# Centaur Stakes

The Centaur Stakes (セントウルステークス, Sentouru Sutekusu) is a Grade 2 flat horse race in Japan for three-year-old and above thoroughbreds run over a distance of 1,200 metres (approximately 6 furlongs) at Hanshin Racecourse in September.
It was first run in 1987 and takes its name from a statue at the racecourse in the form of the mythological creature centaur.
Prior to 2000 the race was run over a distance of 1,400 metres (7 furlongs), and having originally been classed as a Domestic Grade 3 race, it was promoted to Domestic Grade 2 status in 2006 and it was promoted to International Grade 2 status in 2007.
From 2005 to 2010 it was a leg of the Global Sprint Challenge series. It has now been replaced as a Japanese leg of the series by the Takamatsunomiya Kinen.

## Weight

55 kg for three-year-olds, 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:
** 2 kg for a grade 1 win (1 kg for fillies / mares)
** 1 kg for a grade 2 win
* If a graded stakes race has been won for more than a year:
** 1 kg for a grade 1 win

## Winners

| Year | Winner | Age | Jockey | Trainer | Owner | Time |
| 1987 | Mr Boy | 5 | Hiroshi Kawachi | Tadashi Nakao | Iwao Obara | 1:22.5 |
| 1988 | Sankin Hayate | 4 | Hiroshi Kawachi | Kōjirō Hashiguchi | Sakino Kawahara | 1:21.7 |
| 1989 | Hoei Sovereign | 5 | Yoshiyuki Muramoto | Tetsuya Meno | Suetsugu Kitagawa | 1:20.9 |
| 1990 | Eiko Caesar | 5 | Nobuyuki Tajima | Isao Yasuda | Ken'ichi Ikeuchi | 1:08.5 |
| 1991 | Nifty Niece | 4 | Keiji Takehara | Yasuhisa Matsuyama | Zenya Yoshida | 1:07.9 |
| 1992 | My Superman | 6 | Katsumi Minai | Yukiharu Shikato | Goichi Sugawara | 1:07.6 |
| 1993 | Elizabeth Rose | 4 | Hiroshi Kawachi | Sakae Watanabe | Katsumi Yoshida | 1:22.1 |
| 1994 | Eishin Washington | 3 | Shigefumi Kumazawa | Shigeharu Naitō | Toyomitsu Hirai | 1:08.7 |
| 1995 | Biko Pegasus | 4 | Yutaka Take | Tsugio Yanagida | Legend | 1:21.2 |
| 1996 | Fujino Makken O | 5 | Yutaka Take | Yoshio Nakamura | Hirotoshi Nakamura | 1:21.0 |
| 1997 | Osumi Tycoon | 6 | Kōshirō Take | Kunihiko Take | Hidenori Yamaji | 1:21.0 |
| 1998 | Meiner Love | 3 | Yutaka Take | Ryūichi Inaba | Thoroughbred Club Ruffian | 1:21.3 |
| 1999 | Eishin Guymon | 6 | Jun'ichi Serizawa | Tadashi Kayō | Toyomitsu Hirai | 1:20.7 |
| 2000 | Behind the Mask | 4 | Yūichi Fukunaga | Shūji Kitahashi | Sunday Racing Co; Ltd. | 1:07.6 |
| 2001 | Tennessee Girl | 4 | Kazuhiro Yamada | Masanao Tsubo | Toyomitsu Hirai | 1:08.1 |
| 2002 | Believe | 4 | Yasunari Iwata | Shigeki Matsumoto | Kōji Maeda | 1:07.1 |
| 2003 | Tenshino Kiseki | 5 | Norihiro Yokoyama | Kōjirō Hashiguchi | Masuo Sugitani | 1:07.8 |
| 2004 | Golden Cast | 4 | Yutaka Take | Kōjirō Hashiguchi | Kōji Maeda | 1:08.2 |
| 2005 | Golden Cast | 5 | Futoshi Komaki | Kōjirō Hashiguchi | Kōji Maeda | 1:08.3 |
| 2006 | She Is Tosho | 6 | Kenichi Ikezoe | Akio Tsurudome | Tōshō Sangyō Corporation | 1:08.6 |
| 2007 | Sans Adieu | 5 | Yuga Kawada | Hidetaka Otonashi | Takao Matuoka | 1:07.1 |
| 2008 | Kanoya Zakura | 4 | Futoshi Komaki | Kōjirō Hashiguchi | Kaoru Kanda | 1:07.3 |
| 2009 | Ultima Thule | 5 | Masami Matsuoka | Masashi Okuhira | Shadai Race Horse | 1:07.8 |
| 2010 | Dasher Go Go | 3 | Yūga Kawada | Takayuki Yasuda | Shin Ashida | 1:08.0 |
| 2011 | A Shin Virgo | 4 | Hironobu Tanabe | Ken Kozaki | Eishindō Co Ltd | 1:08.5 |
| 2012 | Epice Arome | 3 | Yutaka Take | Sei Ishizaka | Katsumi Yoshida | 1:07.3 |
| 2013 | Hakusan Moon | 3 | Manabu Sakai | Masato Nishizono | Goichi Kawasaki | 1:07.5 |
| 2014 | Little Gerda | 5 | Kyosuke Maruta | Ippo Sameshima | Yoshiko Kuriyama | 1:07.4 |
| 2015 | Active Minoru | 3 | Kota Fujioka | Yoshihito Kitade | Minoru Yoshioka | 1:07.8 |
| 2016 | Big Arthur | 5 | Yuichi Fukunaga | Kenichi Fujioka | Akira Nakatsuji | 1:07.6 |
| 2017 | Fine Needle | 4 | Mirco Demuro | Yoshitada Takahashi | Godolphin | 1:07.5 |
| 2018 | Fine Needle | 5 | Yuga Kawada | Yoshitada Takahashi | Godolphin | 1:08.8 |
| 2019 | Tower of London | 4 | Christophe Lemaire | Kazuo Fujisawa | Godolphin | 1:06.7 |
| 2020 | Danon Smash | 5 | Kousei Miura | Takayuki Yasuda | Danox Co Ltd | 1:07.9 |
| 2021 | Resistencia | 4 | Christophe Lemaire | Takeshi Matsushita | Carrot Farm | 1:07.2 |
| 2022 | Meikei Yell | 4 | Kenichi Ikezoe | Hidenori Take | Nagoya Keiba Co Ltd | 1:06.2 |
| 2023 | T M Spada | 4 | Akatsuki Tomita | Kazuyoshi Kihara | Masatsugu Takezono | 1:07.2 |
| 2024 | Toshin Macau | 5 | Sato Co. Ltd. | Akira Sugawara | Mizuki Takayanagi | 1:07.7 |
* 1 2 3 4 5 The race took place at Chukyo Racecourse