Silk Road Stakes
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.jpg) Lord Kanaloa win the 2012 Silk Road Stakes | |
| Class | Grade 3 |
|---|---|
| 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 | ¥ 87,960,000 (as of 2026)
|
The Silk Road Stakes (Japanese シルクロードステークス) is a Grade 3 horse race in Japan 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 as a graded race in 1996 with Grade 3 status, and has held on to that status ever since.
| Year |
Winner |
Age |
Jockey |
Trainer |
Owner |
Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996[2] | Flower Park | 4 | Seiki Tabara | Shoichi Matsumoto | Katsumi Yoshida | 1:07.6 |
| 1997 | Eishin Berlin | 5 | Katsumi Minai | Masanori Sakaguchi | Toyomitsu Hirai | 1:06.9 |
| 1998 | Seeking The Pearl | 3 | Yutaka Take | Hideyuki Mori | Masako Uenaka | 1:08.6 |
| 1999 | Meiner Love | 4 | Mikio Matsunaga | Ryuichi Inaba | Thoroughbred Club Ruffian | 1:08.7 |
| 2000 | Broad Appeal | 6 | Koshiro Take | Kunihide Matsuda | Makoto Kaneko | 1:09.5 |
| 2001 | Trot Star | 5 | Masayoshi Ebina | Eiji Nakano | Minoru Takano | 1:08.7 |
| 2002 | Gaily Flash | 9 | Tetsuya Kobayashi | Isao Yasuda | Tokyo Thoroughbred Bureau | 1:08.7 |
| 2003 | T M Sunday | 7 | Shinichiro Akiyama | Masaru Fukushima | Masatsugu Takezono | 1:08.6 |
| 2004 | Keeneland Swan | 6 | Andreas Suborics | Hideyuki Nori | Toyomitsu Hirai | 1:08.6 |
| 2005 | Precious Cafe | 5 | Masayoshi Ebina | Futoshi Kojima | Koichi Nishikawa | 1:08.1 |
| 2006 | Tamamo Hot Play | 5 | Kunihiko Watanabe | Katsumi Minai | Tamamo | 1:08.9 |
| 2007 | M O Winner | 6 | Futoshi Komaki | Toshiyuki Hattori | Mitsugu Oasa | 1:07.8 |
| 2008 | Fine Grain | 5 | Hideaki Miyuki | Hiroyuki Nagahama | Shadai Race Horse | 1:09.1 |
| 2009 | Urban Street | 5 | Yuichi Fukunaga | Akihiko Nomura | Shigeki Goto | 1:08.5 |
| 2010 | Ultima Thule | 6 | Norihiro Yokoyama | Masashi Okuhira | Shadai Race Horse | 1:08.1 |
| 2011 | Jo Cappuccino | 5 | Kota Fujioka | Kazuya Nakatake | Keiko Ueda | 1:08.2 |
| 2012 | Lord Kanaloa | 4 | Yuichi Fukunaga | Takayuki Yasuda | Lord Horse Club | 1:08.3 |
| 2013 | Dream Valentino | 6 | Kohei Matsuyama | Tadashi Kayo | Saison Race Horse | 1:08.6 |
| 2014 | Straight Girl | 5 | Yasunari Iwata | Hideaki Fujiwara | Toshihiro Hirosaki | 1:07.4 |
| 2015 | Am Ball Bleiben | 6 | Ken Tanaka | Nobuharu Fukushima | Nobuyuki Ito | 1:07.9 |
| 2016 | Dance Director | 6 | Suguru Hamanaka | Kazuhide Sasada | Suzuko Ota | 1:07.9 |
| 2017 | Dance Director | 7 | Yutaka Take | Kazuhide Sasada | Suzuko Ota | 1:07.8[3] |
| 2018 | Fine Needle | 5 | Yuga Kawada | Yoshitada Takahashi | Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum | 1:08.3[4] |
| 2019 | Danon Smash | 4 | Yuichi Kitamura | Takayuki Yasuda | Danox | 1:08.3[5] |
| 2020 | A Will A Way | 4 | Yuga Kawada | Tomokazu Takano | Katsumi Yoshida | 1:09.0 |
| 2021* | Shivaji | 6 | Yuichi Fukunaga | Kenji Nonaka | Kanayama Holdings | 1:08.3 |
| 2022* | Meikei Yell | 4 | Kenichi Ikezoe | Hidenori Take | Nagoya Keiba | 1:08.1 |
| 2023* | Namura Clair | 4 | Suguru Hamanaka | Kodai Hasegawa | Nobushige Namura | 1:07.3 |
| 2024 | Lugal | 4 | Atsuya Nishimura | Haruki Sugiyama | Yoshimasa Ema | 1:07.7 |
| 2025 | A Shin Fencer | 5 | Kenji Kawamata | Keiji Yoshimura | Eishindo | 1:08.2 |
| 2026 | Fioraia | 5 | Keisuke Dazai | Masato Nishizono | Yushun Horse Co., Ltd. | 1:08.0 |
*The 2021, 2022, and 2023 races took place at Chukyo Racecourse.