| Surface: | Dirt |
| Class: | Grade 3 |
| Horse Race: | Elm Stakes エルムステークス |
| Location: | Sapporo Racecourse |
| Inaugurated: | 1990 |
| Race Type: | Thoroughbred Flat racing |
| Distance: | 1700 metres |
| Track: | Right-handed |
| Qualification: | 3-y-o+ |
| Weight: | Special Weight |
The Elm Stakes (Japanese エルムステークス) is a Grade 3 horse race for Thoroughbreds aged three and over, run in August over a distance of 1700 metres on dirt at Sapporo Racecourse.[1]
It was first run in 1990 and has held Grade 3 status since 1996. The first seven editions of the race took place at Hakodate Racecourse and it was also run at that track in 2013. The 2009 contest took place over 1800 metres at Niigata Racecourse
54 kg for three-year-old, 57 kg for four-year-old and above.[2]
Allowances:
Penalties (excluding two-year-old race performance):
| Year | Winner | Age | Jockey | Trainer | Time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Shinko Splendor | 6 | Norihiro Yokoyama | Fumio Koga | 1:42.8 | |
| 2001 | Engel Grosse | 4 | Yukio Okabe | Tsutomo Niizeki | 1:43.4 | |
| 2002 | Preeminence | 5 | Yoshitomi Shibata | Keizo Ito | 1:43.6 | |
| 2003 | Admire Don | 4 | Katsumi Ando | Hiroyoshi Matsuda | 1:43.8 | |
| 2004 | Personal Rush | 3 | Shinji Fujita | Kenji Yamauchi | 1:43.2 | |
| 2005 | Personal Rush | 4 | Shinji Fujita | Kenji Yamauchi | 1:44.9 | |
| 2006 | Hishi Atlas | 6 | Norihiro Yokoyama | Takayoshi Nakano | 1:43.0 | |
| 2007 | Meishi Tokon | 5 | Kenichi Ikezoe | Isao Yasuda | 1:43.3 | |
| 2008 | Ferrari Pisa | 4 | Yasunari Iwata | Toshiaki Shirai | 1:42.9 | |
| 2009 | Machikanenihombare | 4 | Hiroshi Kitamura | Kazuo Fujisawa | 1:51.1 | |
| 2010 | Courir Passion | 5 | Akihide Tsumura | Ikuo Aizawa | 1:43.5 | |
| 2011 | Renforcer | 5 | Norihiro Yokoyama | Kiyoshi Hagiwara | 1:44.2 | |
| 2012 | Roman Legend | 4 | Yasunari Iwata | Hideaki Fujiwara | 1:42.2 | |
| 2013 | Fleet Street | 4 | Hiroyuki Uchida | Katsuhiko Sumii | 1:42.0 | |
| 2014 | Roman Legend | 6 | Yasunari Iwata | Hideaki Fujiwara | 1:41.9 | |
| 2015 | Jebel Musa | 5 | Yasunari Iwata | Masahiro Otake | 1:43.0 | |
| 2016 | Riccardo | 5 | Hiroto Mayuzumi | Yuichi Kuroiwa | 1:43.5[3] | |
| 2017 | London Town | 4 | Yasunari Iwata | Kazuya Makita | 1:40.9[4] | |
| 2018 | Highland Peak | 4 | Kazuo Yokoyama | Minoru Tsuchida | 1:42.0[5] | |
| 2019 | Mozu Attraction | 5 | Kota Fujioka | Takeshi Matsushita | 1:41.9 | |
| 2020 | Time Flyer | 5 | Christophe Lemaire | Kunihide Matsuda | 1:43.4 | |
| 2021 | Suave Aramis | 6 | Daisaku Matsuda | Naosuke Sugai | 1:44.5 | |
| 2022 | Full Depth Leader | 5 | Yuji Tannai | Makoto Saito | 1:44.2 | |
| 2023 | Sekifu | 4 | Yutaka Take | Koshiro Take | 1:42.8 | |
| 2024 | Peisha Es | 5 | Kazuo Yokoyama | Kazuo Konishi | 1:44.0 |