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Moonee Valley Gold Cup

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Inaugurated
  
1883

Sponsor
  
Antler Luggage (2016)

Track
  
Left-handed

Purse
  
300,000 USD (2016)

Race type
  
Thoroughbred

Surface
  
Turf

Distance
  
2,500 m

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Location
  
Moonee Valley Racecourse, Melbourne, Australia

The Moonee Valley Gold Cup is a registered Moonee Valley Racing Club Group 2 Thoroughbred horse race for horses aged three-years-old and upwards under Set Weights with penalties conditions, over a distance of 2,500 metres, held annually at Moonee Valley Racecourse, Melbourne, Australia in late October on WS Cox Plate Day. Prize money is A$300,000.

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Race History

The event is the last major long distance event to be run before the Melbourne Cup. Kingston Rule was only horse to win the Melbourne Cup after winning the Moonee Valley Cup in 1990. The Moonee Valley Cup has seen several double winners, such as Little Bob in 1891 & 1892, Gladwyn in 1914 and 1915, Gilltown in 1939 and 1940, Valcurl in 1945 and 1946 and Precedence in 2010 and 2013.

Race name

  • 1883–1975 - Moonee Valley Cup
  • 1976–1979 - Governors Stakes
  • 1980–1996 - Moonee Valley Cup
  • 1997–2002 - Grosby Gold Cup
  • 2003–2010 - Cathay Pacific Gold Cup
  • 2011–2013 - Drake International Cup
  • 2014 onwards - Moonee Valley Gold Cup

    • Race distance

  • 1883–1884 - 1 mile (~1600 metres)
  • 1885–1888 - 6 furlongs (~1200 metres)
  • 1889–1899 - 7 furlongs (~1400 metres)
  • 1900–1908 - 1 3⁄8 miles (~2200 metres)
  • 1909 - 1 1⁄2 miles (~2400 metres)
  • 1910–1918 - 1 1⁄4 (~2000 metres)
  • 1919 - 1 5⁄8 miles (~2600 metres)
  • 1920 - 1 1⁄2 miles (~2400 metres)
  • 1921–1923 - 1 5⁄8 miles (~2600 metres)
  • 1924–1932 - 1 7⁄16 miles (~2300 metres)
  • 1933 - 1 5⁄8 miles (~2600 metres)
  • 1934–1935 1 1⁄2 miles (~2400 metres)
  • 1936–1972 - 1 5⁄8 miles (~2600 metres)
  • 1973–1994 - 2600 metres
  • 1995 onwards - 2500 metres

    • Race grade

  • 1883–1978 was a Principal race
  • 1979 - Group 3
  • 1980 onwards - Group 2

    • References

    Moonee Valley Gold Cup Wikipedia
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