Coral Gold Cup
Premier Handicap race | |
Location | Newbury Racecourse Newbury, England |
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Inaugurated | 1957 |
Race type | Steeplechase |
Sponsor | Ladbrokes Coral |
Website | Newbury |
Race information | |
Distance | 3m 1f 214y (5,331 metres) |
Surface | Turf |
Track | Left-handed |
Qualification | Four-years-old and up |
Weight | Handicap |
Purse | £200,000 (2020) 1st: £113,900 |
2024 | ||
Kandoo Kid | Broadway Boy | Victtorino |
Previous years | ||
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2023 | ||
Datsalrightgino | Mahler Mission | Monbeg Genius |
2022 | ||
Le Milos | Remastered | Gericault Roque |
2021 | ||
Cloudy Glen | Fiddlerontheroof | Brahma Bull |
2020-2011 | ||
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2020 | ||
Cloth Cap | Aye Right | The Conditional |
2019 | ||
De Rasher Counter | The Conditional | Elegant Escape |
2018 | ||
Sizing Tennessee | Elegant Escape | Dingo Dollar |
2017 | ||
Total Recall | Whisper | Regal Encore |
2016 | ||
Native River | Carole's Destrier | Double Ross |
2015 | ||
Smad Place | Theatre Guide | First Lieutenant |
2014 | ||
Many Clouds | Houblon Des Obeaux | Merry King |
2013 | ||
Triolo D'Alene | Rocky Creek | Theatre Guide |
2012 | ||
Bobs Worth | Tidal Bay | First Lieutenant |
2011 | ||
Carruthers | Planet of Sound | Fair Along |
2010-2001 | ||
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2010 | ||
Diamond Harry | Burton Port | Denman |
2009 | ||
Denman | What A Friend | Niche Market |
2008 | ||
Madison Du Berlais | Air Force One | Snoopy Loopy |
2007 | ||
Denman | Dream Alliance | Character Building |
2006 | ||
State of Play | Juveigneur | Preacher Boy |
2005 | ||
Trabolgan | L'ami | Cornish Rebel |
2004 | ||
Celestial Gold | Ollie Magern | Royal Auclair |
2003 | ||
Strong Flow | Joss Naylor | Take Control |
2002 | ||
Gingembre | Harbour Pilot | Whitenzo |
2001 | ||
What's Up Boys | Behrajan | Take Control |
2000-1991 | ||
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2000 | ||
King's Road | Gingembre | Alexander Banquet |
1999 | ||
Ever Blessed | Spendid | Fiddling The Facts |
1998 | ||
Teeton Mill | Eudipe | Fiddling The Facts |
1997 | ||
Suny Bay | Barton Bank | Eudipe |
1996 | ||
Coome Hill | The Grey Monk | Lo Stregone |
1995 | ||
Couldnt Be Better | Rough Quest | Superior Finish |
1994 | ||
One Man | Lord Relic | Commercial Artist |
1993 | ||
Cogent | Cahervillahow | Black Humour |
1992 | ||
Sibton Abbey | Jodami | The Fellow |
1991 | ||
Chatam | Master Bob | Man O'Magic |
1960-1959 | ||
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1960 | ||
Knucklecracker | Zonda | Fearless Cavalier |
1959 | ||
Kerstin | Brunel | Croizet |
The Coral Gold Cup is a Premier Handicap National Hunt steeplechase in Great Britain which is open to horses aged four years or older. It is run at Newbury over a distance of about 3 miles and 2 furlongs (3 miles, 1 furlong and 214 yards, or 5,225 metres), and during its running there are twenty-one fences to be jumped. It is a handicap race, and it is scheduled to take place each year in late November or early December.
History
[edit]The event was established in 1957 as the Hennessy Cognac Gold Cup, and it was initially staged at Cheltenham. The winner of the inaugural running, Mandarin, was owned by Peggy Hennessy, a member of the family which founded Hennessy, the race's sponsoring company. It was transferred to Newbury in 1960, and it was won by Mandarin for a second time in 1961. The race's second running was won by Taxidermist, ridden by the amateur rider John Lawrence, later Lord Oaksey, who was the breeder and part-owner of the 2011 winner, Carruthers.[1]
The race's association with Hennessy continued until the 60th running, in 2016, and was British racing's longest-running commercial sponsorship at the time. The record was previously held by the Whitbread Gold Cup, which was first run seven months before the "Hennessy", and which was sponsored by Whitbread until 2001.[2] Ladbrokes were announced as the new sponsor in February 2017[3] and the race was run as the Ladbrokes Trophy until 2021. In 2022 Coral replaced Ladbrokes as the title sponsor and the race took its present title.[4]
The race has been won by nine horses that have also won the Cheltenham Gold Cup. The most recent of these is Native River, the winner of the latter race in 2018.
Many Clouds became the first horse to win both the Hennessy Gold Cup and the Grand National, in 2014 and 2015 respectively.
Records
[edit]Most successful horse (2 wins):
Leading jockey (3 wins):
- Willie Robinson – Mandarin (1961), Mill House (1963), Man of the West (1968)
- Tom Scudamore - Madison du Berlais (2008), Sizing Tennessee (2018), Cloth Cap (2020)
Leading trainer (7 wins):
- Fulke Walwyn – Mandarin (1957, 1961), Taxidermist (1958), Mill House (1963), Man of the West (1968), Charlie Potheen (1972), Diamond Edge (1981)
Winners
[edit]- ^ amateur rider
- ^ Be My Royal finished first in 2002, but he was subsequently disqualified after testing positive for a banned substance
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Carruthers claims Hennessy Gold Cup victory at Newbury". BBC Sport. 26 November 2011.
- ^ "Hennessy Gold Cup sponsorship ends after 60 years". BBC News. Retrieved 7 December 2016.
- ^ Lees, Jon. "Hennessy history as Newbury race renamed Ladbrokes Trophy". Racing Post. Retrieved 23 October 2017.
- ^ Higgins, C (1 September 2022). "Coral take over sponsorship of Newbury's premier jumps race in three-year deal". Racing Post. Retrieved 1 September 2022.
- Evening Times:
- Racing Post:
- pedigreequery.com – Hennessy Gold Cup – Newbury.
- sportingchronicle.com – Hennessy Cognac Gold Cup.
- Ladbrokes Pocket Companion 1990/91. Aesculus Press. 1990. p. 42. ISBN 1-871093-21-X.
- The Breedon Book of Horse Racing Records. Breedon Books. 1993. p. 225. ISBN 1-873626-15-0.
External links
[edit]- Race Recordings (1958-2010) youtube.com