Waikato Sprint

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

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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

Year
Stake
Winner
Jockey
Trainer(s)
Time
2024$400,000Bonny Lass [1] [2] Craig GryllsGraham Richardson & Rogan Norvall1:21.82 (good)
2023 [3] $300,000 Imperatriz Opie Bosson Mark Walker1:20.70 (good)
2022 [4] $220,000LevanteRyan ElliotKen & Bev Kelso, Matamata1:23.56
2021 [5] $200,000 Avantage Opie Bosson Jamie Richards, Matamata1:20.87
2020 [6] $200,000Te Akau Shark Opie Bosson Jamie Richards, Matamata1:21.7
2019 [7] $200,000 Melody Belle Troy Harris Jamie Richards, Matamata1:22.62
2018 [8] $200,000Start WonderingJonathan ParkesJ J & Evan Rayner, Whanganui1:25.80
2017 [9] $200,000Start WonderingJonathan ParkesJ J & Evan Rayner, Whanganui1:21.22
2016$200,000XtravagantMatt CameronStephen Autridge & Jamie Richards, Matamata1:21.92
2015$200,000Sacred StarVincent ColganTony Pike, Cambridge1:20.81
2014$200,000ViadanaCraig GryllsLance Noble, Matamata1:22.19
2013$200,000Final Touch Chris Johnson John & Karen Parsons, Balcairn1:21.38
2012$200,000VeyronLeith InnesLinda Laing, Cambridge1:20.99
2011$200,000 Mufhasa Samantha SprattStephen McKee, Ardmore1:21.09
2010$200,000 Tavistock Jason WaddellAndrew Campbell, Opaki1:21.30
2009$200,000 Mufhasa Samantha SprattStephen McKee, Ardmore1:22.54
2008$200,000 Seachange Gavin McKeonGraeme Sanders, Te Awamutu1:21.31
2007$150,000 Darci Brahma Opie Bosson Mark Walker, Matamata1:22.35
2006$150,000KristovJason WaddellPhillip Stevens1:23.63
2005$100,000SedecremAndrew Calder Colin Jillings & Richard Yuill, Takanini1:22.17
2004$100,000SedecremGrant Cooksley Colin Jillings & Richard Yuill, Takanini1:22.53
2003$100,000 Tit For Taat Michael Walker Wayne Herbert1:22.66
2002$100,000 Sunline Greg Childs Trevor & Stephen McKee, Takanini1:21.67
2001$100,000 Sunline Greg Childs Trevor & Stephen McKee, Takanini1:22.24
2000$100,000Tall Poppy 56Jim WalkerNoel Eales, Awapuni1:21.29
1999$100,000Surface Noel Harris Noel Eales, Awapuni1:21.4
1998$100,000RebelCatherine HuchinsonRon Langsford1:21.05
1997$100,000Avedon Chris Johnson Patrick Campbell, Awapuni [10] 1:22.47
1996$100,000AllegroGary GryllsChris & Coleen Wood, Cambridge1:22.32
1995$100,000Snap Lance O'Sullivan Dave & Paul O'Sullivan, Matamata1:26.14
1994$100,000Western Red 53Brian HibberdPaul Jelicich, Avondale1:21.71
1993$100,000 Veandercross 57.5Jim WalkerChris Turner & John Wheeler, New Plymouth1:22.08
1992$100,000Mrs Selleck 56Roy McKayPatrick Busuttin, Foxton1:20.60
1991$98,000 Mr Tiz 57.5 Lance O'Sullivan Dave & Paul O'Sullivan, Matamata1:21.17
1990Not Held
1989$117,600 Poetic Prince 57 Noel Harris John Wheeler, New Plymouth1:21.40
1988$117,600Courier Bay 57.5 David Walsh G A White1:23.27
1987$98,000Courier Bay 57 David Walsh G A White1:20.73
1986$63,000Tanalyse 57.5 David Walsh Don Grubb, Fielding1:21.06
1985$48,000Super Tai 57.5David PeakeFrederick Hill, Stratford1:21.09
1984$37,300Abit Leica 53Peter FearonWarren Dymond, Stratford1:21.53
1983$29,140Pinson 53Diane MoseleyDon Couchman, Hawera1:23.42
1982$31,200Givenchy 57David PeakeRay Verner, Takanini1:25.3
1981$31,000Mun Lee 56Greg ChildsMalcolm Smith, Awapuni1:22.7
1980$31,000Coobers QueenGary PhillipsPeter Melville, Kaponga1:26.87
1979$31,000March Legend 57.5Roger LangDonald Nash, Takanini1:26.0
1978$27,300Copper Belt 57.5Jim WalkerBrian Deacon, Hawera1:22.4
1977$20,250Soliloquy 56David MedcalfeRay Verner, Takanini1:23.1
1976$16,000MopPat TrotterKeith Couper, Hastings1:22.1
1975$16,000Auditor 57.5Graeme HareWally McEwan & L Gestro, Hawera1:22.6
1974$15,000Kings Romance 57.5Gary WillettsMalcolm Smith, New Plymouth1:23.7

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  2. ↑ "Stuff". www.stuff.co.nz.
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  4. ↑ "Race 9 BCD GROUP SPRINT at WAIKATO RC on 12 FEB 2022 | LOVERACING.NZ".
  5. ↑ "Race 6 BCD GROUP SPRINT at WAIKATO RC on 13 FEB 2021 | LOVERACING.NZ".
  6. ↑ "Race 8 BCD GROUP SPRINT at WAIKATO RC on 8 FEB 2020 | LOVERACING.NZ".
  7. ↑ "Race 8 BCD GROUP SPRINT (GROUP 1) at WAIKATO RC on 9 FEB 2019 | LOVERACING.NZ".
  8. ↑ "Race 8 BCD GROUP SPRINT at WAIKATO RC on 10 FEB 2018 | LOVERACING.NZ".
  9. ↑ "Race 8 NRM SPRINT (GROUP I) at WAIKATO RC on 11 FEB 2017 | LOVERACING.NZ".
  10. ↑ "RACING: One of the best returns to train from Hastings".
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