The Mermaid Stakes (Japanese マーメイドステークス) is a defunct Grade 3 horse race for Thoroughbred fillies and mares aged three and over, that was run in Japan in June over a distance of 2000 metres on turf at Hanshin Racecourse.
It was first run in 1996 and had held Grade 3 status until it was discontinued in 2025. The 2006 contest took place at Kyoto Racecourse. The race was discontinued in 2025 due to Fuchu Himba Stakes replacing its schedule in the calendar as well as Ireland Trophy being created to replace the former's schedule.
Winners Year Winner Age Jockey Trainer Time 1996 Shinin Racer 5 Hiroshi Kawachi Takashi Takahashi 2:00.6 1997 Air Groove 4 Yutaka Take Yuji Ito 2:02.6 1998 Run For The Dream 4 Hiroshi Kawachi Kotaro Tanaka 2:00.0 1999 Erimo Excel 4 Hitoshi Matoba Keiji Kato 2:03.6 2000 Fusaichi Airedale 4 Katsumi Ando Kunihide Matsuda 1:58.9 2001 Taiki Polar 5 Katsumi Ando Shigeki Matsumoto 1:59.2 2002 Yakamatsu Suzuran 5 Kenichi Ikezoe Kaneo Ikezoe 1:59.1 2003 Rosebud 5 Norihiro Yokoyama Kojiro Hashiguchi 2:03.7 2004 Admire Groove 4 Yutaka Take Mitsuru Hashida 2:00.0 2005 Daiwa El Cielo 4 Yuichi Fukunaga Kunihide Matsuda 2:00.5 2006 Solid Platinum 3 Yukio Abe Norihiro Tanaka 2:01.1 2007 Dear Chance 6 Yutaka Take Izumu Shimizu 1:58.4 2008 Toho Shine 5 Yosuke Kono Hiroki Sakiyama 2:03.5 2009 Cosmo Platina 6 Ryuji Wada Toru Miya 2:00.2 2010 Brightia Pulse 5 Kota Fujioka Osamu Hirata 1:59.5 2011 Fumino Imagine 5 Keisuke Dazai Masaru Honda 2:00.4 2012 Gullveig 4 Craig Williams Katsuhiko Sumii 1:59.9 2013 Marcellina 5 Yuga Kawada Hiroyoshi Matsuda 1:59.4 2014 Dia De La Madre 4 Kota Fujioka Katsuhiko Sumii 1:59.4 2015 Chateau Blanche 5 Kota Fujioka Yoshitada Takahashi 2:00.5 2016 Lilavati 5 Fuma Matsuwaka Sei Ishizaka 1:59.3 2017 Maximum de Paris 5 Yusuke Fujioka Shigeki Matsumo 1:59.5 2018 Andriette 6 Kyosuke Kokubun Kazuya Makita 1:59.1 2019 Solace 4 Fuma Matsuwaka Masayuki Nishimura 2:00.3 2020 Summer Scent 4 Manabu Sakai Takashi Saito 2:01.1 2021 Shamrock Hill 4 Takashi Fujikake Shozo Sasaki 2:00.4 2022 Win Mighty 5 Ryuji Wada Tadao Igarashi 1:58.3 2023 Big Ribbon 5 Atsuya Nishimura Mitsumasa Nakauchida 1:58.5 2024 Alice Verite 4 Manami Nagashima Kazuya Nakatake 1:57.2
See also Horse racing in Japan List of Japanese flat horse races
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