Shion Stakes

Horse race

Shion Stakes
紫苑ステークス
Race information
Grade 2 race
The Grandstand at Nakayama
Location	Nakayama Racecourse
Inaugurated	2000
Race type	Thoroughbred Flat racing
Distance	2000 metres
Surface	Turf
Track	Right-handed
Qualification	3-y-o fillies
Weight	54 kg
Purse	¥75,700,000 (total), ¥35,000,000 (winner)

The Shion Stakes (Japanese 紫苑ステークス) is a Grade 2 horse race for three-year-old Thoroughbred fillies run in September over a distance of 1800 metres at Nakayama Racecourse.^[1]

The race, which serves as a trial race for the Shuka Sho, was first contested in 2000 and has been run at Grade 3 level since 2016. The Shion Stakes was originally run over 1800 metres before the distance was increased to 2000 metres in 2007. The 2002 and 2014 editions were held at Niigata Racecourse. It was promoted to Grade 2 in 2023.^[2]

Winners since 2016

Year	Winner	Jockey	Trainer	Owner	Time
2016	Biche	Keita Tosaki	Yuichi Shikato	Yasushi Kubota	1:59.7^[3]
2017	Deirdre	Yasunari Iwata	Mitsuru Hashida	Touji Morita	1:59.8^[4]
2018	Normcore	Christophe Lemaire	Kiyoshi Hagiwara	Seiichi Iketani	1:58.0 ^[5]
2019	Passing Through	Keita Tosaki	Yoichi Kuroiwa	Carrot Farm	1:58.3
2020	Maltese Diosa	Hironobu Tanabe	Takahisa Tezuka	Nagako Fujita	2:02.1
2021	Fine Rouge	Yuichi Fukunaga	Takaki Iwato	Genichi Mutsui	1:58.2
2022	Stunning Rose	Ryusei Sakai	Tomokazu Takano	Sunday Racing	1:59.9
2023	Moryana	Norihiro Yokoyama	Yoshinori Muto	Fumio Takahashi	1:58.0

Earlier winners

2000 - Mejiro Marie
2001 - Lady Pastel
2002 - Osumi Cosmo
2003 - Rendo Felice
2004 - Ingot
2005 - Cosmo Marvelous
2006 - Cendrillon
2007 - Arco Senora
2008 - Moere Katrina
2009 - Diana Barows
2010 - Dear Arethusa
2011 - Calmato
2012 - Para La Salud
2013 - Sekisho
2014 - Reve d'Etoiles
2015 - Queens Milagro

References

Netkeiba:^[6]^[7]
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^ "Shion Stakes". Horse Racing in Japan.
^ "2023 Racing Program".
^ "2016 result". Racing Post. 10 September 2017.
^ "2017 result". Racing Post. 9 September 2017.
^ "2018 result". Racing Post. 8 September 2018.
^ "紫苑S". Netkeiba.
^ "Shion Stakes". Netkeiba.

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