Yasuda Kinen
After an absence of almost a year, Agnes World returned to finish sixth in the Grade III Garnet Stakes at Nakayama on 18 January and then finished second in a minor stakes race over 1200 metres at Kyoto. In April, over the same course and distance, he finished second to Meiner Love in the Grade III Silk Road Stakes. For his next two races he was moved up to the highest class: he finished fifth to Masa Lucky in the Takamatsunomiya Kinen at Chukyo and eighth behind Air Jihad in the Yasuda Kinen at Tokyo Racecourse. The colt returned to winning form when he was dropped in class for two sprint races at Kokura Racecourse. In July he won the Kitakyushu Tankyori Stakes in a record time of 1:06.5 and in the following month he added a win in the Kokura Nikkei Open.