Hakodate Nisai Stakes

The Hakodate Nisai Stakes (Japanese 函館2歳ステークス) is a Grade 3 horse race for two-year-old Thoroughbreds run in late July over a distance of 1200 metres at Hakodate Racecourse.^[1]

The race was first run in 1968 and was promoted to Grade 3 status in 1984.

Winners since 2000

Year	Winner	Jockey	Trainer	Time
2000	Meiner Japan	Hirofumi Shii	Shozo Sasaki	1:10.6
2001	Sadamu Blue Sky	Mikio Matsunaga	Hitoshi Nakamura	1:11.1
2002	Atago Taisho	Takanori Kikuzawa	Kiyoshi Hagiwara	1:11.5
2003	Fille de Reve	Shinji Fujita	Kanji Yamauchi	1:12.2
2004	Ambroise	Douglas Whyte	Futoshi Kojima	1:10.4
2005	Moere Genius	Fuyuki Igarashi	Yoshinori Doyama	1:10.7
2006	Nishino Charmy	Hirofumi Shii	Hidekazu Asami	1:10.3
2007	Heart of Queen	Koshiro Take	Takahiro Mizuno	1:13.8
2008	Fifth Petal	Kosei Miura	Yukihiro Kato	1:10.7
2009	Stellar Lead^[a]	Yasunari Iwata	Hideyuki Mori	1:09.7
2010	Magical Pocket	Katsumi Ando	Masazo Ryoke	1:11.2
2011	Fine Choice	Hiroyuki Uemura	Masazo Ryoke	1:10.8
2012	Stalk and Ray	Shinji Kawashima	Kenji Yamauchi	1:10.4
2013	Xmas	Genki Maruyama	Makoto Saito	1:09.6
2014	Active Minoru	Kota Fujioka	Yoshihito Kitade	1:10.2
2015	Blanc Bonheur	Yasunari Iwata	Kazuya Nakatake	1:10.6
2016	Levante Lion	Kosei Miura	Yoshito Yahagi	1:09.2^[2]
2017	Cassius^[b]	Suguru Hamanaka	Hisashi Shimizu	1:10.0^[3]
2018	Aster Pegasus	Ryoya Kozaki	Kazuya Nakatake	1:09.4^[4]
2019	Bien Fait	Yusuke Fujioka	Kazuya Nakatake	1:09.2

^a The 2009 race was run at Sapporo Racecourse
^b The 2017 winner Cassius was exported to Australia and renamed Kemono