Flora Stakes Explained

The Flora Stakes (Japanese フローラステークス) is a Japanese Grade 2 flat horse race in Japan for three-year-old Thoroughbred fillies. It is run over a distance of 2000 metres at Tokyo Racecourse in April.^[1]

The Flora Stakes was first run in 1966 and was elevated to Grade 2 status in 1984. It serves as a trial race for the Yushun Himba.

Winners since 2000

Year	Winner	Jockey	Trainer	Time
2000	Manic Sunday	Jiro Ono	Takao Nakano	2:02.5
2001	Oiwake Hikari	Junichi Kobayashi	Isamu Shibasaki	2:01.5
2002	Nishino Hanaguruma	Seiji Shimohama	Koji Kayano	2:04.0
2003	Shinko Ruby	Hiroshi Gohara	Sachio Yukubo	2:00.6
2004	Meisho Oscar	Hiroki Goto	Akio Adachi	2:01.1
2005	Dia de la Novia	Yutaka Take	Katsuhiko Sumii	2:01.8
2006	Yamato Marian	Takanori Kikuzawa	Akio Adachi	2:01.7
2007	Bella Rheia	Shinichiro Akiyama	Osamu Hirata	2:00.8
2008	Red Agate	Hiroyuki Uchida	Yasuhito Tamura	2:00.5
2009	Dear Geena	Hiroyuki Uchida	Yasuhito Tamura	2:02.2
2010	Saint Emilion	Norihiro Yokoyama	Masaaki Koga	2:00.2
2011	Bouncy Tune	Kousei Miura	Toshiaki Tajima	2:03.3
2012	Midsummer Fair	Masayoshi Ebina	Futoshi Kojima	2:02.0
2013	Denim And Ruby	Hiroyuki Uchida	Katsuhiko Sumii	2:03.9
2014	Sang Real	Yasunari Iwata	Hiroyoshi Matuda	2:00.0
2015	Sing With Joy	Hiroyuki Uchida	Yasuo Tomomichi	2:01.8
2016	Cecchino	Christophe Lemaire	Kazuo Fujisawa	1:59.7^[2]
2017	Mozu Katchan	Ryuji Wada	Ippo Sameshima	2:01.3^[3]
2018	Satono Walkure	Mirco Demuro	Katsuhiko Sumii	1:59.5^[4]
2019	Victoria	Keita Tosaki	Shigeyuki Kojima	1:59.5
2020	Win Marilyn	Takeshi Yokoyama	Takahisa Tezuka	1:58.7
2021	Cool Cat	Christophe Lemaire	Takeshi Okumura	1:59.4
2022	Erika Vita	Hironobu Tanabe	Sakae Kunieda	2:00.4
2023	Golden Hind	Akira Sugawara	Yasuo Takeichi	1.58.9
2024	Admire Belle	Takeshi Yokoyama	Yukihiro Kato	1.59.0