Sent-off favourite, Mikki Fight combined with Keita Tosaki to win Sunday's G3 Leopard Stakes at Niigata Racecourse. Satono Phoenix finished second, a length behind the winner, and Mikki Crest came home in third, three lengths behind Satono Phoenix. The winning time is 1:51.2.

Mikki Fight is a son of Drefong out of Special Groove, by Special Week. This is his first graded stakes title and follows an 11th-place finish in the G3 Unicorn Stakes last time out.