Keisei Hai Explained

Surface:	Turf
Class:	Grade 3
Horse Race:	Keisei Hai 京成杯
Location:	Nakayama Racecourse
Inaugurated:	1961
Race Type:	Thoroughbred Flat racing
Distance:	2000 metres
Track:	Right-handed
Qualification:	3-y-o
Weight:	56 kg, fillies allowed 2 kg

The Keisei Hai (Japanese 京成杯) is a Grade 3 horse race for three-year-old Thoroughbreds run in January over a distance of 2000 metres at Nakayama Racecourse.^[1]

The race was first run in 1961 and has been run as a Grade 3 level since 1984. The race was originally run over 1600 metres before the distance was extended to 2000 metres in 1999, matching it with the Satsuki Sho.^[2]

Winners since 2000

Year	Winner	Jockey	Trainer	Owner	Time
2000	Meiner Vintage	Yoshitomi Shibata	Shozo Sasaki	Thoroughbred Club Ruffian	2:04.0
2001	Born King	David Harrison	Kunihide Matsuda	Makoto Kaneko	2:03.2
2002 (dh)	Roman Empire	Koshiro Take	Taira Furukawa	Turf Sport	2:00.4
	Yamanin Seraphim	Masayoshi Ebina	Shuichi Asami	Hajime Doi
2003	Suzuka Dream	Masayoshi Ebina	Mitsuru Hahida	Keiji Nagai	2:01.7
2004	Focal Point	Norihiro Yokoyama	Michifumi Kono	Shadai Race Horse	1:59.2
2005	Admire Japan	Norihiro Yokoyama	Hiroyoshi Matsuda	Riichi Kondo	2:07.4
2006	Jalisco Light	Hiroshi Kitamura	Kazuo Fujisawa	Kazumi Yoshida	2:03.2
2007	Sun Zeppelin	Masami Matsuoka	Makoto Saito	Nobuyuki Kato	2:01.6
2008	Meiner Charles	Masami Matsuoka	Ryuichi Inaba	Thoroughbred Club Ruffian	2:02.9
2009	Early Robusto	Yuichi Fukunaga	Masaru Honda	Mishima Bokujo	2:02.7
2010	Eishin Flash	Norihiro Yokoyama	Hideaki Fujiwara	Toyomitsu Hirai	2:03.6
2011	Fateful War	Katsuhara Tanaka	Shinichi Ito	Shadai Race Horse	2:00.9
2012	Best Deal	Norihiro Yokoyama	Sakae Kunieda	Shadai Race Horse	2:00.6
2013	Fame Game	Fran Berry	Yoshitada Munakata	Sunday Racing	2:02.3
2014	Pray and Real	Daichi Shibata	Hiroaki Kawazu	Shigeyuki Okada	2:01.1
2015	Beruf	Yuga Kawada	Yasutoshi Ikee	Sunday Racing	2:02.3
2016	Prophet	Shane Foley	Yasutoshi Ikee	Carrot Racing	2:01.4
2017	Komano Impulse	Hironobu Tanabe	Masatatsu Kikukawa	Yoshinobu Hasegawa	2:02.5^[3]
2018	Generale Uno	Hironobu Tanabe	Eiichi Yano	G Riviere Racing	2:01.2^[4]
2019	Last Draft	Christophe Lemaire	Hirofumi Toda	Sunday Racing	2:01.2^[5]
2020	Crystal Black	Yutaka Yoshida	Fumimasa Takahashi	Isamu Okada	2:02.1
2021	Gratias	Christophe Lemaire	Yukihiro Kato	Three H Racing	2:03.1
2022	Onyankopon	Akira Sugawara	Shigeyuki Kojima	Kunio Tabara	2:01.3
2023	Sol Oriens	Takeshi Yokoyama	Takahisa Tezuka	Shadai Race Horse	2:02.2
2024	Danon Decile	Norihiro Yokoyama	Shogo Yasuda	Danox	2:00.5

Earlier winners

• 1984 - Hatsuno Amoy
• 1985 - Sakura Sunny O
• 1986 - Dyna Fairy
• 1987 - Super Phantom
• 1988 - Tosho Mario
• 1989 - Speak Reason
• 1990 - No More Speedy
• 1991 - Dynamite Daddy
• 1992 - A P Jet
• 1993 - Osumi Point
• 1994 - Biko Pegasus
• 1995 - Mighty Force
• 1996 - Sakura Speed O
• 1997 - Speed World
• 1998 - Mandarin Star
• 1999 - Osumi Bright

See also

• Horse racing in Japan
• List of Japanese flat horse races

References

• Netkeiba:^{[6] [7]}
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Notes and References

1. Web site: Keisei Hai. Horse Racing in Japan.
2. Web site: 歴史・コース：京成杯　今週の注目レース　JRA . https://web.archive.org/web/20240108075417/https://jra.jp/keiba/thisweek/2024/0114_1/race.html . 2024-01-08 . 2024-05-27 . jra.jp.
3. Web site: 2017 result. Racing Post. 15 January 2017.
4. Web site: 2018 result. Racing Post. 14 January 2018.
5. Web site: 2019 result. Racing Post. 14 January 2018.
6. Web site: 京成杯 . Netkeiba.
7. Web site: Keisei Hai . Netkeiba.