Ocean Stakes

The Ocean Stakes (Japanese オーシャンステークス) is a Grade 3 horse race organized by Japan Racing Association (JRA) for Thoroughbreds aged four and over. It is run in March over a distance of 1,200 meters on turf at Nakayama Racecourse.^[1]

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Ocean Stakes
オーシャンステークス
Vento Voce winning the 2023 Ocean Stakes
Class	Grade 3
Location	Nakayama Racecourse
Inaugurated	1996
Race type	Thoroughbred Flat racing
Race information
Distance	1200 meters
Surface	Turf
Track	Right-handed
Qualification	4-y-o+
Weight	56 kg, fillies and mares allowed 2 kg
Purse	¥ 92,980,000 (as of 2025) 1st: ¥ 43,000,000 2nd: ¥ 17,000,000 3rd: ¥ 11,000,000

The Ocean Stakes was first run in 1996 at 1,800 meters. The distance was changed to 1,200 meters in 1997 and has held Grade 3 status since 2006. From 2014, the race serves as a trial race for the Takamatsunomiya Kinen.^[2]

Weight

57 kg for four-year-olds above.^[3]

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

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Winners

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Year	Winner	Age	Jockey	Trainer	Owner	Time
1996	Meiner Gabe	5	Seiji Ebisawa	Ryuichi Inaba	Thoroughbred Club Ruffian	1:47.0
1997	Cheers Silence	5	Olivier Peslier	Kenji Yamauchi	Kiyoko Kitamura	1:09.3
1998	Shinko Forest	6	Yoshitomi Shibata	Hironori Kurita	Osamu Yasuda	1:09.0
1999	Izumi Success	5	Masaki Katsura	Kazuhiko Hongo	Takeshi Saito	1:09.3
2000	Taiki Bridle	6	Yukio Okabe	Masanori Ito	Taiki Farm	1:09.1
2001	Key Gold	6	Masayoshi Ebina	Toru Miya	Koichiro Kitasaki	1:09.8
2002	Shonan Kampf	4	Yutaka Yoshida	Yokichi Okubo	Tetsuhide Kunimoto	1:07.3
2003	Native Heart	5	Takayuki Ishizaki	Kazuo Oyama	Soryu Ikeda	1:09.7
2004	Silky Lagoon	4	Junichi Kobayashi	Masahiro Ikegami	Silk	1:08.1
2005	Silky Lagoon	5	Yoshitomi Shibata	Masahiro Ikegami	Silk	1:07.9
2006	Native Heart	8	Hiroyuki Uchida	Noboru Sakamoto	Soryu Ikeda	1:08.6
2007	I'll Love Again	5	Masami Matsuoka	Takahisa Tezuka	Yomoji Saito	1:08.2
2008	Premium Box	5	Hayato Yoshida	Hiroyuki Uehara	Shadai Race Horse	1:08.9
2009	Urbanity	5	Norihiro Yokoyama	Masaaki Koga	Shadai Race Horse	1:09.2
2010	Kinshasa No Kiseki	7	Hirofumi Shii	Noriyuki Hori	Kazumi Yoshida	1:09.8
2011	Dasher Go Go	4	Yuga Kawada	Takayuki Yasuda	Shin Ashida	1:07.8
2012	One Carat	6	Yusuke Fujioka	Keichi Fujioka	Yoichi Aoyama	1:09.2
2013	Sakura Gospel	5	Norihiro Yokoyama	Tomohito Ozeki	Sakura Commerce	1:08.5
2014	Smart Orion	4	Norihiro Yokoyama	Yuichi Shikato	Toru Okawa	1:08.9
2015	Sakura Gospel	7	Keita Tosaki	Tomohito Ozeki	Sakura Commerce	1:08.7
2016	A Shin Bullseye	5	Shu Ishibashi	Kenji Nonaka	Eishindo	1:07.5
2017	Melagrana	5	Keita Tosaki	Manabu Ikezoe	Kazumi Yoshida	1:08.3^[4]
2018	King Heart	5	Hiroshi Kitamura	Shinobu Hoshino	Yoichi Masuda	1:08.3^[5]
2019	Mozu Superflare	4	Christophe Lemaire	Hidetaka Otonashi	Capital Systems	1:07.1^[6]
2020	Danon Smash	5	Yuga Kawada	Takayuki Yasuda	Danox	1:07.4
2021	Contra Check	5	Genki Maruyama	Kazuo Fujisawa	Carrot Farm	1:08.4
2022	Gendarme	7	Kiwamu Ogino	Yasutoshi Ikee	Koji Maeda	1:07.9
2023	Vento Voce	6	Christophe Lemaire	Mitsunori Makiura	Eden Association	1:07.4
2024	Toshin Macau	5	Takeshi Yokoyama	Mizuki Takayanagi	Sato Co. Ltd.	1:08.0
2025	Mama Cocha	6	Yuga Kawada	Yasutoshi Ikee	Kaneko Makoto Holdings Co. Ltd.	1:07.1

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Weight

Winners

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References

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