Hankyu Hai
阪急杯
Grade 3 race
Majin Prosper wins the 2012 Hankyu Hai
LocationHanshin Racecourse
Inaugurated1957
Race typeThoroughbred Flat racing
Race information
Distance1400 metres
SurfaceTurf
TrackRight-handed
Qualification4-y-o+
Weight56 kg
Purse¥87,960,000 (total), ¥41,000,000 (winner)

The Hankyu Hai (Japanese 阪急杯) is a Grade 3 horse race for Thoroughbreds aged four and over, run in February over a distance of 1400 metres on turf at Hanshin Racecourse.[1] The race serves as a trial for the Takamatsunomiya Kinen.

The Hankyu Hai was first run in 1957 and has held Grade 3 status since 1984. The race was run at Kyoto Racecourse in 1959, 1966, 1969, 1991 and 1995. It was run over a variety of distances before being run over 1400 metres for the first time in 1981: it was run over 1200 metres from 1996 to 2005.

Winners since 2000

Year
 Winner
 Age
 Jockey
 Trainer
 Time
2000 Black Hawk 6 Norihiro Yokoyama Sakae Kunieda 1:08.7
2001 Daitaku Yamato 7 Mirco Demuro Sei Ishizaka 1:08.7
2002 Admire Cozzene 6 Hiroki Goto Mitsuru Hashida 1:07.9
2003 Shonan Kampf 5 Shinji Fujita Yokichi Okubo 1:08.5
2004 Sunningdale 5 Minoru Yoshida Tsutomu Setoguchi 1:08.5
2005 Keeneland Swan 6 Hirofumi Shii Hideyuki Mori 1:08.5
2006 Blue Shotgun 7 Mikio Matsunaga Kohei Take 1:22.5
2007 Precise Machine (DH) 8 Katsumi Ando Kiyoshi Hagiwara 1:20.5
Eishin Dover (DH) 5 Hideaki Miyuki Ken Kozaki
2008 Laurel Guerreiro 4 Hirofumi Shii Mitsugu Kon 1:20.7
2009 B B Guldan 5 Katsumi Ando Masazo Ryoke 1:21.1
2010 A Shin Forward 5 Yasunari Iwata Masato Nihizono 1:21.4
2011 San Carlo 5 Yutaka Yoshida Yokichi Okubo 1:20.1
2012 Majin Prosper 5 Suguru Hamanaka Hidemasa Nakao 1:22.0
2013 Lord Kanaloa 5 Yasunari Iwata Takayuki Yasuda 1:21.0
2014 Copano Richard 4 Suguru Hamanaka Toru Miya 1:20.7
2015 Daiwa Maggiore 6 Mirco Demuro Yoshito Yahagi 1:23.8
2016 Mikki Isle 5 Kohei Matsuyama Hidetaka Otonashi 1:19.9
2017 Talking Drum 7 Hideaki Miyuki Makoto Saito 1:21.4[2]
2018 Diana Halo 5 Yutaka Take Nobuharu Fukushima 1:20.1[3]
2019 Smart Odin 6 Yusuke Fujioka Yasutoshi Ikee 1:20.3[4]
2020 Best Actor 6 Suguru Hamanaka Yuichi Shikato 1:20.3
2021 Resistencia 4 Yuichi Kitamura Takeshi Matsushita 1:19.2
2022 Diatonic 7 Yasunari Iwata Takayuki Yasuda 1:19.9
2023 Aguri 4 Kazuo Yokoyama Takayuki Yasuda 1:19.5

Earlier winners

See also

References

  1. ^ "Hankyu Hai". Horse Racing in Japan.
  2. ^ "2017 result". Racing Post. 26 February 2017.
  3. ^ "2018 result". Racing Post. 25 February 2018.
  4. ^ "2019 result". Racing Post. 24 February 2019.
  5. ^ "阪急杯". Netkeiba.
  6. ^ "Hankyu Hai". Netkeiba.
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