The Ibis Summer Dash (Japanese アイビスサマーダッシュ) is a Grade 3 horse race in Japan for Thoroughbreds aged three and over. It is run in July each year over a distance of 1000 meters on turf at Niigata Racecourse.
The race was first run in 2001 and has held Grade 3 status ever since. Since its creation, it is the only Graded Race in Japan with an exclusively straight-line course.
It was also a step race for the Sprinters Stakes until 2005 but lost that status since then.
Weight 54 kg for three-year-old, 57 kg for four-year-old and above.
Allowances:
2 kg for fillies / mares 1 kg for southern hemisphere bred three-year-old
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 fillies / mares) 2 kg for a grade 2 win (1 kg for fillies / mares) 1 kg for a grade 3 win (1 kg for fillies / mares) If a graded stakes race has been won for more than a year: 2 kg for a grade 1 win (1 kg for fillies / mares) 1 kg for a grade 2 win
Winners since 2001 Year Winner Age Jockey TrainerOwner Time 2001 Mejiro Darling 5 Yutaka Yoshida Yokichi OkuboMejiro Bokujo 0:53.9 2002 Calstone Light O 4 Naohiro Onishi Hiroyuki OnedaSadamitsu Shimizu 0:53.7 2003 Il Bacio 6 Seiji Shimohama Satoru KobiyamaSakae Shibahara 0:54.2 2004 Calstone Light O 6 Naohiro Onishi Hiroyuki OnedaSadamitsu Shimizu 0:53.9 2005 T M Churasan 3 Sho Tajima Sadahiro KojimaMasatsugu Takezono 0:54.0 2006 Sachino Sweetie 3 Naoto Suzuki Yuji HiraiYukihiko Sato 0:55.7 2007 Sans Adieu 5 Issei Murata Hidetaka OtonashiTakao Matsuoka 0:55.1 2008 Kanoya Zakura 4 Futoshi Komaki Kojiro HashiguchiKaoru Kanda 0:54.2 2009 Kanoya Zakura 5 Futoshi Komaki Kojiro HashiguchiKaoru Kanda 0:56.2 2010 K T Love 6 Yuichiro Nishida Akira NomotoKazuyoshi Takimoto 0:53.9 2011 A Shin Virgo 4 Yuichi Fukunaga Ken KozakiEishindo 0:53.8 2012 Pas de Trois 5 Katsumi Ando Ippo SameshimaTeruya Yoshida 0:54.2 2013 Hakusan Moon 4 Manabu Sakai Masato NishizonoGoichi Kawasaki 0:54.2 2014 Seiko Raiko 7 Yoshitomi Shibata Yasuhiro SuzukiMieko Takekuni 0:54.3 2015 Bel Canto 4 Mirco Demuro Koichi TsunodaKoji Maeda 0:54.1 2016 Bel Canto 5 Mirco Demuro Koichi TsunodaKoji Maeda 0:54.1 2017 Rhein Meteor 7 Yuichiro Nishida Takahiro MizunoShigemasa Osawa 0:54.2 2018 Daimei Princess 5 Shinichiro Akiyama Naoyuki MoritaKoichi Miyamoto 0:53.8 2019 Lion Boss 4 Hironobu Tanabe Shoichiro WadaWada Bokujo 0:55.1 2020 Jo Kana Chan 5 Yuji Hishida Takeshi MatsushitaEriko Ueda 0:54.5 2021 All At Once 3 Yukito Ishikawa Eiji NakadateKatsumi Yoshida 0:54.2 2022 Believer 7 Makoto Sugihara Yoshihiko IshigeMilfarm 0:54.4 2023 All At Once 5 Yukito Ishikawa Eiji NakadateKatsumi Yoshida 0:54.92024Mozu Meimei4Kyosuke KokubunHidetaka OtonashiCapital System0:55.32025Puro Magic4Christophe LemaireShogo YasudaThree H Racing0:53.72026Puro Magic5Hironobu TanabeShogo YasudaThree H Racing0:53.5
See also Horse racing in Japan List of Japanese flat horse races
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