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Horse race
Churchill Downs Cup
チャーチルダウンズカップ
Grade 3 race
2018 winner Tower of London
LocationHanshin Racecourse
Inaugurated1992
Race typeThoroughbred Flat racing
Race information
Distance1600 metres
SurfaceTurf
TrackRight-handed
Qualification3-y-o
Weight57 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 Churchill Downs Cup (Japanese チャーチルダウンズカップ) is a Grade 3 horse race for three-year-old Thoroughbreds run in April over a distance of 1600 metres at Hanshin Racecourse.

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. Formerly named Arlington Cup, it was renamed to Churchill Downs Cup in 2025.

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
2018 Tower of London Christophe Lemaire Kazuo Fujisawa 1:33.4
2019 Iberis Suguru Hamanaka Koichi Tsunoda 1:34.2
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

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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