Nippon TV Hai

The Nippon TV Hai (in Japanese: 日本テレビ盃), is a horse race for three-year-olds and up at Funabashi Racecourse.

Race details

The first edition of the race took place on August 4, 1954.^[1]

The race is usually held in the fall with no set month.^[1]

The race is named after the Japanese television station, Nippon TV.

Winners since 2015 include:^[1]^[2]

Year	Winner	Jockey	Trainer	Time
2015	Sound True^[3]	Takuya Oono	Noboru Takagi	1:50.2
2016	Awardee^[4]	Yutaka Take	Mikio Matsunaga	1:52.0
2017	Apollo Kentucky^[5]	Hiroyuki Uchida	Kenji Yamauchi	1:52.9
2018	K T Brave^[6]	Yuichi Fukunaga	Haruki Sugiyama	1:52.5
2019	Chrysoberyl	Yuga Kawada	Hidetaka Otonashi	1:52.1
2020	Lord Bless	Kousei Miura	Yutaka Okumura	1:50.5
2021	Salsa Dione	Takayuki Yano	Chiaki Hori	1:53.5
2022	Field Sense	Kouta Motohashi	Takayuki Yamashita	1:53.0
2023	Ushba Tesoro^[7]	Yuga Kawada	Noboru Takagi	1:51.7
2024	William Barows	Ryusei Sakai	Hiroyuki Uemura	1:52.8

Past winners include:^[1]

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^ "K T Brave". JBIS. Retrieved 11 August 2019.
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