Fukushima Himba Stakes
 Admire Matsuri winning the 2025 Fukushima Himba Stakes | |
| Class | Grade 3 |
|---|---|
| Location | Fukushima Racecourse |
| Inaugurated | 2004 |
| Race type | Thoroughbred flat racing |
| Race information | |
| Distance | 1,800 meters |
| Surface | Turf |
| Track | Right-handed |
| Qualification | 4-y-o+ fillies and mares |
| Weight | Special Weight |
| Purse | ¥ 86,400,000 (as of 2025)
|
The Fukushima Himba Stakes (Japanese 福島牝馬ステークス) is a Grade 3 horse race in Japan for Thoroughbred fillies and mares aged four and over. It is run in April over a distance of 1,800 meters on turf at Fukushima Racecourse.[1]
The Fukushima Himba Stakes was first run in 2004 and has held Grade 3 status ever since. The race was run at Niigata Racecourse in 2011 as the racecourse was heavily damaged by the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. The race was once again ran in Niigata in 2021 due to the racecourse being damaged by the 2021 Fukushima earthquake.[2]
Race details
The race is run at Fukushima Racecourse over a distance of 1,800 meters on turf.
Weight
55 kg for four-year-olds and above.[3]
Allowances:
- 1 kg for southern hemisphere bred three-year-olds
Penalties (excluding two-year-old race performance):
- If a graded stakes race has been won within a year:
- 3 kg for a grade 1 win
- 2 kg for a grade 2 win
- 1 kg for a grade 3 win
- If a graded stakes race has been won for more than a year:
- 2 kg for a grade 1 win
- 1 kg for a grade 2 win
Past winners
| Year |
Winner |
Age |
Jockey |
Trainer |
Owner |
Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | Osumi Cosmo | 5 | Masayoshi Ebina | Tadashi Nakao | Hidenori Yamaji | 1:46.6 |
| 2005 | Meisho Oscar | 4 | Hiroki Goto | Akio Adachi | Yoshio Matsumoto | 1:49.4 |
| 2006 | Lofty Aim | 4 | Hayato Yoshida | Yoshitaka Ninomiya | Sunday Racing | 1:48.5 |
| 2007 | Spring Drew | 7 | Yuichi Shibayama | Noriyuki Hori | Haruo Kato | 1:46.6 |
| 2008 | Meine Canna | 4 | Hayato Yoshida | Sakae Kunieda | Thoroughbred Club Ruffian | 1:47.1 |
| 2009 | Bravo Daisy | 4 | Kenichi Syono | Hidetada Otonashi | Takao Matsuoka | 1:53.7 |
| 2010 | Reginetta | 5 | Eiji Nakadate | Hidekazu Asami | Shadai Race Horse | 1:48.9 |
| 2011[a] | Fumino Imagine | 5 | Keisuke Dazai | Masaru Honda | Tsuzuki Tani | 1:45.4 |
| 2012 | All That Jazz | 4 | Yusuke Fujioka | Katsuhiko Sumii | Yoshimi Ichikawa | 1:46.1 |
| 2013 | All That Jazz | 5 | Cristian Demuro | Katsuhiko Sumii | Yoshimi Ichikawa | 1:46.4 |
| 2014 | Keiai Elegant | 5 | Yutaka Yoshida | Mitsuhiro Ogata | Kazuhiro Kameda | 1:47.0 |
| 2015 | Sweet Salsa | 5 | Katsuharu Tanaka | Masatatsu Kikukawa | Symboli Stud | 1:46.0 |
| 2016 | Makoto Brillar | 6 | Yuichi Kitamura | Ippo Sameshima | Diamant | 1:47.5 |
| 2017 | Ukiyono Kaze | 7 | Hayato Yoshida | Takanori Kikuzawa | Jun Kokubu | 1:46.8[4] |
| 2018 | Kinsho Yukihime | 5 | Shinichiro Akiyama | Hitoshi Nakamura | Hideo Isono | 1:46.8[5] |
| 2019 | Denko Ange | 6 | Yoshitomi Shibata | Yoshiyuki Arakawa | Yasuhiro Tanaka | 1:48.1[6] |
| 2020 | Fairy Polka | 4 | Ryuji Wada | Masayuki Nishimura | Takeshi Yamamoto | 1:46.8 |
| 2021[a] | Dirndl | 5 | Taisei Danno | Yutaka Okumura | Silk Racing | 1:46.9 |
| 2022 | Another Lyric | 4 | Akihide Tsumura | Toru Hayashi | Silk Racing | 1:47.0[7] |
| 2023 | Stellaria | 5 | Taisei Danno | Takashi Saito | Shadai Race Horse | 1:47.9 |
| 2024 | Costa Bonita | 5 | Mirai Iwata | Yoshiaki Sugiyama | Tatsuo Tanigake | 1:46.9 |
| 2025 | Admire Matsuri | 4 | Hironobu Tanabe | Keisuke Miyata | Junko Kondo | 1:46.2 |
| 2026 | Koganeno Sora | 5 | Kazuki Kikuzawa | Takanori Kikuzawa | Big Red Farm | 1:45.6 |
- 1 2 The race took place at Niigata Racecourse
See also
References
- ↑ "Fukushima Himba Stakes". Horse Racing in Japan.
- ↑ "【JRA】地震の影響で1回福島競馬を新潟に変更、福島牝馬Sは新潟外回り1800mに". netkeiba (in Japanese). 2021-03-06. Retrieved 2026-04-19.
- ↑ "List of JRA Graded Races 2024｜List of JRA Graded Races｜Horse Racing in Japan". Horse Racing in Japan. Retrieved 2024-04-20.
- ↑ "2017 result". Racing Post. 22 April 2017.
- ↑ "2018 result". Racing Post. 21 April 2018.
- ↑ "2019 result". Racing Post. 20 April 2016.
- ↑ "2022 result". Racing Post. 24 April 2022.
- ↑ "福島牝馬S". Netkeiba.
- ↑ "Fukushima Himba Stakes". Netkeiba.