Hakodate Sprint Stakes

The Hakodate Sprint Stakes (Japanese 函館スプリントステークス) is a Grade 3 horse race for Thoroughbreds aged three and over, run in June over a distance of 1200 metres on turf at Hakodate Racecourse.[1]

Hakodate Sprint Stakes

Grade 3 race
Location	Hakodate Racecourse
Inaugurated	1994
Race type	Thoroughbred Flat racing
Race information
Distance	1200 metres
Surface	Turf
Track	Right-handed
Qualification	3-y-o+
Weight	4-y-o+ 56kg, 3-y-o 52kg, fillies allowed 2kg
Purse	¥84,740,000 (total), ¥39,000,000 (winner)

It was first run in 1994 and has held Grade 3 status ever since. The race was run at Sapporo Racecourse until 1997.

Records

Record time:

• 1:06.8 - Jeune Ecole 2017

Most successful horse:

• 2 - Noble Grass 1995, 1996
• 2 - She Is Tosho 2004, 2005

Most wins by a jockey:

• 4 - Kenichi Ikezoe 2004, 2005, 2011, 2018

Most wins by a trainer:

• 3 - Hiroyuki Uehara 1995, 1996, 2018
• 3 - Takayuki Yasuda 2010, 2011, 2017

Winners since 1994

Year	Winner	Age	Jockey	Trainer	Time
1994	Gold Mountain	5	Yutaka Take	Masaru Sayama	1:09.3
1995	Noble Grass	4	Futoshi Kojima	Hiroyuki Uehara	1:09.4
1996	Noble Grass	5	Tomio Yasuda	Hiroyuki Uehara	1:08.9
1997	Masa Lucky	4	Hiroshi Kawachi	Yutaka Masumoto	1:08.8
1998	Keiwan Viking	4	Norihiro Yukayama	Shinji Okuhira	1:09.0
1999	Shinko Forest	6	Hirofumi Shii	Hironori Kurita	1:09.4
2000	Taiki Treasure	4	Norihiro Yukayama	Kazuo Fujisawa	1:08.7
2001	Mejiro Darling	5	Koshiro Take	Yokichi Okubo	1:09.5
2002	Sunningdale	3	Yuichi Fukunaga	Tsutomu Setoguchi	1:10.3
2003	Believe	5	Katsumi Ando	Shigeki Matsumoto	1:09.3
2004	She Is Tosho	4	Kenichi Ikezoe	Akio Tsurudome	1:09.4
2005	She Is Tosho	5	Kenichi Ikezoe	Akio Tsurudome	1:09.0
2006	Venus Line	5	Shinichiro Akiyama	Noriyuki Hori	1:09.1
2007	Agnes Raspberry	6	Koichi Tsunoda	Katsuichi Nishiura	1:08.9
2008	Kinshasa No Kiseki	5	Yasunari Iwata	Noriyuki Hori	1:08.4
2009	Grand Prix Angel	3	Shigefumi Kumazawa	Yishito Yahagi	1:08.5
2010	One Carat	4	Yusuke Fujioka	Kenichi Fujioka	1:08.2
2011	Curren Chan	4	Kenichi Ikezoe	Takayuki Yasuda	1:08.0
2012	Dream Valentino	5	Kohei Matsuyama	Tadashi Kayo	1:09.4
2013	Pas de Trois	6	Masaki Katsuura	Ippo Sameshima	1:08.5
2014	Garbo	7	Akihide Tsumura	Hidekatsu Shimizu	1:08.5
2015	Teehaff	5	Yusaka Kokubun	Katsuichi Nishiura	1:08.3
2016	Solveig	3	Kyosuke Maruta	Ippo Sameshima	1:07.8[2]
2017	Jeune Ecole	3	Juichi Kitamura	Takayuki Yasuda	1:06.8[3]
2018	Seiun Kosai	5	Kenichi Ikezoe	Hiroyuki Uehara	1:07.6[4]
2019	Kaiser Melange	4	Teruo Eda	Eiji Nakano	1:08.4
2020	Diatonic	5	Yutaka Take	Takayuki Yasuda	1:07.5

See also

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

References

1. "Hakodate Sprint Stakes". Horse Racing in Japan.
2. "2016 result". Racing Post. 19 June 2016.
3. "2017 result". Racing Post. 18 June 2017.
4. "2018 result". Racing Post. 17 June 2018.