Tokai Stakes

Horse race
Tokai Stakes
Grade 2 race
2012 Tokai Stakes
LocationChukyo Racecourse
Inaugurated1984
Race typeThoroughbred Flat racing
Race information
Distance1800 metres
SurfaceDirt
TrackLeft-handed
Qualification4-y-o +
Weight5-y-o + 56kg, 4-y-o 55kg. Fillies & mares allowed 2kg.
Purse¥ 119,100,000 (as of 2024)
1st: ¥ 55,000,000
2nd: ¥ 22,000,000
3rd: ¥ 14,000,000

The Tokai Stakes (Japanese 東海ステークス) is a Grade 2 horse race for Thoroughbreds aged four and over run in January over a distance of 1800 metres at Chukyo Racecourse.[1]

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 2200 metres but switched to 2300 metres in 1986. The distance was reduced to 1900 metres in 2010 and 1800 metres in 2013. The race often serves as a trial for the February Stakes.

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 [1] 4 Hiroyasu Tanaka Masazo Ryoke Silk 1:55.4
2011 Wonder Acute [1] 5 Ryuji Wada Masao Sato Nobuyuki Yamamoto 1:53.7
2012 Solitary King [1] 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[2]
2018 T M Jinsoku 6 Yoshihiro Furukawa Kazuyoshi Kihara Masatsugu Takezono 1:51.8[3]
2019 Inti 5 Yutaka Take Kenji Nonaka Shigeo Takeda 1:49.8[4]
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[2] 6 Bauyrzhan Murzabayev Kenji Nonaka Silk Racing 1:51.2
2024 William Barows[1] 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.[5]

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

See also

References

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  1. ^ "Tokai Stakes". Horse Racing in Japan.
  2. ^ "2017 result". Racing Post. 22 January 2017.
  3. ^ "2018 result". Racing Post. 21 January 2018.
  4. ^ "2019 result". Racing Post. 20 January 2019.
  5. ^ "In Japan, a racehorse went through the entire race without a jockey and won". Ordo News. 2023-01-25. Retrieved 2023-02-12.
  6. ^ "東海S". Netkeiba.
  7. ^ "Tokai TV Hai Tokai Stakes". Netkeiba.
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