Waikato Sprint

The Waikato Sprint currently run as the BCD Group Sprint is a Group 1 Thoroughbred horse race run at Te Rapa Racecourse in Hamilton in early February.

Waikato Sprint, raced as BCD Group Sprint

Group I race
Location	Te Rapa Racecourse Hamilton, New Zealand
Inaugurated	1974
Race type	Thoroughbred - Flat racing
Race information
Distance	1400m (7 furlongs)
Surface	Turf
Track	Left-handed
Qualification	Three-year-olds and up
Weight	Weight for Age

The list of winners includes almost every top-class sprinter-miler to have raced in New Zealand in the last three decades, and is highlighted by the back-to-back victories by champion mare Sunline in 2001-02.

The well-performed gelding Mufhasa won the 2009 and 2011 events (also winning the Telegraph Handicap in both of these years) and was also 2nd in 2012 and 3rd in 2010.

Courier Bay won in both 1987 and 1988 but was unable to get a third win, running second by 1 1/4 lengths to the reigning Cox Plate winner, Poetic Prince, the following year.

Winners of the Waikato Sprint

Year	Stake	Winner	Jockey	Time
2020	$200,000	Te Akau Shark	Opie Bosson	1:21.7
2019	$200,000	Melody Belle	Troy Harris	1:22.62
2018	$200,000	Start Wondering	Jonathan Parkes	1:25.80
2017	$200,000	Start Wondering	Jonathan Parkes	1:21.22
2016	$200,000	Xtravagant	Matt Cameron	1:21.92
2015	$200,000	Sacred Star	Vincent Colgan	1:20.81
2014	$200,000	Viadana	Craig Grylls	1:22.19
2013	$200,000	Final Touch	Chris Johnson	1:21.38
2012	$200,000	Veyron	Leith Innes	1:20.99
2011	$200,000	Mufhasa	Samantha Spratt	1:21.09
2010	$200,000	Tavistock	Jason Waddell	1:21.30
2009	$200,000	Mufhasa	Samantha Spratt	1:22.54
2008	$200,000	Seachange	Gavin McKeon	1:21.31
2007	$150,000	Darci Brahma	Opie Bosson	1:22.35
2006	$150,000	Kristov	Jason Waddell	1:23.63
2005	$100,000	Sedecrem	Andrew Calder	1:22.17
2004	$100,000	Sedecrem	Grant Cooksley	1:22.53
2003	$100,000	Tit For Taat	Michael Walker	1:22.66
2002	$100,000	Sunline	Greg Childs	1:21.67
2001	$100,000	Sunline	Greg Childs	1:22.24
2000	$100,000	Tall Poppy 56	Jim Walker	1:21.29
1999	$100,000	Surface	Noel Harris	1:21.4
1998	$100,000	Rebel	Catherine Huchinson	1:21.05
1997	$100,000	Avedon	Chris Johnson	1:22.47
1996	$100,000	Allegro	Gary Grylls	1:22.32
1995	$100,000	Snap	Lance O'Sullivan	1:26.14
1994	$100,000	Western Red 53	Brian Hibberd	1:21.71
1993	$100,000	Veandercross 57.5	Jim Walker	1:22.08
1992	$100,000	Mrs Selleck 56	RB McKay	1:20.60
1991	$98,000	Mr Tiz 57.5	Lance O'Sullivan	1:21.17
1990	Not Held
1989	$117,600	Poetic Prince 57	Noel Harris	1:21.40
1988	$117,600	Courier Bay 57.5	David Walsh	1:23.27
1987	$98,000	Courier Bay 57	David Walsh	1:20.73
1986	$63,000	Tanalyse 57.5	David Walsh	1:21.06
1985	$48,000	Super Tai 57.5	David Peake	1:21.09
1984	$37,300	Abit Leica 53	P W Fearon	1:21.53
1983	$29,140	Pinson 53	D Moseley	1:23.42
1982	$31,200	Givenchy 57	David Peake	1:25.3
1981	$31,000	Mun Lee 56	Greg Childs	1:22.7
1980	$31,000	Coobers Queen	G Phillips	1:26.87
1979	$31,000	March Legend 57.5	RC Lang	1:26.0
1978	$27,300	Copper Belt 57.5	J W Walker	1:22.4
1977		Soliloquy 56	D Medcalfe	1:23.1
1976	$16,000	Mop	P Trotter	1:22.1
1975		Auditor
1974	$15,000	Kings Romance 57.5	G Willetts	1:23.7

See also

• Recent winners of major NZ sprint races
• Telegraph Handicap
• Railway Stakes
• Otaki-Maori Weight for Age
• Captain Cook Stakes

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