Ibis Summer Dash Explained

Surface:	Turf
Class:	Grade 3
Horse Race:	Ibis Summer Dash アイビスサマーダッシュ
Location:	Niigata Racecourse
Inaugurated:	2001
Race Type:	Thoroughbred Flat racing
Distance:	1000 meters
Track:	Straight
Qualification:	3-y-o+
Weight:	Special Weight

The Ibis Summer Dash (Japanese アイビスサマーダッシュ) is a Grade 3 horse race for Thoroughbreds aged three and over, run in July 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. As of 2022, it is the only Graded Race in Japan with only the straight line course.

Weight

54 kg for three-year-old, 57 kg for four-year-old and above.^[2]

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	Time
2001	Mejiro Darling	5	Yutaka Yoshida	Yokichi Okubo	0:53.9
2002	Calstone Light O	4	Naohiro Onishi	Hiroyuki Oneda	0:53.7
2003	Il Bacio	6	Seiji Shimohama	Satoru Kobiyama	0:54.2
2004	Calstone Light O	6	Naohiro Onishi	Hiroyuki Oneda	0:53.9
2005	T M Churasan	3	Sho Tajima	Sadahiro Kojima	0:54.0
2006	Sachino Sweetie	3	Naoto Suzuki	Yuji Hirai	0:55.7
2007	Sans Adieu	5	Issei Murata	Hidetaka Otonashi	0:55.1
2008	Kanoya Zakura	4	Futoshi Komaki	Kojiro Hashiguchi	0:54.2
2009	Kanoya Zakura	5	Futoshi Komaki	Kojiro Hashiguchi	0:56.2
2010	K T Love	6	Yuichiro Nishida	Akira Nomoto	0:53.9
2011	A Shin Virgo	4	Yuichi Fukunaga	Ken Kozaki	0:53.8
2012	Pas de Trois	5	Katsumi Ando	Ippo Sameshima	0:54.2
2013	Hakusan Moon	4	Manabu Sakai	Masato Nishizono	0:54.2
2014	Seiko Raiko	7	Yoshitomi Shibata	Yasuhiro Suzuki	0:54.3
2015	Bel Canto	4	Mirco Demuro	Koichi Tsunoda	0:54.1
2016	Bel Canto	5	Mirco Demuro	Koichi Tsunoda	0:54.1^[3]
2017	Rhein Meteor	7	Yuichiro Nishida	Takahiro Mizuno	0:54.2^[4]
2018	Daimei Princess	5	Shinichiro Akiyama	Naoyuki Morita	0:53.8^[5]
2019	Lion Boss	4	Hironobu Tanabe	Shoichiro Wada	0:55.1
2020	Jo Kana Chan	5	Yuji Hishida	Takeshi Matsushita	0:54.5
2021	All At Once	3	Yukito Ishikawa	Eiji Nakadate	0:54.2
2022	Believer	7	Makoto Sugihara	Yoshihiko Ishige	0:54.4
2023	All At Once	5	Yukito Ishikawa	Eiji Nakadate	0:54.9
2024	Mozu Meimei	4	Kyosuke Kokubun	Hidetaka Otonashi	0:55.3

See also

• Horse racing in Japan
• List of Japanese flat horse races

References

• Netkeiba:^{[6] [7]}
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Notes and References

1. Web site: Ibis Summer Dash. Horse Racing in Japan.
2. Web site: List of JRA Graded Races 2024｜List of JRA Graded Races｜Horse Racing in Japan . 2024-07-28 . Horse Racing in Japan . en.
3. Web site: 2016 result . Racing Post. 31 July 2016.
4. Web site: 2017 result . Racing Post. 30 July 2017.
5. Web site: 2018 result . Racing Post. 29 July 2018.
6. Web site: アイビスSD . Netkeiba.
7. Web site: Ibis Summer Dash . Netkeiba.