The Keihan Hai (Japanese 京阪杯) is a Japanese Grade 3 horse race for Thoroughbreds aged three and over, run in November over a distance of 1200 metres on turf at Kyoto Racecourse.
It was first run in 1956 and has held Grade 3 status since 1984. The race was originally run over 2000 metres and was contested over 2200 metres in 1996 before being cut to 1800 metres a year later. It was first run over its current distance in 2006.
The race is named after its sponsor Keihan Holdings Co., Ltd., the holding company of Keihan Electric Railway. The winner receives the Keihan Holdings Co., Ltd. Prize.
Weight 56 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
Winners since 2000 Year Winner Age Jockey TrainerOwner Time 2000 Joten Brave 3 Olivier Peslier Ikuo AizawaHisao Tanabe 1:45.2 2001 Tenzan Seiza 3 Hirofumi Shii Hideaki FujiwaraSaburo Hirano 1:45.6 2002 Sidewinder 4 Koshiro Take Shuji KitahashiKyoei 1:45.3 2003 Cheers Brightly 5 Masaru Honda Kenji YamauchiKiyoko Kitano 1:49.1 2004 Daiwa El Cielo 3 Yuichi Fukunaga Kunihide MatsudaDaiwa Shoji 1:46.3 2005 Company 4 Yuichi Fukunaga Hidetaka OtonashiHideko Kondo 1:44.8 2006 Amberjack 3 Koshiro Take Takao NakanoNisshin Bokujo 1:08.3 2007 Sans Adieu 5 Yutaka Take Hidetaka OtonashiTakao Matsuoka 1:07.9 2008 Western Dancer 4 Yuga Kawada Hiroki SakiyamaKen Nishikawa 1:08.1 2009 Premium Box 6 Hideaki Miyuki Hiroyuki UeharaShadai Race Horse 1:07.6 2010 Spring Song 5 Kenichi Ikezoe Akio TsurudomeTeruya Yoshida 1:08.0 2011 Lord Kanaloa 3 Yuichi Fukunaga Takayuki YasudaLord Horse Club 1:08.1 2012 Hakusan Moon 3 Manabu Sakai Masato NishizonoGoichi Kawasaki 1:08.5 2013 Earth Sonic 4 Mirco Demuro Kazuya NakatakeKoji Maeda 1:07.5 2014 Am Ball Bleiben 5 Ken Tanaka Nobuharu FukushimaNobuyuki Ito 1:08.3 2015 Satono Lupin 4 Ryuji Wada Akira MurayamaHajime Satomi 1:07.4 2016 Nero 5 Mickael Barzalona Hideyuki MoriShigeyuki Nishiyama 1:10.3 2017 Nero 6 Hiroto Yoshihara Hideyuki MoriShigeyuki Nishiyama 1:08.8 2018 Danon Smash 3 Yuichi Kitamura Takayuki YasudaDanox 1:08.0 2019 Right On Cue 4 Yoshihiro Furukawa Mitsugu KonGodolphin 1:08.8 2020 Fiano Romano 6 Hayato Yoshida Tomokazu TakanoKazumi Yoshida 1:08.2 2021 Eighteen Girl 5 Shinichiro Akiyama Yuji IidaYasushi Nakayama 1:08.8 2022 Toshin Macau 3 Katsuma Sameshima Mizuki TakayanagiSato 1:07.2 2023 Toshin Macau 4 Akira Sugawara Mizuki TakayanagiSato 1:07.42024Big Caesar4Yuichi KitamuraMasato NishizonoMasanobu Habata1:07.72025A T Makfi6Akatsuki TomitaHidenori TakeTakahiro Okada1:07.4
The 2020, 2021, & 2022 races took place at Hanshin Racecourse.
Earlier winners
1956 - Minatori Yu 1957 - Number 11 1958 - Tatsuteru 1959 - Wakano King 1960 - Yamanin More 1961 - Maiden Lady 1962 - Takashige 1963 - Korai O 1964 - Yamanin Rvy 1965 - Yamahiro 1966 - Ballymoss Nisei 1967 - Native Runner 1968 - Hiro Daikoku 1969 - Kuri Kashiwa 1970 - Seven O 1971 - Thai Theft 1972 - Long One 1973 - Shibatake 1974 - East River 1975 - Erimo Kansei 1976 - Koichi Saburo 1977 - Silver Land 1978 - Machikane Taitei 1979 - Tamamo Remand 1980 - Tanino Tesco 1981 - Noto Diver 1982 - Noto Diver 1983 - Erimo Roller 1984 - Katsuragi Ace 1985 - Marubutsu Sir Pen 1986 - Single Roman 1987 - Maruma Seiko 1988 - Tosho Leo 1989 - Nihon Pillow Brave 1990 - Long Muteki 1991 - Ikuno Dictus 1992 - Mr Spain 1993 - Longchamp Boy 1994 - Nehai Caesar 1995 - Dantsu Seattle 1996 - Dance Partner 1997 - Erimo Dandy 1998 - Bravo Green 1999 - Rosado
See also Horse racing in Japan List of Japanese flat horse races
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