Aoi Stakes

Horse race

Aoi Stakes
葵ステークス
Race information
Grade 3 race
Win Marvel wins the 2022 Aoi Stakes
Location	Kyoto Racecourse
Inaugurated	1985
Race type	Thoroughbred Flat racing
Distance	1,200 meters
Surface	Turf
Track	Right-handed
Qualification	3yo
Weight	56 kg Allowance: Fillies 2 kg
Purse	¥ 87,960,000 (as of 2024) 1st: ¥ 41,000,000 2nd: ¥ 16,000,000 3rd: ¥ 10,000,000

The Aoi Stakes (Japanese 葵ステークス) is a Grade 3 horse race for three-year-old Thoroughbreds, run in late May over a distance of 1200 metres on turf at Kyoto Racecourse.^[1] Famous horses who won the race include Calstone Light O and Lord Kanaloa.

The race was first ran as Aoi Sho from 1985 until 1988 before it was renamed to Aoi Stakes. The distance was ran at 1,400 meters from 1985 until 1995, then it was shortened to 1,200 meters from 1996 until 2001. The distance was once again increased to 1,400 meters from 2002 until 2009 then it was shortened back to its current distance at 1,200 meters. In 2018, the race was promoted to Grade status but was unable to obtain the current Grade 3 status until 2022.

Winners since 2000

Year	Winner	Jockey	Trainer	Time
2000	Breaktime	Mamoru Ishibashi	Shoji Yamamoto	1:08.0
2001	Calstone Light O	Shigefumi Kumazawa	Hiroyuki Oneda	1:07.4
2002	Dantsu Judge	Fujita Shinji	Kenji Yamauchi	1:21.2
2003	Montparnasse	Mikio Matsunaga	Noriaki Tsubo	1:21.5
2004	Meiner Zest	Hirofumi Shii	Yutaka Takahashi	1:20.9
2005	Symboli Gran	Shigefumi Kumazawa	Yoshihiro Hatakeyama	1:20.9
2006	Win Legend	Yuga Kawada	Tsutomu Setoguchi	1:23.0
2007	Kanoya Zakura	Hiroyuki Uemura	Kojiro Hashiguchi	1:22.6
2008	Million Wave	Koichi Tsunoda	Hiroshi Miyamoto	1:21.7
2009	Eishin Tiger	Yuga Kawada	Masato Nishizono	1:20.4
2010	Keiai Daisy	Hideaki Miyuki	Kenji Yamauchi	1:07.6
2011	Lord Kanaloa	Yuichi Kitamura	Takayuki Yasuda	1:09.3
2012	Makoto Nawaratana	Kota Fujioka	Ippo Sameshima	1:08.0
2013	Teehaff	Yutaka Take	Katsuichi Nishiura	1:08.7
2014	Real Venus	Kota Fujioka	Akio Adachi	1:07.5
2015	Just Doing	Tsubasa Wada	Kazuya Nakatake	1:08.0
2016	Nac Venus	Manabu Sakai	Hiroaki Sugiura	1:07.9
2017	Arinna	Yusuke Fujioka	Shigeki Matsumoto	1:10.5
2018	Gold Queen	Yoshihiro Furukawa	Masanori Sakaguchi	1:08.0
2019	Dirndl	Yusuke Fujioka	Yutaka Okumura	1:08.0
2020	Bien Fait	Yusuke Fujioka	Kazuya Nakatake	1:08.1
2021	Lei Halia^[a]	Heart Kameda	Toshiaki Tajima	1:08.1
2022	Win Marvel^[a]	Kohei Matsuyama	Masashi Fukayama	1:08.2
2023	Mozu Meimei	Yutaka Take	Hidetaka Otonashi	1:07.1
2024	Puro Magic	Kazuo Yokoyama	Shogo Yasuda	1:07.1

^a The 2021 and 2022 editions were contested at Chukyo Racecourse, due to renovations held at the Kyoto Racecourse.^[2]

Earlier winners

1985 - Long Quick^[3]
1986 - Lead Triple^[4]
1987 - Marubutsu Lonely
1988 - Great Monte
1989 - Osaichi George
1990 - Daitaku Helios
1991 - Tenzan Hagoromo
1992 - Elizabeth Rose
1993 - Fuji One Man Cross
1994 - Maruka Okan
1995 - Isami Sakura
1996 - The Gold
1997 - Star Programmer
1998 - Meisho Ayame
1999 - Kool Neige

References

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