This years 2010 Japan Cup field lines up for prizemoney of 528 million yen or in Australian terms is $6.5 million which makes it one of the worlds most prestigious races to win. Japanese horses are very competitive and its not hard finding many tips for the locals their best hopes this year appears to be Buena Vista and Nakayama Festa. Aidan O’Brien doesnt travel with horses for the fun of it and his horse Joshua Tree is good odds at nearly $20 with Luxbet.
Our tips are 16 to beat 12 and 11 for third.
Here is a list of the full field and gaming giant Tabcorp are betting on the event online through their bookmaker Luxbet
Horse (Country) Jockey Trainer
| 1 | VOILA ICE (IRE) | Mirco Demuro | Vittorio Caruso | 57.0 |
| 2 | VICTOIRE PISA (JPN) | Maxime Guyon | Katsuhiko Sumii | 55.0 |
| 3 | DANDINO (GB) | Paul Mulrennan | James Given | 55.0 |
| 4 | SHINGEN (JPN) | Shinji Fujita | Hirofumi Toda | 57.0 |
| 5 | MORES WELLS (GB) | Sebastien Maillot | Richard Gibson | 57.0 |
| 6 | ROSE KINGDOM (JPN) | Yutaka Take | Kojiro Hashiguchi | 55.0 |
| 7 | PELUSA (JPN) | Katsumi Ando | Kazuo Fujisawa | 55.0 |
| 8 | JAGUAR MAIL (JPN) | Ryan Moore | Noriyuki Hori | 57.0 |
| 9 | TIMOS (GER) | Olivier Peslier | Thierry Doumen | 57.0 |
| 10 | EISHIN FLASH (JPN) | Hiroyuki Uchida | Hideaki Fujiwara | 55.0 |
| 11 | NAKAYAMA FESTA (JPN) | Masayoshi Ebina | Yoshitaka Ninomiya | 57.0 |
| 12 | JOSHUA TREE (IRE) | Colm O’Donoghue | Aidan O’Brien | 55.0 |
| 13 | MEISHO BELUGA (JPN) | Kenichi Ikezoe | Kaneo Ikezoe | 55.0 |
| 14 | OKEN BRUCE LEE (JPN) | Christophe Lemaire | Hidetaka Otonashi | 57.0 |
| 15 | FIFTY PROOF (CAN) | Justin Stein | Ian Black | 57.0 |
| 16 | BUENA VISTA (JPN) | Christophe Soumillon | Hiroyoshi Matsuda | 55.0 |
| 17 | MARINOUS (FR) | Davy Bonilla | Frederic Head | 57.0 |
| 18 | CIRRUS DES AIGLES (FR) | Franck Blondel | Corinne Barande-Barbe | 57.0 |
