Waikato Sprint


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.
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 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
Time
2020$200,000Te Akau SharkOpie Bosson1:21.7
2019$200,000Melody BelleTroy Harris1:22.62
2018$200,000Start WonderingJ Parkes1:25.80
2017$200,000Start WonderingJ Parkes1:21.22
2016$200,000XtravagantMatt Cameron1:21.92
2015$200,000Sacred StarVincent Colgan1:20.81
2014$200,000ViadanaCraig Grylls1:22.19
2013$200,000Final TouchChris Johnson1:21.38
2012$200,000VeyronLeith Innes1:20.99
2011$200,000MufhasaSamantha Spratt1:21.09
2010$200,000TavistockJason Waddell1:21.30
2009$200,000MufhasaSamantha Spratt1:22.54
2008$200,000SeachangeG A McKeon1:21.31
2007$150,000Darci BrahmaOpie Bosson1:22.35
2006$150,000KristovJason Waddell1:23.63
2005$100,000SedecremA J Calder1:22.17
2004$100,000SedecremGrant Cooksley1:22.53
2003$100,000Tit For TaatMichael Walker1:22.66
2002$100,000SunlineGreg Childs1:21.67
2001$100,000SunlineGreg Childs1:22.24
2000$100,000Tall PoppyJim Walker1:21.29
1999$100,000SurfaceNoel Harris1:21.4
1998$100,000RebelCatherine Huchinson1:21.05
1997$100,000AvedonChris Johnson1:22.47
1996$100,000AllegroGary Grylls1:22.32
1995$100,000SnapLance O'Sullivan1:26.14
1994$100,000Western RedB Hibberd1:21.71
1993$100,000VeandercrossJ Walker1:22.08
1992$100,000Mrs SelleckRB McKay1:20.60
1991$98,000Mr TizLance O'Sullivan1:21.17
1990Not Held
1989$117,600Poetic PrinceNoel Harris1:21.40
1988$117,600Courier BayDavid Walsh1:23.27
1987$98,000Courier BayDavid Walsh1:20.73
1986$63,000TanalyseDavid Walsh1:21.06
1985$48,000Super TaiDavid Peake1:21.09
1984$37,300Abit LeicaP W Fearon1:21.53
1983$29,140PinsonD Moseley1:23.42
1982$31,200GivenchyDavid Peake1:25.3
1981$31,000Mun LeeGreg Childs1:22.7
1980$31,000Coobers QueenG Phillips1:26.87
1979$31,000March LegendRC Lang1:26.0
1978$27,300Copper BeltJ W Walker1:22.4
1977SoliloquyD Medcalfe1:23.1
1976$16,000MopP Trotter1:22.1
1975Auditor
1974Kings Romance