The Waikato Sprint currently run as the BCD Group Sprint is a Group One 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.
Savaglee 55.5 | |||||
Callsign Mav 59 | |||||
Levante 57 | |||||
Mascarpone 59 | |||||
2021 | $200,000 | Avantage 57.5 | Opie Bosson | Jamie Richards, Matamata | Mascarpone 59 |
2020 | $200,000 | Te Akau Shark 59 | Opie Bosson | Jamie Richards, Matamata | Kiwi Ida 57 |
2019 | $200,000 | Melody Belle 57 | Troy Harris | Jamie Richards, Matamata | Ardrossan 59 |
2018 New Zealand Thoroughbred Racing Annual 2018 (47th edition). Dennis Ryan, Editor, Racing Media NZ Limited, Auckland, New Zealand. | $200,000 | Start Wondering 59 | Johnathan Parkes | J J & Evan Rayner, Whanganui | Brilliant Shine 59 |
2017 New Zealand Thoroughbred Racing Annual 2017 (46th edition). Dennis Ryan, Editor, Racing Media NZ Limited, Auckland, New Zealand. | $200,000 | Start Wondering 59 | Johnathan Parkes | J J & Evan Rayner, Whanganui | Saracino 55.5 |
$200,000 | Xtravagant 55.5 | Matt Cameron | Stephen Autridge & Jamie Richards, Matamata | Recite 57 | |
$200,000 | Sacred Star 59 | Vincent Colgan | Tony Pike, Cambridge | Spin Doctor 59 | |
$200,000 | Viadana 57 | Craig Grylls | Lance Noble, Matamata | Diademe 57 | |
$200,000 | Final Touch 57 | Chris Johnson | John & Karen Parsons, Balcairn | Zurella 57 | |
$200,000 | Veyron 59 | Leith Innes | Linda Laing, Cambridge | Fazzle 57 | |
$200,000 | Mufhasa 59 | Samantha Spratt | Stephen McKee, Ardmore | Keep The Peace 57 | |
$200,000 | Tavistock 59 | Jason Waddell | Andrew Campbell, Opaki | Mufhasa 59 | |
$200,000 | Mufhasa 59 | Samantha Spratt | Stephen McKee, Ardmore | Ruud Van Slaats 57 | |
$200,000 | Seachange 56.5 | Gavin McKeon | Graeme Sanders, Te Awamutu | Run Like Al 55.5 | |
$150,000 | Darci Brahma 59 | Opie Bosson | Mark Walker, Matamata | Kay's Awake 56.5 | |
$150,000 | Kristov 57.5 | Jason Waddell | Phillip Stevens | Gee I Jane 56 | |
$100,000 | Sedecrem | Andrew Calder | Colin Jillings & Richard Yuill, Takanini | ||
$100,000 | Sedecrem | Grant Cooksley | Colin Jillings & Richard Yuill, Takanini | ||
$100,000 | Tit For Taat | Michael Walker | Wayne Herbert | ||
$100,000 | Sunline | Greg Childs | Trevor McKee & Stephen McKee, Takanini | ||
$100,000 | Sunline | Greg Childs | Trevor McKee & Stephen McKee, Takanini | ||
$100,000 | Tall Poppy 56 | Jim Walker | Noel Eales, Awapuni | ||
$100,000 | Surface | Noel Harris | Noel Eales, Awapuni | ||
$100,000 | Rebel | Catherine Huchinson | Ron Langsford | ||
$100,000 | Avedon | Chris Johnson | Patrick Campbell, Awapuni | ||
$100,000 | Allegro | Gary Grylls | Chris & Coleen Wood, Cambridge | ||
$100,000 | Snap | Lance O'Sullivan | Dave & Paul O'Sullivan, Matamata | ||
$100,000 | Western Red 53 | Brian Hibberd | Paul Jelicich, Avondale | ||
$100,000 | Veandercross 57.5 | Jim Walker | Chris Turner & John Wheeler, New Plymouth | ||
$100,000 | Mrs Selleck 56 | Roy McKay | Patrick Busuttin, Foxton | ||
$98,000 | Mr Tiz 57.5 | Lance O'Sullivan | Dave & Paul O'Sullivan, Matamata | ||
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$117,600 | Poetic Prince 57 | Noel Harris | John Wheeler, New Plymouth | ||
$117,600 | Courier Bay 57.5 | David Walsh | G A White | ||
$98,000 | Courier Bay 57 | David Walsh | G A White | ||
$63,000 | Tanalyse 57.5 | David Walsh | Don Grubb, Fielding | ||
$48,000 | Super Tai 57.5 | David Peake | Frederick Hill, Stratford | ||
$37,300 | Abit Leica 53 | Peter Fearon | Warren Dymond, Stratford | ||
$29,140 | Pinson 53 | Diane Moseley | Don Couchman, Hawera | ||
$31,200 | Givenchy 57 | David Peake | Ray Verner, Takanini | ||
$31,000 | Mun Lee 56 | Greg Childs | Malcolm Smith, Awapuni | ||
$31,000 | Coobers Queen | Gary Phillips | Peter Melville, Kaponga | ||
$31,000 | March Legend 57.5 | Roger Lang | Donald Nash, Takanini | ||
$27,300 | Copper Belt 57.5 | Jim Walker | Brian Deacon, Hawera | ||
$20,250 | Soliloquy 56 | David Medcalfe | Ray Verner, Takanini | ||
$16,000 | Mop | Pat Trotter | Keith Couper, Hastings | ||
$16,000 | Auditor 57.5 | Graeme Hare | Wally McEwan & L Gestro, Hawera | ||
$15,000 | Kings Romance 57.5 | Gary Willetts | Malcolm Smith, New Plymouth | ||
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