Surface: | Turf |
Class: | Grade 2 |
Horse Race: | Swan Stakes スワンステークス |
Location: | Kyoto Racecourse |
Inaugurated: | 1958 |
Race Type: | Thoroughbred Flat racing |
Distance: | 1400 metres |
Track: | Right-handed |
Qualification: | 3-y-o + |
Weight: | 4-y-o+ 56kg, 3-y-o 54kg. Fillies & mares allowed 2kg. |
Purse: | ¥128,140,000 (total), ¥59,000,000 (winner) |
The Swan Stakes (Japanese スワンステークス) is a Grade 2 horse race for Thoroughbreds aged three and over run in October over a distance of 1,400 metres at Kyoto Racecourse.[1]
It was first run in 1958 and was promoted to Grade 2 in 1984 when its distance was reduced from 1600 metres.
Year | Winner | Age | Jockey | Trainer | Time | |
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2000 | Daitaku Yamato | 6 | Teruo Eda | Isao Ishikaza | 1:20.4 | |
2001 | Behind The Mask | 5 | Mikio Matsunaga | Shuji Kitahashi | 1.20.8 | |
2002 | Shonan Kampf | 4 | Shinji Fujita | Yokichi Okubo | 1.19.8 | |
2003 | Gallant Arrow | 3 | Hideaki Miyuki | Hiroki Sakiyama | 1:20.2 | |
2004 | Tamamo Hot Play | 3 | Masaru Honda | Katsumi Minai | 1:21.9 | |
2005 | Cosmo Sunbeam | 4 | Masaru Honda | Shozo Sasaki | 1:21.5 | |
2006 | Precise Machine | 7 | Masami Matsuoka | Kiyoshi Hagiwara | 1:20.3 | |
2007 | Super Hornet | 4 | Yusuke Fujioka | Yoshito Yahagi | 1:20.7 | |
2008 | Meiner Rainier | 4 | Tetsuzo Sato | Masato Nishizono | 1:19.9 | |
2009 | Kinshasa No Kiseki | 6 | Christophe Soumillon | Noriyuki Hori | 1:20.3 | |
2010 | Maruka Phoenix | 6 | Yuichi Fukunaga | Masahiro Matsunaga | 1:21.0 | |
2011 | Ridill | 4 | Futoshi Komaki | Kojiro Hashiguchi | 1:19.4 | |
2012 | Grand Prix Boss | 4 | Hiroyuki Uchida | Yoshito Yahagi | 1:20.5 | |
2013 | Copano Richard | 3 | Kota Fujioka | Toru Miya | 1:20.8 | |
2014 | Mikki Isle | 3 | Suguru Hamanaka | Hidetaka Otonashi | 1:20.3 | |
2015 | Albiano | 3 | Andrasch Starke | Tetuya Kimura | 1:20.2 | |
2016 | Satono Aladdin | 5 | Yuga Kawada | Yasutoshi Ikee | 1:20.7[2] | |
2017 | Sungrazer | 3 | Cristian Demuro | Hidekazu Asami | 1:22.4[3] | |
2018 | Lord Quest | 5 | Mirco Demuro | Shigeyuki Kojima | 1:21.5[4] | |
2018 | Lord Quest | 5 | Mirco Demuro | Shigeyuki Kojima | 1:21.5[5] | |
2019 | Diatonic | 4 | Christophe Soumillon | Takayuki Yasuda | 1:21.3 | |
2020 | Katsuji | 5 | Yasunari Iwata | Kaneo Ikezoe | 1:21.2 | |
2021 | Danon Fantasy | 5 | Yuga Kawada | Mitsumasa Nakauchida | 1:20.8 | |
2022 | Diatonic | 7 | Yasunari Iwata | Takayuki Yasuda | 1:19.8 | |
2023 | Win Greatest | 6 | Masami Matsuoka | Yoshihiro Hatakeyama | 1:19.9[6] |
The 2021 and 2022 runnings took place at Hanshin while Kyoto was closed for redevelopment.