Flower Cup

Flower Cup
Grade 3 race
	Trend Hunter win the Flower Cup in 2011
Location	Nakayama Racecourse
Inaugurated	1987
Race type	Thoroughbred Flat racing
Race information
Distance	1800 metres
Surface	Turf
Track	Right-handed
Qualification	3-y-o fillies
Weight	54 kg
Purse	¥75,700,000 (total), ¥35,000,000 (winner)

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]
2019	Ablaze	Kanichiro Fujii	Yasutoshi Ikee	1:48.2

^a The 2011 running took place at Hanshin Racecourse.