Flower Cup

Horse race

Flower Cup
フラワーカップ
Race information
Grade 3 race
Trend Hunter win the Flower Cup in 2011
Location	Nakayama Racecourse
Inaugurated	1987
Race type	Thoroughbred Flat racing
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
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

References

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^ "Flower Cup". Horse Racing in Japan.
^ "2017 result". Racing Post. 20 March 2017.
^ "2018 result". Racing Post. 17 March 2018.
^ "2019 result". Racing Post. 16 March 2019.
^ "フラワーC". Netkeiba.
^ "Flower Cup". Netkeiba.

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