Silk Road Stakes

Silk Road Stakes
Grade 3 race
	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		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		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		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
2021	Shivaji	6	Yuichi Fukunaga	Kenji Nonaka	1:08.3
2022	Meikei Yell	4	Kenichi Ikezoe	Hidenori Take	1:08.1