FROM: Media & Publicity Department, THE JAPAN RACING ASSOCIATION (JRA)DATE: October 1, 2023

SUBJECT: RESULT OF THE 57TH SPRINTERS STAKES (G1)The Sprinters Stakes, initially established in 1967 as a major 1,200-meter sprint race for three-year-oldand up, was designated as a spring G3 event in conjunction with the new grading system implemented in1984. It was then upgraded to G2 in 1987 before becoming a G1 sprint race in 1990 with the date offixture also shifted to the latter part of the season. The race now positions itself as the highest mark forsprinters together with the Takamatsunomiya Kinen (G1, 1,200m) held in spring.
One of the first few JRA races to open its doors to foreign entries, the Sprinters Stakes has enjoyed theparticipation of many outstanding sprinters from North America, Europe, Asia, and Oceania. Hong Kongraiders have taken home the title twice so far—Silent Witness (AUS, by El Moxie) was the first foreigncontender to win the title in 2005 along with Ultra Fantasy (AUS, by Encosta De Lago) in 2010—while
Australia’s Takeover Target (AUS, by Celtic Swing) won the 2006 version.
Both last year’s champion Gendarme (USA, by Kitten’s Joy) and this year’s Takamatsunomiya Kinen
victor First Force (JPN, Lord Kanaloa) retired from racing to stand as stallions.
The winners of the “Summer Sprint Series” races who entered in this sprint G1 event included: Kimiwa
Queen (Hakodate Sprint Stakes [G3, 1,200m, Jun.11]), the eventual series champion Jasper Krone (CBCSho [G3, 1,200m, Jul.2] and Kitakyushu Kinen [G3, 1,200m, Aug.20]), All at Once (Ibis Summer Dash[G3, 1,000m, Jul.30]), this year’s Takamatsunomiya Kinen runner-up Namura Clair (Keeneland Cup[G3, 1,200m, Aug.27]) and T M Spada (Centaur Stakes [G2, 1,200m, Sep.10]). This year’s field also
included Meikei Yell, six-time graded winner, Pixie Knight, champion of 2021 Sprinters Stakes, WinMarvel, last year’s runner-up, Naran Huleg and Dolce More, respective winners of theTakamatsunomiya Kinen and the Asahi Hai Futurity Stakes (G1, 1,600m) in 2022, and Aguri, theHankyu Hai (G3, 1,400m) victor who came off a second in the Centaur Stakes.
THE 57TH SPRINTERS STAKES (G1)3-year-olds & up, 1,200 meters (about 6 furlongs), turf, right-handed
Sunday, October 1, 2023
Nakayama Racecourse
11th Race
Post time: 15:40
Total prize money: ¥ 368,200,000 (about US$ 2,811,000 <US$1=¥131>)3-y-o: 56kg (about 123-124 lbs), 4-y-o & up: 58kg (about 128 lbs),
2kg allowance for Fillies & Mares, 1kg allowance for Southern Hemisphere-bred born in 2020
Course Record: 1:06.7
Race Record: 1:06.7 [Lord Kanaloa (JPN, by King Kamehameha), 2012]
Safety factor: 16 runners
Going: Good to Firm
Weather: Cloudy
FP

BKPPHorseJockey

136

Mama Cocha (JPN)
Yuga Kawada

2510

Mad Cool (IRE)
Ryusei Sakai

311Namura Clair (JPN)
Suguru Hamanaka

4713

Jasper Krone (USA)
Taisei Danno

548

Meikei Yell (JPN)
Kenichi Ikezoe

635B

Win Marvel (JPN)
Kohei Matsuyama

759

Aguri (JPN)
Norihiro Yokoyama

S&A
ColorWgt

F4b.
56.0
C4g.
58.0
F4br.
56.0
C4ch.
58.0
M5b.
56.0
C4ch.
58.0
C4br.
58.0

Odds(Fav)

Margin(L3F)

4.9(3)

1:08.0(34.5)

14.0(6)

Nose(34.4)

2.9(1)

1(34.4)11.7(4)1(35.1)

12.4(5)

Nose(34.8)

17.3
(8)

Neck(34.4)

4.8
(2)

Neck(33.9)

Sire
Dam
(Dam’s Sire)

Kurofune
Buchiko(King Kamehameha)
Dark AngelMad About You(Indian Ridge)
Mikki IsleSun Queen(Storm Cat)
FrostedFancy Kitten(Kitten's Joy)
Mikki Isle
Shiroinger(Harbinger)
I'll Have AnotherCosmo Marvelous(Fuji Kiseki)
Caravaggio
Old Time Waltz(War Front)

