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Spring Stakes (Japan)

Spring Stakes
Grade 2 race
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Nakayama Racecourse
Location Nakayama Racecourse, Funabashi, Chiba.
Inaugurated 1952
Race type Thoroughbred Flat racing
Race information
Distance 1800 metres
Surface Turf
Track Right-handed
Qualification 3-y-o Colts & Fillies
Weight 56kg, Fillies & mares allowed 2kg.
Purse ¥52,000,000 (winner) ¥108,360,000 (total)

The Spring Stakes is a Japanese Grade 2 flat horse race in Japan for three-year-old Thoroughbred colts and fillies run over a distance of 1,800 metres at Nakayama Racecourse, Funabashi, Chiba. The race is run in March and serves as a major trial race for the Satsuki Sho.

It was first run in 1952. Among the winners of the race have been Shinzan, Narita Brian, Bubble Gum Fellow, Neo Universe, Meisho Samson and Orfevre.



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