Silk Road Stakes
| Grade 3 race | |
.jpg) Lord Kanaloa win the 2012 Silk Road Stakes | |
| Location | Kyoto Racecourse |
|---|---|
| Inaugurated | 1996 |
| Race type | Thoroughbred Flat racing |
| Race information | |
| Distance | 1200 metres |
| Surface | Turf |
| Track | Right-handed |
| Qualification | 4-y-o+ |
| Weight | Handicap |
| Purse | ¥84,740,000 (total), ¥39,000,000 (winner) |
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.[1]
The Silk Road Stakes was first run in 1996 and has held Grade 3 status ever since.
Winners since 2000
| Year |
Winner |
Age |
Jockey |
Trainer |
Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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[2] |
| 2018 | Fine Needle | 5 | Yuga Kawada | Yoshitada Takahashi | 1:08.3[3] |
| 2019 | Danon Smash | 4 | Yuichi Kitamura | Takayuki Yasuda | 1:08.3[4] |
| 2020 | A Will A Way | 4 | Yuga Kawada | Tomokazu Takano | 1:09.0 |
Earlier winners
- 1996 - Flower Park
- 1997 - Eishin Berlin
- 1998 - Seeking The Pearl
- 1999 - Meiner Love
See also
References
- ^ "Silk Road Stakes". Horse Racing in Japan.
- ^ "2017 result". Racing Post. 29 January 2017.
- ^ "2018 result". Racing Post. 28 January 2018.
- ^ "2019 result". Racing Post. 27 January 2019.