The is a Grade 1

Graded stakes race

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 flat

Flat racing

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 horse race

Horse racing

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 in Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

 for four-year-old and above thoroughbred

Thoroughbred

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s. It is run over a distance of 1,600 metres (approximately 8 furlongs) at Tokyo Racecourse

Tokyo Racecourse

is located in Fuchu, Tokyo, Japan. Built in 1933 for horse racing, it is considered the "racecourse of racecourses" in Japanese horseracing. It has 13,750 seats, with a capacity of 223,000....

 in late February.

It was first run in 1984 as February Handicap, and was given Domestic Grade 3 status. This was elevated to Domestic Grade 2 in 1994, Domestic Grade 1 in 1997, and to its present level in 2007.

It was renamed February Stakes in 1994. Horses trained outside Japan have been eligible to run in the race since 2007.

Winners

Year	Winner	Age	Jockey	Trainer	Owner	Time
1984	Robaria Amon	5	Masato Yoshinaga	Kichisaburo Matsuyama	Uraichi Suga	1:40.1
1985	Andre Amon	6	Hiroyuki Nakajima	Yasuhisa Matsuyama	Amon Inc.	1:36.9
1986	Hatsuno Amoy	5	Eizaburo Otsuka	Yoshio Nakazumi	Hatsutaro Nakagawa	1:36.7
1987	Rikisan Power	6	Masato Shibata	Kunio Takamatsu	Saburo Iwai	1:36.5
1988	Roman Prince	7	Sueo Masuzawa	Seizuke Sato	Long Shoji co.	1:37.7
1989	Velvet Glob	6	Hiroyuki Gohara	Fusamatsu Okubo	Hideo Kuribayashi	1:37.2
1990	Carib Song	4	Masato Shibata	Shuho Kato	Ogifushi Bokujo RC co.	1:36.7
1991	Narita Hayabusa	4	Norihiro Yokoyama	Kentaro Nakao	Hidenori Yamaji	1:34.9
1992	Russian Gold	4	Masayoshi Ebina Masayoshi Ebina is a Japanese jockey. Nicknamed Ebi-Shō.He is best known for riding El Condor Pasa.That won the Japan Cup and second in Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe .In 2010 he won the Japanese Fillies' Triple Crown with Apapane....	Yokichi Okubo	Akihiro Ohara	1:35.4
1993	Meisho Homura	5	Masato Shibata	Shigetada Takahashi	Yoshio Matsumoto	1:35.7
1994	Cheers Atom	5	Masaru Honda	Kaoru Hoshikawa	Kiyoko Kitamura	1:37.8
1995	Lively Mount	4	Mamoru Ishibashi	Fujio Shibata	Tetsuo Kato	1:36.4
1996	Hokuto Vega	6	Norihiro Yokoyama	Takayoshi Nakano	Kanamorimori Shoji	1:36.5
1997	Shinko Windy	4	Yukio Okabe	Kiyotaka Tanaka	Osamu Yasuda	1:36.0
1998	Gourmet Frontier	6	Yukio Okabe	Kiyotaka Tanaka	Masayoshi Ishii	1:37.5
1999	Meisei Opera	5	Isao Sugawra	Shuichi Sasaki	Meisei Shoji co.	1:36.5
2000	Wing Arrow	5	Olivier Peslier Olivier Peslier Olivier Peslier is a thoroughbred horse racing jockey.Peslier competes in flat racing mainly in France but travels often around the world for the big international races....	Yoshimi Kudo	Minoru Ikeda	1:35.6
2001	Nobo True	5	Olivier Peslier Olivier Peslier Olivier Peslier is a thoroughbred horse racing jockey.Peslier competes in flat racing mainly in France but travels often around the world for the big international races....	Hideyuki Mori	Ikebata	1:35.6
2002	Agnes Digital	5	Hirofumi Shii	Toshiaki Shirai	Takao Watanabe	1:35.1
2003	Gold Allure *	4	Yutaka Take Yutaka Take is a Japanese jockey who is a multiple champion in his homeland and won the Japan Cup in 1999 on the horse Special Week...	Yasuo Ikee	Shadai Race Horse co.	1:50.9
2004	Admire Don	5	Katsumi Ando	Hiroyoshi Matsuda	Riichi Kondo	1:36.8
2005	Meisho Bowler	4	Yuichi Fukunaga	Toshiaki Shirai	Yoshio Matsumoto	1:34.7
2006	Kane Hekili Kane Hekili Kane Hekili is a Thoroughbred racehorse named after "The Thunder God" in Polynesian mythology. In 2005 and 2006 he won four Grade 1 races on dirt in Japan and finished fourth to Electrocutionist in the 2006 Dubai World Cup....	4	Yutaka Take Yutaka Take is a Japanese jockey who is a multiple champion in his homeland and won the Japan Cup in 1999 on the horse Special Week...	Katsuhiko Sumii Katsuhiko Sumii is a Japanese horse trainer.He trained the first and second placing horses in the 2006 Melbourne Cup, Delta Blues and Pop Rock.- Famous Horses :* Delta Blues - Won Melbourne Cup , Kikuka Sho (born March 28, 1964, Kanazawa, Ishikawa) is a Japanese horse trainer.He trained the first and second...	Kaneko Makoto Holdings Co., Ltd. Makoto Kaneko is the President, CEO and Representative Director of Zuken Inc., a public listed multinational corporation in the Tokyo Stock Exchange.Makoto Kaneko is better known as a prominent horse owner in Japan...	1:34.9
2007	Sunrise Bacchus	5	Katsumi Ando	Hidetaka Otonashi	Takao Matsuoka	1:34.8
2008	Vermilion	6	Yutaka Take Yutaka Take is a Japanese jockey who is a multiple champion in his homeland and won the Japan Cup in 1999 on the horse Special Week...	Sei Ishizaka	Sunday Racing	1:35.3
2009	Success Brocken	4	Hiroyuki Uchida	Hideaki Fujiwara	Tetsu Takashima	1:34.6
2010	Espoir City	5	Tetsuzo Sato	Akio Adachi	Yushun Horse Club	1:34.9
2010	Transcend	5	Shinji Fujita	Takayuki Yasuda	Koji Maeda	1.36.4

* The 2003 race took place at Nakayama Racecourse

Nakayama Racecourse

is located in Funabashi, Chiba, Japan. It is used for horse racing. It has a capacity of 165,676. It was built in 1990. It has 15,944 seats.-Physical attributes:Nakayama Race Course has two grass courses, a dirt course, and a jump course....

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External links

• Horse Racing in Japan results from 1997