Hakodate Nisai Stakes

Hakodate Nisai Stakes
函館2歳ステークス

Grade 3 race
Hakodate Racecourse
Location	Hakodate Racecourse
Inaugurated	1968
Race type	Thoroughbred Flat racing
Race information
Distance	1200 metres
Surface	Turf
Track	Right-handed
Qualification	2-y-o
Weight	55 kg
Purse	¥ 66,860,000 (as of ) 1st: ¥ 31,000,000 2nd: ¥ 12,000,000 3rd: ¥ 8,000,000

The Hakodate Nisai Stakes (Japanese 函館2歳ステークス) is a Grade 3 horse race for two-year-old Thoroughbreds run in late July over a distance of 1200 metres at Hakodate Racecourse.^[1]

The race was first run in 1968 and was promoted to Grade 3 status in 1984.

Winners since 1984

Year	Winner	Jockey	Trainer	Time
1984	Erebus	Takayuki Kito	Hisao Hisatsune	1:10.5
1985	Dyna Actress	Shinji Azuma	Susumu Yano	1:10.3
1986	Hokuto Helios	Masato Shibata	Takao Nakano	1:14.5
1987	Dictator Land	Yoshiyuki Muramoto	Sadaya Sugaya	1:12.2
1988	Southern Venus	Mikio Matsunaga	Hiroki Sakiyama	1:11.2
1989	Daiichi Oishi	Shigetoshi Saruhashi	Yoshio Oki	1:12.3
1990	Milford Slew	Norihiro Yokoyama	Kotaro Tanaka	1:12.7
1991	Atom Pit	Koichi Uchida	Yasuo Ikee	1:13.7
1992	Mother Tosho	Norihiro Yokoyama	Shinji Okuhira	1:13.5
1993	Marry God	Yoshikazu Yokoyama	Shinji Okuhira	1:14.1
1994	Dantsu Dancer^[a]	Shinji Fujita	Kenji Yamauchi	1:00.0
1995	Proud Man	Hiroaki Kiyoyama	Hitoshi Nakamura	1:11.5
1996	Meiner Max	Tetsuzo Sato	Hitoshi Nakamura	1:10.7
1997	Agnes World	Yutaka Take	Hideyuki Mori	1:09.8
1998	Reserve Your Heart	Norihiro Yokoyama	Toshiaki Shirai	1:11.1
1999	Angel Caro	Toshihiko Inoue	Masao Hayashi	1:11.3
2000	Meiner Japan	Hirofumi Shii	Shozo Sasaki	1:10.6
2001	Sadamu Blue Sky	Mikio Matsunaga	Hitoshi Nakamura	1:11.1
2002	Atago Taisho	Takanori Kikuzawa	Kiyoshi Hagiwara	1:11.5
2003	Fille de Reve	Shinji Fujita	Kanji Yamauchi	1:12.2
2004	Ambroise	Douglas Whyte	Futoshi Kojima	1:10.4
2005	Moere Genius	Fuyuki Igarashi	Yoshinori Doyama	1:10.7
2006	Nishino Charmy	Hirofumi Shii	Hidekazu Asami	1:10.3
2007	Heart of Queen	Koshiro Take	Takahiro Mizuno	1:13.8
2008	Fifth Petal	Kosei Miura	Yukihiro Kato	1:10.7
2009	Stellar Lead^[b]	Yasunari Iwata	Hideyuki Mori	1:09.7
2010	Magical Pocket	Katsumi Ando	Masazo Ryoke	1:11.2
2011	Fine Choice	Hiroyuki Uemura	Masazo Ryoke	1:10.8
2012	Stalk and Ray	Shinji Kawashima	Kenji Yamauchi	1:10.4
2013	Xmas	Genki Maruyama	Makoto Saito	1:09.6
2014	Active Minoru	Kota Fujioka	Yoshihito Kitade	1:10.2
2015	Blanc Bonheur	Yasunari Iwata	Kazuya Nakatake	1:10.6
2016	Levante Lion	Kosei Miura	Yoshito Yahagi	1:09.2[2]
2017	Cassius^[c]	Suguru Hamanaka	Hisashi Shimizu	1:10.0[3]
2018	Aster Pegasus	Ryoya Kozaki	Kazuya Nakatake	1:09.4[4]
2019	Bien Fait	Yusuke Fujioka	Kazuya Nakatake	1:09.2
2020	Ringoame	Yuji Tannai	Masatatsu Kikukawa	1:09.8
2021	Namura Lycoris	Fuma Izumiya	Yuki Ohashi	1:09.9
2022	Bouton d'Or	Katsuma Sameshima	Manabu Ikezoe	1:11.8
2023	Seltsam	Suguru Hamanaka	Tadashi Kayo	1.11.7
2024	Satono Carnaval	Daisuke Sasaki	Noriyuki Hori	1:09.2

^a The 1994 race was run over 1000 metres on dirt
^b The 2009 race was run at Sapporo Racecourse
^c The 2017 winner Cassius was exported to Australia and renamed Kemono

See also

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

References

• Netkeiba:^[5][6]
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2. "2016 result". Racing Post. 24 July 2016.
3. "2017 result". Racing Post. 23 July 2017.
4. "2018 result". Racing Post. 22 July 2018.
5. "函館2歳S". Netkeiba.
6. "Hakodate Nisai Stakes". Netkeiba.