51.9 |
| 2008 | Logi Universe | Norihiro Yokoyama | Kiyoshi Hagiwara | 1:49.1 |
| 2009 | San Diego City | Yusuke Fujioka | Seiji Sakuta | 1:49.7 |
| 2010 | All As One | Katsumi Ando | Masaozo Ryoke | 1:49.8 |
| 2011 | Grandezza | Shinichiro Akiyama | Osamu Hirata | 1:50.8 |
| 2012 | Codino | Norohiro Yokoyama | Kazuo Fujisawa | 1:48.5 |
| 2013 | Red Reveur | Keita Tosaki | Naosuke Sugai | 1:59.7 |
| 2014 | Bright Emblem | Hironobu Tanabe | Shigeyuki Kojima | 1:50.0 |
| 2015 | Admire Eikan | Yasunari Iwata | Naosuke Sugai | 1:50.8 |
| 2016 | Trust | Daichi Shibata | Hiroaki Kawazu | 1:49.9[2] |
| 2017 | Rock This Town | Christophe Lemaire | Yoshitaka Ninomiya | 1:51.4[3] |
| 2018 | Nishino Daisy | Masaki Katsuura | Noboru Takagi | 1:50.1[4] |
| 2019 | Black Hole | Yukito Ishikawa | Ikuo Aizawa | 1:50.4 |
| 2020 | Sodashi | Hayato Yoshida | Naosuke Sugai | 1:48.2 |
| 2021 | Geoglyph | Christophe Lemaire | Takaki Iwato | 1:49.1 |
| 2022 | Dura | Arata Saito | Yasuyuki Takahashi | 1:50.0 |
| 2023 | Set Up | Takeshi Yokoyama | Yuichi Shikato | 1:50.5 |
