Hyacinth Stakes
- Location: Toyko Racecourse
- Inaugural Race: 2003
- Distance: 1,600 meters (about one mile)
- Track Type: Left-handed, Dirt
- Age Qualifications: Three-year-olds
- 2021 Purse: $300,000
- 2021 Race Date: Monday, February 1st
2020 Hyacinth Stakes Entries and Results
| POST | HORSE | JOCKEY | TRAINER | ODDS | TIME |
|---|
3 | Cafe Pharoah | Mirco Demuro | Noriyuki Hori | 2.1 | 1.37.7 |
12 | Tagano Beauty | Ryuji Wada | Masato Nishizono | 3.1 | 1.37.9 |
10 | Yaugau | Christophe Lemaire | Naosuke Sugai[ | 6.0 | 1.38.3 |
8 | Longonot | Shu Ishibashi | Mizuki Takayanagi | 17.5 | 1.38.4 |
9 | Herrschaft | Takuya Ono | Kenji Nonaka | 18.4 | 1.38.7 |
6 | Meisho Tensui | Yutaka Take | Katsumi Minai | 19.5 | 1.38.8 |
4 | Ultramarine | Hiroyuki Uchida | Teiichi Konno | 244.7 | 1.38.9 |
7 | Taisei Policy | Akihide Tsumura | Toru Kurita | 129.6 | 1.38.9 |
2 | Daimei Corrida | Hironobu Tanabe | Naoyuki Morita | 51.6 | 1.39.0 |
13 | Reine Blanche | Kohei Matsuyama | Shinsuke Hashiguchi | 15.6 | 1.39.3 |
1 | Jet Max | Tomonori Sato | Hideyuki Mori | 122.4 | 1.39.3 |
14 | Morino Break | Teruo Eda | Satoshi Oehara | 121.1 | 1.39.5 |
11 | Nile River | Shane Foley | Hideaki Fujiwara | 44.5 | 1.40.8 |
5 | Chimera Verite | Yuichi Fukunaga | Kazuya Nakatake | 85.8 | 1.41.0 |
Exotic Payoffs:
| Exacta (3-12) | $6.58 (730 JPY) |
| Trifecta (3-12-10) | $22.01 (2,440 JPY) |
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History of the Hyacinth Stakes
First run in 2003, the Hyacinth Stakes is the most important of Japan’s early dirt features for 3-year-olds. It carries Listed status, and its winners include the subsequent Japanese grade one dirt winners Success Brocken and Gold Dream.
In 2017 the Hyacinth Stakes was made one of the two races in the inaugural Japanese Road to the Kentucky Derby, and points were split on a 50-20-10-5, making it more important than the Cattleya Sho (40-16-8-4).
For the three-race 2018 series, however, it became all-important... While the Cattleya Sho and the Zen-Nippon Nisai Yushun were both 10-4-2-1 races, the Hyacinth is a 30-12-6-3 race. This meant the only way the Hyacinth Stakes winner would not automatically earn the Japanese berth in the Derby is if that horse gained no other points and another horse won both the other series races and finished second in the Hyacinth Stakes.
The 2017 winner Epicharis didn’t head to Churchill Downs, but he did finish second in the UAE Derby, and was set to run in the Belmont Stakes before being withdrawn due to injury.
Beginning in 2019, the Hyacinth Stakes became the penultimate race in the Japan Road to the Kentucky Derby, followed by the Fukuryu Stakes in Late March at Nakayama Racecourse. With the Fukuryu set as a 40-16-8-4 race from a points perspective, the Hyacinth Stakes still has a large impact on determining the now 4-race series winner, but is not the primary determining factor any longer.