Waikato Sprint

Waikato Sprint, raced as BCD Group Sprint
Group I race
LocationTe Rapa Racecourse
Hamilton, New Zealand
Inaugurated1974
Race typeThoroughbred - Flat racing
Race information
Distance1400m (7 furlongs)
SurfaceTurf
TrackLeft-handed
QualificationThree-year-olds and up
WeightWeight for Age

The Waikato Sprint currently run as the BCD Group Sprint is a Group 1 Thoroughbred horse race run at Te Rapa Racecourse in Hamilton in early February.

It is currently held on the same day as the Group 1 Herbie Dykes Stakes.

The list of winners includes almost every top-class sprinter-miler to have raced in New Zealand in the last three decades, and is highlighted by the back-to-back victories by champion mare Sunline in 2001-02.

The well-performed gelding Mufhasa won the 2009 and 2011 events (also winning the Telegraph Handicap in both of these years) and was also 2nd in 2012 and 3rd in 2010.

Courier Bay won in both 1987 and 1988 but was unable to get a third win, running second by 1 1/4 lengths to the reigning Cox Plate winner, Poetic Prince, the following year.

Winners of the Waikato Sprint

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Year
 Stake
 Winner
 Jockey
 Trainer(s)
 Time
2024 $400,000 Bonny Lass [1] [2] Craig Grylls Graham Richardson & Rogan Norvall 1:21.82 (good)
2023[3] $300,000 Imperatriz Opie Bosson Mark Walker 1:20.70 (good)
2022 [4] $220,000 Levante Ryan Elliot Ken & Bev Kelso, Matamata 1:23.56
2021 [5] $200,000 Avantage Opie Bosson Jamie Richards, Matamata 1:20.87
2020 [6] $200,000 Te Akau Shark Opie Bosson Jamie Richards, Matamata 1:21.7
2019 [7] $200,000 Melody Belle Troy Harris Jamie Richards, Matamata 1:22.62
2018 [8][9] $200,000 Start Wondering Johnathan Parkes J J & Evan Rayner, Whanganui 1:25.80
2017 [10] [11] $200,000 Start Wondering Johnathan Parkes J J & Evan Rayner, Whanganui 1:21.22
2016 $200,000 Xtravagant Matt Cameron Stephen Autridge & Jamie Richards, Matamata 1:21.92
2015 $200,000 Sacred Star Vincent Colgan Tony Pike, Cambridge 1:20.81
2014 $200,000 Viadana Craig Grylls Lance Noble, Matamata 1:22.19
2013 $200,000 Final Touch Chris Johnson John & Karen Parsons, Balcairn 1:21.38
2012 $200,000 Veyron Leith Innes Linda Laing, Cambridge 1:20.99
2011 $200,000 Mufhasa Samantha Spratt Stephen McKee, Ardmore 1:21.09
2010 $200,000 Tavistock Jason Waddell Andrew Campbell, Opaki 1:21.30
2009 $200,000 Mufhasa Samantha Spratt Stephen McKee, Ardmore 1:22.54
2008[12] $200,000 Seachange Gavin McKeon Graeme Sanders, Te Awamutu 1:21.31
2007 $150,000 Darci Brahma Opie Bosson Mark Walker, Matamata 1:22.35
2006 $150,000 Kristov Jason Waddell Phillip Stevens 1:23.63
2005[13] $100,000 Sedecrem Andrew Calder Colin Jillings & Richard Yuill, Takanini 1:22.17
2004[14] $100,000 Sedecrem Grant Cooksley Colin Jillings & Richard Yuill, Takanini 1:22.53
2003 $100,000 Tit For Taat Michael Walker Wayne Herbert 1:22.66
2002 $100,000 Sunline Greg Childs Trevor & Stephen McKee, Takanini 1:21.67
2001 $100,000 Sunline Greg Childs Trevor & Stephen McKee, Takanini 1:22.24
2000[15] $100,000 Tall Poppy 56 Jim Walker Noel Eales, Awapuni 1:21.29
1999 $100,000 Surface Noel Harris Noel Eales, Awapuni 1:21.4
1998 $100,000 Rebel Catherine Huchinson Ron Langsford 1:21.05
1997 [16] $100,000 Avedon Chris Johnson Patrick Campbell, Awapuni[17] 1:22.47
1996 $100,000 Allegro Gary Grylls Chris & Coleen Wood, Cambridge 1:22.32
1995[18] $100,000 Snap Lance O'Sullivan Dave & Paul O'Sullivan, Matamata 1:26.14
1994[19] $100,000 Western Red 53 Brian Hibberd Paul Jelicich, Avondale 1:21.71
1993 $100,000 Veandercross 57.5 Jim Walker Chris Turner & John Wheeler, New Plymouth 1:22.08
1992 $100,000 Mrs Selleck 56 Roy McKay Patrick Busuttin, Foxton 1:20.60
1991[20] $98,000 Mr Tiz 57.5 Lance O'Sullivan Dave & Paul O'Sullivan, Matamata 1:21.17
1990 Not Held
1989 $117,600 Poetic Prince 57 Noel Harris John Wheeler, New Plymouth 1:21.40
1988 $117,600 Courier Bay 57.5 David Walsh G A White 1:23.27
1987[21] $98,000 Courier Bay 57 David Walsh G A White 1:20.73
1986 $63,000 Tanalyse 57.5 David Walsh Don Grubb, Fielding 1:21.06
1985[22] $48,000 Super Tai 57.5 David Peake Frederick Hill, Stratford 1:21.09
1984[23] $37,300 Abit Leica 53 Peter Fearon Warren Dymond, Stratford 1:21.53
1983 $29,140 Pinson 53 Diane Moseley Don Couchman, Hawera 1:23.42
1982[24] $31,200 Givenchy 57 David Peake Ray Verner, Takanini 1:25.3
1981[25] $31,000 Mun Lee 56 Greg Childs Malcolm Smith, Awapuni 1:22.7
1980[26] $31,000 Coobers Queen Gary Phillips Peter Melville, Kaponga 1:26.87
1979[27] $31,000 March Legend 57.5 Roger Lang Donald Nash, Takanini 1:26.0
1978[28] $27,300 Copper Belt 57.5 Jim Walker Brian Deacon, Hawera 1:22.4
1977 $20,250 Soliloquy 56 David Medcalfe Ray Verner, Takanini 1:23.1
1976[29] $16,000 Mop Pat Trotter Keith Couper, Hastings 1:22.1
1975 $16,000 Auditor 57.5 Graeme Hare Wally McEwan & L Gestro, Hawera 1:22.6
1974 $15,000 Kings Romance 57.5 Gary Willetts Malcolm Smith, New Plymouth 1:23.7

See also

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References

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