Mainichi Hai

Mainichi Hai
毎日杯
	Blast Onepiece wins the 2018 Mainichi Hai
Class	Grade 3
Location	Hanshin Racecourse
Inaugurated	1954
Race type	Thoroughbred Flat racing
Race information
Distance	1800 metres
Surface	Turf
Track	Right-handed
Qualification	3-y-o
Weight	Colts 57 kg, fillies 55 kg
Purse	¥ 87,960,000 (as of 2025); 1st: ¥ 41,000,000; 2nd: ¥ 16,000,000; 3rd: ¥ 10,000,000

The Mainichi Hai (Japanese 毎日杯) is a Japanese Grade 3 horse race for three-year-old Thoroughbreds run in March over a distance of 1800 metres at Hanshin Racecourse.^[1]

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The race was first run in 1954 and has held Grade 3 status since 1984. It was initially run over 2000 metres before being cut to its current distance in 2007. Past winners of the race have included Oguri Cap, T M Opera O, King Kamehameha, Kizuna and Blast Onepiece.

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Year	Winner	Jockey	Trainer	Owner	Time
2000	Silver Cockpit	Yutaka Take	Takayuki Yasuda	Makoto Kaneko	2:03.6
2001	Kurofune	Hirofumi Shii	Kunihide Matsuda	Makoto Kaneko	1:58.6
2002	Cheers Stark	Shinji Fujita	Kenji Yamauchi	Kiyoko Kitamura	2:02.2
2003	Takara Shaadi	Tetsuzo Sato	Shozo Sasaki	Akitsugu Ito	1:59.9
2004	King Kamehameha	Yuichi Fukunaga	Kunihide Matsuda	Makoto Kaneko	2:01.2
2005	Rosenkreuz	Katsumi Ando	Kojiro Hashiguchi	Sunday Racing	2:02.2
2006	Admire Main	Yuichi Fukunaga	Mitsuru Hashida	Riichi Kondo	2:00.5
2007	Namura Mars	Yusuke Fujioka	Nobuharu Fukushima	Nobushige Namura	1:48.0
2008	Deep Sky	Hirofumi Shii	Mitsugu Kon	Toshio Fukami	1:46.0
2009	Iron Look	Futoshi Komaki	Kojiro Hashiguchi	Kazuma Ikegami	1:48.0
2010	Danon Chantilly	Katsumi Ando	Kunihide Matsuda	Danox	1:49.3
2011	Red Davis	Suguru Hamanaka	Hidetaka Otonashi	Tokyo Horse Racing	1:47.1
2012	Historical	Katsumi Ando	Hidetaka Otonashi	Hideko Kondo	1:49.6
2013	Kizuna	Yutaka Take	Shozo Sasaki	Shinji Maeda	1:46.2
2014	Meiner Frost	Daichi Shibata	Noboru Takagi	Thoroughbred Club Ruffian	1:46.7
2015	Musee Alien	Yuga Kawada	Yoichi Kuroiwa	Hitoshi Takahashi	1:47.2
2016	Smart Odin	Keita Tosaki	Kunihide Matsuda	Tohru Okawa	1:47.3
2017	Al Ain	Kohei Matsuyama	Yasutoshi Ikee	Sunday Racing	1:46.5^[2]
2018	Blast Onepiece	Kenichi Ikezoe	Masahiro Otake	Silk Racing	1:46.5^[3]
2019	Lance of Puraana	Kohei Matsuyama	Masaru Honda	Yoshinori Itsukage	1:47.2^[4]
2020	Satono Impresa	Yutaka Take	Yoshito Yahagi	Satomi Horse Company	1:47.9
2021	Shahryar	Yuga Kawada	Hideaki Fujiwara	Sunday Racing	1:43.9
2022	Piece of Eight	Yusuke Fujioka	Yutaka Okumura	Silk Racing	1:47.5
2023	Season Rich	Taiga Tsunoda	Takashi Kubota	Yutaka Uda	1:46.6
2024	Meisho Tabaru	Ryusei Sakai	Mamoru Ishibashi	Yoshio Matsumoto	1:46.0
2025	Fandom	Hiroshi Kitamura	Tetsuhide Tsuji	Carrot Farm	1:45.9

Mainichi Hai

Winners since 2000

Earlier winners

See also

References

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