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Starting in 1904, the Gold Cup consist of three heats, and starting in 1918 the heat distance was 30 statute miles. [3] In 1963 the number of heats was increased to four, but the total distance was reduced to 60 statute miles. [4] In 1976, the Unlimited Racing Commission adopted a winner-take-all format for all its races including the APBA Gold ...
The first race held on the Detroit River was the Gold Cup, in 1916. The community-owned Miss Detroit won the Gold Cup in 1915 on Manhasset Bay, outside of New York City, and earned the right to defend it the following year on home waters. Miss Detroit was a single-step hydroplane, equipped with a 250-horsepower Sterling engine.
The Sandy Lane Gold Cup is a Barbadian Group I Thoroughbred horse race run annually in late February/early March since 1982 at the Garrison Savannah Racetrack in Bridgetown, Barbados. Contested over a turf course at a distance of 1,800 meters (8.95 furlongs), it is open to horses, age three or older.
Detroit remains the only city to win three major professional sports championships in the same year and until 2020 the only city to win NHL and NFL titles in the same year (a feat it repeated in 1952). In individual sports, Gar Wood (a native Detroiter) won the Harmsworth Trophy for unlimited powerboat racing on the Detroit River in 1931.
Jonathon C. "Jono" Jones (born April 30, 1976 in Cascade, Trinidad and Tobago) is a Barbadian-born Canadian jockey in Thoroughbred horse racing who has won each of the Canadian Triple Crown races. The son of the renowned Barbadian jockey/trainer Challenor Jones MBE , Jono Jones began his riding career at the age of fourteen at Garrison Savannah ...
In 1981, Muncey won his last race during the Thunder on the Ohio race at Evansville. On October 18 in Acapulco, Mexico, he was leading the final heat of the World Championship race, [4] but was killed in a blowover crash while travelling 175 mph (282 km/h). [2] [5] [6] [7] He was buried at Glen Abbey Memorial Park in Bonita, California. [8]
Blast of Storm (foaled 1996 in Ireland) was a Barbadian Thoroughbred racehorse who was the first horse to win three consecutive runnings of the Barbados Gold Cup. [1]Trained by William C. Marshall for owner Lady Sally Arbib, Blast of storm was ridden by Jono Jones in all three of his Gold Cup wins.
In 1981, the sixty-three-old Marshall and his wife Pamela moved to Barbados where he would become one of the most important figures in that country's horse racing industry. Among his successes at Garrison Savannah Racetrack , Bill Marshall was a seven-time winner of the island's most prestigious race, the Barbados Gold Cup and a nine-time ...