Ibis Summer Dash

The Ibis Summer Dash (Japanese アイビスサマーダッシュ) is a Grade 3 horse race in Japan for Thoroughbreds aged three and over. It is run in July each year over a distance of 1000 meters on turf at Niigata Racecourse.

The race was first run in 2001 and has held Grade 3 status ever since. Since its creation, it is the only Graded Race in Japan with an exclusively straight-line course.

It was also a step race for the Sprinters Stakes until 2005 but lost that status since then.

Weight

54 kg for three-year-old, 57 kg for four-year-old and above.

Allowances:

• 2 kg for fillies / mares
• 1 kg for southern hemisphere bred three-year-old

Penalties (excluding two-year-old race performance):

• If a graded stakes race has been won within a year:
• 3 kg for a grade 1 win (2 kg for fillies / mares)
• 2 kg for a grade 2 win (1 kg for fillies / mares)
• 1 kg for a grade 3 win (1 kg for fillies / mares)
• If a graded stakes race has been won for more than a year:
• 2 kg for a grade 1 win (1 kg for fillies / mares)
• 1 kg for a grade 2 win

Winners since 2001

See also

• Horse racing in Japan
• List of Japanese flat horse races

References

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