Ibis Summer Dash
![]() K T Love wins the 2010 Summer Dash | |
| Class | Grade 3 |
|---|---|
| Location | Niigata Racecourse |
| Inaugurated | 2001 |
| Race type | Thoroughbred Flat racing |
| Race information | |
| Distance | 1000 meters |
| Surface | Turf |
| Track | Straight |
| Qualification | 3-y-o+ |
| Weight | Special Weight |
| Purse | ¥ 87,960,000 (as of 2024) 1st: ¥ 41,000,000 2nd: ¥ 16,000,000 3rd: ¥ 10,000,000 |
The Ibis Summer Dash (Japanese アイビスサマーダッシュ) is a Grade 3 horse race in Japan for Thoroughbreds aged three and over. It is run in July each year over a distance of 1000 meters on turf at Niigata Racecourse.[1]
The race was first run in 2001 and has held Grade 3 status ever since. Since its creation, it is the only Graded Race in Japan with an exclusively straight-line course.[2]
It was also a step race for the Sprinters Stakes until 2005 but lost that status since then.[3]
Weight
54 kg for three-year-old, 57 kg for four-year-old and above.[4]
Allowances:
- 2 kg for fillies / mares
- 1 kg for southern hemisphere bred three-year-old
Penalties (excluding two-year-old race performance):
- If a graded stakes race has been won within a year:
- 3 kg for a grade 1 win (2 kg for fillies / mares)
- 2 kg for a grade 2 win (1 kg for fillies / mares)
- 1 kg for a grade 3 win (1 kg for fillies / mares)
- If a graded stakes race has been won for more than a year:
- 2 kg for a grade 1 win (1 kg for fillies / mares)
- 1 kg for a grade 2 win
Winners since 2001
| Year |
Winner |
Age |
Jockey |
Trainer |
Owner | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | Mejiro Darling | 5 | Yutaka Yoshida | Yokichi Okubo | Mejiro Bokujo | 0:53.9 |
| 2002 | Calstone Light O | 4 | Naohiro Onishi | Hiroyuki Oneda | Sadamitsu Shimizu | 0:53.7 |
| 2003 | Il Bacio | 6 | Seiji Shimohama | Satoru Kobiyama | Sakae Shibahara | 0:54.2 |
| 2004 | Calstone Light O | 6 | Naohiro Onishi | Hiroyuki Oneda | Sadamitsu Shimizu | 0:53.9 |
| 2005 | T M Churasan | 3 | Sho Tajima | Sadahiro Kojima | Masatsugu Takezono | 0:54.0 |
| 2006 | Sachino Sweetie | 3 | Naoto Suzuki | Yuji Hirai | Yukihiko Sato | 0:55.7 |
| 2007 | Sans Adieu | 5 | Issei Murata | Hidetaka Otonashi | Takao Matsuoka | 0:55.1 |
| 2008 | Kanoya Zakura | 4 | Futoshi Komaki | Kojiro Hashiguchi | Kaoru Kanda | 0:54.2 |
| 2009 | Kanoya Zakura | 5 | Futoshi Komaki | Kojiro Hashiguchi | Kaoru Kanda | 0:56.2 |
| 2010 | K T Love | 6 | Yuichiro Nishida | Akira Nomoto | Kazuyoshi Takimoto | 0:53.9 |
| 2011 | A Shin Virgo | 4 | Yuichi Fukunaga | Ken Kozaki | Eishindo | 0:53.8 |
| 2012 | Pas de Trois | 5 | Katsumi Ando | Ippo Sameshima | Teruya Yoshida | 0:54.2 |
| 2013 | Hakusan Moon | 4 | Manabu Sakai | Masato Nishizono | Goichi Kawasaki | 0:54.2 |
| 2014 | Seiko Raiko | 7 | Yoshitomi Shibata | Yasuhiro Suzuki | Mieko Takekuni | 0:54.3 |
| 2015 | Bel Canto | 4 | Mirco Demuro | Koichi Tsunoda | Koji Maeda | 0:54.1 |
| 2016 | Bel Canto | 5 | Mirco Demuro | Koichi Tsunoda | Koji Maeda | 0:54.1[5] |
| 2017 | Rhein Meteor | 7 | Yuichiro Nishida | Takahiro Mizuno | Shigemasa Osawa | 0:54.2[6] |
| 2018 | Daimei Princess | 5 | Shinichiro Akiyama | Naoyuki Morita | Koichi Miyamoto | 0:53.8[7] |
| 2019 | Lion Boss | 4 | Hironobu Tanabe | Shoichiro Wada | Wada Bokujo | 0:55.1 |
| 2020 | Jo Kana Chan | 5 | Yuji Hishida | Takeshi Matsushita | Eriko Ueda | 0:54.5 |
| 2021 | All At Once | 3 | Yukito Ishikawa | Eiji Nakadate | Katsumi Yoshida | 0:54.2 |
| 2022 | Believer | 7 | Makoto Sugihara | Yoshihiko Ishige | Milfarm | 0:54.4 |
| 2023 | All At Once | 5 | Yukito Ishikawa | Eiji Nakadate | Katsumi Yoshida | 0:54.9 |
| 2024 | Mozu Meimei | 4 | Kyosuke Kokubun | Hidetaka Otonashi | Capital System | 0:55.3 |
| 2025 | Puro Magic | 4 | Christophe Lemaire | Shogo Yasuda | Three H Racing | 0:53.7 |
See also
References
- ^ "Ibis Summer Dash". Horse Racing in Japan.
- ^ "歴史・コース:アイビスサマーダッシュ 今週の注目レース". [[Japan Racing Association. Retrieved 2025-08-03.
- ^ "今週の注目レース(第15回アイビスサマーダッシュ:歴史・プレイバック)". Japan Racing Association. Archived from the original on 2015-07-29. Retrieved 2025-08-03.
- ^ "List of JRA Graded Races 2024|List of JRA Graded Races|Horse Racing in Japan". Horse Racing in Japan. Retrieved 2024-07-28.
- ^ "2016 result". Racing Post. 31 July 2016.
- ^ "2017 result". Racing Post. 30 July 2017.
- ^ "2018 result". Racing Post. 29 July 2018.
- ^ "アイビスSD". Netkeiba.
- ^ "Ibis Summer Dash". Netkeiba.
