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Horse race
Flower Cup
フラワーカップ
Grade 3 race
Trend Hunter win the Flower Cup in 2011
LocationNakayama Racecourse
Inaugurated1987
Race typeThoroughbred Flat racing
Race information
Distance1800 metres
SurfaceTurf
TrackRight-handed
Qualification3-y-o fillies
Weight55 kg
Purse¥ 82,380,000 (as of 2024)
1st: ¥ 38,000,000
2nd: ¥ 15,000,000
3rd: ¥ 10,000,000

The Flower Cup (Japanese フラワーカップ) is a Grade 3 horse race for three-year-old Thoroughbred fillies run in March over a distance of 1800 metres at Nakayama Racecourse.

The race was first run in 1987 and has been run at Grade 3 level ever since.

Winners since 2000

Year
 Winner
 Jockey
 Trainer
 Time
2000 Maltese Superb Yoshitomi Shibata Masahiro Horii 1:50.8
2001 Time Fair Lady Masayoshi Ebina Eiji Nakano 1:50.3
2002 Smile Tomorrow Yukio Okabe Kazuhiro Seishi 1:49.1
2003 Meine Nouvelle Norihiro Yokoyama Ryuichi Inaba 1:49.5
2004 Dance in the Mood Yutaka Take Kazuo Fujisawa 1:50.9
2005 Cesario Yuichi Fukunaga Katsuhiko Sumii 1:49.0
2006 Kiss To Heaven Norihiro Yokoyama Hirofumi Toda 1:48.9
2007 Shonan Talent Yoshitomi Shibata Yoshitaka Ninomiya 1:49.6
2008 Black Emblem Masami Matsuoka Shigeyuki Kojima 1:49.5
2009 Viva Vodka Issei Murata Kazuhiro Seishi 1:49.3
2010 Oken Sakura Hiroki Goto Hidetaka Otonashi 1:50.3
2011 Trend Hunter Yasunari Iwata Hiroyoshi Matsuda 1:47.0
2012 Omega Heartland Shu Ishibashi Noriyuki Hori 1:53.3
2013 Sakura Plaisir Norihiro Yokoyama Tomohito Ozeki 1:50.0
2014 Bounce Shasse Hiroshi Kitamura Kazuo Fujisawa 1:51.3
2015 Albiano Yuichi Shibayama Tetsuya Kimura 1:49.4
2016 Angel Face Yuichi Fukunaga Hideaki Fujiwara 1:49.3
2017 Fan Dii Na Yasunari Iwata Tomokazu Takano 1:48.7
2018 Cantabile Mirco Demuro Katsuhiko Sumii 1:49.2
2019 Contra Check Genki Maruyama Kazuo Fujisawa 1:47.4
2020 Ablaze Kanichiro Fujii Yasutoshi Ikee 1:48.2
2021 Ho O Ixelles Kyosuke Maruta Mizuki Takayanagi 1:49.2
2022 Stunning Rose Yuga Kawada Tomokazu Takano 1:48.5
2023 Emu Mirco Demuro Shoichiro Wada 1:53.2
2024 Mi Anhelo Akihide Tsumura Toru Hayashi 1:48.0

The 2011 running took place at Hanshin Racecourse.

Earlier winners

  • 1987 - Hase Vertex
  • 1988 - Free Talk
  • 1989 - Real Sapphire
  • 1990 - Yukino Surprise
  • 1991 - Flash Shower
  • 1992 - Brand Art
  • 1993 - Hokuto Vega
  • 1994 - Onward Noble
  • 1995 - Ibuki New Star
  • 1996 - Hishi Batalie
  • 1997 - Seeking the Pearl
  • 1998 - Sugino Cutie
  • 1999 - Sayaki

See also

References

  1. "Flower Cup". Horse Racing in Japan.
  2. "2017 result". Racing Post. 20 March 2017.
  3. "2018 result". Racing Post. 17 March 2018.
  4. "2019 result". Racing Post. 16 March 2019.
  5. "フラワーC". Netkeiba.
  6. "Flower Cup". Netkeiba.
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