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 1984 | Grade 1 | 3 miles 2 1/2 furlongs | ||
| Pos. | Horse | Jockey | Trainer | Owner |
| 1 | BURROUGH HILL LAD | Phil Tuck | Jenny Pitman | Mr R Riley 7/2 |
| 2 | BROWN CHAMBERLIN | John Francome | Fred Winter | Mrs B Samuel 5/1 |
| 3 | DRUMLARGAN | F Codd | Edward O'Grady (Ire) | Mr M Cuddy 16/1 |
| 4 | SCOT LANE | C Smith | Martin Tate | Mr T Isherwood 100/1 |
| 5 | FIFTY DOLLARS MORE | Richard Linley | Fred Winter | Sheikh Ali Abu Khamsin 28/1 |
| 6 | BREGAWN | Graham Bradley | Michael Dickinson | Mr J Kennelly10/1 |
| 7 | ROYAL BOND | Fran Berry | Arthur Moore (Ire) | Mrs G Malcolmson 33/1 |
| 8 | EVERETT | Stuart Shilston | Fulke Walwyn | Mme K Hennessy 33/1 |
| 9 | WAYWARD LAD | Robert Earnshaw | Michael Dickinson | Mrs S Thewlis 6/4 fav |
| 10 | CANNY DANNY | Niall Madden | Jimmy Fitzgerald | Mr P Norton 40/1 |
| 11 | OBSERVE | Ben De Haan | Fred Winter | Mr A Gretton 16/1 |
| 12 | FOXBURY | Linda Sheehy | Mrs C Richards | Mr S Richards 500/1 |
| Over round 113% | ||||
| This race took place on Thursday 15th March 1984 when Burrough Hill Lad beat Brown Chamberlin and Drumlargan by 3 lengths and 8 lengths | ||||