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The Gold Cup is the first leg of Britain's Stayers' Triple Crown, followed by the Goodwood Cup and the Doncaster Cup. The last horse to win all three races in the same year was Stradivarius in 2019. The Gold Cup is one of three perpetual trophies at the Royal Ascot meeting, along with the Royal Hunt Cup and the Queen's Vase , which can be kept ...
The race was first run as the United House Gold Cup on 28 October 2006 as a Class 2 race. It was worth £100,000 and was run over three miles. In 2009 the race was upgraded to Listed class and was further upgraded to Grade 3 in 2011. Sodexo sponsored the race from 2015 to 2020 and Bateaux London have been the sponsors since 2021.
The Royal Hunt Cup is a flat handicap horse race in Great Britain open to horses aged three years or older. It is run at Ascot over a distance of 1 mile (1,609 metres), and it is scheduled to take place each year in June.
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Park Avenue Joe was declared the winner for parimutuel and prize money purposes, based on the two heat and runoff format, based on average finish (second and first in the two heats; Probe was first and ninth). [25] 1995 – in the Hong Kong Champions & Chater Cup, between Makarpura Star and Survey King. [26]
On 20 June, Gildoran attempted to win a second Gold Cup at Royal Ascot against a field which included Old Country, Longboat, Destroyer and Petrizzo as well as the Yorkshire Cup winner Ilium and the Grand Prix de Paris winner Yawa. Ridden by the Australian jockey Brent Thomson, Gildoran started the 5/2 joint-favourite with Old Country. He took ...
At Royal Ascot Rite Of Passage ran in his third conventional flat race, the Group One Ascot Gold Cup over two and a half miles for which he started a 20/1 outsider. He raced in third and survived a "barging match" with the tiring Akmal (for which Smullen was subsequently disciplined) [ 11 ] to challenge Age of Aquarius for the lead a furlong out.
Yeats' first start of the 2006 season was at Royal Ascot in the Ascot Gold Cup, some 247 days after the Woodbine Canadian International Stakes. Fallon adopted a prominent position towards the start, and got to the front 4 furlongs out, and was only pulling away towards the end, winning by 4 lengths from Prix du Cadran winner Reefscape.