Hakodate Sprint Stakes

Hakodate Sprint Stakes
函館スプリントステークス
Grade 3 race
Hakodate Racecourse
LocationHakodate Racecourse
Inaugurated1994
Race typeThoroughbred Flat racing
Race information
Distance1200 metres
SurfaceTurf
TrackRight-handed
Qualification3-y-o+
WeightSpecial Weight
Purse¥ 87,960,000 (as of 2024)
1st: ¥ 41,000,000
2nd: ¥ 16,000,000
3rd: ¥ 10,000,000

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]

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

Weight

54 kg for three-year-olds, 57 kg for four-year-olds and above.[2]

Allowances:

Penalties (excluding two-year-old race performance):

  • If a graded stakes race has been won within a year:
    • 3 kg for a grade 1 win (2 kg for fillies / mares)
    • 2 kg for a grade 2 win (1 kg for fillies / mares)
    • 1 kg for a grade 3 win
  • If a graded stakes race has been won for more than a year:
    • 2 kg for a grade 1 win (1 kg for fillies / mares)
    • 1 kg for a grade 2 win

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:

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 Yokoyama Shinji Okuhira 1:09.0
1999 Shinko Forest 6 Hirofumi Shii Hironori Kurita 1:09.4
2000 Taiki Treasure 4 Norihiro Yokoyama 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 Yusaku Kokubun Katsuichi Nishiura 1:08.3
2016 Solveig 3 Kyosuke Maruta Ippo Sameshima 1:07.8[3]
2017 Jeune Ecole 3 Juichi Kitamura Takayuki Yasuda 1:06.8[4]
2018 Seiun Kosai 5 Kenichi Ikezoe Hiroyuki Uehara 1:07.6[5]
2019 Kaiser Melange 4 Teruo Eda Eiji Nakano 1:08.4
2020 Diatonic 5 Yutaka Take Takayuki Yasuda 1:07.5
2021 Bien Fait 4 Yusuke Fujioka Kazuya Nakatake 1:07.6
2022 Namura Clair 3 Suguru Hamanaka Kodai Hasegawa 1:07.2
2023 Kimiwa Queen 4 Takeshi Yokoyama Takeshi Okumura 1:08.2
2024 Satono Reve 5 Suguru Hamanaka Noriyuki Hori 1:08.4

See also

References

  1. ^ "Hakodate Sprint Stakes". Horse Racing in Japan.
  2. ^ "List of JRA Graded Races 2024|List of JRA Graded Races|Horse Racing in Japan". Horse Racing in Japan. Retrieved 2024-06-09.
  3. ^ "2016 result". Racing Post. 19 June 2016.
  4. ^ "2017 result". Racing Post. 18 June 2017.
  5. ^ "2018 result". Racing Post. 17 June 2018.
  6. ^ "函館スプリントS". Netkeiba.
  7. ^ "Hakodate Sprint Stakes". Netkeiba.