Churchill Downs Cup
Horse race in Japan
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The Churchill Downs Cup (Japanese: チャーチルダウンズカップ) is a Grade 3 horse race organized annually by the Japan Racing Association (JRA) for three-year-old Thoroughbreds. It is run in April over a distance of 1600 metres at Hanshin Racecourse.[1]
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2018 winner Tower of London | |
| Class | Grade 3 |
|---|---|
| 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 | 57 kg Allowance: Fillies 2 kg |
| Purse | ¥ 87,960,000 (as of 2025)
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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.
Past winners
| Year |
Winner |
Jockey |
Trainer |
Owner |
Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | El Casa River | Taisei Yamada | Ryohei Tanaka | Crear | 1:37.5 |
| 1993 | Grand Shingeki | Yukihiro Doi | Ichizo Iwamoto | Mitsugu Tsurumoto | 1:38.3 |
| 1994 | Merci Stage | Toru Kawakita | Yukihau Ono | Yasuo Nagai | 1:42.9 |
| 1995 | Eishin Berlin | Katsumi Minai | Masanori Sakaguchi | Toyomitsu Hirai | 1:34.3 |
| 1996 | Sugino Hayakaze | Hirokazu Tajima | Yukiharu Shikato | Yoshio Sugie | 1:33.9 |
| 1997 | Brave Tender | Mikio Matsunaga | Yasuo Ikee | Koji Maeda | 1:36.1 |
| 1998 | Dublin Lion | Olivier Peslier | Hidetaka Tadokoro | Seisuke Hata | 1:34.6 |
| 1999 | Eishin Cameron | Yutaka Take | Masanori Sakaguchi | Toyomitsu Hirai | 1:35.8 |
| 2000 | Eishin Preston | Yuichi Fukunaga | Shuji Kitahashi | Toyomitsu Hirai | 1:35.7 |
| 2001 | Dantsu Flame | Yutaka Take | Kenji Yamauchi | Tetsuji Yamaji | 1:37.9 |
| 2002 | Tanino Gimlet | Yutaka Take | Kunihide Mastura | Yuzo Tanimizu | 1:33.9 |
| 2003 | Win Kluger | Koshiro Take | Shigeki Matsumoto | Win | 1:36.8 |
| 2004 | Seeking The Dia | Yutaka Take | Hideyuki Mori | Yoichi Aoyama | 1:35.8 |
| 2005 | Big Planet | Yutaka Take | Katsumi Minai | Big | 1:34.3 |
| 2006 | Suteki Shinsukesun | Olivier Peslier | Hideyuki Mori | Yoshinori Sakae | 1:34.7 |
| 2007 | Tosen Captain | Hirofumi Shii | Toshifumi Nakajima | Takaya Shimakawa | 1:33.9 |
| 2008 | Dantsu Kissui | Shinji Fujita | Masaru Honda | Tetsuji Yamamoto | 1:34.6 |
| 2009 | Double Wedge | Futoshi Komaki | Masayuki Kawashima | Tomio Fukami | 1:35.6 |
| 2010 | Cosmo Sensor | Shu Ishibashi | Masato Nishizono | Big Red Farm | 1:34.8 |
| 2011 | Northern River | Yutaka Take | Hidekazu Asami | Masamichi Hayashi | 1:34.2 |
| 2012 | Just A Way | Yuichi Fukunaga | Naosuke Sugai | Akira Yamatoya | 1:36.3 |
| 2013 | Copano Richard | William Buick | Toru Miya | Sachiaki Kobayashi | 1:34.8 |
| 2014 | Mikki Isle | Suguru Hamanaka | Hidetaka Otonashi | Mizuki Noda | 1:34.0 |
| 2015 | Young Man Power | Masami Matsuoka | Takahisa Tezuka | Juichi Hoshino | 1:35.9 |
| 2016 | Rainbow Line | Mirco Demuro | Hidekazu Asami | Masahiro Mita | 1:34.1 |
| 2017 | Persian Knight | Mirco Demuro | Yasutoshi Ikee | G1 Racing | 1:34.1[2] |
| 2018 | Tower of London | Christophe Lemaire | Kazuo Fujisawa | Godolphin | 1:33.4[3] |
| 2019 | Iberis [a] | Suguru Hamanaka | Koichi Tsunoda | Koji Maeda | 1:34.2[4] |
| 2020 | Taisei Vision | Shu Ishibashi | Masayuki Nishimura | Seiho Tanaka | 1:34.3 |
| 2021 | Ho O Amazon | Yuga Kawada | Yoshito Yahagi | Yoshio Kozasa | 1:34.2 |
| 2022 | Danon Scorpion | Yuga Kawada | Takayuki Yasuda | Danox | 1:32.7 |
| 2023 | Obamburumai | Yutaka Take | Keiji Yoshimura | Koji Oka | 1:33.9 |
| 2024 | Di Speranza | João Moreira | Tatsuya Yoshioka | Turf Sports | 1:34.1 |
| 2025 | Lance of Chaos | Seinosuke Yoshimura | Yutaka Okumura | Yoshinori Itsukage | 1:32.2 |
| 2026 | Ask Ikigomi | Ryusei Sakai | Hideaki Fujiwara | Hirosaki Toshihiro Holdings | 1:34.1 |