# Ocean Stakes

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.
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.

## Weight

57 kg for four-year-olds above.
Allowances:
* 2 kg for fillies / mares
* 1 kg for southern hemisphere bred three-year-olds
Penalties (excluding two-year-old race performance):
* If a graded stakes race has been won within a year:
** 2 kg for a grade 1 win (1 kg for fillies / mares)
** 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

| 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 |
| 2018 | King Heart | 5 | Hiroshi Kitamura | Shinobu Hoshino | Yoichi Masuda | 1:08.3 |
| 2019 | Mozu Superflare | 4 | Christophe Lemaire | Hidetaka Otonashi | Capital Systems | 1:07.1 |
| 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 Co. Ltd. | 1:08.0 |
| 2025 | Mama Cocha | 6 | Yuga Kawada | Yasutoshi Ikee | Kaneko Makoto Holdings Co. Ltd. | 1:07.1 |