Antares Stakes

Antares Stakes
Grade 3 race
Location	Hanshin Racecourse
Inaugurated	1996
Race type	Thoroughbred Flat racing
Race information
Distance	1800 metres
Surface	Dirt
Track	Right-handed
Qualification	4-y-o+
Weight	56 kg, fillies and mares allowed 2 kg
Purse	¥77,360,000 (total), ¥36,000,000 (winner)

The Antares Stakes (Japanese アンタレスステークス) is a Grade 3 horse race for Thoroughbreds aged four and over, run in April over a distance of 1800 metres on dirt at Hanshin Racecourse.^[1]

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.

Winners since 2000[]

Year	Winner	Age	Jockey	Trainer	Time
2000	Smart Boy	5	Naoto Ito	Keizo Ito	1:49.6
2001	Smart Boy	6	Naoto Ito	Keizo Ito	1:50.6
2002	Hagino High Grade	6	Yutaka Take	Kunihide Matsuda	1:48.7
2003	Gold Allure	4	Yutaka Take	Yasuo Ikee	1:49.7
2004		6	Katsumi Ando	Hiroyoshi Matsuda	1:51.5
2005	Pit Fighter	6	Katsumi Ando	Yukihiro Kato	1:49.8
2006	Fifty Oner	4	Yutaka Take	Takayuki Yasuda	1:49.0
2007	Wild Wonder	5	Yasunari Iwata	Takashi Kubota	1:49.9
2008	Wonder Speed	6	Futoshi Komaki	Tomohiko Hatsuki	1:50.5
2009	War Tactics	4	Yuga Kawada	Yasutoshi Ikee	1:47.8
2010	Daishin Orange	5	Yuga Kawada	Yasushi Shono	1:49.7
2011	Gold Blitz	4	Hironobu Tanabe	Naohiro Yoshida	1:48.1
2012	Gold Blitz	5	Yuga Kawada	Naohiro Yoshida	1:49.9
2013		4	Yasunari Iwata	Katsuichi Nishiura	1:49.7
2014	Namura Victor	5	Futoshi Komaki	Nobuharu Fukushima	1:51.5
2015	Kurino Star O	5	Hideaki Miyuki	Yoshitada Takahashi	1:49.6
2016		6	Yutaka Take	Mikio Matsunaga	1:49.9
2017	Molto Bene	5	Mirco Demuro	Masahiro Matsunaga	1:49.9^[2]
2018	Great Pearl	5	Yuga Kawada	Mitsumasa Nakauchida	1:49.8^[3]
2019	Another Truth	5	Takuya Ono	Noboru Takagi	1:50.8^[4]
2020	Westerlund	8	Yusuke Fujioka	Shozo Sasaki	1:49.8
2021	T O Keynes	4	Fuma Matsuwaka	Daisuke Takayanagi	1:49.0