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Horse race
Silk Road Stakes
シルクロードステークス
Grade 3 race
Lord Kanaloa win the 2012 Silk Road Stakes
LocationKyoto Racecourse
Inaugurated1996
Race typeThoroughbred Flat racing
Race information
Distance1200 metres
SurfaceTurf
TrackRight-handed
Qualification4-y-o+
WeightHandicap
Purse¥ 87,960,000 (as of 2024)
1st: ¥ 41,000,000
2nd: ¥ 16,000,000
3rd: ¥ 10,000,000

The Silk Road Stakes (Japanese シルクロードステークス) is a Grade 3 horse race for Thoroughbreds aged four and over, run in January over a distance of 1200 metres on turf at Kyoto Racecourse.

The Silk Road Stakes was first run as a graded race in 1996 with Grade 3 status, and has held on to that status ever since.

Past winners

Year
 Winner
 Age
 Jockey
 Trainer
 Time
1996 Flower Park 4 Seiki Tabara Shoichi Matsumoto 1:07.6
1997 Eishin Berlin 5 Katsumi Minai Masanori Sakaguchi 1:06.9
1998 Seeking The Pearl 3 Yutaka Take Hideyuki Mori 1:08.6
1999 Meiner Love 4 Mikio Matsunaga Ryuichi Inaba 1:08.7
2000 Broad Appeal 6 Koshiro Take Kunihide Matsuda 1:09.5
2001 Trot Star 5 Masayoshi Ebina Eiji Nakano 1:08.7
2002 Gaily Flash 9 Tetsuya Kobayashi Isao Yasuda 1:08.7
2003 T M Sunday 7 Shinichiro Akiyama Masaru Fukushima 1:08.6
2004 Keeneland Swan 6 Andreas Suborics Hideyuki Nori 1:08.6
2005 Precious Cafe 5 Masayoshi Ebina Futoshi Kojima 1:08.1
2006 Tamamo Hot Play 5 Kunihiko Watanabe Katsumi Minai 1:08.9
2007 M O Winner 6 Futoshi Komaki Toshiyuki Hattori 1:07.8
2008 Fine Grain 5 Hideaki Miyuki Hiroyuki Nagahama 1:09.1
2009 Urban Street 5 Yuichi Fukunaga Akihiko Nomura 1:08.5
2010 Ultima Thule 6 Norihiro Yokoyama Masashi Okuhira 1:08.1
2011 Jo Cappuccino 5 Kota Fujioka Kazuya Nakatake 1:08.2
2012 Lord Kanaloa 4 Yuichi Fukunaga Takayuki Yasuda 1:08.3
2013 Dream Valentino 6 Kohei Matsuyama Tadashi Kayo 1:08.6
2014 Straight Girl 5 Yasunari Iwata Hideaki Fujiwara 1:07.4
2015 Am Ball Bleiben 6 Ken Tanaka Nobuharu Fukushima 1:07.9
2016 Dance Director 6 Suguru Hamanaka Kazuhide Sasada 1:07.9
2017 Dance Director 7 Yutaka Take Kazuhide Sasada 1:07.8
2018 Fine Needle 5 Yuga Kawada Yoshitada Takahashi 1:08.3
2019 Danon Smash 4 Yuichi Kitamura Takayuki Yasuda 1:08.3
2020 A Will A Way 4 Yuga Kawada Tomokazu Takano 1:09.0
2021* Shivaji 6 Yuichi Fukunaga Kenji Nonaka 1:08.3
2022* Meikei Yell 4 Kenichi Ikezoe Hidenori Take 1:08.1
2023* Namura Clair 4 Suguru Hamanaka Kodai Hasegawa 1:07.3
2024 Lugal 4 Atsuya Nishimura Haruki Sugiyama 1:07.7

*The 2021, 2022, and 2023 races took place at Chukyo Racecourse.

Previous Silk Road Stakes

From 1989 to 1995, a listed race of the same name was held at Kyoto Racecourse. The race was held over a distance of 1600m in 1989 while the race in subsequent years were held at 1200m.

Year
 Winner
 Age
 Jockey
 Trainer
 Time
1989 Shiyono Roman 4 Yutaka Take Hozumi Shono 1:35.7
1990 Eiko Caesar 5 Yutaka Take Isao Yasuda 1:10.9
1991 Meisho Machina 4 Yoshiyasu Tajima Nao Takahashi 1:09.9
1992 Yuki Top Run 4 Yutaka Take Masaru Sayama 1:09.4
1993 Yutaka Take 5 Hiroshi Kawachi Masaru Sayama 1:09.5
1994 Gold Mountain 5 Koichi Tsunoda Masaru Sayama 1:08.8
1995 Gold Mountain 6 Shigehiko Kishi Masaru Sayama 1:07.9

See also

References

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