Owner
BreederTrainer

Kaneko Makoto Holdings Co., Ltd.
Kaneko Makoto Holdings Inc.
Yasutoshi Ikee
Sunday Racing Co., Ltd.
Moyglare Stud Farm Ltd
Manabu Ikezoe
Mutsuhiro Namura
Mutsuhiro Namura
Kodai Hasegawa
Kazuo Kato
Machmer Hall & Godolphin
Hideyuki Mori
Nagoya Keiba Co., Ltd.
Northern Racing
Hidenori Take
Win Co., Ltd.
Cosmo View Farm
Masashi Fukayama
Masahiro Miki
Northern Racing
Takayuki Yasuda

823B

Pixie Knight (JPN)
Keita Tosaki

924B

Naran Huleg (JPN)
Kyosuke Maruta

10815Kimiwa Queen (JPN)
Takeshi Yokoyama

11714A Shin Spotter (JPN)
Taiga Tsunoda

12612

Dolce More (JPN)
Atsuya Nishimura1347

All at Once (JPN)
Yukito Ishikawa

1412

T M Spada (JPN)
Akatsuki Tomita

15611B

Jubilee Head (JPN)
Yuichi Kitamura

16816

Mozu Meimei (JPN)
Yutaka Take

H5b.
58.0
H7
ch.
58.0
F4
b.
56.0
C4
ch.
58.0
C3
b.
56.0
M5
b.
56.0
F4
g.
56.0
H6
b.
58.0
F3
b.
54.0

16.0
(7)

1/2(34.6)

46.3
(13)

Head(34.4)

44.2
(11)

Neck(33.7)

51.6
(14)

1/2(33.8)

149.8
(16)

1-3/4(34.8)

36.8(9)1(34.7)38.0(10)Nose(35.8)

135.7(15)1-1/2(34.3)

44.7
(12)

Neck(36.0)

Maurice
Pixie Hollow(King Halo)Gold Allure
Kelley's Beauty(Brian's Time)
Lord Kanaloa
Cherry Petals(Daiwa Major)
A Shin Hikari
Marzelline(Barathea)
Rulership
Ayusan(Deep Impact)
Makfi
Supreme Gift
(Deep Impact)
Red Spada
Toshi the Cozzene(Admire Cozzene)
Lord Kanaloa
Rose Noble(Deep Impact)
Real Impact
In Luxury(Frankel)

Silk Racing Co., Ltd.
Northern Racing
Hidetaka Otonashi
Katsushige Muraki
Mrs Setsuko Sakato
Yoshitada Munakata
Terumi Urabe
Oiwake Farm
Takeshi Okumura
Eishindo Co., Ltd.
Katsuhiko Hirai
Keiji Yoshimura
Three H Racing Co., Ltd.
Shimokobe Farm
Naosuke Sugai
Katsumi Yoshida
Northern Farm
Eiji Nakadate
Masatsugu Takezono
Kobayashi StudKazuyoshi Kihara
Carrot Farm Co., Ltd.
Northern Farm
Takayuki Yasuda
Capital System Co., Ltd.
Shadai Farm
Hidetaka Otonashi

FP: Final Position / BK: Bracket Number / PP: Post Position / B: Blinker / S&A: Sex & Age / Wgt: Weight (kg) / L3F: Time of Last 3 Furlongs (600m)
Color: b.=bay / bl.=black / br.=brown / ch.=chestnut / d.b.=dark bay / d.ch.=dark chestnut / g.=gray / w.=white
NOTE 1: No Foreign Contenders
NOTE 2: Figures quoted under Odds are shown in form of decimal odds (single unit is ¥100), and Fav indicates the order of favorites.

Turnover for the Race alone: ¥ 15,411,299,800

Turnover for the Day: ¥ 25,362,629,700

Attendance: 28,271

Pay-off (for ¥100)
WinPlace

No.6

¥ 490

No.6

¥ 180

No.10

¥ 320

No.1

¥ 140

Bracket Quinella
Quinella Place

3-5¥ 770Quinella

6-10¥ 3,260

6-10¥ 1,120

Exacta6-10¥ 5,190

1-6

¥ 340

Trio

1-6-10¥ 2,310

1-10

¥ 700

Trifecta

6-10-1¥ 17,140

Winner= 13 starts: 6 wins, 2 seconds & 2 thirds / Added & stakes money: ¥ 173,402,000 / Career earnings: ¥ 284,449,000

