The Ibis Summer Dash (Japanese アイビスサマーダッシュ) is a Grade 3 horse race for Thoroughbreds aged three and over, run in July over a distance of 1000 meters on turf at Niigata Racecourse.
[1] The race was first run in 2001 and has held Grade 3 status ever since.
As of 2022, it is the only Graded Race in Japan with only the straight line course.
54 kg for three-year-old, 57 kg for four-year-old and above.
[2] Allowances: Penalties (excluding two-year-old race performance):