# Tokai Stakes

The Tokai Stakes (Japanese 東海ステークス) is a Grade 3 horse race for Thoroughbreds aged three and over run in July over a distance of 1,400 meters at Chukyo Racecourse.
It was first run in 1984 as the Grade 3 Winter Stakes and was promoted to Grade 2 in 1999. It was renamed the Tokai Stakes in 2000. The race was initially run over 2,200 meters but switched to 2,300 meters in 1986. The distance was reduced to 1,900 meters in 2010 and 1,800 meters in 2013. In 2025, the race schedule will be moved over from January to July, the distance will be shortened to 1,400 meters, and demoted to Grade 3 status.

## Weight

53 kg for three-year-olds, 57 kg for four-year-olds and above.
Allowances:
* 2 kg for fillies / mares
* 2 kg for southern hemisphere bred three-year-olds
* 1 kg for southern hemisphere bred four-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)
* 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

## Winners since 2000

| Year | Winner | Age | Jockey | Trainer | Owner | Time |
| 2000 | Fast Friend | 6 | Masayoshi Ebina | Keiji Takaichi | Hiroaki Takezaki | 2.24.2 |
| 2001 | Hagino High Grade | 5 | Kenichi Ikezoe | Kunihide Matsuda | Yoshie Hinokuma | 2.23.4 |
| 2002 | Hagino High Grade | 6 | Yuichi Fukunaga | Kunihide Matsuda | Yoshie Hinokuma | 2.22.3 |
| 2003 | Gold Proof | 8 | Katsuto Maruno | Katsuyuki Imazu | Masamichi Kondo | 2:26.5 |
| 2004 | En Dehors | 5 | Mikio Matsunaga | Hiroyuki Nagahama | Shadai Race Horse | 2:23.7 |
| 2005 | Saqalat | 5 | Shinichiro Akiyama | Sei Ishizaka | Sunday Racing | 2:22.6 |
| 2006 | Hard Crystal | 6 | Yusuke Fujioka | Seiji Sakuta | Seiichi Serizawa | 2:23.6 |
| 2007 | Meisho Tokon | 5 | Koshiro Take | Isao Yasuda | Yoshio Matsumoto | 2:26.8 |
| 2008 | Yamato Marion | 5 | Tetsuya Kobayashi | Akio Adachi | Masako Bando | 2:24.0 |
| 2009 | Wonder Speed | 7 | Futoshi Komaki | Tomohiko Hatsuki | Nobuyuki Yamamoto | 2:23.7 |
| 2010 | Silk Mobius | 4 | Hiroyasu Tanaka | Masazo Ryoke | Silk | 1:55.4 |
| 2011 | Wonder Acute | 5 | Ryuji Wada | Masao Sato | Nobuyuki Yamamoto | 1:53.7 |
| 2012 | Solitary King | 5 | Suguru Hamanaka | Sei Ishizaka | Sunday Racing | 1:56.4 |
| 2013 | Grape Brandy | 5 | Christophe Lemaire | Takayuki Yasuda | Shadai Race Horse | 1:51.0 |
| 2014 | Nihonpiro Ours | 7 | Manabu Sakai | Yuki Ohashi | Hyakutaro Kobayashi | 1:50.4 |
| 2015 | Copano Rickey | 5 | Yutaka Take | Akira Murayama | Sachiaki Kobayashi | 1:50.9 |
| 2016 | Asukano Roman | 5 | Keisuke Dazai | Sadahiko Kawamura | Chiro Toyoda | 1:51.9 |
| 2017 | Glanzend | 4 | Norihiro Yokoyama | Yukihiro Kato | Silk Racing | 1:53.2 |
| 2018 | T M Jinsoku | 6 | Yoshihiro Furukawa | Kazuyoshi Kihara | Masatsugu Takezono | 1:51.8 |
| 2019 | Inti | 5 | Yutaka Take | Kenji Nonaka | Shigeo Takeda | 1:49.8 |
| 2020 | Air Almas | 5 | Kohei Matsuyama | Manabu Ikezoe | Lucky Field | 1:50.2 |
| 2021 | Auvergne | 5 | Yuga Kawada | Masayuki Nishimura | Tadakuni Sugiyama | 1:49.2 |
| 2022 | Suave Aramis | 7 | Daisaku Matsuda | Naosuke Sugai | NICKS | 1:51.7 |
| 2023 | Promised Warrior | 6 | Bauyrzhan Murzabayev | Kenji Nonaka | Silk Racing | 1:51.2 |
| 2024 | William Barows | 6 | Ryusei Sakai | Hiroyuki Uemura | Hirotsugu Inokuma | 1:49.2 |
$^1$ The 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2024 races took place at Kyoto Racecourse. $^2$ Vanyar crossed the finish line first but was disqualified because the jockey fell off.

## Earlier winners

* 1984 - Andre Amon
* 1985 - Cherry Foot
* 1986 - Life Tateyama
* 1987 - Crowd Exceed
* 1988 - Soda Kazan
* 1989 - Marubutsu Superior
* 1990 - Narita Hayabusa
* 1991 - Narita Hayabusa
* 1992 - Cherry Koman
* 1993 - Laurier Andre
* 1994 - Lively Mount
* 1995 - Kyoto City
* 1996 - Toyo Seattle
* 1997 - Abukuma Poro
* 1998 - Machikanewaraukado
* 1999 - My Turn