| Surface: | Turf |
| Class: | Grade 3 |
| Horse Race: | Flower Cup フラワーカップ |
| Location: | Nakayama Racecourse |
| Inaugurated: | 1987 |
| Race Type: | Thoroughbred Flat racing |
| Distance: | 1800 metres |
| Track: | Right-handed |
| Qualification: | 3-y-o fillies |
| Weight: | 55 kg |
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.
| 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 | 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 |
The 2011 running took place at Hanshin Racecourse.