Aichi Hai

The Aichi Hai (Japanese 愛知杯) is a Grade 3 horse race for Thoroughbred fillies and mares aged four and over, run in January over a distance of 2000 metres on turf at Chukyo Racecourse.[1]

Aichi Hai
Grade 3 race
Hula Bride wins the 2013 Aichi Hai
LocationChukyo Racecourse
Inaugurated1963
Race typeThoroughbred Flat racing
Race information
Distance2000 metres
SurfaceTurf
TrackLeft-handed
Qualification4-y-o+ fillies and mares
WeightHandicap
Purse¥77,360,000 (total), ¥36,000,000 (winner)

The Aichi Hai was first run in 1963 and has held Grade 3 status since 1984. The race was run at Kokura Racecourse in 1999, 2010 and 2011. The Aichi Hai was run in December until 2014 and was open to three-year-olds before being changed to its current date: the change meant that the race was not run in 2015. The race was open to both male and female horses up to 2003.

Winners since 2000

Year
Winner
Age
Jockey
Trainer
Time
2000 Tunante 5 Hideaki Miyuki Shoichi Matsumoto 1:58.6
2001 Grand Shinzan 7 Katsumi Ando Masayuki Sakata 1:59.8
2002 Tokai Pulsar 6 Minoru Yoshida Shigeki Matsumoto 2:00.3
2003 Kazeni Fukarete 4 Minoru Yoshida Shozo Sasaki 1:59.7
2004 Memory Keanu 4 Shinichiro Akiyama Sachio Yukubo 2:00.6
2005 Meine Sorceress 4 Yukio Abe Shozo Sasaki 2:01.3
2006 Admire Kiss 3 Yutaka Take Hiroyoshi Matsuda 1:58.6
2007 Dia De La Novia 5 Christophe Lemaire Katsuhiko Sumii 1:58.9
2008 Seraphic Romp 4 Hokuto Miyazaki Yoshinori Muto 1:59.2
2009 Little Amapola 4 Eiji Nakadate Hiroyuki Nagahama 1:59.7
2010 Seraphic Romp 6 Hokuto Miyazaki Yoshinori Muto 1:59.5
2011 Fumino Imagine 5 Keisuke Dazai Masaru Honda 1:59.4
2012 A Shin Memphis 4 Haruhiko Kawasu Kenji Nonaka 2:03.6
2013 Hula Bride 4 Manabu Sakai Kazuyoshi Kihara 2:02.1
2014 Dia De La Madre 4 Kota Fujioka Katsuhiko Sumii 2:04.4
2015 no race
2016 Bounce Shasse 5 Hironobu Tanabe Kazuo Fujisawa 1:58.8
2017 Maximum de Paris 5 Yasunari Iwata Shigeki Matsumo 2:01.4[2]
2018 Eterna Minoru 5 Hirofumi Shii Masaru Honda 2:00.1[3]
2019 One Breath Away 6 Akihide Tsumura Masaaki Koga 2:00.0[4]
2020 Denko Ange 7 Yoshitomi Shibata Yoshiyuki Arakawa 2:01.1
2021 Magic Castle 4 Keita Tosaki Sakae Kunieda 1:58.7
2022 Ruby Casablanca 5 Yutaka Take Naosuke Sugai 2:01.0
2023 Art House 4 Yuga Kawada Mitsumasa Nakauchida 2:03.1

Earlier winners

  • 1984 - Kikuno Pegasus
  • 1985 - Long Quick
  • 1986 - Peter Hauler
  • 1987 - Peter Hauler
  • 1988 - Katsu Tokushin
  • 1989 - Great Monte
  • 1990 - White Arrow
  • 1991 - Yamanin Seattle
  • 1992 - Nuevo Tosho
  • 1993 - Homare Okan
  • 1994 - Tenzan Yutaka
  • 1995 - Sound Barrier
  • 1996 - Foundry Shori
  • 1997 - Sakura Expert
  • 1998 - Kanetoshi Governor
  • 1999 - Bamboo Mariachi

See also

References

  1. "Aichi Hai". Horse Racing in Japan.
  2. "2017 result". Racing Post. 14 January 2017.
  3. "2018 result". Racing Post. 13 January 2018.
  4. "2019 result". Racing Post. 26 January 2016.
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