| Surface: | Turf |
| Class: | Grade 3 |
| Horse Race: | Mainichi Hai 毎日杯 |
| Location: | Hanshin Racecourse |
| Inaugurated: | 1954 |
| Race Type: | Thoroughbred Flat racing |
| Distance: | 1800 metres |
| Track: | Right-handed |
| Qualification: | 3-y-o |
| Weight: | Colts 57 kg, fillies 55 kg |
The Mainichi Hai (Japanese 毎日杯) is a Grade 3 horse race for three-year-old Thoroughbreds run in March over a distance of 1800 metres at Hanshin Racecourse.[1]
The race was first run in 1954 and has held Grade 3 status since 1984. It was initially run over 2000 metres before being cut to its current distance in 2007. Past winners of the race have included Oguri Cap, T M Opera O, King Kamehameha, Kizuna and Blast Onepiece.
| Year | Winner | Jockey | Trainer | Time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Silver Cockpit | Yutaka Take | Takayuki Yasuda | 2:03.6 | |
| 2001 | Kurofune | Hirofumi Shii | Kunihide Matsuda | 1:58.6 | |
| 2002 | Cheers Stark | Shinji Fujita | Kenji Yamauchi | 2:02.2 | |
| 2003 | Takara Shaadi | Tetsuzo Sato | Shozo Sasaki | 1:59.9 | |
| 2004 | King Kamehameha | Yuichi Fukunaga | Kunihide Matsuda | 2:01.2 | |
| 2005 | Rosenkreuz | Katsumi Ando | Kojiro Hashiguchi | 2:02.2 | |
| 2006 | Admire Main | Yuichi Fukunaga | Mitsuru Hashida | 2:00.5 | |
| 2007 | Namura Mars | Yusuke Fujioka | Nobuharu Fukushima | 1:48.0 | |
| 2008 | Deep Sky | Hirofumi Shii | Mitsugu Kon | 1:46.0 | |
| 2009 | Iron Look | Futoshi Komaki | Kojiro Hashiguchi | 1:48.0 | |
| 2010 | Danon Chantilly | Katsumi Ando | Kunihide Matsuda | 1:49.3 | |
| 2011 | Red Davis | Suguru Hamanaka | Hidetaka Otonashi | 1:47.1 | |
| 2012 | Historical | Katsumi Ando | Hidetaka Otonashi | 1:49.6 | |
| 2013 | Kizuna | Yutaka Take | Shozo Sasaki | 1:46.2 | |
| 2014 | Meiner Frost | Daichi Shibata | Noboru Takagi | 1:46.7 | |
| 2015 | Musee Alien | Yuga Kawada | Yoichi Kuroiwa | 1:47.2 | |
| 2016 | Smart Odin | Keita Tosaki | Kunihide Matsuda | 1:47.3 | |
| 2017 | Al Ain | Kohei Matsuyama | Yasutoshi Ikee | 1:46.5[2] | |
| 2018 | Blast Onepiece | Kenichi Ikezoe | Masahiro Otake | 1:46.5[3] | |
| 2019 | Lance of Puraana | Kohei Matsuyama | Masaru Honda | 1:47.2[4] | |
| 2020 | Satono Impresa | Yutaka Take | Yoshito Yahagi | 1:47.9 | |
| 2021 | Shahryar | Yuga Kawada | Hideaki Fujiwara | 1:43.9 | |
| 2022 | Piece of Eight | Yusuke Fujioka | Yutaka Okumura | 1:47.5 | |
| 2023 | Season Rich | Taiga Tsunoda | Takashi Kubota | 1:46.6 | |
| 2024 | Meisho Tabaru | Ryusei Sakai | Mamoru Ishibashi | 1:46.0 |