The Antares Stakes (Japanese アンタレスステークス) is a Japanese Grade 3 horse race for Thoroughbreds aged four and over, run in April over a distance of 1800 metres on dirt at Hanshin Racecourse.
The Antares Stakes was first run in 1996 and has held Grade 3 status ever since. The race was run at Kyoto Racecourse from 1997 to 2011.
Race details The race is run on a right-handed track at Hanshin Racecourse over a distance of 1,800 meters on dirt.
Weight 57 kg for four-year-olds and above.Allowances:
2 kg for fillies / mares 1 kg for southern hemisphere bred three-year-olds Penalties (excluding two-year-old race performance):
If a graded stakes race has been won within a year: 3 kg for a grade 1 win (2 kg for fillies / mares) 2 kg for a grade 2 win (1 kg for fillies / mares) 1 kg for a grade 3 win
If a graded stakes race has been won for more than a year: 2 kg for a grade 1 win (1 kg for fillies / mares) 1 kg for a grade 2 win
Past winners Year Winner Age Jockey TrainerOwner Time1996Theseus Frise4Yutaka TakeTsutomu NiizekiKeiko Taguchi1:50.11997M.I.Blanc5Yutaka TakeShuji ItoYutaka Inami1:50.71998Wild Blaster6Hiroki HashimotoHitoshi AraiYoshinobu Hayashi1:50.01999Osumi Jet5Hirofumi ShiiToshiaki ShiraiHidenori Yamaji1:49.5 2000 Smart Boy 5 Naoto Ito Keizo ItoGrand Bokujo 1:49.6 2001 Smart Boy 6 Naoto Ito Keizo ItoGrand Bokujo 1:50.6 2002 Hagino High Grade 6 Yutaka Take Kunihide MatsudaKokichi Hinokuma 1:48.7 2003 Gold Allure 4 Yutaka Take Yasuo IkeeShadai Race Horse 1:49.7 2004 Time Paradox 6 Katsumi Ando Hiroyoshi MatsudaShadai Race Horse 1:51.5 2005 Pit Fighter 6 Katsumi Ando Yukihiro KatoHiroyoshi Usuda 1:49.8 2006 Fifty Oner 4 Yutaka Take Takayuki YasudaCarrot Farm 1:49.02007 Wild Wonder 5 Yasunari Iwata Takashi KubotaTsunefumi Kusama 1:49.9 2008 Wonder Speed 6 Futoshi Komaki Tomohiko HatsukiNobuyuki Yamamoto 1:50.5 2009 War Tactics 4 Yuga Kawada Yasutoshi IkeeSunday Racing 1:47.8 2010 Daishin Orange 5 Yuga Kawada Yasushi ShonoNobuyuki Oyagi 1:49.7 2011 Gold Blitz 4 Hironobu Tanabe Naohiro YoshidaCarrot Farm 1:48.1 2012 Gold Blitz 5 Yuga Kawada Naohiro YoshidaCarrot Farm 1:49.9 2013 Hokko Tarumae 4 Yasunari Iwata Katsuichi NishiuraKoichi Yabe 1:49.7 2014 Namura Victor 5 Futoshi Komaki Nobuharu FukushimaNobushige Namura 1:51.5 2015 Kurino Star O 5 Hideaki Miyuki Yoshitada TakahashiMamoru Kurimoto 1:49.6 2016 Awardee 6 Yutaka Take Mikio MatsunagaKoji Maeda 1:49.9 2017 Molto Bene 5 Mirco Demuro Masahiro MatsunagaMasayoshi Miyake 1:49.9 2018 Great Pearl 5 Yuga Kawada Mitsumasa NakauchidaH.H. Sheikh Fahad 1:49.8 2019 Another Truth 5 Takuya Ono Noboru TakagiNormandy Thoroughbred Racing 1:50.8 2020 Westerlund 8 Yusuke Fujioka Shozo SasakiSunday Racing 1:49.8 2021 T O Keynes 4 Fuma Matsuwaka Daisuke TakayanagiTomoya Ozaki 1:49.0 2022 Omega Perfume 7 Kazuo Yokoyama Shogo YasudaReiko Hara 1:50.5 2023 Promised Warrior 6 Katsuma Sameshima Kenji NonakaSilk Racing 1:49.5 2024 Mikki Nuchibana 6 Keisuke Dazai Ryo TakahashiMizuki Noda 1:51.22025Mikki Fight4Christophe LemaireHiroyasu TanakaMizuki Noda1:51.32026Meursault5Ryusei SakaiYasutoshi IkeeYuji Hasegawa1:50.3
See also Horse racing in Japan List of Japanese flat horse races
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