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| Grade 3 race | |
| Location | Nakayama Racecourse |
|---|---|
| Inaugurated | 2008 |
| Race type | Thoroughbred Flat racing |
| Race information | |
| Distance | 1200 metres |
| Surface | Dirt |
| Track | Right-handed |
| Qualification | 3-y-o+ |
| Weight | 4-y-o+ 56 kg, 3-y-o 55 kg, fillies allowed 2 kg |
| Purse | 1st: ¥38,000,000 (as of 2023) |
The Capella Stakes (Japanese カペラステークス) is a Grade 3 horse race for Thoroughbreds aged three and over, run in December over a distance of 1200 metres on dirt at Nakayama Racecourse.[1]
The race was first run in 2008 and has held Grade 3 status since 2009.
| Year |
Winner |
Age |
Jockey |
Trainer |
Owner | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Victory Tetsuni | 4 | Norihiro Yokoyama | Hiroyuki Mori | Yoshinori Sakae | 1:08.7 |
| 2009 | Million Disk | 5 | Issei Murata | Yoshiyuki Arakawa | Shadai Race Horse | 1:09.6 |
| 2010 | Sei Crimson | 4 | Hideaki Miyuki | Toshiyuki Hattori | Seiki Kaneda | 1:09.7 |
| 2011 | Keiai Gerbera | 5 | Shinichiro Akiyama | Osamu Hirata | Keiai Orthopedic Appliance Co., Ltd. | 1:09.1 |
| 2012 | Silk Fortune | 6 | Norihiro Yokoyama | Norio Fujisawa | Silk | 1:10.8 |
| 2013 | Northern River | 5 | Yoshitomi Shibata | Hidekazu Asami | Masamichi Hayashi | 1:10.7 |
| 2014 | Danon Legend | 4 | Kyosuke Maruta | Akira Murayama | Danox | 1:09.5 |
| 2015 | Kikuno Storm | 6 | Hiroyuki Uchida | Naohiro Yoshida | Goro Kikuchi | 1:09.7 |
| 2016 | Nobo Baccara | 4 | Hiroyuki Uchida | Shoichi Temma | LS.M | 1:10.2[2] |
| 2017 | Dios Corrida | 3 | Akihide Tsumura | Yoshitada Takahashi | Shoji Nojima | 1:11.0[3] |
| 2018 | Copano Kicking | 3 | Daichi Shibata | Akira Murayama | Sachiaki Kobayashi | 1:10.2[4] |
| 2019 | Copano Kicking | 4 | Nanako Fujita | Akira Murayama | Sachiaki Kobayashi | 1:09.3 |
| 2020 | Justin | 4 | Ryusei Sakai | Yoshito Yahagi | Yoshio Oda | 1:09.8 |
| 2021 | Dancing Prince | 5 | Kousei Miura | Keisuke Miyata | Chizu Yoshida | 1:09.5 |
| 2022 | Remake | 3 | Yuichi Fukunaga | Koichi Shintani | Koji Maeda | 1:08.9 |
| 2023 | T M Tokkyu | 5 | Akihide Tsumura | Kazuyoshi Kihara | Masatsugu Takezono | 1:09.3 |