Hakodate Sprint Stakes

Hakodate Sprint Stakes
函館スプリントステークス

Grade 3 race
Hakodate Racecourse
Location	Hakodate Racecourse
Inaugurated	1994
Race type	Thoroughbred Flat racing
Race information
Distance	1200 metres
Surface	Turf
Track	Right-handed
Qualification	3-y-o+
Weight	Special Weight
Purse	¥ 87,960,000 (as of 2024) 1st: ¥ 41,000,000 2nd: ¥ 16,000,000 3rd: ¥ 10,000,000

The Hakodate Sprint Stakes (Japanese 函館スプリントステークス) is a Grade 3 horse race for Thoroughbreds aged three and over, run in June over a distance of 1200 metres on turf at Hakodate Racecourse.^[1]

It was first run in 1994 and has held Grade 3 status ever since. The race was run at Sapporo Racecourse until 1997.

54 kg for three-year-olds, 57 kg for four-year-olds and above.^[2]

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

Record time:

• 1:06.8 - Jeune Ecole 2017

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

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

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