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The Gold Cup is a Group 1 flat horse race in Great Britain open to horses aged four years or older. It is run at Ascot over a distance of 2 miles 3 furlongs and 210 yards (4,014 metres), and it is scheduled to take place each year in June. The Ascot Gold Cup, 1834 by James Pollard
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.
Royal Ascot Gold Cup. Thursday 22 June 2023 16:21, Ben Fleming. And we are off - two and a half miles for one of these horses to etch their name in the Gold Cup history books! Royal Ascot Gold Cup ...
Hong Kong Gold Cup, run over 2000 metres (1.2 mi) Hong Kong Champions & Chater Cup, run over 2400 metres (1.5 mi) The only horse to win the Hong Kong Triple Crown is: River Verdon – 1994; There are two other Triple Crown series: the Hong Kong Speed Series and the Four-Year-Old Classic Series. Hong Kong Speed Series (International Group 1):
Royal Ascot schedule, racecard and all the action after Frankie Dettori’s Gold Cup win. ... Porta Fortuna is a first Royal Ascot winner for Donnacha O’Brien too. Lots to unpack from that race ...
Khaadem caused an 80-1 upset in the Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Stakes at Royal Ascot. Winner of the Stewards’ Cup in 2019, he was fourth in the corresponding race in 2020 but had always come up ...
On 20 June, at Royal Ascot, Twilight Alley was ridden by Lester Piggott in the Ascot Gold Cup. He started at odds of 100/30 in against six opponents including the French challengers Balto (winner of the Grand Prix de Paris in 1961 and the Gold Cup in 1962), Misti (third in the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe ) and Taine (winner of the Prix du Cadran ...
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.