Tags: Horse Race, Race.
The NHK Mile Cup (NHKマイルカップ (NHK Mairu Kappu)) is a Grade 1 flat horse race in Japan for three-year-old thoroughbred colts and fillies run over a distance of 1600 metres (approximately one mile) on the turf at Tokyo Racecourse in May.The NHK Mile Cup is sponsored by the Japanese public broadcasting organization NHK and as such this race is broadcast not only on Fuji TV (one of NHK’s competitors) but on one of the NHK channels that cover horse racing (NHK General TV; the other BS-1 covers certain other races such as the Japan Cup).