Arlington Cup
アーリントンカップ
Grade 3 race
2018 Arlington Cup winner Tower of London
LocationHanshin Racecourse
Inaugurated1992
Race typeThoroughbred Flat racing
Race information
Distance1600 metres
SurfaceTurf
TrackRight-handed
Qualification3-y-o
WeightColts 56 kg, fillies 54 kg
Purse¥81,880,000 (total), ¥38,000,000 (winner)

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]

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

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

a The 2019 winner Iberis was a filly.

Earlier winners

  • 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

References

  1. ↑ "Arlington Cup". Horse Racing in Japan.
  2. ↑ "2017 result". Racing Post. 25 February 2017.
  3. ↑ "2018 result". Racing Post. 14 April 2018.
  4. ↑ "2019 result". Racing Post. 13 April 2019.
  5. ↑ "アーリントンC". Netkeiba.
  6. ↑ "Arlington Cup". Netkeiba.
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