Hanshin Juvenile Fillies
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History
The Hanshin Juvenile Fillies is a Grade 1 race run under Set Weight conditions for two year old fillies at Hanshin racecourse conducted by the Japan Racing Association.
The Hanshin Juvenile Fillies is run over 1600m. It was first run in 1949.
The Hanshin Juvenile Fillies was worth JPY140,200,000 in 2023.
Hanshin racecourse is a right handed course with the start halfway up the back straight.
This is effectively the championship race for the 2yo fillies each year.
Some of those to graduate onto bigger things and do the Juvenile Fillies/Japanese Oaks double include Soul Stirring, Apapane and Buena Vista while Vodka won the Fillies and then would go on to win the Derby instead.
The pure white filly Sodashi just won in 2020 and then resumed to win the Oka Sho in 2021.
Resistencia won the Hanshin Juvenile Fillies in 2019 in an amazing 1:32.70.
Liberty Island, out of the top Aussie mare Yankee Rose, won the Oka Sho and the Yushun Himba in 2023.
Some of the big name riders to win this include Yutaka Take, Michael Kinane, Olivier Peslier and Christophe Lemaire.
Hiroyoshi Matsuda won it three times in four years from 2008.
Notable winners of the Hanshin Juvenile Fillies include Liberty Island (2022), Circle Of Life (2021), Sodashi (2020), Resistencia (2019), Lucky Lilac (2017), Soul Stirring (2016), Major Emblem (2015), Apapane (2009), Buena Vista (2008) and Vodka (2006).
The 2022 Hanshin Juvenile Fillies was won by Ascoli Piceno from Stellenbosch and Corazon Beat.
Previous Hanshin Juvenile Fillies Winners
Date | Horse | Jockey | WT | Trainer | BP |
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ASCOLI PICENO
(JPN)
2F DAIWA MAJOR (JPN) - ASCOLTI (JPN) DANEHILL DANCER (IRE) |
H KITAMURA | 55.0 | YOICHI KUROIWA | 7 |
|
LIBERTY ISLAND
(JPN)
2F DURAMENTE (JPN) - YANKEE ROSE (AUS) ALL AMERICAN (AUS) |
Y KAWADA | 54.0 | MITSUMASA NAKAUCHIDA | 9 |
|
CIRCLE OF LIFE
(JPN)
2F EPIPHANEIA (JPN) - SEA BREEZE LIFE (JPN) ADMIRE JAPAN (JPN) |
M DEMURO | 54.0 | SAKAE KUNIEDA | 10 |
|
SODASHI
(JPN)
2F KUROFUNE (USA) - BUCHIKO (JPN) KING KAMEHAMEHA (JPN) |
HAYATO YOSHIDA | 54.0 | N SUGAI | 6 |
|
RESISTENCIA
(JPN)
2F DAIWA MAJOR (JPN) - MALACOSTUMBRADA (ARG) LIZARD ISLAND (USA) |
YUICHI KITAMURA | 54.0 | TAKESHI MATSUSHITA | 4 |
|
DANON FANTASY
(JPN)
2F DEEP IMPACT (JPN) - LIFE FOR SALE (ARG) NOT FOR SALE (ARG) |
CRISTIAN DEMURO | 54.0 | MITSUMASA NAKAUCHIDA | 13 |
|
LUCKY LILAC
(JPN)
2F ORFEVRE (JPN) - LILACS AND LACE (USA) FLOWER ALLEY (USA) |
SYU ISHIBASHI | 54.0 | MIKIO MATSUNAGA | 11 |
|
SOUL STIRRING
(JPN)
2F FRANKEL (GB) - STACELITA (FR) MONSUN (GER) |
C P LEMAIRE | 54.0 | K FUJISAWA | 2 |
|
SHONAN ADELA
(JPN)
2F DEEP IMPACT (JPN) - ALWAYS WILLING (USA) ELUSIVE QUALITY (USA) |
M EBINA | 54.0 | Y NINOMIYA | 16 |
|
RED REVEUR
(JPN)
2F STAY GOLD (JPN) - DESAUCERED (USA) DIXIELAND BAND (USA) |
K TOSAKI | 54.0 | N SUGAI | 8 |
|
ROBE TISSAGE
(JPN)
2F WAR EMBLEM (USA) - PETIT NOIRE (JPN) SINGSPIEL (IRE) |
S AKIYAMA | 54.0 | N SUGAI | 1 |
|
JOIE DE VIVRE
(JPN)
2F DEEP IMPACT (JPN) - BIWA HEIDI (JPN) CAERLEON (USA) |
Y FUKUNAGA | 54.0 | H MATSUDA | 13 |
|
REVE D'ESSOR
(JPN)
2F AGNES TACHYON (JPN) - REVE D'OSCAR (FR) HIGHEST HONOR (FR) |
Y FUKUNAGA | 54.0 | H MATSUDA | 11 |
|
APAPANE
(JPN)
2F KING KAMEHAMEHA (JPN) - SALTY BID (USA) SALT LAKE (USA) |
M EBINA | 54.0 | SAKAE KUNIEDA | 18 |
|
BUENA VISTA
(JPN)
2F SPECIAL WEEK (JPN) - BIWA HEIDI (JPN) CAERLEON (USA) |
KATSUMI ANDO | 54.0 | H MATSUDA | 13 |
|
TALL POPPY
(JPN)
2F JUNGLE POCKET (JPN) - ADMIRE SUNDAY (JPN) SUNDAY SILENCE (USA) |
K IKEZOE | 54.0 | KATSUHIKO SUMII | 15 |
|
VODKA
(JPN)
2F TANINO GIMLET (JPN) - TANINO SISTER (JPN) ROUSILLON (USA) |
H SHII | 54.0 | KATSUHIKO SUMII | 2 |
|
T M PRECURE
(JPN)
2F PARADISE CREEK (USA) - FERIADO (JPN) STATELY DON (USA) |
S KUMAZAWA | 54.0 | T IGARASHI | 12 |
|
SHONAN PEINTRE
(JPN)
2F SUNDAY SILENCE (USA) - BUBBLE WINGS (FR) IN THE WINGS (GB) |
Y YOSHIDA | 54.0 | Y OKUBO | 5 |
|
YAMANIN SUCRE
(JPN)
2F TOKAI TEIO (JPN) - YAMANIN JEWELY (JPN) NIJINSKY (CAN) |
H SHII | 54.0 | H ASAMI | 16 |
|
PEACE OF WORLD
(JPN)
2F SUNDAY SILENCE (USA) - VIVANTE MEULE (IRE) CAERLEON (USA) |
Y FUKUNAGA | 54.0 | MASAHIRO SAKAGUCHI | 5 |
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