In his debut season, he raced twice on the turf but finished down in the order on fourth and eleventh respectively. When he turned three-year-old, the team switched him onto the dirt course. He won his first two starts on dirt with wide margins of seven and ten lengths respectively. The team tried him on the turf again in
Mainichi Hai in which he finished on seventh place. In his first race on the older horses competition, the
Musashino Stakes, he started slowly but failed to catch up on the lead and lost to Sunrise Bacchus. This was his first lost on the dirt track. He ended the season with a race in the
Japan Cup Dirt. When the race began, he started to position himself in the middle of the pack at eighth position. Take then turned him wide on the final corner and unleashed the finishing kick on the outside. 400 meters to the line, Star King Man, Seeking the Dia and himself battled it out in which Kane Hekili won it by a neck against the other two in a photo finish. With seven wins out of eight dirt races, Kane Hekili was awarded with the
JRA Award for Best Dirt Horse of the year. He started the 2006 season with the
February Stakes. In the race, Meisho Bowler and Tosho Gear went on early to set up the pace for the race. Once the rhythm settled and they nearing the final stretch, Seeking the Dia sprinted early to the lead. Kane Hekili swept around the outside and stormed past Seeking the Dia for the win by three lengths. He finished the race just 0.2 second slower than the record set up by Meisho Bowler in the previous year which set him up excellently for the
Dubai World Cup. He was eventually beaten at
Nad Al Sheba, finished in fifth ten lengths behind the winner,
Electrocutionist. Aftermath, he got promoted to fourth place as
Brass Hat was
disqualified because a post-race test revealed trace amounts of the drug
methylprednisolone acetate. When he returned to Japan, he raced in the
Teio Sho. He finished second on the race a length behind one of the strongest regional horse of that time, Adjudi Mitsuo. He then trained for the
Mile Championship Nambu Hai but was diagnosed with
tendonitis and had to be sidelined for a long time. Kane Hekili returned back to the stable for recovery training in September 2007 but his right front superficial flexor tendonitis flared up again. He was sent back to the
Northern Farm for recuperation, in which he undergone a stem-cell transplant on his injured area to fasten the regenerative tissues timeline. He was fully recovered on November 2008 in which he participated in another Musashino Stakes, the race he lost back in 2005. He was the second favorite, but he raced a little hard throughout the race and when he turned into the straight, the horses around him formed an umbrella-like wall around him. This blockage prevented him from breaking away either in front or to the side and he finished in ninth place with too much energy left. On December 7, he ran in the Japan Cup Dirt. This time, he was jockeyed by
Christophe Lemaire. He got off in a good start, ran mostly on the inside lane before moving to the outside on the final corner and managed to hang on the battle with both Meisho Tokon and Vermilion for final 100 meters to win the race. This is his first win since the 2006 February Stakes, two years and ten months ago. Lemaire stayed on with Kane Hekili for the next race which would be the
Tokyo Daishoten. In that race, Lemaire ride him in the similar fashion by riding outside on the final corner and having a duel with Vermilion (which was jockeyed by Take) to the line and got the win by a neck. His 2 G1 wins near the end of the year after the comeback was fruitful as he won the JRA Award for Best Dirt Horse for the second time after two years of absence. In 2009, Kane Hekili started the campaign with the
Kawasaki Kinen, a JPNI race in
Kawasaki Racecourse. With Lemaire still on the reign, he managed to maintain his winning streak. This time, he won the race by half margin against Furioso. Then, the team entered him on the February Stakes for a fourth straight GI/JPNI race win and he was the favourite to do it. The attempt was unsuccessful as Success Brocken, upset the field and Kane Hekili finished in third behind him and Casino Drive. On May 5, he entered the
Kashiwa Kinen. In the rainy condition, he entered the straight late as
Espoir City already put the foot ready for the final spurt. He ended up finishing in second place three quarters of a length behind Espoir City. The post-race examination showed that Kane Hekili suffered a fracture on the
third phalange in his left foot, forcing him to take a year off the track. He returned back to racetrack in 2010, after passing a gate test to fulfill new requirements for the regional dirt track for the horse that was rested for one year or more. He was eligible for the Teio Sho with
Norihiro Yokoyama as his jockey this time. During the race, he attempted to push from the middle of the pack but finished two and a half lengths in second-place behind Furioso. He won the next race which was the Mercury Cup, a JPNIII race in
Morioka Racecourse by five lengths over Blue Lad in the second place. On August 12, he entered the Breeders' Gold Cup which was held in Monbetsu Racecourse. In the race, he positioned himself well in the front group and even took the lead for awhile but he was surpassed by Silk Mobius and ended up in second place, four lengths behind. ==Racing form==