# Antares Stakes

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.
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 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 | Trainer | Owner | Time |
| 1996 | Theseus Frise | 4 | Yutaka Take | Tsutomu Niizeki | Keiko Taguchi | 1:50.1 |
| 1997 | M.I.Blanc | 5 | Yutaka Take | Shuji Ito | Yutaka Inami | 1:50.7 |
| 1998 | Wild Blaster | 6 | Hiroki Hashimoto | Hitoshi Arai | Yoshinobu Hayashi | 1:50.0 |
| 1999 | Osumi Jet | 5 | Hirofumi Shii | Toshiaki Shirai | Hidenori Yamaji | 1:49.5 |
| 2000 | Smart Boy | 5 | Naoto Ito | Keizo Ito | Grand Bokujo | 1:49.6 |
| 2001 | Smart Boy | 6 | Naoto Ito | Keizo Ito | Grand Bokujo | 1:50.6 |
| 2002 | Hagino High Grade | 6 | Yutaka Take | Kunihide Matsuda | Kokichi Hinokuma | 1:48.7 |
| 2003 | Gold Allure | 4 | Yutaka Take | Yasuo Ikee | Shadai Race Horse | 1:49.7 |
| 2004 | Time Paradox | 6 | Katsumi Ando | Hiroyoshi Matsuda | Shadai Race Horse | 1:51.5 |
| 2005 | Pit Fighter | 6 | Katsumi Ando | Yukihiro Kato | Hiroyoshi Usuda | 1:49.8 |
| 2006 | Fifty Oner | 4 | Yutaka Take | Takayuki Yasuda | Carrot Farm | 1:49.0 |
| 2007 | Wild Wonder | 5 | Yasunari Iwata | Takashi Kubota | Tsunefumi Kusama | 1:49.9 |
| 2008 | Wonder Speed | 6 | Futoshi Komaki | Tomohiko Hatsuki | Nobuyuki Yamamoto | 1:50.5 |
| 2009 | War Tactics | 4 | Yuga Kawada | Yasutoshi Ikee | Sunday Racing | 1:47.8 |
| 2010 | Daishin Orange | 5 | Yuga Kawada | Yasushi Shono | Nobuyuki Oyagi | 1:49.7 |
| 2011 | Gold Blitz | 4 | Hironobu Tanabe | Naohiro Yoshida | Carrot Farm | 1:48.1 |
| 2012 | Gold Blitz | 5 | Yuga Kawada | Naohiro Yoshida | Carrot Farm | 1:49.9 |
| 2013 | Hokku Tarumae | 4 | Yasunari Iwata | Katsuichi Nishiura | Koichi Yabe | 1:49.7 |
| 2014 | Namura Victor | 5 | Futoshi Komaki | Nobuharu Fukushima | Nobushige Namura | 1:51.5 |
| 2015 | Kurino Star O | 5 | Hideaki Miyuki | Yoshitada Takahashi | Mamoru Kurimoto | 1:49.6 |
| 2016 | Awardee | 6 | Yutaka Take | Mikio Matsunaga | Koji Maeda | 1:49.9 |
| 2017 | Molto Bene | 5 | Mirco Demuro | Masahiro Matsunaga | Masayoshi Miyake | 1:49.9 |
| 2018 | Great Pearl | 5 | Yuga Kawada | Mitsumasa Nakauchida | H.H. Sheikh Fahad | 1:49.8 |
| 2019 | Another Truth | 5 | Takuya Ono | Noboru Takagi | Normandy Thoroughbred Racing | 1:50.8 |
| 2020 | Westerlund | 8 | Yusuke Fujioka | Shozo Sasaki | Sunday Racing | 1:49.8 |
| 2021 | T O Keynes | 4 | Fuma Matsuwaka | Daisuke Takayanagi | Tomoya Ozaki | 1:49.0 |
| 2022 | Omega Perfume | 7 | Kazuo Yokoyama | Shogo Yasuda | Reiko Hara | 1:50.5 |
| 2023 | Promised Warrior | 6 | Katsuma Sameshima | Kenji Nonaka | Silk Racing | 1:49.5 |
| 2024 | Mikki Nuchibana | 6 | Keisuke Dazai | Ryo Takahashi | Mizuki Noda | 1:51.2 |