Hanshin Juvenile Fillies

The Hanshin Juvenile Fillies (阪神ジュベナイルフィリーズ) is a one-mile turf stakes race for thoroughbred fillies two years old. It is considered the de facto year-end championship for two-year-old fillies in Japan.^[1]

Hanshin Juvenile Fillies

2022 Hanshin Juvenile Fillies winner Liberty Island
Class	Grade 1
Location	Hanshin Racecourse Takarazuka, Hyogo, Japan
Inaugurated	1949
Race type	Thoroughbred - Flat racing
Race information
Distance	1,600 meters (about 8 furlongs / one mile)
Surface	Turf
Track	Right-handed (outer course)
Qualification	Two-Year-Old Fillies
Weight	Northern Hemisphere-breds 55 kg (121 lbs) Southern Hemisphere-breds 52 kg (115 lbs)
Purse	¥ 140,200,000 (as of 2024) 1st: ¥ 65,000,000 2nd: ¥ 26,000,000 3rd: ¥ 16,000,000

Qualifying races

The two races below are designated qualifying races, where the horses that finish first and second in each place earn a slot in the race.^[2]

• Artemis Stakes
• Fantasy Stakes

Winners

Year	Winner	Jockey	Trainer	Owner	Time
1991	Nishino Flower	Masao Sato	Masahiro Matsuda	Masayuki Nishiyama	1:36.2
1992	Suehiro Jo O	Hiromasa Tamogi	Takeshi Yoshinaga	Otojiro Kobayashi	1:37.9
1993	Hishi Amazon	Eiji Nakadate	Takayoshi Nakano	Masaichiro Abe	1:35.9
1994	Yamanin Paradise	Yutaka Take	Kunikazu Asami	Doi Shoji	1:34.7
1995	Biwa Heidi	Koichi Tsunoda	Mitsumasa Hamada	Biwa	1:35.3
1996	Mejiro Dober	Yutaka Yoshida	Yokichi Okubo	Mejiro Shoji Inc.	1:34.6
1997	Ein Bride	Yoshihiro Furukawa	Toru Miya	Miyoji Araki	1:35.8
1998	Stinger	Norihiro Yokoyama	Kazuo Fujisawa	Teruya Yoshida	1:37.0
1999	Yamakatsu Suzuran	Michael Kinane	Kaneo Ikezoe	Hiroyasu Yamada	1:35.6
2000	T M Ocean	Masaru Honda	Katsuichi Nishuira	Masatsugu Takezono	1:34.6
2001	Tamuro Cherry	Olivier Peslier	Masato Nishizono	Tamuro Taniguchi	1:35.1
2002	Peace of World	Yuichi Fukunaga	Masahiro Sakaguchi	Tadashi Iida	1:34.7
2003	Yamanin Sucre	Hirofumi Shii	Hidekazu Asami	Hajime Doi	1:35.9
2004	Shonan Peintre	Yutaka Yoshida	Yokichi Okubo	Tetsuhide Kunimoto	1:35.2
2005	T M Precure	Shigefumi Kumazawa	Tadao Igarashi	Masatsugu Takezono	1:37.3
2006	Vodka	Hirofumi Shii	Katsuhiko Sumii	Yuzo Tanimizu	1:33.1
2007	Tall Poppy	Kenichi Ikezoe	Katsuhiko Sumii	Carrot Farm	1:33.8
2008	Buena Vista	Katsumi Ando	Hiroyoshi Matsuda	Sunday Racing Co. Ltd	1:35.2
2009	Apapane	Masayoshi Ebina	Sakae Kunieda	Kaneko Makoto Holdings	1:34.9
2010	Reve d'Essor	Yuichi Fukunaga	Hiroyoshi Matsuda	Sunday Racing Co. Ltd	1:35.7
2011	Joie de Vivre	Yuichi Fukunaga	Hiroyoshi Matsuda	Sunday Racing Co. Ltd	1:34.9
2012	Robe Tissage	Shinichiro Akiyama	Naosuke Sugai	Silk Co. Ltd.	1:34.2
2013	Red Reveur	Keita Tosaki	Naosuke Sugai	Tokyo Horse Racing Co. Ltd	1:33.9
2014	Shonan Adela	Masayoshi Ebina	Yoshitaka Ninomiya	Tetsuhide Kunimoto	1:34.4
2015	Major Emblem	Christophe Lemaire	Yasuhito Tamura	Sunday Racing Co. Ltd	1:34.5
2016	Soul Stirring	Christophe Lemaire	Kazuo Fujisawa	Shadai Race Horse Co. Ltd	1:34.0
2017	Lucky Lilac	Shu Ishibashi	Mikio Matsunaga	Sunday Racing	1:34.3
2018	Danon Fantasy	Cristian Demuro	Mitsumasa Nakauchida	Danon Co Ltd	1:34.1
2019	Resistencia	Yuichi Kitamura	Takeshi Matsushita	U Carrot Farm	1:32.7
2020	Sodashi	Hayato Yoshida	Naosuke Sugai	Kaneko Makoto Holdings	1:33.1
2021	Circle of Life	Mirco Demuro	Sakae Kunieda	Masatake Iida	1:33.8
2022	Liberty Island	Yuga Kawada	Mitsumasa Nakauchida	Sunday Racing	1:33.1
2023	Ascoli Piceno	Hiroshi Kitamura	Yoichi Kuroiwa	Sunday Racing	1:32.6
2024[a]	Arma Veloce	Mirai Iwata	Hiroyuki Uemura	Teruo Ono	1:33.4

^a The 2024 running took place at Kyoto while Hanshin was closed for a year due to a grandstand renovation.^[3]

See also

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