Unicorn Stakes

The Unicorn Stakes (Japanese ユニコーンステークス) is a Grade 3 horse race for three-year-old Thoroughbreds run in June over a distance of 1600 metres on dirt at Tokyo Racecourse.[1]

Unicorn Stakes

Grade 3 race
I Am Actress wins the 2011 Unicorn Stakes
Location	Tokyo Racecourse
Inaugurated	1996
Race type	Thoroughbred Flat racing
Race information
Distance	1600 metres
Surface	Dirt
Track	Left-handed
Qualification	3-y-o
Weight	Colts 56 kg, fillies 54 kg
Purse	¥75,700,000 (total), ¥35,000,000 (winner)

The race was first run in 1996 and has held Grade 3 status ever since. The race was run over 1800 metres at Nakayama Racecourse in 1996, 1998, 1999 and 2000. Past winners of the race have included Taiki Shuttle, Agnes Digital and Kane Hekili.

Records

Record time (1600 metres):

• 1:34.9 - Cafe Pharoah 2020

Most wins by a jockey:

• 2 - Yukio Okabe 1996, 1997
• 2 - Katsumi Ando 2003, 2008
• 2 - Yutaka Take 2005, 2007
• 2 - Yuichi Fukunaga 2012, 2019

Most wins by a trainer:

• 2 - Sei Ishizaka 2001, 2013
• 2 - Katsuhiko Sumii 2005, 2019
• 2 - Noriyuki Hori 2012, 2020

Winners

Year	Winner	Jockey	Trainer	Time
1996	Shinko Windy	Yukio Okabe	Kiyotaka Tanaka	1:52.8
1997	Taiki Shuttle	Yukio Okabe	Kazuo Fujisawa	1:36.8
1998	Wing Arrow	Katsumi Minai	Yoshimi Kudo	1:52.0
1999	Gold Tiara ^[a]	Katsuharu Tanaka	Kunihide Matsuda	1:52.6
2000	Agnes Digital	Hiroshi Matoba	Toshiaki Shirai	1:50.7
2001	Nasdaq Power	Teruo Eda	Sei Ishizawa	1:36.4
2002	Himitsu Heiki	Seiji Sakai	Mitsuhiro Okabayashi	1:36.4
2003	Utopia	Katsumi Ando	Kojiro Hashiguchi	1:35.8
2004	Top of World	Hirofumi Shii	Kenichi Fujioka	1:36.0
2005	Kane Hekili	Yutaka Take	Katsuhiko Sumii	1:36.5
2006	Nike Earthwork	Norihiro Yokoyama	Masayuki Kawashima	1:37.2
2007	Long Pride	Yutaka Take	Yukiharu Ono	1:36.9
2008	Ubiquitous	Katsumi Ando	Nobuhiro Suzuki	1:35.1
2009	Silk Mobius	Hiroyasu Tanaka	Masazo Ryoke	1:35.5
2010	Birdie Birdie	Masami Matsuoka	Yasutoshi Ikee	1:36.6
2011	I Am Actress ^[a]	Shinichiro Akiyama	Hiroshi Nagahama	1:36.2
2012	Straw Hat	Yuichi Fukunaga	Noriyuki Hori	1:36.5
2013	Best Warrior	Keita Tosaki	Sei Ishizaka	1:36.0
2014	Red Alvis	Masayoshi Ebina	Takayuki Yasuda	1:36.0
2015	Nonkono Yume	Christophe Lemaire	Yukihiro Kato	1:35.9
2016	Gold Dream	Yuga Kawada	Osamu Hirata	1:35.8[2]
2017	Sunrise Nova	Keita Tosaki	Hidetaka Otonashi	1:35.9[3]
2018	Le Vent Se Leve	Mirco Demuro	Kiyoshi Hagiwara	1:35.0[4]
2019	Wide Pharaoh	Yuichi Fukunaga	Katsuhiko Sumii	1:35.5
2020	Cafe Pharoah	Damian Lane	Noriyuki Hori	1:34.9

^a Gold Tiara and I Am Actress were fillies

See also

• Horse racing in Japan
• List of Japanese flat horse races

References

1. "Unicorn Stakes". Horse Racing in Japan.
2. "2016 result". Racing Post. 19 June 2016.
3. "2017 result". Racing Post. 18 June 2017.
4. "2018 result". Racing Post. 17 June 2018.