Arlington Cup

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]

Arlington Cup

Grade 3 race
Hanshin Racecourse
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	Colts 56 kg, fillies 54 kg
Purse	¥81,880,000 (total), ¥38,000,000 (winner)

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

^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

• Horse racing in Japan
• List of Japanese flat horse races

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.