Keisei Hai

The Keisei Hai (Japanese 京成杯) is a Grade 3 horse race for three-year-old Thoroughbreds run in January over a distance of 2000 metres at Nakayama Racecourse.^[1]

Keisei Hai
京成杯

Grade 3 race
Nakayama Racecourse Grandstand
Location	Nakayama Racecourse
Inaugurated	1961
Race type	Thoroughbred Flat racing
Race information
Distance	2000 metres
Surface	Turf
Track	Right-handed
Qualification	3-y-o
Weight	56 kg, fillies allowed 2 kg
Purse	¥ 87,960,000 (as of 2024) 1st: ¥ 41,000,000 2nd: ¥ 16,000,000 3rd: ¥ 10,000,000

The race was first run in 1961 and has been run as a Grade 3 level since 1984. The race was originally run over 1600 metres before the distance was extended to 2000 metres in 1999.

Winners since 2000

Year	Winner	Jockey	Trainer	Time
2000	Meiner Vintage	Yoshitomi Shibata	Shozo Sasaki	2:04.0
2001	Born King	David Harrison	Kunihide Matsuda	2:03.2
2002 (dh)	Roman Empire	Koshiro Take	Taira Furukawa	2:00.4
	Yamanin Seraphim	Masayoshi Ebina	Shuichi Asami
2003	Suzuka Dream	Masayoshi Ebina	Mitsuru Hahida	2:01.7
2004	Focal Point	Norihiro Yokoyama	Michifumi Kono	1:59.2
2005	Admire Japan	Norihiro Yokoyama	Hiroyoshi Matsuda	2:07.4
2006	Jalisco Light	Hiroshi Kitamura	Kazuo Fujisawa	2:03.2
2007	Sun Zeppelin	Masami Matsuoka	Makoto Saito	2:01.6
2008	Meiner Charles	Masami Matsuoka	Ryuichi Inaba	2:02.9
2009	Early Robusto	Yuichi Fukunaga	Masaru Honda	2:02.7
2010	Eishin Flash	Norihiro Yokoyama	Hideaki Fujiwara	2:03.6
2011	Fateful War	Katsuhara Tanaka	Shinichi Ito	2:00.9
2012	Best Deal	Norihiro Yokoyama	Sakae Kunieda	2:00.6
2013	Fame Game	Fran Berry	Yoshitada Munakata	2:02.3
2014	Pray and Real	Daichi Shibata	Hiroaki Kawazu	2:01.1
2015	Beruf	Yuga Kawada	Yasutoshi Ikee	2:02.3
2016	Prophet	Shane Foley	Yasutoshi Ikee	2:01.4
2017	Komano Impulse	Hironobu Tanabe	Masatatsu Kikukawa	2:02.5^[2]
2018	Generale Uno	Hironobu Tanabe	Eiichi Yano	2:01.2^[3]
2019	Last Draft	Christophe Lemaire	Hirofumi Toda	2:01.2^[4]
2020	Crystal Black	Yutaka Yoshida	Fumimasa Takahashi	2:02.1
2021	Gratias	Christophe Lemaire	Yukihiro Kato	2:03.1
2022	Onyankopon	Akira Sugawara	Shigeyuki Kojima	2:01.3
2023	Sol Oriens	Takeshi Yokoyama	Takahisa Tezuka	2:02.2
2024	Danon Decile	Norihiro Yokoyama	Shogo Yasuda	2:00.5

Earlier winners

• 1984 - Hatsuno Amoy
• 1985 - Sakura Sunny O
• 1986 - Dyna Fairy
• 1987 - Super Phantom
• 1988 - Tosho Mario
• 1989 - Speak Reason
• 1990 - No More Speedy
• 1991 - Dynamite Daddy
• 1992 - A P Jet
• 1993 - Osumi Point
• 1994 - Biko Pegasus
• 1995 - Mighty Force
• 1996 - Sakura Speed O
• 1997 - Speed World
• 1998 - Mandarin Star
• 1999 - Osumi Bright

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. 15 January 2017.
3. "2018 result". Racing Post. 14 January 2018.
4. "2019 result". Racing Post. 14 January 2018.
5. "京成杯". Netkeiba.
6. "Keisei Hai". Netkeiba.