# Sakitama Hai

The Sakitama Hai (Japanese さきたま杯), is a Domestic Grade 1 horse race for thoroughbred horses aged three and over, run in June over a distance of 1,400 meters on dirt at Urawa Racecourse.
The race was first run in 1997 as a Domestic Grade 3 for thoroughbred horses aged three and over, until in 2005 when the age qualification was changed to horses aged four and over. In 2011, the race was promoted to Domestic Grade 2 status and has held it until 2023.
In order to promote growth in the Japanese dirt sprinting scene, the race was promoted to Domestic Grade 1 status in 2024. The updated age qualification allows three-year-old horses again. The schedule of the race was also moved to mid-June.

## Winners

| Year | Winner | Age | Jockey | Trainer | Owner | Organization | Time |
| 1997 | Fujino Makken O | 6 | Yutaka Yoshida | Yoshio Nakamura | Fumie Takahashi | JRA | 1:25.8 |
| 1998 | Theseus Frise | 6 | Hitoshi Matoba | Niizeki Tsutomu | Yoshiko Taguchi | JRA | 1:25.8 |
| 1999 | Setano King | 8 | Takayuki Ishizaki | Jun Shimada | Tadayoshi Ando | JRA | 1:23.8 |
| 2000 | Raise Suzuran | 6 | Teruo Eda | Sueo Masuzawa | Shuhei Suzuki | JRA | 1:24.7 |
| 2001 | Gaily Egret | 6 | Mikio Matsunaga | Yutaka Masumoto | Tokyo Thoroughbred Bureau Inc. | JRA | 1:25.7 |
| 2002 | Raise Suzuran | 8 | Teruo Eda | Sueo Masuzawa | Shuhei Suzuki | JRA | 1:26.1 |
| 2003 | Nobo True | 7 | Yutaka Take | Hideyuki Mori | LS.M Co. Ltd. | JRA | 1:25.5 |
| 2004 | Rocky Appeal | 6 | Tadanari Konno | Hiromi Yamazaki | Makoto Kaneko | Kawasaki | 1:25.5 |
| 2005 | Nihon Pillow Cert | 7 | Futoshi Komaki | Tetsuya Meno | Hyakutaro Kobayashi | JRA | 1:25.5 |
| 2006 | Agnes Jedi | 4 | Yutaka Take | Hideyuki Mori | Takao Watanabe | JRA | 1:26.5 |
| 2007 | Meisho Battler | 7 | Yutaka Take | Shigetada Takahashi | Yoshio Matsumoto | JRA | 1:26.1 |
| 2008 | Limitless Bid | 9 | Yasunari Iwata | Tadashi Kayō | Shadai Race Horse Co. Ltd. | JRA | 1:25.9 |
| 2009 | Smart Falcon | 4 | Yasunari Iwata | Ken Kozaki | Toru Okawa | JRA | 1:26.4 |
| 2010 | Smart Falcon | 5 | Yasunari Iwata | Ken Kozaki | Toru Okawa | JRA | 1:26.2 |
| 2011 | Nike Madrid | 5 | Keita Tosaki | Masayuki Kawashima | Seiji Ono | Funabashi | 1:26.0 |
| 2012 | Sei Crimson | 6 | Yasunari Iwata | Toshiyuki Hattori | Seiki Kaneda | JRA | 1:25.8 |
| 2013 | Testa Matta | 7 | Keita Tosaki | Akira Murayama | Kazumi Yoshida | JRA | 1:27.4 |
| 2014 | Northern River | 6 | Masayoshi Ebina | Hidekazu Asami | Masamichi Hayashi | JRA | 1:26.7 |
| 2015 | Northern River | 7 | Masayoshi Ebina | Hidekazu Asami | Masamichi Hayashi | JRA | 1:26.7 |
| 2016 | Sorte | 6 | Hiroto Yoshihara | Shintaro Terada | Frontier Co., Ltd. | Ohi | 1:25.9 |
| 2017 | White Fugue | 5 | Masayoshi Ebina | Noboru Takagi | Tsuru Nishimori | JRA | 1:25.7 |
| 2018 | Success Energy | 4 | Kohei Matsuyama | Yoshihito Kitade | Tetsu Takashima | JRA | 1:26.2 |
| 2019 | Win Mut | 6 | Ryuji Wada | Tadashi Kayō | Win Co. Ltd. | JRA | 1:25.3 |
| 2020 | Nobo Baccara | 8 | Taito Mori | Hideyuki Mori | LS.M Co. Ltd. | JRA | 1:25.8 |
| 2021 | Arctos | 6 | Hironobu Tanabe | Toru Kurita | Koichiro Yamaguchi | JRA | 1:24.9 |
| 2022 | Salsa Dione | 8 | Takayuki Yano | Chiaki Hori | Hirotaka Sugawara | Ohi | 1:25.3 |
| 2023 | Igniter | 5 | Tsubasa Sasagawa | Masashi Atarashima | Yoshiki Noda | Hyogo | 1:25.3 |
| 2024 | Lemon Pop | 6 | Ryusei Sakai | Hiroyasu Tanaka | Godolphin | JRA | 1:26.7 |