The Churchill Downs Cup () 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.
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 Time1992El Casa RiverTaisei YamadaRyohei TanakaCrear1:37.51993Grand ShingekiYukihiro DoiIchizo IwamotoMitsugu Tsurumoto1:38.31994Merci StageToru KawakitaYukihau OnoYasuo Nagai1:42.91995Eishin BerlinKatsumi MinaiMasanori SakaguchiToyomitsu Hirai1:34.31996Sugino HayakazeHirokazu TajimaYukiharu ShikatoYoshio Sugie1:33.91997Brave TenderMikio MatsunagaYasuo IkeeKoji Maeda1:36.11998Dublin LionOlivier PeslierHidetaka TadokoroSeisuke Hata1:34.61999Eishin CameronYutaka TakeMasanori SakaguchiToyomitsu Hirai1:35.8 2000 Eishin Preston Yuichi Fukunaga Shuji KitahashiToyomitsu Hirai 1:35.7 2001 Dantsu Flame Yutaka Take Kenji YamauchiTetsuji Yamaji 1:37.9 2002 Tanino Gimlet Yutaka Take Kunihide MasturaYuzo Tanimizu 1:33.9 2003 Win Kluger Koshiro Take Shigeki MatsumotoWin 1:36.8 2004 Seeking The Dia Yutaka Take Hideyuki MoriYoichi Aoyama 1:35.8 2005 Big Planet Yutaka Take Katsumi Minai Big 1:34.3 2006 Suteki Shinsukesun Olivier Peslier Hideyuki MoriYoshinori Sakae 1:34.7 2007 Tosen Captain Hirofumi Shii Toshifumi NakajimaTakaya Shimakawa 1:33.9 2008 Dantsu Kissui Shinji Fujita Masaru HondaTetsuji Yamamoto 1:34.6 2009 Double Wedge Futoshi Komaki Masayuki KawashimaTomio Fukami 1:35.6 2010 Cosmo Sensor Shu Ishibashi Masato NishizonoBig Red Farm 1:34.8 2011 Northern River Yutaka Take Hidekazu AsamiMasamichi Hayashi 1:34.2 2012 Just A Way Yuichi Fukunaga Naosuke SugaiAkira Yamatoya 1:36.3 2013 Copano Richard William Buick Toru MiyaSachiaki Kobayashi 1:34.8 2014 Mikki Isle Suguru Hamanaka Hidetaka OtonashiMizuki Noda 1:34.0 2015 Young Man Power Masami Matsuoka Takahisa TezukaJuichi Hoshino 1:35.9 2016 Rainbow Line Mirco Demuro Hidekazu AsamiMasahiro Mita 1:34.1 2017 Persian Knight Mirco Demuro Yasutoshi IkeeG1 Racing 1:34.1 2018 Tower of London Christophe Lemaire Kazuo FujisawaGodolphin 1:33.4 2019 Iberis Suguru Hamanaka Koichi TsunodaKoji Maeda 1:34.2 2020 Taisei Vision Shu Ishibashi Masayuki NishimuraSeiho Tanaka 1:34.3 2021 Ho O Amazon Yuga Kawada Yoshito YahagiYoshio Kozasa 1:34.2 2022 Danon Scorpion Yuga Kawada Takayuki YasudaDanox 1:32.7 2023 Obamburumai Yutaka Take Keiji YoshimuraKoji Oka 1:33.92024Di SperanzaJoão MoreiraTatsuya YoshiokaTurf Sports1:34.12025Lance of ChaosSeinosuke YoshimuraYutaka OkumuraYoshinori Itsukage1:32.22026Ask IkigomiRyusei SakaiHideaki FujiwaraHirosaki Toshihiro Holdings1:34.1
The 2019 winner Iberis was a filly.
See also Horse racing in Japan List of Japanese flat horse races
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