Tokai Stakes
| Grade 2 race | |
 2012 Tokai Stakes | |
| Location | Chukyo Racecourse |
|---|---|
| Inaugurated | 1984 |
| Race type | Thoroughbred Flat racing |
| Race information | |
| Distance | 1800 metres |
| Surface | Dirt |
| Track | Left-handed |
| Qualification | 4-y-o + |
| Weight | 5-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[edit]
| Year |
Winner |
Age |
Jockey |
Trainer |
Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Fast Friend | 6 | Masayoshi Ebina | Keiji Takaichi | 2.24.2 |
| 2001 | Hagino High Grade | 5 | Kenichi Ikezoe | Kunihide Matsuda | 2.23.4 |
| 2002 | Hagino High Grade | 6 | Yuichi Fukunaga | Kunihide Matsuda | 2.22.3 |
| 2003 | Gold Proof | 8 | Katsuto Maruno | Katsuyuki Imazu | 2:26.5 |
| 2004 | En Dehors | 5 | Mikio Matsunaga | Hiroyuki Nagahama | 2:23.7 |
| 2005 | Saqalat | 5 | Shinichiro Akiyama | Sei Ishizaka | 2:22.6 |
| 2006 | Hard Crystal | 6 | Yusuke Fujioka | Seiji Sakuta | 2:23.6 |
| 2007 | Meisho Tokon | 5 | Koshiro Take | Isao Yasuda | 2:26.8 |
| 2008 | Yamato Marion | 5 | Tetsuya Kobayashi | Akio Adachi | 2:24.0 |
| 2009 | Wonder Speed | 7 | Futoshi Komaki | Tomohiko Hatsuki | 2:23.7 |
| 2010 | Silk Mobius [1] | 4 | Hiroyasu Tanaka | Masazo Ryoke | 1:55.4 |
| 2011 | Wonder Acute [1] | 5 | Ryuji Wada | Masao Sato | 1:53.7 |
| 2012 | Solitary King [1] | 5 | Suguru Hamanaka | Sei Ishizaka | 1:56.4 |
| 2013 | Grape Brandy | 5 | Christophe Lemaire | Takayuki Yasuda | 1:51.0 |
| 2014 | Nihonpiro Ours | 7 | Manabu Sakai | Yuki Ohashi | 1:50.4 |
| 2015 | Copano Rickey | 5 | Yutaka Take | Akira Murayama | 1:50.9 |
| 2016 | Asukano Roman | 5 | Keisuke Dazai | Sadahiko Kawamura | 1:51.9 |
| 2017 | Glanzend | 4 | Norihiro Yokoyama | Yukihiro Kato | 1:53.2[2] |
| 2018 | T M Jinsoku | 6 | Yoshihiro Furukawa | Kazuyoshi Kihara | 1:51.8[3] |
| 2019 | Inti | 5 | Yutaka Take | Kenji Nonaka | 1:49.8[4] |
| 2020 | Air Almas | 5 | Kohei Matsuyama | Manabu Ikezoe | 1:50.2 |
| 2021 | Auvergne | 5 | Yuga Kawada | Masayuki Nishimura | 1:49.2 |
| 2022 | Suave Aramis | 7 | Daisaku Matsuda | Naosuke Sugai | 1:51.7 |
| 2023 | Promised Warrior[2] | 6 | Bauyrzhan Murzabayev | Kenji Nonaka | 1:51.2 |
| 2024 | William Barows[1] | 6 | Ryusei Sakai | Hiroyuki Uemura | 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[edit]
- 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[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ "Tokai Stakes". Horse Racing in Japan.
- ^ "2017 result". Racing Post. 22 January 2017.
- ^ "2018 result". Racing Post. 21 January 2018.
- ^ "2019 result". Racing Post. 20 January 2019.
- ^ "In Japan, a racehorse went through the entire race without a jockey and won". Ordo News. 2023-01-25. Retrieved 2023-02-12.
- ^ "東海S". Netkeiba.
- ^ "Tokai TV Hai Tokai Stakes". Netkeiba.