Shion Stakes

Shion Stakes
紫苑ステークス
	The Grandstand at Nakayama
Class	Grade 2
Location	Nakayama Racecourse
Inaugurated	2000
Race type	Thoroughbred Flat racing
Race information
Distance	2000 metres
Surface	Turf
Track	Right-handed
Qualification	3-y-o fillies
Weight	55 kg
Purse	¥ 112,520,000 (as of 2024) 1st: ¥ 52,000,000; 2nd: ¥ 21,000,000; 3rd: ¥ 13,000,000;

The Shion Stakes (Japanese 紫苑ステークス) is a Grade 2 horse race for three-year-old Thoroughbred fillies run in September over a distance of 2000 metres at Nakayama Racecourse.^[1]

ClassGrade 2

LocationNakayama Racecourse

Inaugurated2000

Race typeThoroughbred Flat racing

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The race, which serves as a trial race for the Shuka Sho, was first contested in 2000 and had been run at Grade 3 level since 2016. The Shion Stakes was originally run over 1800 metres before the distance was increased to 2000 metres in 2007. The 2002 and 2014 editions were held at Niigata Racecourse. It was promoted to Grade 2 in 2023.^[2]

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Year	Winner	Jockey	Trainer	Owner	Time
2016	Biche	Keita Tosaki	Yuichi Shikato	Yasushi Kubota	1:59.7^[3]
2017	Deirdre	Yasunari Iwata	Mitsuru Hashida	Touji Morita	1:59.8^[4]
2018	Normcore	Christophe Lemaire	Kiyoshi Hagiwara	Seiichi Iketani	1:58.0 ^[5]
2019	Passing Through	Keita Tosaki	Yoichi Kuroiwa	Carrot Farm	1:58.3
2020	Maltese Diosa	Hironobu Tanabe	Takahisa Tezuka	Nagako Fujita	2:02.1
2021	Fine Rouge	Yuichi Fukunaga	Takaki Iwato	Genichi Mutsui	1:58.2
2022	Stunning Rose	Ryusei Sakai	Tomokazu Takano	Sunday Racing	1:59.9
2023	Moryana	Norihiro Yokoyama	Yoshinori Muto	Fumio Takahashi	1:58.0
2024	Christmas Parade	Yukito Ishikawa	Shizuya Kato	G1 Racing Co. Ltd.	1:56.6^[a]
2025	Kelly Fled Ask	Koji Nishizuka	Hideaki Fujiwara	Toshihiro Hirosaki	1:59.1

Shion Stakes

Winners since 2016

Earlier winners

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