The Hakodate Sprint Stakes (Japanese 函館スプリントステークス) is a Grade 3 horse race in Japan for Thoroughbreds aged three and over, run in June over a distance of 1200 metres on turf at Hakodate Racecourse.
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.
Allowances:
2 kg for fillies / mares 1 kg for southern hemisphere bred three-year-olds
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: 1:06.6 - Ka Pilina 2025
Most successful horse: 2 - Noble Grass 1995, 1996 2 - She Is Tosho 2004, 2005
Most wins by a jockey: 4 - Kenichi Ikezoe 2004, 2005, 2011, 2018
Most wins by a trainer: 3 - Hiroyuki Uehara 1995, 1996, 2018 3 - Takayuki Yasuda 2010, 2011, 2017
Winners since 1994 Year Winner Age Jockey TrainerOwner Time 1994 Gold Mountain 5 Yutaka Take Masaru SayamaGreen Farm 1:09.3 1995 Noble Grass 4 Futoshi Kojima Hiroyuki UeharaMitsuo Haga 1:09.4 1996 Noble Grass 5 Tomio Yasuda Hiroyuki UeharaMitsuo Haga 1:08.9 1997 Masa Lucky 4 Hiroshi Kawachi Yutaka MasumotoMasaki Marui 1:08.8 1998 Keiwan Viking 4 Norihiro Yokoyama Shinji OkuhiraKazuya Kitamura 1:09.0 1999 Shinko Forest 6 Hirofumi Shii Hironori KuritaOsamu Yasuda 1:09.4 2000 Taiki Treasure 4 Norihiro Yokoyama Kazuo FujisawaTaiki Farm 1:08.7 2001 Mejiro Darling 5 Koshiro Take Yokichi OkuboMejiro Bokujo 1:09.5 2002 Sunningdale 3 Yuichi Fukunaga Tsutomu SetoguchiShigeki Goto 1:10.3 2003 Believe 5 Katsumi Ando Shigeki MatsumotoKoji Maeda 1:09.3 2004 She Is Tosho 4 Kenichi Ikezoe Akio TsurudomeTosho Bokujo 1:09.4 2005 She Is Tosho 5 Kenichi Ikezoe Akio TsurudomeTosho Bokujo 1:09.0 2006 Venus Line 5 Shinichiro Akiyama Noriyuki HoriTurf Sport 1:09.1 2007 Agnes Raspberry 6 Koichi Tsunoda Katsuichi NishiuraTakao Watanabe 1:08.9 2008 Kinshasa no Kiseki 5 Yasunari Iwata Noriyuki HoriKazumi Yoshida 1:08.4 2009 Grand Prix Angel 3 Shigefumi Kumazawa Yoshito YahagiMasashi Kitagawa 1:08.5 2010 One Carat 4 Yusuke Fujioka Kenichi FujiokaYoichi Aoyama 1:08.2 2011 Curren Chan 4 Kenichi Ikezoe Takayuki YasudaTakashi Suzuki 1:08.0 2012 Dream Valentino 5 Kohei Matsuyama Tadashi KayoSaison Race Horse 1:09.4 2013 Pas de Trois 6 Masaki Katsuura Ippo SameshimaTeruya Yoshida 1:08.5 2014 Garbo 7 Akihide Tsumura Hidekatsu ShimizuKazuyoshi Ishikawa 1:08.5 2015 Teehaff 5 Yusaku Kokubun Katsuichi NishiuraH. H. Sheikh Mohammed 1:08.3 2016 Solveig 3 Kyosuke Maruta Ippo SameshimaG1 Racing 1:07.8 2017 Jeune Ecole 3 Yuichi Kitamura Takayuki YasudaSunday Racing 1:06.8 2018 Seiun Kosei 5 Kenichi Ikezoe Hiroyuki UeharaShigeyuki Nishimura 1:07.6 2019 Kaiser Melange 4 Teruo Eda Eiji NakanoTatsuya Tomomizu 1:08.4 2020 Diatonic 5 Yutaka Take Takayuki YasudaSilk Racing 1:07.5 2021 Bien Fait 4 Yusuke Fujioka Kazuya NakatakeKoki Maeda 1:07.6 2022 Namura Clair 3 Suguru Hamanaka Kodai HasegawaMutsuhiro Namura 1:07.2 2023 Kimiwa Queen 4 Takeshi Yokoyama Takeshi OkumuraTerumi Urabe 1:08.22024Satono Reve5Suguru HamanakaNoriyuki HoriHajime Satomi1:08.42025Ka Pilina4Keita TosakiToshiaki TajimaHidaka Breeders Union1:06.62026Puro Magic5Yuichi KitamuraShogo YasudaThree H Racing Co. Ltd.1:07.4
See also Horse racing in Japan List of Japanese flat horse races
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