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 1994 | Grade 1 | 3 miles 2 1/2 furlongs | ||
| Pos. | Horse | Jockey | Trainer | Owner |
| 1 | THE FELLOW | Adam Kondrat | Francois Doumen | Marquesa De Moratalla 7/1 |
| 2 | JODAMI | Mark Dwyer | Peter Beaumont | Mr J N Yeadon 6/4 fav |
| 3 | YOUNG HUSTLER | Carl Llewellyn | Nigel Twiston-Davies | Mr Gavin MacEchem 20/1 |
| 4 | FLASHING STEEL | Jamie Osborne | J E Mulhern | Mr C J Haughey 10/1 |
| 5 | BRADBURY STAR | Declan Murphy | Josh Gifford | Mr James Campbell 5/1 |
| 6 | DOCKLANDS EXPRESS | Dean Gallagher | Kim Bailey | Mr R H Baines 14/1 |
| 7 | MINNEHOMA | Adrian Maguire | Martin Pipe | Mr Freddie Starr 11/1 |
| 8 | DEEP BRAMBLE | Peter Niven | Michael Hourigan | Mr James Mernagh 20/1 |
| 9 | RUN FOR FREE | Mark Perrett | Martin Pipe | Mr Alan Hill 11/1 |
| 10 | TOPSHAM BAY | Jimmy Frost | David Barons | Sir Eric Parker 100/1 |
| 11 | CHATAM | Graham McCourt | Martin Pipe | Mr Adrian Niolan 33/1 |
| 12 | GARRISON SAVANNAH | Graham Bradley | Mrs Jenny Pitman | Autofour Engineering 50/1 |
| 13 | BLAZING WALKER | Chris Grant | Peter Cheesborough | Mr P Piller 20/1 |
| 14 | CAPABILITY BROWN | Mick Fitzgerald | Martin Pipe | Mr David Lewis 200/1 |
| 15 | EBONY JANE | Charlie Swan | F Flood (Ire) | Mr James Lynch 100/1 |
| Over round 124% | ||||
| This race was held on Thursday 17th March 1994 when The Fellow beat Jodami and Young Hustler by 1 1/2 lengths and 4 lengths | ||||