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 1995 | Grade 1 | 3 miles 2 1/2 furlongs | ||
| Pos. | Horse | Jockey | Trainer | Owner |
| 1 | MASTER OATS | Norman Williamson | Kim Bailey | Mr P A Matthews 100/30 fav |
| 2 | DUBACILLA | Dean Gallagher | David Nicholson | Mr Henry Cole 20/1 |
| 3 | MINNEHOMA | Richard Dunwoody | Martin Pipe | Mr Freddie Starr 9/1 |
| 4 | MERRY GALE | Graham Bradley | Jim Dreaper (Ire) | Mr Herb M Stanley 10/1 |
| 5 | YOUNG HUSTLER | Carl Llewellyn | Nigel Twiston-Davies | Mr Gavin MacEchem 33/1 |
| 6 | MONSIEUR LE CURE | Peter Niven | J A C Edwards | Mr Hector Brown 10/1 |
| 7 | BEECH ROAD | Tony McCoy | Toby Balding | Mr & Mrs Tony Geake 100/1 |
| 8 | JODAMI | Mark Dwyer | Peter Beaumont | Mr J N Yeadon 7/2 |
| 9 | COMMERCIAL ARTIST | C N Bowens | V Bowens | Mrs D McCain 100/1 |
| 10 | FLASHING STEEL | Jamie Osborne | J E Mulhern | Mr C J Haughey 25/1 |
| 11 | BARTON BANK | David Bridgwater | David Nicholson | Mrs Jenny Mould 8/1 |
| 12 | DEEP BRAMBLE | Chris Maude | Paul Nicholls | Mr Paul Barber 14/1 |
| 13 | NUAFFE | S H O'Donovan | P A Fahy | Mr John Doyle 50/1 |
| 14 | ALGAN | P Chevalier | Francois Doumen | Miss Rikka Heikkola 16/1 |
| 15 | VAL D'ALENE | Adam Kondrat | Francois Doumen | Vicomtesse Marc De Montfort 10/1 |
| Over round 122% | ||||
| This race was held on Thursday 16th March 1995 when Master Oats beat Dubacilla and Minnehoma by 15 lengths and 15 lengths | ||||