The Waikato Sprint is a Thoroughbred horse race

Thoroughbred horse race

Thoroughbred horse racing is a worldwide sport and industry involving the racing of Thoroughbred horses. It is governed by different national bodies. There are two forms of the sport: Flat racing and National Hunt racing...

 run at Te Rapa Racecourse in Hamilton in early February every year. Currently sponsored by Waikato Draught, the race has become one of the highlights of the New Zealand summer racing season.

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

Sunline

Sunline was a New Zealand bred Thoroughbred racehorse who was the world's highest earning racemare of her time, competing on 48 occasions for 32 wins, 9 seconds and 3 thirds to earn A$11,351,607. She won races in three different countries, Australia, New Zealand and Hong Kong. She won successive...

 in 2001-02.

Winners of the Waikato Sprint

Year	Winner
2011	Mufhasa
2010	Tavistock
2009	Mufhasa
2008	Seachange Seachange (horse) Seachange is a top New Zealand thoroughbred racehorse. She won a record seven Group I races in New Zealand. Her regular rider in New Zealand was Gavin McKeon....
2007	Darci Brahma Darci Brahma Darci Brahma is a New Zealand thoroughbred colt foaled in 2002 at Pencarrow Stud near Cambridge in New Zealand. He was auctioned at the New Zealand Bloodstock Ltd Yearling Sales in January 2004 and acquired by a syndicate of ten investors for the sum of NZ$1.1 million.-2004–2005 season:Sent...
2006	Kristov
2005	Sedecrem
2004	Sedecrem
2003	Tit For Taat
2002	Sunline Sunline Sunline was a New Zealand bred Thoroughbred racehorse who was the world's highest earning racemare of her time, competing on 48 occasions for 32 wins, 9 seconds and 3 thirds to earn A$11,351,607. She won races in three different countries, Australia, New Zealand and Hong Kong. She won successive...
2001	Sunline Sunline Sunline was a New Zealand bred Thoroughbred racehorse who was the world's highest earning racemare of her time, competing on 48 occasions for 32 wins, 9 seconds and 3 thirds to earn A$11,351,607. She won races in three different countries, Australia, New Zealand and Hong Kong. She won successive...
2000	Tall Poppy
1999	Surface
1998	Rebel
1997	Avedon
1996	Allegro
1995	Snap
1994	Western Red
1993	Veandercross Veandercross Veandercross was a New Zealand bred Thoroughbred gelding who won 14 stakes races, , and was chosen Australian Champion Racehorse of the Year for the 1992/93 season....
1992	Mrs Selleck
1991	Mr Tiz
1990	Not Held
1989	Poetic Prince
1988	Courier Bay
1987	Courier Bay
1986	Tanalyse
1985	Super Tai
1984	Abit Leica
1983	Pinson
1982	Givenchy
1981	Mun Lee
1980	Coobers Queen
1979	March Legend
1978	Copper Belt
1977	Soliloquy
1976	Mop
1975	Auditor
1974	Kings Romance