# Silk Road Stakes

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.
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 | Trainer | Time |
| 1996 | Flower Park | 4 | Seiki Tabara | Shoichi Matsumoto | 1:07.6 |
| 1997 | Eishin Berlin | 5 | Katsumi Minai | Masanori Sakaguchi | 1:06.9 |
| 1998 | Seeking The Pearl | 3 | Yutaka Take | Hideyuki Mori | 1:08.6 |
| 1999 | Meiner Love | 4 | Mikio Matsunaga | Ryuichi Inaba | 1:08.7 |
| 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 | Fine Grain | 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 | Jo Cappuccino | 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 |
| 2018 | Fine Needle | 5 | Yuga Kawada | Yoshitada Takahashi | 1:08.3 |
| 2019 | Danon Smash | 4 | Yuichi Kitamura | Takayuki Yasuda | 1:08.3 |
| 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 |
| 2023* | Namura Clair | 4 | Suguru Hamanaka | Kodai Hasegawa | 1:07.3 |
| 2024 | Lugal | 4 | Atsuya Nishimura | Haruki Sugiyama | 1:07.7 |
| 2025 | A Shin Fencer | 5 | Kenji Kawamata | Keiji Yoshimura | 1:08.2 |
*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 | Time |
| 1989 | Shiyono Roman | 4 | Yutaka Take | Hozumi Shono | 1:35.7 |
| 1990 | Eiko Caesar | 5 | Yutaka Take | Isao Yasuda | 1:10.9 |
| 1991 | Meisho Machina | 4 | Yoshiyasu Tajima | Nao Takahashi | 1:09.9 |
| 1992 | Yuki Top Run | 4 | Yutaka Take | Masaru Sayama | 1:09.4 |
| 1993 | Yutaka Take | 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 |