Complex sentence: The race was not run from 1970-78,1988, and was on hiatus again in 1998 and 1999 but returned as the Hanshin Cup Handicap in 2000.
Split into simpler sentences: The race was not run from 1970 through 1978 and in 1988. It was on hiatus again in 1998 and 1999 but returned as the Hanshin Cup Handicap in 2000.