| Surface: | Turf |
| Class: | Grade 3 |
| Horse Race: | Aoi Stakes 葵ステークス |
| Location: | Kyoto Racecourse |
| Inaugurated: | 1985 |
| Race Type: | Thoroughbred Flat racing |
| Distance: | 1,200 meters |
| Track: | Right-handed |
| Qualification: | 3yo |
| Weight: | 56 kg Allowance: Fillies 2 kg |
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 run 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.
| 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 | Heart Kameda | Toshiaki Tajima | 1:08.1 | |
| 2022 | Win Marvel | 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 |