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.
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 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.
Race results
| Year | Stake | Winner | Jockey | Trainer | Time | 2nd | 3rd |
| 2025 | $500,000 | Here To Shock 59 | Nash Rawiller | Ben, Will & JD Hayes | 1:21.84 | Bosustow 55.5 | Savaglee 55.5 |
| 2024 | $400,000 | Bonny Lass 57 | Craig Grylls | Graham Richardson & Rogan Norvall | 1:21.82 | Crocetti 55.5 | Callsign Mav 59 |
| 2023 | $300,000 | Imperatriz 57 | Opie Bosson | Mark Walker, Matamata | 1:20.70 | Babylon Berlin 57 | Levante 57 |
| 2022 | $220,000 | Levante 57 | Ryan Elliot | Ken & Bev Kelso, Matamata | 1:23.56 | Entriviere 57 | Mascarpone 59 |
| 2021 | $200,000 | Avantage 57.5 | Opie Bosson | Jamie Richards, Matamata | 1:20.87 | Callsign Mav 59 | Mascarpone 59 |
| 2020 | $200,000 | Te Akau Shark 59 | Opie Bosson | Jamie Richards, Matamata | 1:21.7 | The Mitigator 59 | Kiwi Ida 57 |
| 2019 | $200,000 | Melody Belle 57 | Troy Harris | Jamie Richards, Matamata | 1:22.62 | Bostonian 59 | Ardrossan 59 |
| 2018 | $200,000 | Start Wondering 59 | Johnathan Parkes | J J & Evan Rayner, Whanganui | 1:25.80 | Packing Eagle 59 | Brilliant Shine 59 |
| 2017 | $200,000 | Start Wondering 59 | Johnathan Parkes | J J & Evan Rayner, Whanganui | 1:21.22 | Natuzzi 59 | Saracino 55.5 |
| 2016 | $200,000 | Xtravagant 55.5 | Matt Cameron | Stephen Autridge & Jamie Richards, Matamata | 1:21.92 | Vespa 59 | Recite 57 |
| 2015 | $200,000 | Sacred Star 59 | Vincent Colgan | Tony Pike, Cambridge | 1:20.81 | Natuzzi 59 | Spin Doctor 59 |
| 2014 | $200,000 | Viadana 57 | Craig Grylls | Lance Noble, Matamata | 1:22.19 | Sacred Star 59 | Diademe 57 |
| 2013 | $200,000 | Final Touch 57 | Chris Johnson | John & Karen Parsons, Balcairn | 1:21.38 | Xanadu 57 | Zurella 57 |
| 2012 | $200,000 | Veyron 59 | Leith Innes | Linda Laing, Cambridge | 1:20.99 | Mufhasa 59 | Fazzle 57 |
| 2011 | $200,000 | Mufhasa 59 | Samantha Spratt | Stephen McKee, Ardmore | 1:21.09 | Wall Street 59 | Keep The Peace 57 |
| 2010 | $200,000 | Tavistock 59 | Jason Waddell | Andrew Campbell, Opaki | 1:21.30 | Wealth Princess 57 | Mufhasa 59 |
| 2009 | $200,000 | Mufhasa 59 | Samantha Spratt | Stephen McKee, Ardmore | 1:22.54 | Gaze 57 | Ruud Van Slaats 57 |
| 2008 | $200,000 | Seachange 56.5 | Gavin McKeon | Graeme Sanders, Te Awamutu | 1:21.31 | Kay's Awake 56.5 | Run Like Al 55.5 |
| 2007 | $150,000 | Darci Brahma 59 | Opie Bosson | Mark Walker, Matamata | 1:22.35 | Shinzig 59 | Kay's Awake 56.5 |
| 2006 | $150,000 | Kristov 57.5 | Jason Waddell | Phillip Stevens | 1:23.63 | Darci Brahma 53 | Gee I Jane 56 |
| 2005 | $100,000 | Sedecrem | Andrew Calder | Colin Jillings & Richard Yuill, Takanini | 1:22.17 | ||
| 2004 | $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 | $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 | $100,000 | Avedon | Chris Johnson | Patrick Campbell, Awapuni | 1:22.47 | ||
| 1996 | $100,000 | Allegro | Gary Grylls | Chris & Coleen Wood, Cambridge | 1:22.32 | ||
| 1995 | $100,000 | Snap | Lance O'Sullivan | Dave & Paul O'Sullivan, Matamata | 1:26.14 | ||
| 1994 | $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 | $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 | $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 | $48,000 | Super Tai 57.5 | David Peake | Frederick Hill, Stratford | 1:21.09 | ||
| 1984 | $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 | $31,200 | Givenchy 57 | David Peake | Ray Verner, Takanini | 1:25.3 | ||
| 1981 | $31,000 | Mun Lee 56 | Greg Childs | Malcolm Smith, Awapuni | 1:22.7 | ||
| 1980 | $31,000 | Coobers Queen | Gary Phillips | Peter Melville, Kaponga | 1:26.87 | ||
| 1979 | $31,000 | March Legend 57.5 | Roger Lang | Donald Nash, Takanini | 1:26.0 | ||
| 1978 | $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 | $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 |