Surface: | Turf |
Class: | Grade 3 |
Horse Race: | Hankyu Hai 阪急杯 |
Location: | Hanshin Racecourse |
Inaugurated: | 1957 |
Race Type: | Thoroughbred Flat racing |
Distance: | 1400 metres |
Track: | Right-handed |
Qualification: | 4-y-o+ |
Weight: | 56 kg |
The Hankyu Hai (Japanese 阪急杯) is a Grade 3 horse race for Thoroughbreds aged four and over, run in February over a distance of 1400 metres on turf at Hanshin Racecourse.[1] The race serves as a trial for the Takamatsunomiya Kinen.
The Hankyu Hai was first run in 1957 and has held Grade 3 status since 1984. The race was run at Kyoto Racecourse in 1959, 1966, 1969, 1991 and 1995. It was run over a variety of distances before being run over 1400 metres for the first time in 1981: it was run over 1200 metres from 1996 to 2005.
Year | Winner | Age | Jockey | Trainer | Time | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2000 | Black Hawk | 6 | Norihiro Yokoyama | Sakae Kunieda | 1:08.7 | |
2001 | Daitaku Yamato | 7 | Mirco Demuro | Sei Ishizaka | 1:08.7 | |
2002 | Admire Cozzene | 6 | Hiroki Goto | Mitsuru Hashida | 1:07.9 | |
2003 | Shonan Kampf | 5 | Shinji Fujita | Yokichi Okubo | 1:08.5 | |
2004 | Sunningdale | 5 | Minoru Yoshida | Tsutomu Setoguchi | 1:08.5 | |
2005 | Keeneland Swan | 6 | Hirofumi Shii | Hideyuki Mori | 1:08.5 | |
2006 | Blue Shotgun | 7 | Mikio Matsunaga | Kohei Take | 1:22.5 | |
2007 | Precise Machine (DH) | 8 | Katsumi Ando | Kiyoshi Hagiwara | 1:20.5 | |
Eishin Dover (DH) | 5 | Hideaki Miyuki | Ken Kozaki | |||
2008 | Laurel Guerreiro | 4 | Hirofumi Shii | Mitsugu Kon | 1:20.7 | |
2009 | B B Guldan | 5 | Katsumi Ando | Masazo Ryoke | 1:21.1 | |
2010 | A Shin Forward | 5 | Yasunari Iwata | Masato Nihizono | 1:21.4 | |
2011 | San Carlo | 5 | Yutaka Yoshida | Yokichi Okubo | 1:20.1 | |
2012 | Majin Prosper | 5 | Suguru Hamanaka | Hidemasa Nakao | 1:22.0 | |
2013 | Lord Kanaloa | 5 | Yasunari Iwata | Takayuki Yasuda | 1:21.0 | |
2014 | Copano Richard | 4 | Suguru Hamanaka | Toru Miya | 1:20.7 | |
2015 | Daiwa Maggiore | 6 | Mirco Demuro | Yoshito Yahagi | 1:23.8 | |
2016 | Mikki Isle | 5 | Kohei Matsuyama | Hidetaka Otonashi | 1:19.9 | |
2017 | Talking Drum | 7 | Hideaki Miyuki | Makoto Saito | 1:21.4[2] | |
2018 | Diana Halo | 5 | Yutaka Take | Nobuharu Fukushima | 1:20.1[3] | |
2019 | Smart Odin | 6 | Yusuke Fujioka | Yasutoshi Ikee | 1:20.3[4] | |
2020 | Best Actor | 6 | Suguru Hamanaka | Yuichi Shikato | 1:20.3 | |
2021 | Resistencia | 4 | Yuichi Kitamura | Takeshi Matsushita | 1:19.2 | |
2022 | Diatonic | 7 | Yasunari Iwata | Takayuki Yasuda | 1:19.9 | |
2023 | Aguri | 4 | Kazuo Yokoyama | Takayuki Yasuda | 1:19.5 | |
2024 | Win Marvel | 5 | Kohei Matsuyama | Masashi Fukayama | 1:21.2 |