Hakodate Sprint Stakes

The Hakodate Sprint Stakes (Japanese 函館スプリントステークス) is a Grade 3 horse race for Thoroughbreds aged three and over, run in June over a distance of 1200 metres on turf at Hakodate Racecourse.

It was first run in 1994 and has held Grade 3 status ever since. The race was run at Sapporo Racecourse until 1997.

Weight
54 kg for three-year-olds, 57 kg for four-year-olds and above.

Allowances:


 * 2 kg for fillies / mares
 * 1 kg for southern hemisphere bred three-year-olds

Penalties (excluding two-year-old race performance):


 * If a graded stakes race has been won within a year:
 * 3 kg for a grade 1 win (2 kg for fillies / mares)
 * 2 kg for a grade 2 win (1 kg for fillies / mares)
 * 1 kg for a grade 3 win
 * If a graded stakes race has been won for more than a year:
 * 2 kg for a grade 1 win (1 kg for fillies / mares)
 * 1 kg for a grade 2 win

Records
Record time:
 * 1:06.8 - Jeune Ecole 2017

Most successful horse:
 * 2 - Noble Grass 1995, 1996
 * 2 - She Is Tosho 2004, 2005

Most wins by a jockey:
 * 4 - Kenichi Ikezoe 2004, 2005, 2011, 2018

Most wins by a trainer:
 * 3 - Hiroyuki Uehara 1995, 1996, 2018
 * 3 - Takayuki Yasuda 2010, 2011, 2017