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 1999 | Grade 1 | 3 miles 2 1/2 furlongs | ||
| Pos. | Horse | Jockey | Trainer | Owner |
| 1 | SEE MORE BUSINESS | Mick Fitzgerald | Paul Nicholls | Mr Paul Barber 16/1 |
| 2 | GO BALLISTIC | Tony Dobbin | David Nicholson | Mrs B J Lockhart 66/1 |
| 3 | FLORIDA PEARL | Richard Dunwoody | Willie Mullins (Ire) | Mrs Violet O'Leary 5/2 fav |
| 4 | DOUBLE THRILLER | Joe Tizzard | Paul Nicholls | Mr R C Wilkins 9/1 |
| 5 | ADDINGTON BOY | Adrian Maguire | Ferdy Murphy | Gatt Foods Ltd 66/1 |
| 6 | SIMPLY DASHING | Lorcan Wyer | Tim Easterby | Mr Steve Hammond 20/1 |
| 7 | ESCARTEFIGUE | Richard Johnson | David Nicholson | Mr Darren Mercer 11/1 |
| 8 | DORANS PRIDE | Paul Carberry | Michael Hourigan (Ire) | Mr T J Doran 11/2 |
| 9 | SENOR EL BETRUTTI | Carl Llewellyn | Susan Nock | Mr Gerald Nock 50/1 |
| 10 | UNSINKABLE BOXER | Tony McCoy | Martin Pipe | Miss M T Condon 14/1 |
| 11 | SUNY BAY | Graham Bradley | Simon Sherwood | Uplands Bloodstock 14/1 |
| 12 | TEETON MILL | Norman Williamson | Venitia Williams | The Winning Line 7/2 |
| Over round 117% | ||||
| This race was held on Thursday 18th March 1999 when See More Business beat Go Ballistic and Florida Pearl by 1 length and 17 lengths | ||||