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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 Miss Detroit hydroplane, piloted by Jack Beebe, won the 1915 American Power Boat Association Gold Cup on Manhasset Bay, outside of New York City.As a result of the victory, Detroit Michigan won the right to host the Gold Cup race the following year (1916), thus thrusting the City of Detroit and the Detroit River into Gold Cup hydroplane racing and making Detroit a major venue for the sport.
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.
APBA Gold Cup, an annual hydroplane racing cup; UAW-GM Spirit of Detroit Hydrofest, an annual hydroplane racing cup on the Detroit River, formerly known as the Gold Cup; HAPO Gold Cup, an H1 Unlimited hydroplane boat race held each July on the Columbia River in Columbia Park, Tri-Cities, Washington
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 ...
Patrick Husbands (born May 22, 1973) is a Barbadian jockey in Thoroughbred horse racing.The son of a jockey, he began riding as a young boy, turning professional in his home country where he rode successfully until emigrating to Toronto, Ontario in 1994.
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.
Sanford Prince (foaled 1985 in Great Britain) was a Barbadian thoroughbred racehorse that was the first horse to win three editions of the Barbados Gold Cup.. Trained by Australian Racing Hall of Fame inductee, Scobie Breasley for owner Sir David Seale, he was ridden to victory in each of his three Gold Cups by jockey, Venice Richards.