Flower Cup
Horse race
Grade 3 race | |
Trend Hunter win the Flower Cup in 2011 | |
Location | Nakayama Racecourse |
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Inaugurated | 1987 |
Race type | Thoroughbred Flat racing |
Race information | |
Distance | 1800 metres |
Surface | Turf |
Track | Right-handed |
Qualification | 3-y-o fillies |
Weight | 55 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.[1]
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 |
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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 [a] | 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[2] |
2018 | Cantabile | Mirco Demuro | Katsuhiko Sumii | 1:49.2 [3] |
2019 | Contra Check | Genki Maruyama | Kazuo Fujisawa | 1:47.4[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 |
a 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
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