Chesterfield Cup
The Chesterfield Cup, joint fifth oldest race at Glorious Goodwood, along with the Nassau Stakes, is a handicap over 1 mile 1 furlong and 192 yards and was first run in 1839 when known as the Harkaway Cup, and again in 1840 when mysteriously known as the Goodwood Cup of 1839. A year later it became known by the more suitable title of Chesterfield Cup, later adjusted to the Chesterfield Stakes. The race was named after the sixth Earl of Chesterfield, George Stanhope who won 2 Goodwood Cups with Priam who he purchased after the colt had landed the 1830 Epsom Derby. The race was part of the Glorious Goodwood programme up until 1969, then was replaced by the Laurels Handicap over roughly the same distance, but confined to older horses, with the Chesterfield Cup moved to the next meeting in August. The Cup was reintroduced to the Festival programme in 1979 on the last day, but in 1983 became a stalwart of the opening day of the Festival, albeit under a variety of names dependant on its sponsor. |
| Chesterfield Cup 1843 | Handicap | 1 mile 1 furlong 192yds | ||
| Pos. | Horse | Jockey | Age/weight | Owner |
| 1 | SCALTEEN | Dunn | 4-7st 10lbs | Lord Miltown 6/1 |
| 2 | POLICY | F Butler | 4-8st 1lbs | Mr Forth 10/1 |
| 3 | WEE PET | Pettit | 3-6st 10lbs | Lord Exeter 25/1 |
| 4 | GARRY OWEN | J Chapple | 6-9st 4lbs | Mr Byng 10/1 |
| 5 | ROBERT DE GORHAM | W Cotton | 4-8st 10lbs | Lord Verulam 5/1 fav |
| 6 | BLUE BONNET | Charles Marson | 4-8st 6lbs | Lord Eglinton 25/1 |
| 7 | THE CURRIER | W Howlett | aged-8st 2lbs | Duke of Richmond 25/1 |
| 8 | MUS | S Rogers | aged-8st 0lbs | Duke of Richmond 25/1 |
| 9 | PALLADIUM | Sam Darling | 4-8st 0lbs | Mr Etwall 25/1 |
| 10 | ARCTIC | S Mann | aged-7st 5lbs | Mr Herbert 25/1 |
| 11 | THE PUNCHER | Wakefield | 4-7st 4lbs | Colonel Anson 25/1 |
| 12 | EAGLESFIELD | Bartholomew | 4-7st 2lbs | Duke of Richmond 25/1 |
| 13 | PARTHIAN | Nat Flatman | 3-7st 2lbs | Lord Chesterfield 25/1 |
| 14 | RHODANTHE | Whitehouse | 6-7st 0lbs | Lord Chesterfield 6/1 |
| 15 | THE QUEEN OF THE GIPSIES | Sam Darling junior | 3-6st 12lbs | Mr Omgley 25/1 |
| 16 | ZELIA | W Day | 3-6st 10lbs | Lord Palmerston 25/1 |
| 17 | THE CONQUEROR | J Howlett | 4-6st 10lbs | Mr W Sadler 20/1 |
| 18 | ROOK'S NEST | Cassidy | 3-6st 3lbs | Colonel Peel 25/1 |
| 19 | YORKSHIRE LADY | Kitchener | 3-6st 2lbs | Lord George Bentinck 9/1 |
| 20 | TOM THUMB | Planner | 3-6st 0lbs | Colonel Wyndham 25/1 |
| 21 | MARY | Mitsum | 3-6st 0lbs | Mr Gratwicke 6/1 |
| 22 | THE WHALER | W Abdale | 3-5st 6lbs | Duke of Richmond 25/1 |
| This race took place on Friday 28th July 1843 and was a subscription race of 15 sovereigns each for all ages. There were 38 subscribers, and it was valued at 300 sovereigns (equivalent to £41,000 in 2021). | Over round 147% | |||
Bell's Life and the Sporting Chronicle of July 1843 gave a detailed description of the 1843 Chesterfield Cup, describing it as 'A magnificent prize, equal in value to the Goodwood Cup, from the celebrated establishment of Messrs. Garrard, in Panton Street, London. It was from a design by Mr Cotterell, who has a high merit of being the first originator of works of art in which sculptural and poetical tastes are so admirably combined. The Chesterfield Cup is founded on an incident related in the 'Wild Jager' of the German poet Burger in which a Wildgrave, or keeper of a royal forest, named Faulkenburg was so much addicted to the pleasures of the chase that he not only followed this unhallowed amusement on the Sabbath, and other religious days, but forced the same evil on the poor peasants who were under his vassalage. The trophy shows the Wildgrave spearing a deer, which has fled for succour to the very foot of the altar, and a venerable hermit is shown protesting against such a desecration of the altar.' |
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