| Surface: | Turf |
| Class: | Grade 3 |
| Horse Race: | Ocean Stakes オーシャンステークス |
| Location: | Nakayama Racecourse |
| Inaugurated: | 1996 |
| Race Type: | Thoroughbred Flat racing |
| Distance: | 1200 meters |
| Track: | Right-handed |
| Qualification: | 4-y-o+ |
| Weight: | 56 kg, fillies and mares allowed 2 kg |
The Ocean Stakes (Japanese オーシャンステークス) is a Grade 3 horse race for Thoroughbreds aged four and over, run in March over a distance of 1200 meters on turf at Nakayama Racecourse.[1]
The Ocean Stakes was first run in 1996 at 1,800 meters. The distance was changed to 1,200 meters in 1997 and has held Grade 3 status since 2006. From 2014, the race serves as a trial race for the Takamatsunomiya Kinen.[2]
| Year | Winner | Age | Jockey | Trainer | Trainer | Time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | Meiner Gabe | 5 | Seiji Ebisawa | Ryuichi Inaba | Thoroughbred Club Ruffian | 1:47.0 | |
| 1997 | Cheers Silence | 5 | Olivier Peslier | Kenji Yamauchi | Kiyoko Kitamura | 1:09.3 | |
| 1998 | Shinko Forest | 6 | Yoshitomi Shibata | Hironori Kurita | Osamu Yasuda | 1:09.0 | |
| 1999 | Izumi Success | 5 | Masaki Katsura | Kazuhiko Hongo | Takeshi Saito | 1:09.3 | |
| 2000 | Taiki Bridle | 6 | Yukio Okabe | Masanori Ito | Taiki Farm | 1:09.1 | |
| 2001 | Key Gold | 6 | Masayoshi Ebina | Toru Miya | Koichiro Kitasaki | 1:09.8 | |
| 2002 | Shonan Kampf | 4 | Yutaka Yoshida | Yokichi Okubo | Tetsuhide Kunimoto | 1:07.3 | |
| 2003 | Native Heart | 5 | Takayuki Ishizaki | Kazuo Oyama | Soryu Ikeda | 1:09.7 | |
| 2004 | Silky Lagoon | 4 | Junichi Kobayashi | Masahiro Ikegami | Silk | 1:08.1 | |
| 2005 | Silky Lagoon | 5 | Yoshitomi Shibata | Masahiro Ikegami | Silk | 1:07.9 | |
| 2006 | Native Heart | 8 | Hiroyuki Uchida | Noboru Sakamoto | Soryu Ikeda | 1:08.6 | |
| 2007 | I'll Love Again | 5 | Masami Matsuoka | Takahisa Tezuka | Yomoji Saito | 1:08.2 | |
| 2008 | Premium Box | 5 | Hayato Yoshida | Hiroyuki Uehara | Shadai Race Horse | 1:08.9 | |
| 2009 | Urbanity | 5 | Norihiro Yokoyama | Masaaki Koga | Shadai Race Horse | 1:09.2 | |
| 2010 | Kinshasa No Kiseki | 7 | Hirofumi Shii | Noriyuki Hori | Kazumi Yoshida | 1:09.8 | |
| 2011 | Dasher Go Go | 4 | Yuga Kawada | Takayuki Yasuda | Shin Ashida | 1:07.8 | |
| 2012 | One Carat | 6 | Yusuke Fujioka | Keichi Fujioka | Yoichi Aoyama | 1:09.2 | |
| 2013 | Sakura Gospel | 5 | Norihiro Yokoyama | Tomohito Ozeki | Sakura Commerce | 1:08.5 | |
| 2014 | Smart Orion | 4 | Norihiro Yokoyama | Yuichi Shikato | Toru Okawa | 1:08.9 | |
| 2015 | Sakura Gospel | 7 | Keita Tosaki | Tomohito Ozeki | Sakura Commerce | 1:08.7 | |
| 2016 | A Shin Bullseye | 5 | Shu Ishibashi | Kenji Nonaka | Eishindo | 1:07.5 | |
| 2017 | Melagrana | 5 | Keita Tosaki | Manabu Ikezoe | Kazumi Yoshida | 1:08.3[3] | |
| 2018 | King Heart | 5 | Hiroshi Kitamura | Shinobu Hoshino | Yoichi Masuda | 1:08.3[4] | |
| 2019 | Mozu Superflare | 4 | Christophe Lemaire | Hidetaka Otonashi | Capital Systems | 1:07.1[5] | |
| 2020 | Danon Smash | 5 | Yuga Kawada | Takayuki Yasuda | Danox | 1:07.4 | |
| 2021 | Contra Check | 5 | Genki Maruyama | Kazuo Fujisawa | Carrot Farm | 1:08.4 | |
| 2022 | Gendarme | 7 | Kiwamu Ogino | Yasutoshi Ikee | Koji Maeda | 1:07.9 | |
| 2023 | Vento Voce | 6 | Christophe Lemaire | Mitsunori Makiura | Eden Association | 1:07.4 | |
| 2024 | Toshin Macau | 5 | Takeshi Yokoyama | Mizuki Takayanagi | Sato | 1:08.0 |