Tokyo Sports Hai Nisai Stakes

Horse race

Tokyo Sports Hai Nisai Stakes
Race information
Grade 2 race
Strauss wins the 2023 Tokyo Sports Hai Nisai Stakes
Location	Tokyo Racecourse
Inaugurated	1966
Race type	Thoroughbred Flat racing
Distance	1800 metres
Surface	Turf
Track	Left-handed
Qualification	2-y-o
Weight	Colts 56 kg, Fillies 55 kg
Purse	¥ 82,380,000 (as of 2024) 1st: ¥ 38,000,000 2nd: ¥ 15,000,000 3rd: ¥ 10,000,000

The Tokyo Sports Hai Nisai Stakes (Japanese 東京スポーツ杯2歳ステークス) is a Grade 2 horse race for two-year-old Thoroughbreds run in November over a distance of 1800 metres at Tokyo Racecourse.

The race was first run in 1986 and was promoted to Grade 3 status in 1996. It was run at Nakayama Racecourse in 2002. Past winners have included Bubble Gum Fellow, Nakayama Festa, Rose Kingdom, Deep Brillante, Isla Bonita, Satono Crown and Wagnerian. The race was elevated to Grade 2 class in 2021.

Winners since 2000

Year	Winner	Jockey	Trainer	Time
2000	Tagano Teio	Shinji Fujita	Hiroshi Matsuda	1:48.5
2001	Admire Max	Yuichi Fukunaga	Mitsuru Hashida	1:48.2
2002	Blue Eleven	Yutaka Take	Katsuhiko Sumii	1:50.2
2003	Admire Big	Yutaka Take	Mitsuru Hashida	1:48.9
2004	Smooth Baritone	Masayoshi Ebina	Sakae Kunieda	1:48.2
2005	Fusaichi Richard	Yuichi Fukunaga	Kunihide Matsuda	1:46.9
2006	Fusaichi Ho O	Katsumi Ando	Kunihide Matsuda	1:48.7
2007	Fusaichi Assort	Norihiro Yokoyama	Takaki Iwato	1:47.4
2008	Nakayama Festa	Masayoshi Ebina	Yoshitaka Ninomiya	1:47.7
2009	Rose Kingdom	Futoshi Komaki	Kojiro Hashiguchi	1:48.2
2010	Sadamu Patek	Christophe Soumillon	Masato Nishizono	1:47.3
2011	Deep Brillante	Yasunari Iwata	Yoshito Yahagi	1:52.7
2012	Codino	Norihiro Yokoyama	Kazuo Fujisawa	1:46.0
2013	Isla Bonita	Masayoshi Ebina	Hironori Kurita	1:45.9
2014	Satono Crown	Ryan Moore	Noriyuki Hori	1:47.9
2015	Smart Odin	Yutaka Take	Kunihide Matsuda	1:49.5
2016	Bless Journey	Yoshitomi Shibata	Shinobu Honma	1:48.3
2017	Wagnerian	Yuichi Fukunaga	Yasuo Tomomichi	1:46.6
2018	Nishino Daisy	Masaki Katsuura	Noboru Takagi	1:46.6
2019	Contrail	Ryan Moore	Yoshito Yahagi	1:44.5
2020	Danon The Kid	Yuga Kawada	Takayuki Yasuda	1:47.5
2021	Equinox	Christophe Lemaire	Tetsuya Kimura	1:46.2
2022	Gastrique	Kosei Miura	Hiroyuki Uehara	1:45.8
2023	Strauss	Joao Moreira	Ryo Takei	1:46.5
2024	Croix du Nord	Yuichi Kitamura	Takashi Saito	1:46.8

v t e List of Japanese Grade II horse races
(Note: JRA races bracketed with "exchange" below, and all dirt/3-year-old races are Japan Racing Association(JRA)-National Association of Racing(NAR) exchange races)
Japan Racing Association(JRA) GII races (International GII)	Nikkei Shinshun Hai American Jockey Club Cup Tokai Stakes Kyoto Kinen Nakayama Kinen Tulip Sho Yayoi Sho Fillies' Revue Hanshin Daishōten Spring Stakes Kinko Sho Nikkei Shō Hanshin Himba Stakes New Zealand Trophy Yomiuri Milers Cup Flora Stakes Aoba Sho Kyoto Shimbun Hai Keio Hai Spring Cup Meguro Kinen Sapporo Kinen Shion Stakes Centaur Stakes St. Lite Kinen Rose Stakes Sankei Sho All Comers Kobe Shimbun Hai Mainichi Ōkan Kyōto Daishōten Daily Hai Nisai Stakes Tokyo Sports Hai Nisai Stakes Fuchu Himba Stakes Fuji Stakes Swan Stakes Copa Republica Argentina Keio Hai Nisai Stakes Stayers Stakes Hanshin Cup
National Association of Racing(NAR) JpnII races (Domestic GII, dirt)	Empress Hai (fillies and mares) Diolite Kinen Keihin Hai (3-year-old) Hyōgo Championship (3-year-old) Kantō Oaks (3-year-old fillies) Kozukata Sho (3-year-old) Nippon TV Hai Tōkyo Hai Ladies' Prelude Urawa Kinen Hyōgo Junior Grand Prix (2-year-old) Nagoya Grand Prix
JRA Steeplechase Races (J-GII races)	Hanshin Spring Jump Kyōto High Jump Tōkyō High Jump
See also	Japan Racing Association National Association of Racing Horse racing in Japan