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Silver Cup Detroit River: Miss Supertest Ron Musson [22] [23] 1966/06/19 President's Cup Potomac River: Miss Bardahl: Explosion during race Rex Manchester [22] [23] Notre Dame Collision during final heat Don Wilson [22] [23] Miss Budweiser: Chuck Thompson [24] [25] 1966/07/03 Gold Cup: Detroit River: Smirnoff Bill Brow [26] [27] 1967/11/06 ...
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.
Muncey began his boat racing career in 1949 by sinking in front of a hometown crowd on the Detroit River. Muncey's first attempt to drive in an American Power Boat Association (APBA) Gold Cup event began by blowing up the engine. Muncey went to Gar Wood’s riverfront mansion, and asked Wood for help. Muncey got an engine from Wood, but the ...
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 ...
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Scott Dixon won the 2024 Detroit Grand Prix for his fourth win in the Motor City and first on the crash ... The 100-lap race around the 1.645-mile track, circling the Renaissance Center in ...
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 ...
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.