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Antares Stakes

The Antares Stakes (Japanese アンタレスステークス) is a Grade 3 horse race for Thoroughbreds aged four and over, run in April over a distance of 1800 metres on dirt at Hanshin Racecourse.[1]

Antares Stakes
アンタレスステークス
Grade 3 race
2014 Antares Stakes winner Namura Victor
LocationHanshin Racecourse
Inaugurated1996
Race typeThoroughbred Flat racing
Race information
Distance1800 metres
SurfaceDirt
TrackRight-handed
Qualification4-y-o+
WeightSpecial Weight
Purse¥ 82,380,000 (as of 2024)
1st: ¥ 38,000,000
2nd: ¥ 15,000,000
3rd: ¥ 10,000,000

The Antares Stakes was first run in 1996 and has held Grade 3 status ever since. The race was run at Kyoto Racecourse from 1997 to 2011.

Race details

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The race is run at Hanshin Racecourse over a distance of 1,800 meters on dirt.

Weight

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57 kg for four-year-olds and above.[2]
Allowances:

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)
    • 1 kg for a grade 3 win
  • 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

Past winners

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Year
 Winner
 Age
 Jockey
 Trainer
 Owner Time
1996 Theseus Frise 4 Yutaka Take Tsutomu Niizeki Keiko Taguchi 1:50.1
1997 M.I.Blanc 5 Yutaka Take Shuji Ito Yutaka Inami 1:50.7
1998 Wild Blaster 6 Hiroki Hashimoto Hitoshi Arai Yoshinobu Hayashi 1:50.0
1999 Osumi Jet 5 Hirofumi Shii Toshiaki Shirai Hidenori Yamaji 1:49.5
2000 Smart Boy 5 Naoto Ito Keizo Ito Grand Bokujo 1:49.6
2001 Smart Boy 6 Naoto Ito Keizo Ito Grand Bokujo 1:50.6
2002 Hagino High Grade 6 Yutaka Take Kunihide Matsuda Kokichi Hinokuma 1:48.7
2003 Gold Allure 4 Yutaka Take Yasuo Ikee Shadai Race Horse 1:49.7
2004 Time Paradox 6 Katsumi Ando Hiroyoshi Matsuda Shadai Race Horse 1:51.5
2005 Pit Fighter 6 Katsumi Ando Yukihiro Kato Hiroyoshi Usuda 1:49.8
2006 Fifty Oner 4 Yutaka Take Takayuki Yasuda Carrot Farm 1:49.0
2007 Wild Wonder 5 Yasunari Iwata Takashi Kubota Tsunefumi Kusama 1:49.9
2008 Wonder Speed 6 Futoshi Komaki Tomohiko Hatsuki Nobuyuki Yamamoto 1:50.5
2009 War Tactics 4 Yuga Kawada Yasutoshi Ikee Sunday Racing 1:47.8
2010 Daishin Orange 5 Yuga Kawada Yasushi Shono Nobuyuki Oyagi 1:49.7
2011 Gold Blitz 4 Hironobu Tanabe Naohiro Yoshida Carrot Farm 1:48.1
2012 Gold Blitz 5 Yuga Kawada Naohiro Yoshida Carrot Farm 1:49.9
2013 Hokku Tarumae 4 Yasunari Iwata Katsuichi Nishiura Koichi Yabe 1:49.7
2014 Namura Victor 5 Futoshi Komaki Nobuharu Fukushima Nobushige Namura 1:51.5
2015 Kurino Star O 5 Hideaki Miyuki Yoshitada Takahashi Mamoru Kurimoto 1:49.6
2016 Awardee 6 Yutaka Take Mikio Matsunaga Koji Maeda 1:49.9
2017 Molto Bene 5 Mirco Demuro Masahiro Matsunaga Masayoshi Miyake 1:49.9[3]
2018 Great Pearl 5 Yuga Kawada Mitsumasa Nakauchida H.H. Sheikh Fahad 1:49.8[4]
2019 Another Truth 5 Takuya Ono Noboru Takagi Normandy Thoroughbred Racing 1:50.8[5]
2020 Westerlund 8 Yusuke Fujioka Shozo Sasaki Sunday Racing 1:49.8
2021 T O Keynes 4 Fuma Matsuwaka Daisuke Takayanagi Tomoya Ozaki 1:49.0
2022 Omega Perfume 7 Kazuo Yokoyama Shogo Yasuda Reiko Hara 1:50.5
2023 Promised Warrior 6 Katsuma Sameshima Kenji Nonaka Silk Racing 1:49.5
2024 Mikki Nuchibana 6 Keisuke Dazai Ryo Takahashi Mizuki Noda 1:51.2

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Antares Stakes". Horse Racing in Japan.
  2. ^ "List of JRA Graded Races 2024｜List of JRA Graded Races｜Horse Racing in Japan". Horse Racing in Japan. Retrieved 2024-04-14.
  3. ^ "2017 result". Racing Post. 15 April 2017.
  4. ^ "2018 result". Racing Post. 15 April 2018.
  5. ^ "2019 result". Racing Post. 14 April 2019.
  6. ^ "アンタレスS". Netkeiba.
  7. ^ "Antares Stakes". Netkeiba.
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