The Hanshin Himba Stakes (Japanese 阪神牝馬ステークス) is a Grade 2 flat horse race in Japan for Thoroughbreds fillies and mares of at least four years of age. It is run over a distance of 1600 metres at Hanshin Racecourse in April.
The Hanshin Himba Stakes was first run in 1958. It was elevated to Grade 3 status in 1984 and has been run as a grade 2 race since 1998. The race was contested over a variety of distances before being run over 2000 metres from 1968 until 1995. The distance was reduced to 1600 metres in 1996 and to 1400 metres in 2006. The race returned to 1600 metres in 2016.
Among the winners of the race have been Fine Motion, Admire Groove, Rhein Kraft, Curren Chan and Mikki Queen.
Race details The race is run on a right-handed (clockwise) at Hanshin Racecourse over a distance of 1,600 meters on turf using the outer curve.
Weight 55 kg for four-year-olds and above.
Allowances:
1 kg for southern hemisphere bred three-year-olds
Penalties:
If a graded stakes race has been won within a year, 2 kg for a grade one win, 1 kg for a grade two win
If a graded stakes race has been won for more than a year (excluding two-year-old race performance), 1 kg for a grade one win
Winners since 2000 Year Winner Age Jockey TrainerOwner Time 2000 To The Victory 4 Hirofumi Shii Yasuo IkeeMakoto Kaneko 1:33.8 2001 Air Thule 4 Mirco Demuro Hideyuki MoriLucky Field 1:33.5 2002 Diamond Biko 4 Olivier Peslier Kazuo FujisawaShinobu Osako 1:33.2 2003 Fine Motion 4 Yutaka Take Yuji ItoTatsuo Fushikida 1:33.4 2004 Heavenly Romance 4 Mikio Matsunaga Shoji YamamotoNorth Hills Management 1:34.0 2005 Admire Groove 5 Yutaka Take Mitsuru HashidaRiichi Kondo 1:34.5 2006 Rhein Kraft 4 Yuichi Fukunaga Tsutomo SetoguchiShigemasa Osawa 1:21.2 2007 Jolly Dance 4 Shinji Fujita Noriyuki HoriKaoru Kobayashi 1:20.7 2008 Asian Winds 4 Ryota Sameshima Hideaki FujiwaraYoshimi Ota 1:21.4 2009 Jolly Dance 6 Hirofumi Shii Noriyuki HoriKaoru Kobayashi 1:21.4 2010 I Am Kamino Mago 4 Shinichiro Akiyama Hiroyuki NagahamaKoichi Hori 1:20.2 2011 Curren Chan 4 Kenichi Ikezoe Takayuki YasudaTakashi Suzuki 1:20.4 2012 Queens Barn 4 Yusuke Fujioka Hidekazu AsamiMasamichi Hayashi 1:21.9 2013 Sound of Heart 4 Kenichi Ikezoe Yasuhisa MatsuyamaTurf Sport 1:21.4 2014 Smart Layer 4 Yutaka Take Ryuji OkuboToru Okawa 1:20.3 2015 Cafe Brilliant 5 Yuichi Fukunaga Noriyuki HoriKoichi Nishikawa 1:21.1 2016 Smart Layer 6 Mirco Demuro Ryuji OkuboToru Okawa 1:33.1 2017 Mikki Queen 4 Suguru Hamanaka Yasutoshi IkeeMizuki Noda 1:34.3 2018 Miss Panthere 4 Norihiro Yokoyama Mitsugu KonChiyono Terada 1:34.8 2019 Mikki Charm 4 Yuga Kawada Mitsumasa NakauchidaMizuki Noda 1:33.6 2020 Sound Chiara 5 Kohei Matsuyama Akio AdachiYuichi Masuda 1:32.9 2021 Des Ailes 4 Yuga Kawada Yasuo TomomichiShadai Race Horse 1:32.0 2022 Meisho Mimosa 5 Katsuma Sameshima Kaneo IkezoeSilk Racing 1:32.8 2023 Sound Vivace 4 Suguru Hamanaka Daisuke TakayanagiYuichi Masuda 1:33.92024Masked Diva4João MoreiraYasuyuki TsujinoShadai Race Horse1:33.02025Safira4Kohei MatsuyamaManabu IkezoeSilk Racing1:32.82026Embroidery4Christophe LemaireKazutomo MoriSilk Racing1:31.6
Earlier winners
See also Horse racing in Japan List of Japanese flat horse races
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