Mama Cocha Claims Narrow Victory and First G1 Title in 2023 Sprinters Stakes

Third favorite Mama Cocha captured her first graded and G1 title following a close battle in the finalstages in this year’s Sprinters Stakes. The bay sister to the white multiple-G1 winner Sodashi registered
one win out of four starts as a two-year-old and three out of five at three, then kicked off this season witha ninth in the Hanshin Himba Stakes (G2, 1,600m) followed by a win in the listed Azuchijo Stakes(1,400m) in May prior to a runner-up over 1,200 meters, her first start at that distance, in the Kitakyushu
Kinen (G3) on August 20. Her trainer, Yasutoshi Ikee, marked a consecutive Sprinters Stakes victory
following his win with Gendarme last year, and claimed his 22nd JRA-G1 title overall. Jockey Yuga
Kawada, who partnered with the filly for the first time in this race, scored his second Sprinters Stakes
title—his other win being with Fine Needle in 2018—while registering his 24th JRA-G1 win, his latest
before this being the Yushun Himba (Japanese Oaks) with Liberty Island this spring.
Mama Cocha broke smoothly, securing a good forward position behind the leaders in sixth or seventh
outside race favorite Namura Clair, then advanced rapidly in the latter half along the outside to sit
alongside pacesetter Jasper Krone approaching the final corner. Still in pursuit of the tenacious JasperKrone in the early stretch, the Kurofune filly took command at the 100-meter marker while joined by
Mad Cool for a duel up to the wire where the bay four-year-old filly was declared the winner by a nose
margin.
“This filly is a completely different type of horse comparing to her famous sister but she has a goodpotential in her own right to become a good sprinter and while still winless in grade-race level coming
into this race, I felt she had a good chance when I first rode her in her speedwork and at the post-raceparade. She still has a lot of room for improvement and there were moments where I had to be careful in
keeping her in good rhythm while she was forced out slightly by pressure from the horses in the inside
between the last two corners. She did respond well though when challenged at the straight and I am gladthat she was able to sustain her bid to the wire to claim the win,” commented Yuga Kawada.
Sixth favorite Mad Cool broke sharply, following the pacesetter and racing in striking distance along therails, coming into the straight while maintaining the inside route, the gray Dark Angel colt turned in a fineturn of foot to seize the moment as the pacesetter in front began to weaken at the 100-meter marker toengage in a duel with the eventual winner and just missed by a nose in the end.
Race favorite Namura Clair sat in a good position between rivals around fifth or sixth, angled out to findspace rounding the final turn and in contention in the final furlong but was short of causing a serious
threat in the critical stages as the Mikki Isle filly finished a good length behind the first two finishers.
Other Horses:
4th: (13) Jasper Krone—set pace, showed tenacity after overtaken by top 2 finishers but denied by
Namura Clair before wire for 4th
5th: (8) Meikei Yell—traveled 4-wide behind eventual winner, ran gamely but failed to close in on
frontrunners
6th: (5) Win Marvel—was off a slow, advanced to 8th on rails, showed effort until 100m out
7th: (9) Aguri—ran in 13th, circled wide, responded well but had too much ground to make up
8th: (3) Pixie Knight—traveled in 8th, showed brief effort, lacked needed kick in last 200m
9th: (4) Naran Huleg—sat around 10th, improved position until 100m out
10th: (15) Kimiwa Queen—unhurried around 14th, showed the fastest late speed but belatedly
11th: (14) A Shin Spotter—settled around 14th, turned wide, passed tired rivals
12th: (12) Dolce More—raced 3-wide around 10th, showed little at stretch
13th: (7) All at Once—traveled in 12th, unable to reach contention
14th: (2) T M Spada—pressed pace in 2nd, dropped back due to early effort at stretch
15th: (11) Jubilee Head—trailed in rear, no factor throughout trip
16th: (16) Mozu Meimei—forwardly positioned around 3rd from widest stall, faded after final corner
Fractional time (sec./furlong):

11.7 - 10.4 - 11.2 - 11.2 - 11.2 - 12.3
Last 4 furlongs: 45.9
Last 3 furlongs: 34.7

Positions at each corner:

3rd corner
4th corner

13,2(16,6)(10,8)1(5,3)(4,12)7,9(14,15)11(*13,6)2(10,16,8)1(5,3)(4,12)(7,9)14,15,11

NOTE 1: Underlined bold number indicates the winning horse.
NOTE 2: Horse numbers are indicated in the order of their positions at each corner, with the first position listed first. Two or more horses inside
the same parentheses indicate that they were positioned side by side. Hyphens between the horse numbers indicate that there isdistance between the former and the latter. The asterisk indicates a slight lead.