Greatwood Gold Cup

The Greatwood Gold Cup is a Grade 3 National Hunt steeplechase in Great Britain which is open to horses aged five years or older. It is run at Newbury over a distance of about 2 miles and 4 furlongs (2 miles 3 furlongs and 187 yards, or 3,993 metres), and during its running there are sixteen fences to be jumped. It is a handicap race, and it is scheduled to take place each year in late February or early March.

Greatwood Gold Cup Handicap Chase
2019
San Benedeto Gala Ball Valdez

The event was introduced in 2004, and for its first three runnings it was sponsored by Vodafone. Since then it has had several different sponsors, and for each of these its title changed accordingly. The race was promoted to Grade 3 level in 2007, and it was given its present name in 2010. It is now sponsored by William Hill on behalf of Greatwood, a charity for the welfare of retired racehorses.

Records

Leading jockey (3 wins):

  • Nick Scholfield – Natal (2008), New Little Bric (2009), San Benedeto (2019)

Leading trainer (9 wins):

  • Paul Nicholls – Cornish Sett (2006), Natal (2008), New Little Bric (2009), Big Fella Thanks (2010), Aerial (2012), Pacha Du Polder (2013), Sound Investment (2015), Sametegal (2016), San Benedeto (2019)

Winners

[lower-alpha 1][1]

Year
Winner
Age
Weight
Jockey
Trainer
2004 Isio 8 11-04 Barry Geraghty Nicky Henderson
2005 Supreme Prince 8 10–12 Paul Flynn Philip Hobbs
2006 Cornish Sett (DH) 7 11-04 Ruby Walsh Paul Nicholls
2006 Horus (DH) 11 10-09 Jamie Moore Martin Pipe
2007 Madison du Berlais 6 11-05 Tom Scudamore David Pipe
2008 Natal 7 10-01 Nick Scholfield[lower-alpha 2] Paul Nicholls
2009 New Little Bric 8 10-02 Nick Scholfield Paul Nicholls
2010 Big Fella Thanks 8 11-01 Barry Geraghty Paul Nicholls
2011 Fine Parchment 8 10-04 Peter Toole Charlie Mann
2012 Aerial 6 11-03 Ruby Walsh Paul Nicholls
2013 Pacha Du Polder 6 11-00 Ryan Mahon Paul Nicholls
2014 Shangani 8 10–12 Tom Scudamore Venetia Williams
2015 Sound Investment 7 11–12 Sam Twiston-Davies Paul Nicholls
2016 Sametegal 7 11-03 Sam Twiston-Davies Paul Nicholls
2017 Thomas Crapper 10 10-02 Charlie Poste Robin Dickin
2018Abandoned due to snow
2019 San Benedeto 8 11-05 Nick Scholfield Paul Nicholls
2020No race
  1. The 2020 race was abandoned due to waterlogging
  2. amateur jockey

See also

References
  1. Cook, Chris; Wood, Greg. "Talking Horses: Racing at Newbury abandoned after heavy rain". The Guardian.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.