Hankyu Hai

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.

Hankyu Hai
阪急杯

Grade 3 race
Majin Prosper wins the 2012 Hankyu Hai
Location	Hanshin Racecourse
Inaugurated	1957
Race type	Thoroughbred Flat racing
Race information
Distance	1400 metres
Surface	Turf
Track	Right-handed
Qualification	4-y-o+
Weight	56 kg
Purse	¥ 92,980,000 (as of 2024) 1st: ¥ 43,000,000 2nd: ¥ 17,000,000 3rd: ¥ 11,000,000

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
2024	Win Marvel	5	Kohei Matsuyama	Masashi Fukayama	1:21.2

Earlier winners

• 1984 - Gouache Out
• 1985 - Shadai Sophia
• 1986 - Long Hayabusa
• 1987 - St Caesar
• 1988 - Sankin Hayate
• 1989 - Horino Raiden
• 1990 - Senryo Yakusha
• 1991 - Jo Roaring
• 1992 - Hokusei Ciboulette
• 1993 - Legacy Field
• 1994 - Gold Mountain
• 1995 - Bodyguard
• 1996 - Towa Winner
• 1997 - Shinko Forest
• 1998 - Masa Lucky
• 1999 - Kyoei March

See also

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

References

• Netkeiba:^[5][6]
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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.