# Hankyu Hai

The Hankyu Hai (Japanese 阪急杯) is a Grade 3 horse race for Thoroughbreds aged four and over, run in February over a distance of 1400 metres on turf at Hanshin Racecourse. The race serves as a trial for the Takamatsunomiya Kinen.
The Hankyu Hai was first run in 1957 and has held Grade 3 status since 1984. The race was run at Kyoto Racecourse in 1959, 1966, 1969, 1991 and 1995. It was run over a variety of distances before being run over 1400 metres for the first time in 1981: it was run over 1200 metres from 1996 to 2005.

## Weight

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:
** 2 kg for a grade 1 win (1 kg for fillies / mares)
** 1 kg for a grade 2 win
* If a graded stakes race has been won for more than a year:
** 1 kg for a grade1 win

## Winners since 2000

| Year | Winner | Age | Jockey | Trainer | Time |
| 2000 | Black Hawk | 6 | Norihiro Yokoyama | Sakae Kunieda | 1:08.7 |
| 2001 | Daitaku Yamato | 7 | Mirco Demuro | Sei Ishizaka | 1:08.7 |
| 2002 | Admire Cozzene | 6 | Hiroki Goto | Mitsuru Hashida | 1:07.9 |
| 2003 | Shonan Kampf | 5 | Shinji Fujita | Yokichi Okubo | 1:08.5 |
| 2004 | Sunningdale | 5 | Minoru Yoshida | Tsutomu Setoguchi | 1:08.5 |
| 2005 | Keeneland Swan | 6 | Hirofumi Shii | Hideyuki Mori | 1:08.5 |
| 2006 | Blue Shotgun | 7 | Mikio Matsunaga | Kohei Take | 1:22.5 |
| 2007 | Precise Machine (DH) | 8 | Katsumi Ando | Kiyoshi Hagiwara | 1:20.5 |
| 2007 | Eishin Dover (DH) | 5 | Hideaki Miyuki | Ken Kozaki | 1:20.5 |
| 2008 | Laurel Guerreiro | 4 | Hirofumi Shii | Mitsugu Kon | 1:20.7 |
| 2009 | B B Guldan | 5 | Katsumi Ando | Masazo Ryoke | 1:21.1 |
| 2010 | A Shin Forward | 5 | Yasunari Iwata | Masato Nihizono | 1:21.4 |
| 2011 | San Carlo | 5 | Yutaka Yoshida | Yokichi Okubo | 1:20.1 |
| 2012 | Majin Prosper | 5 | Suguru Hamanaka | Hidemasa Nakao | 1:22.0 |
| 2013 | Lord Kanaloa | 5 | Yasunari Iwata | Takayuki Yasuda | 1:21.0 |
| 2014 | Copano Richard | 4 | Suguru Hamanaka | Toru Miya | 1:20.7 |
| 2015 | Daiwa Maggiore | 6 | Mirco Demuro | Yoshito Yahagi | 1:23.8 |
| 2016 | Mikki Isle | 5 | Kohei Matsuyama | Hidetaka Otonashi | 1:19.9 |
| 2017 | Talking Drum | 7 | Hideaki Miyuki | Makoto Saito | 1:21.4 |
| 2018 | Diana Halo | 5 | Yutaka Take | Nobuharu Fukushima | 1:20.1 |
| 2019 | Smart Odin | 6 | Yusuke Fujioka | Yasutoshi Ikee | 1:20.3 |
| 2020 | Best Actor | 6 | Suguru Hamanaka | Yuichi Shikato | 1:20.3 |
| 2021 | Resistencia | 4 | Yuichi Kitamura | Takeshi Matsushita | 1:19.2 |
| 2022 | Diatonic | 7 | Yasunari Iwata | Takayuki Yasuda | 1:19.9 |
| 2023 | Aguri | 4 | Kazuo Yokoyama | Takayuki Yasuda | 1:19.5 |
| 2024 | Win Marvel | 5 | Kohei Matsuyama | Masashi Fukayama | 1:21.2 |
| 2025 | Kangchenjunga | 5 | Hideaki Miyuki | Yasushi Shono | 1:21.7 |

## Earlier winners

* 1984 - Gouache Out
* 1985 - Shadai Sophia
* 1986 - Long Hayabusa
* 1987 - St Caesar
* 1988 - Sankin Hayate
* 1989 - Horino Raiden
* 1990 - Senryo Yakusha
* 1991 - Jo Roaring
* 1992 - Hokusei Ciboulette
* 1993 - Legacy Field
* 1994 - Gold Mountain
* 1995 - Bodyguard
* 1996 - Towa Winner
* 1997 - Shinko Forest
* 1998 - Masa Lucky
* 1999 - Kyoei March