Negishi Stakes
The Negishi Stakes is a Grade 3 horse race organized by the Japan Racing Association for Thoroughbreds aged four and over. It is run in February over a distance of 1400 metres on dirt at Tokyo Racecourse.
The Negishi Stakes was first run in 1987 and has held Grade 3 status ever since. The race was contested over 1200 metres from 1990 to 2000 and again in 2003. The 2003 edition was run at Nakayama Racecourse. The race is named in honour of Negishi Racecourse, a former horse racing venue in Yokohama.
Weight
57 kg for four-year-olds above.Allowances:
- 2 kg for fillies / mares
- 1 kg for southern hemisphere bred three-year-olds
- If a graded stakes race has been won within a year:
- * 2 kg for a grade 1 win
- * 1 kg for a grade 2 win
- If a graded stakes race has been won for more than a year:
- * 1 kg for a grade 1 win
Winners since 2000
| Year | Winner | Age | Jockey | Trainer | Owner | Time |
| 2000 | Broad Appeal | 6 | Koshiro Take | Kunihide Matsuda | Makoto Kaneko | 1:10.1 |
| 2001 | Nobo True | 5 | Olivier Peslier | Hideyuki Mori | Ikebata | 1:22.1 |
| 2002 | South Vigorous | 6 | Yoshitomi Shibata | Yoshiyasu Takahashi | Hisashi Nanba | 1:22.8 |
| 2003 | South Vigorous | 7 | Yoshitomi Shibata | Yoshiyasu Takahashi | Hisashi Nanba | 1:10.4 |
| 2004 | Shadow Scape | 5 | Teruo Eda | Hideyuki Mori | Tomokazu Iizuka | 1:24.0 |
| 2005 | Meisho Bowler | 4 | Yuichi Fukunaga | Toshiaki Shirai | Yoshio Matsumoto | 1:23.0 |
| 2006 | Limitless Bid | 4 | Hiroyuki Uchida | Tadashi Kayo | Shadai Race Horse | 1:23.7 |
| 2007 | Big Grass | 6 | Issei Murata | Hidemasa Nakao | Wahei Tsubonoya | 1:23.5 |
| 2008 | Wild Wonder | 6 | Yasunari Iwata | Takashi Kubota | Tsunefumi Kusama | 1:22.7 |
| 2009 | Ferrari Pisa | 5 | Yasunari Iwata | Toshiaki Shirai | Yoshimi Ichikawa | 1:22.1 |
| 2010 | Glorious Noah | 4 | Shinichiro Kobayashi | Yoshito Yahagi | Yoko Takano | 1:23.7 |
| 2011 | Sei Crimson | 5 | Hideaki Miyuki | Toshiyuki Hattori | Seiki Kaneda | 1:23.0 |
| 2012 | Silk Fortune | 6 | Kota Fujioka | Norio Fujisawa | Silk | 1:23.5 |
| 2013 | Meisho Mashu | 5 | Yusuke Fujioka | Yoshio Oki | Hisashi Nanba | 1:23.7 |
| 2014 | Gorski | 7 | Fran Berry | Yasutoshi Ikee | Shadai Race Horse | 1:23.4 |
| 2015 | Air Khalifa | 6 | Kosei Miura | Katsuhiko Sumii | Lucky Field | 1:23.4 |
| 2016 | Moanin | 4 | Keita Tosaki | Sei Ishizawa | Yukio Baba | 1:22.0 |
| 2017 | Kafuji Take | 5 | Yuichi Fukunaga | Sachio Yukubo | Mamoru Kato | 1:23.0 |
| 2018 | Nonkono Yume | 6 | Hiroyuki Uchida | Yukihiro Kato | Kazumasa Yamada | 1:21.5 |
| 2019 | Copano Kicking | 4 | Oisin Murphy | Akira Murayama | Sachiaki Kobayashi | 1:23.5 |
| 2020 | Mozu Ascot | 6 | Christophe Lemaire | Yoshito Yahagi | Capital System | 1:22.7 |
| 2021 | Red Le Zele | 5 | Yuga Kawada | Takayuki Yasuda | Tokyo Horse Racing | 1:22.3 |
| 2022 | T M South Dan | 5 | Yasunari Iwata | Yuzo Iida | Masatsugu Takezono | 1:23.1 |
| 2023 | Lemon Pop | 5 | Keita Tosaki | Hiroyasu Tanaka | Godolphin | 1:22.5 |
| 2024 | Emperor Wakea | 4 | Yuga Kawada | Haruki Sugiyama | Tsunefumi Kusama | 1:24.1 |
| 2025 | Costa Nova | 5 | Takeshi Yokoyama | Tetsuya Kimura | Katsumi Yoshida | 1:22.6 |
| 2026 | Lord Fons | 6 | Kazuo Yokoyama | Shogo Yasuda | Lord Horse Club Co.,Ltd. | 1:23.3 |