Gold Cup
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The Gold Cup, the chasing crown, is a grade 1 race over 3 miles 2 furlongs and 70 yards and 22 fences of the New Course and is open to 5-year-olds and above. Although the first race at Cheltenham known as the Gold Cup was in July 1819, it was a flat race over 3 miles on the Cleeve Hill course and was won by Spectre owned by Mr Bodenham, and the race did continue for a number of years afterwards. However, it has no real connection with the present day pinnacle of National Hunt racing which was first contested on 12th March 1924 over 3 miles 3 furlongs. The race was not staged in 1931 due to frost, nor in 1937 due to flooding, and the Second World War prevented the race being held in both 1943 and 1944. |
| Early history:- The inaugural running of the Gold Cup was on 12th March 1924 over 3 miles 3 furlongs and was won by Red Splash (5/1) owned by Major Humphrey Wyndham, trained by Fred Withington and ridden by Dick Rees, beating Conjuror II (7/1) and Gerald L (5/1). | |
| Gold Cup 1993 | Grade 1 | 3 miles 2 1/2 furlongs | ||
| Pos. | Horse | Jockey | Trainer | Owner |
| 1 | JODAMI | Mark Dwyer | Peter Beaumont | Mr J N Yeadon 8/1 |
| 2 | RUSHING WILD | Richard Dunwoody | Martin Pipe | Hunt & Co 11/1 |
| 3 | ROYAL ATHLETE | Ben De Haan | Mrs Jenny Pitman | Mr G & L Johnson 66/1 |
| 4 | THE FELLOW | Adam Kondrat | Francois Doumen | Marquesa De Moratalla 5/4 fav |
| 5 | SIBTON ABBEY | Steve Smith-Eccles | Ferdy Murphy | Mr Geoff Hubbard 22/1 |
| 6 | DOCKLANDS EXPRESS | Jamie Osborne | Kim Bailey | Mr R H Baines 8/1 |
| 7 | GARRISON SAVANNAH | Mark Pitman | Mrs Jenny Pitman | Autofour Engineers 25/1 |
| 8 | RUN FOR FREE | Mark Perrett | Martin Pipe | Mr Alan Hill 11/1 |
| 9 | COOL GROUND | Adrian Maguire | Toby Badling | Mr A J Hogan 20/1 |
| 10 | TIPPING TIM | David Bridgwater | Nigel Twiston-Davies | Mrs J Mould 25/1 |
| 11 | CHATAM | Peter Scudamore | Martin Pipe | Mr Adrian Nolan 10/1 |
| 12 | TOPSHAM BAY | Jimmy Frost | David Barons | Sir Eric Parker 200/1 |
| 13 | CAHERVILLAHOW | Charlie Swan | Mouse Morris (Ire) | Mrs Miles Valentine 14/1 |
| 14 | BLACK HUMOUR | Graham Bradley | Charlie Brooks | R E A Bott 66/1 |
| 15 | CHERRYKINO | Hywel Davies | Tim Forster | Anne, Duchess of Westminster 16/1 |
| 16 | VERY VERY ORDINARY | Robbie Supple | John Upson | Mrs Wendy Cohen 66/1 |
| Over round 124% | ||||
| This race was held on Thursday 18th March 1993 when Jodami beat Rushing Wild and Royal Athlete by 2 lengths and 7 lengths | ||||