The Arlington Cup (Japanese アーリントンカップ) is a Grade 3 horse race for three-year-old Thoroughbreds run in April over a distance of 1600 metres at Hanshin Racecourse.[1]
| Grade 3 race | |
.jpg) 2018 Arlington Cup winner Tower of London | |
| Location | Hanshin Racecourse |
|---|---|
| Inaugurated | 1992 |
| Race type | Thoroughbred Flat racing |
| Race information | |
| Distance | 1600 metres |
| Surface | Turf |
| Track | Right-handed |
| Qualification | 3-y-o |
| Weight | 57 kg Allowance: Fillies 2 kg |
| Purse | ¥ 87,960,000 (as of 2024) 1st: ¥ 41,000,000 2nd: ¥ 16,000,000 3rd: ¥ 10,000,000 |
The race was first run in 1992 and has held Grade 3 status ever since. It serves as a trial race for the NHK Mile Cup. Past winners of the race have included Eishin Preston, Tanino Gimlet, Just A Way and Mikki Isle.
Winners since 2000 edit
| Year |
Winner |
Jockey |
Trainer |
Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Eishin Preston | Yuichi Fukunaga | Shuji Kitahashi | 1:35.7 |
| 2001 | Dantsu Flame | Yutaka Take | Kenji Yamauchi | 1:37.9 |
| 2002 | Tanino Gimlet | Yutaka Take | Kunihide Mastura | 1:33.9 |
| 2003 | Win Kluger | Koshiro Take | Shigeki Matsumoto | 1:36.8 |
| 2004 | Seeking The Dia | Yutaka Take | Hideyuki Mori | 1:35.8 |
| 2005 | Big Planet | Yutaka Take | Katsumi Minai | 1:34.3 |
| 2006 | Suteki Shinsukesun | Olivier Peslier | Hideyuki Mori | 1:34.7 |
| 2007 | Tosen Captain | Hirofumi Shii | Toshifumi Nakajima | 1:33.9 |
| 2008 | Dantsu Kissui | Shinji Fujita | Masaru Honda | 1:34.6 |
| 2009 | Double Wedge | Futoshi Komaki | Masayuki Kawashima | 1:35.6 |
| 2010 | Cosmo Sensor | Shu Ishibashi | Masato Nishizono | 1:34.8 |
| 2011 | Northern River | Yutaka Take | Hidekazu Asami | 1:34.2 |
| 2012 | Just A Way | Yuichi Fukunaga | Naosuke Sugai | 1:36.3 |
| 2013 | Copano Richard | William Buick | Toru Miya | 1:34.8 |
| 2014 | Mikki Isle | Suguru Hamanaka | Hidetaka Otonashi | 1:34.0 |
| 2015 | Young Man Power | Masami Matsuoka | Takahisa Tezuka | 1:35.9 |
| 2016 | Rainbow Line | Mirco Demuro | Hidekazu Asami | 1:34.1 |
| 2017 | Persian Knight | Mirco Demuro | Yasutoshi Ikee | 1:34.1[2] |
| 2018 | Tower of London | Christophe Lemaire | Kazuo Fujisawa | 1:33.4[3] |
| 2019 | Iberis [a] | Suguru Hamanaka | Koichi Tsunoda | 1:34.2[4] |
| 2020 | Taisei Vision | Shu Ishibashi | Masayuki Nishimura | 1:34.3 |
| 2021 | Ho O Amazon | Yuga Kawada | Yoshito Yahagi | 1:34.2 |
| 2022 | Danon Scorpion | Yuga Kawada | Takayuki Yasuda | 1:32.7 |
| 2023 | Obamburumai | Yutaka Take | Keiji Yoshimura | 1:33.9 |
| 2024 | Di Speranza | João Moreira | Tatsuya Yoshioka | 1:34.1 |
Earlier winners edit
- 1992 - El Casa River
- 1993 - Grand Shingeki
- 1994 - Merci Stage
- 1995 - Eishin Berlin
- 1996 - Sugino Hayakaze
- 1997 - Brave Tender
- 1998 - Dublin Lion
- 1999 - Eishin Cameron
See also edit
References edit
- ^ "Arlington Cup". Horse Racing in Japan.
- ^ "2017 result". Racing Post. 25 February 2017.
- ^ "2018 result". Racing Post. 14 April 2018.
- ^ "2019 result". Racing Post. 13 April 2019.
- ^ "アーリントンC". Netkeiba.
- ^ "Arlington Cup". Netkeiba.