Hakodate Nisai Stakes
 Hakodate Racecourse | |
| Class | Grade 3 |
|---|---|
| Location | Hakodate Racecourse |
| Inaugurated | 1968 |
| Race type | Thoroughbred Flat racing |
| Race information | |
| Distance | 1200 metres |
| Surface | Turf |
| Track | Right-handed |
| Qualification | 2-y-o |
| Weight | 55 kg |
| Purse | ¥ 66,860,000 (as of 2025) 1st: ¥ 31,000,000 2nd: ¥ 12,000,000 3rd: ¥ 8,000,000 |
The Hakodate Nisai Stakes (Japanese 函館2歳ステークス) is a Grade 3 horse race for two-year-old Thoroughbreds. It is run in late July over a distance of 1200 metres at Hakodate Racecourse in Hakodate, Japan.[1]
The race was first run in 1968 and was promoted to Grade 3 status in 1984.
Winners since 1984
[edit]| Year |
Winner |
Jockey |
Trainer |
Owner | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | Erebus | Takayuki Kito | Hisao Hisatsune | Yasuo Obata | 1:10.5 |
| 1985 | Dyna Actress | Shinji Azuma | Susumu Yano | Shadai Race Horse | 1:10.3 |
| 1986 | Hokuto Helios | Masato Shibata | Takao Nakano | Shigeru Mori | 1:14.5 |
| 1987 | Dictator Land | Yoshiyuki Muramoto | Sadaya Sugaya | Shadai Race Horse | 1:12.2 |
| 1988 | Southern Venus | Mikio Matsunaga | Hiroki Sakiyama | Shigetoshi MInami | 1:11.2 |
| 1989 | Daiichi Oishi | Shigetoshi Saruhashi | Yoshio Oki | Haruo Tsujimoto | 1:12.3 |
| 1990 | Milford Slew | Norihiro Yokoyama | Kotaro Tanaka | Kiyoshi Noritake | 1:12.7 |
| 1991 | Atom Pit | Koichi Uchida | Yasuo Ikee | Tadaharu Morimoto | 1:13.7 |
| 1992 | Mother Tosho | Norihiro Yokoyama | Shinji Okuhira | Tosho Sangyo | 1:13.5 |
| 1993 | Marry God | Yoshikazu Yokoyama | Shinji Okuhira | Yutaro Suzuki | 1:14.1 |
| 1994 | Dantsu Dancer[a] | Shinji Fujita | Kenji Yamauchi | Tetsuji Yamamoto | 1:00.0 |
| 1995 | Proud Man | Hiroaki Kiyoyama | Hitoshi Nakamura | Shigeru Yoshida | 1:11.5 |
| 1996 | Meiner Max | Tetsuzo Sato | Hitoshi Nakamura | Thoroughbred Club Ruffian | 1:10.7 |
| 1997 | Agnes World | Yutaka Take | Hideyuki Mori | Takao Watanabe | 1:09.8 |
| 1998 | Reserve Your Heart | Norihiro Yokoyama | Toshiaki Shirai | Koji Maeda | 1:11.1 |
| 1999 | Angel Caro | Toshihiko Inoue | Masao Hayashi | Minpei Shirai | 1:11.3 |
| 2000 | Meiner Japan | Hirofumi Shii | Shozo Sasaki | Thoroughbred Club Ruffian | 1:10.6 |
| 2001 | Sadamu Blue Sky | Mikio Matsunaga | Hitoshi Nakamura | Sada Onishi | 1:11.1 |
| 2002 | Atago Taisho | Takanori Kikuzawa | Kiyoshi Hagiwara | Wahei Tsubonoya | 1:11.5 |
| 2003 | Fille de Reve | Shinji Fujita | Kanji Yamauchi | Laurel Racing | 1:12.2 |
| 2004 | Ambroise | Douglas Whyte | Futoshi Kojima | Sunday Racing | 1:10.4 |
| 2005 | Moere Genius | Fuyuki Igarashi | Yoshinori Doyama | Kazuo Nakamura | 1:10.7 |
| 2006 | Nishino Charmy | Hirofumi Shii | Hidekazu Asami | Shigeyuki Nishiyama | 1:10.3 |
| 2007 | Heart of Queen | Koshiro Take | Takahiro Mizuno | Takasumi Takizawa | 1:13.8 |
| 2008 | Fifth Petal | Kousei Miura | Yukihiro Kato | Carrot Farm | 1:10.7 |
| 2009 | Stellar Lead[b] | Yasunari Iwata | Hideyuki Mori | Hiroo Racing | 1:09.7 |
| 2010 | Magical Pocket | Katsumi Ando | Masazo Ryoke | Genichiro Sakakibara | 1:11.2 |
| 2011 | Fine Choice | Hiroyuki Uemura | Masazo Ryoke | Junzo Miyagawa | 1:10.8 |
| 2012 | Stalk and Ray | Shinji Kawashima | Kenji Yamauchi | Shigeru Honma | 1:10.4 |
| 2013 | Xmas | Genki Maruyama | Makoto Saito | Kenichi Morita | 1:09.6 |
| 2014 | Active Minoru | Kota Fujioka | Yoshihito Kitade | Minoru Yoshioka | 1:10.2 |
| 2015 | Blanc Bonheur | Yasunari Iwata | Kazuya Nakatake | Yoko Maeda | 1:10.6 |
| 2016 | Levante Lion | Kousei Miura | Yoshito Yahagi | Lion Race Horse | 1:09.2[2] |
| 2017 | Cassius[c] | Suguru Hamanaka | Hisashi Shimizu | Kanayama Holdings | 1:10.0[3] |
| 2018 | Aster Pegasus | Ryoya Kozaki | Kazuya Nakatake | Hisae Kato | 1:09.4[4] |
| 2019 | Bien Fait | Yusuke Fujioka | Kazuya Nakatake | Koki Mada | 1:09.2 |
| 2020 | Ringoame | Yuji Tannai | Masatatsu Kikukawa | Big Red Farm | 1:09.8 |
| 2021 | Namura Lycoris | Fuma Izumiya | Yuki Ohashi | Nobushige Namura | 1:09.9 |
| 2022 | Bouton d'Or | Katsuma Sameshima | Manabu Ikezoe | Gaen Kogyo | 1:11.8 |
| 2023 | Seltsam | Suguru Hamanaka | Tadashi Kayo | Junzo Miyagawa | 1.11.7 |
| 2024 | Satono Carnaval | Daisuke Sasaki | Noriyuki Hori | Hajime Satomi | 1:09.2 |
| 2025 | A Shin Deed | Rachel King | Ryuji Okubo | Eishindo | 1:08.4 |
a The 1994 race was run over 1000 metres on dirt
b The 2009 race was run at Sapporo Racecourse
c The 2017 winner Cassius was exported to Australia and renamed Kemono
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Hakodate Nisai Stakes". Horse Racing in Japan.
- ^ "2016 result". Racing Post. 24 July 2016.
- ^ "2017 result". Racing Post. 23 July 2017.
- ^ "2018 result". Racing Post. 22 July 2018.
- ^ "函館2歳S". Netkeiba.
- ^ "Hakodate Nisai Stakes". Netkeiba.