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.
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 TrainerOwner Time1996Flower Park4Seiki TabaraShoichi MatsumotoKatsumi Yoshida1:07.61997Eishin Berlin5Katsumi MinaiMasanori SakaguchiToyomitsu Hirai1:06.91998Seeking the Pearl3Yutaka TakeHideyuki MoriMasako Uenaka1:08.61999Meiner Love4Mikio MatsunagaRyuichi InabaThoroughbred Club Ruffian1:08.7 2000 Broad Appeal 6 Koshiro Take Kunihide MatsudaMakoto Kaneko 1:09.5 2001 Trot Star 5 Masayoshi Ebina Eiji NakanoMinoru Takano 1:08.7 2002 Gaily Flash 9 Tetsuya Kobayashi Isao YasudaTokyo Thoroughbred Bureau 1:08.7 2003 T M Sunday 7 Shinichiro Akiyama Masaru FukushimaMasatsugu Takezono 1:08.6 2004 Keeneland Swan 6 Andreas Suborics Hideyuki NoriToyomitsu Hirai 1:08.6 2005 Precious Cafe 5 Masayoshi Ebina Futoshi KojimaKoichi Nishikawa 1:08.1 2006 Tamamo Hot Play 5 Kunihiko Watanabe Katsumi MinaiTamamo 1:08.92007 M O Winner 6 Futoshi Komaki Toshiyuki HattoriMitsugu Oasa 1:07.8 2008 Fine Grain 5 Hideaki Miyuki Hiroyuki NagahamaShadai Race Horse 1:09.1 2009 Urban Street 5 Yuichi Fukunaga Akihiko NomuraShigeki Goto 1:08.5 2010 Ultima Thule 6 Norihiro Yokoyama Masashi OkuhiraShadai Race Horse 1:08.1 2011 Jo Cappuccino 5 Kota Fujioka Kazuya NakatakeKeiko Ueda 1:08.2 2012 Lord Kanaloa 4 Yuichi Fukunaga Takayuki YasudaLord Horse Club 1:08.3 2013 Dream Valentino 6 Kohei Matsuyama Tadashi KayoSaison Race Horse 1:08.6 2014 Straight Girl 5 Yasunari Iwata Hideaki FujiwaraToshihiro Hirosaki 1:07.4 2015 Am Ball Bleiben 6 Ken Tanaka Nobuharu FukushimaNobuyuki Ito 1:07.9 2016 Dance Director 6 Suguru Hamanaka Kazuhide SasadaSuzuko Ota 1:07.9 2017 Dance Director 7 Yutaka Take Kazuhide SasadaSuzuko Ota 1:07.8 2018 Fine Needle 5 Yuga Kawada Yoshitada TakahashiMohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum 1:08.3 2019 Danon Smash 4 Yuichi Kitamura Takayuki YasudaDanox 1:08.3 2020 A Will A Way 4 Yuga Kawada Tomokazu TakanoKatsumi Yoshida 1:09.0 2021* Shivaji 6 Yuichi Fukunaga Kenji NonakaKanayama Holdings 1:08.3 2022* Meikei Yell 4 Kenichi Ikezoe Hidenori TakeNagoya Keiba 1:08.1 2023* Namura Clair 4 Suguru Hamanaka Kodai HasegawaNobushige Namura 1:07.32024Lugal4Atsuya NishimuraHaruki SugiyamaYoshimasa Ema1:07.72025A Shin Fencer5Kenji KawamataKeiji YoshimuraEishindo1:08.22026Fioraia5Keisuke DazaiMasato NishizonoYushun Horse Co., Ltd.1:08.0
*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 Time1989Shiyono Roman4Yutaka TakeHozumi Shono1:35.71990Eiko Caesar5Yutaka TakeIsao Yasuda1:10.91991Meisho Machina4Yoshiyasu TajimaNao Takahashi1:09.91992Yuki Top Run4Yutaka TakeMasaru Sayama1:09.4 1993 Yuki Top Run 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 Horse racing in Japan List of Japanese flat horse races
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