| Surface: | Turf |
| Class: | Grade 3 |
| Horse Race: | Arlington Cup アーリントンカップ |
| Location: | Hanshin Racecourse |
| Inaugurated: | 1992 |
| Race Type: | Thoroughbred Flat racing |
| Distance: | 1600 metres |
| Track: | Right-handed |
| Qualification: | 3-y-o |
| Weight: | 57 kg Allowance: Fillies 2 kg |
The Arlington Cup (Japanese アーリントンカップ) is a Grade 3 horse race for three-year-old Thoroughbreds run in April over a distance of 1600 metres at Hanshin Racecourse.[1]
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.
| Year | Winner | Jockey | Trainer | Time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Eishin Preston | Yuichi Fukunaga | Shuji Kitahashi | 1:35.7 | |
| 2001 | Dantsu Flame | Yutaka Take | Kenji Yamauchi | 1:37.9 | |
| 2002 | Tanino Gimlet | Yutaka Take | Kunihide Mastura | 1:33.9 | |
| 2003 | Win Kluger | Koshiro Take | Shigeki Matsumoto | 1:36.8 | |
| 2004 | Seeking The Dia | Yutaka Take | Hideyuki Mori | 1:35.8 | |
| 2005 | Big Planet | Yutaka Take | Katsumi Minai | 1:34.3 | |
| 2006 | Suteki Shinsukesun | Olivier Peslier | Hideyuki Mori | 1:34.7 | |
| 2007 | Tosen Captain | Hirofumi Shii | Toshifumi Nakajima | 1:33.9 | |
| 2008 | Dantsu Kissui | Shinji Fujita | Masaru Honda | 1:34.6 | |
| 2009 | Double Wedge | Futoshi Komaki | Masayuki Kawashima | 1:35.6 | |
| 2010 | Cosmo Sensor | Shu Ishibashi | Masato Nishizono | 1:34.8 | |
| 2011 | Northern River | Yutaka Take | Hidekazu Asami | 1:34.2 | |
| 2012 | Just A Way | Yuichi Fukunaga | Naosuke Sugai | 1:36.3 | |
| 2013 | Copano Richard | William Buick | Toru Miya | 1:34.8 | |
| 2014 | Mikki Isle | Suguru Hamanaka | Hidetaka Otonashi | 1:34.0 | |
| 2015 | Young Man Power | Masami Matsuoka | Takahisa Tezuka | 1:35.9 | |
| 2016 | Rainbow Line | Mirco Demuro | Hidekazu Asami | 1:34.1 | |
| 2017 | Persian Knight | Mirco Demuro | Yasutoshi Ikee | 1:34.1[2] | |
| 2018 | Tower of London | Christophe Lemaire | Kazuo Fujisawa | 1:33.4[3] | |
| 2019 | Iberis | Suguru Hamanaka | Koichi Tsunoda | 1:34.2[4] | |
| 2020 | Taisei Vision | Shu Ishibashi | Masayuki Nishimura | 1:34.3 | |
| 2021 | Ho O Amazon | Yuga Kawada | Yoshito Yahagi | 1:34.2 | |
| 2022 | Danon Scorpion | Yuga Kawada | Takayuki Yasuda | 1:32.7 | |
| 2023 | Obamburumai | Yutaka Take | Keiji Yoshimura | 1:33.9 | |
| 2024 | Di Speranza | João Moreira | Tatsuya Yoshioka | 1:34.1 |
The 2019 winner Iberis was a filly.