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Newcastle Gold Cup

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Inaugurated
  
1898

Surface
  
Turf

Qualification
  
open

Sponsor
  
Race type
  
Thoroughbred - flat

Track
  
Right-handed

Distance
  
2,200 m

Purse
  
175,000 AUD (2016)

Location
  
Newcastle Racecourse, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia

2014 newcastle gold cup


The Newcastle Gold Cup is a Newcastle Jockey Club Group 3 Australian Thoroughbred open handicap horse race over a distance of 2200 metres, held on the Beaumont Inner track at Broadmeadow Racecourse in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia in September. Total prize money for the race is A$175,000.

Contents

Race grade

  • 1898–1980 - Principal Race
  • 1981–1984 - Group 3
  • 1985–2001 - Group 2
  • 2001 onwards - Group 3

    • Race distance

  • 1898–1906 - 1 3⁄8 miles
  • 1907 - 1 1⁄4 miles
  • 1908–1935 - 1 3⁄8 miles
  • 1936 - 1 1⁄4 miles
  • 1937 - 1 3⁄8 miles
  • 1938 - 1 1⁄4 miles
  • 1939–1943 - 1 3⁄8 miles
  • 1944 - 1 1⁄4 miles
  • 1945–1971 - 1 3⁄8 miles
  • 1972–1977 – 2250 metres
  • 1978 – 2300 metres
  • 1979–1980 – 2250 metres
  • 1981–1991 – 2300 metres
  • 1992–2000 – 2400 metres
  • 2001–2015 - 2300 metres
  • 2016 - 2200 metres

    • References

    Newcastle Gold Cup Wikipedia
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