Keisei Hai

Keisei Hai
京成杯
	Nakayama Racecourse Grandstand
Class	Grade 3
Location	Nakayama Racecourse
Inaugurated	1961
Race type	Thoroughbred Flat racing
Race information
Distance	2000 metres
Surface	Turf
Track	Right-handed
Qualification	3-y-o
Weight	57 kg, fillies allowed 2 kg
Purse	¥ 87,960,000 (as of 2025); 1st: ¥ 41,000,000; 2nd: ¥ 16,000,000; 3rd: ¥ 10,000,000

The Keisei Hai (Japanese 京成杯) is a Grade 3 horse race held by the Japan Racing Association (JRA) for three-year-old Thoroughbreds run in January over a distance of 2000 metres at Nakayama Racecourse.^[1]

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The race was first run in 1961 and was promoted to Grade 3 status in 1984. The race was originally run over 1600 metres before the distance was extended to 2000 metres in 1999, matching it with the Satsuki Sho.^[2]

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Year	Winner	Jockey	Trainer	Owner	Time
2000	Meiner Vintage	Yoshitomi Shibata	Shozo Sasaki	Thoroughbred Club Ruffian	2:04.0
2001	Born King	David Harrison	Kunihide Matsuda	Makoto Kaneko	2:03.2
2002 (dh)	Roman Empire	Koshiro Take	Taira Furukawa	Turf Sport	2:00.4
2002 (dh)	Yamanin Seraphim	Masayoshi Ebina	Shuichi Asami	Hajime Doi	2:00.4
2003	Suzuka Dream	Masayoshi Ebina	Mitsuru Hahida	Keiji Nagai	2:01.7
2004	Focal Point	Norihiro Yokoyama	Michifumi Kono	Shadai Race Horse	1:59.2
2005	Admire Japan	Norihiro Yokoyama	Hiroyoshi Matsuda	Riichi Kondo	2:07.4
2006	Jalisco Light	Hiroshi Kitamura	Kazuo Fujisawa	Kazumi Yoshida	2:03.2
2007	Sun Zeppelin	Masami Matsuoka	Makoto Saito	Nobuyuki Kato	2:01.6
2008	Meiner Charles	Masami Matsuoka	Ryuichi Inaba	Thoroughbred Club Ruffian	2:02.9
2009	Early Robusto	Yuichi Fukunaga	Masaru Honda	Mishima Bokujo	2:02.7
2010	Eishin Flash	Norihiro Yokoyama	Hideaki Fujiwara	Toyomitsu Hirai	2:03.6
2011	Fateful War	Katsuhara Tanaka	Shinichi Ito	Shadai Race Horse	2:00.9
2012	Best Deal	Norihiro Yokoyama	Sakae Kunieda	Shadai Race Horse	2:00.6
2013	Fame Game	Fran Berry	Yoshitada Munakata	Sunday Racing	2:02.3
2014	Pray and Real	Daichi Shibata	Hiroaki Kawazu	Shigeyuki Okada	2:01.1
2015	Beruf	Yuga Kawada	Yasutoshi Ikee	Sunday Racing	2:02.3
2016	Prophet	Shane Foley	Yasutoshi Ikee	Carrot Racing	2:01.4
2017	Komano Impulse	Hironobu Tanabe	Masatatsu Kikukawa	Yoshinobu Hasegawa	2:02.5^[3]
2018	Generale Uno	Hironobu Tanabe	Eiichi Yano	G Riviere Racing	2:01.2^[4]
2019	Last Draft	Christophe Lemaire	Hirofumi Toda	Sunday Racing	2:01.2^[5]
2020	Crystal Black	Yutaka Yoshida	Fumimasa Takahashi	Isamu Okada	2:02.1
2021	Gratias	Christophe Lemaire	Yukihiro Kato	Three H Racing	2:03.1
2022	Onyankopon	Akira Sugawara	Shigeyuki Kojima	Kunio Tabara	2:01.3
2023	Sol Oriens	Takeshi Yokoyama	Takahisa Tezuka	Shadai Race Horse	2:02.2
2024	Danon Decile	Norihiro Yokoyama	Shogo Yasuda	Danox	2:00.5
2025	Nishino Agent	Akihide Tsumura	Naoto Chiba	Shigeyuki Nishiyama	1:59.9

Keisei Hai

Winners since 2000

Earlier winners

See also

References

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