The Musashino Stakes (Japanese 武蔵野ステークス) is a Japanese Grade 3 horse race for Thoroughbreds aged three and over, run in November over a distance of 1600 metres on dirt at Tokyo Racecourse.
It was first run in 1989 and has held Grade 3 status since 1996. It was run over a distance of 2100 metres from 1996 to 1999. The race serves as a trial for the Champions Cup.
Weight 56 kg for three-year-olds, 57 kg for four-year-olds and above.
Allowances:
2 kg for fillies / mares 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: 2 kg for a grade 1 win (1 kg for fillies / mares) 1 kg for a grade 2 win If a graded stakes race has been won for more than a year: 1 kg for a grade 1 win
Winners since 2000 Year Winner Age Jockey TrainerOwner Time 2000 Sanford City 5 Akira Murayama Makoto OsawaYushun Horse Club 1:35.4 2001 Kurofune 3 Yutaka Take Kunihide MatsudaMakoto Kaneko 1:33.3 2002 Double Happiness 5 Hiroshi Kawachi Mitsuhara ShibataTakesaburo Ito 1:52.2 2003 Silent Deal 3 Olivier Peslier Yasuo IkeeMakoto Kaneko 1:36.2 2004 Pit Fighter 5 Yoshitomi Shibata Yukihiro Kato Hiroyoshi Usuda 1:35.4 2005 Sunrise Bacchus 3 Tetsuzo Sato Hidetaka OtonashiTakao Matsuoka 1:35.2 2006 Seeking The Best 5 Masaki Katsuura Hideyuki MoriKazuko Yoshida 1:35.3 2007 Eishin Lombard 5 Yutaka Yoshida Ken KozakiToyomitsu Hirai 1:35.5 2008 Kikuno Salire 3 Hiroki Goto Naohiro YoshidaGoro Kikuchi 1:36.0 2009 Wonder Acute 3 Katsumi Ando Masao SatoNobuyuki Yamamoto 1:35.5 2010 Glorious Noah 4 Keita Tosaki Yoshito YahagiYoko Takano 1:36.6 2011 Namura Titan 5 Shigefumi Kumazawa Yuki OhashiNobushige Namura 1:35.2 2012 Ijigen 3 Ryan Moore Noriyuki HoriMasamichi Hayashi 1.36.4 2013 Belshazzar 5 Christophe Lemaire Kunihide MatsudaShadai Race Horse 1:35.3 2014 Wide Bach 5 Yutaka Take Yasushi ShonoKyoko Habata 1:35.2 2015 Nonkono Yume 3 Christophe Lemaire Yukihiro KatoKazumasa Yamada 1:34.7 2016 Tagano Tonnerre 6 Hironobu Tanabe Ippo SameshimaRyoji Yagi 1:33.8 2017 Incantation 7 Kousei Miura Tomohiko HatsukiTurf Sport 1:35.5 2018 Sunrise Nova 4 Keita Tosaki Hidetaka OtonashiTakao Matsuoka 1:34.7 2019 Wonder Lider 6 Norihiro Yokoyama Shogo YasudaYoshinari Yamamoto 1:34.6 2020 Sunrise Nova 6 Fuma Matsuwaka Hidetaka OtonahiTakao Matsuoka 1:35.0 2021 Soliste Thunder 6 Keita Tosaki Daisuke TakayanagiMinoru Murakami 1:35.0 2022 Gilded Mirror 5 Kousei Miura Mikio MatsunagaSilk Racing 1:35.6 2023 Dry Stout 4 Takeshi Yokoyama Mitsunori MakiuraYGG Horse Club 1:35.22024Emperor Wakea4Yuga KawadaHaruki SugiyamaTsunefumi Kusama1:36.02025Luxor Cafe3Damian LaneNoriyuki HoriLuxor Cafe1:35.2
The 2002 race took place at Nakayama Racecourse over a distance of 1800 metres.
Earlier winners
1989 - Rainbow Akasaka 1990 - Dyna Letter 1991 - Mr Tojin 1992 - Narita Hayabusa 1993 - Meisho Homura 1994 - Ibuki Crush 1995 - Ibuki Crush 1996 - Shinko King 1997 - Duke Grand Prix 1998 - M I Blanc 1999 - M I Blanc
See also Horse racing in Japan List of Japanese flat horse races
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