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Royal Hunt Cup

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Inaugurated
  
1843

Website
  
Ascot

Track
  
Straight

Race type
  
Flat / Thoroughbred

Surface
  
Turf

Distance
  
1,609 m

Location
  
Ascot Racecourse Ascot, England

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The Royal Hunt Cup is a flat handicap horse race in Great Britain open to horses aged three years or older. It is run at Ascot over a distance of 1 mile (1,609 metres), and it is scheduled to take place each year in June.

Contents

Realities the 1995 royal hunt cup ascot


History

The event was established in 1843, and it was originally contested on a right-handed course over 7 furlongs and 166 yards. The inaugural running was won by Knight of the Whistle, with a triple dead-heat for second between Bourra Tomacha, Epaulette and Garry Owen.

The race's distance was shortened to 7 furlongs and 155 yards in 1930, and it was extended to its present length in 1956. It is now run on a straight course, and it usually features a large field.

The Royal Hunt Cup is currently held on the second day of the five-day Royal Ascot meeting. It is one of three perpetual trophies at the meeting, along with the Gold Cup and the Queen's Vase, which can be kept permanently by the winning owners.

Records

Most successful horse (2 wins):

  • Master Vote – 1947, 1948

    • Leading jockey (4 wins):

  • Charles Wood – Thuringian Prince (1875), The Mandarin (1879), Elzevir (1883), Gay Hermit (1887)
  • Lester Piggott – Spaniard's Close (1963), Casabianca (1965), Kamundu (1969), Jumping Hill (1976)

    • Leading trainer (5 wins):

  • James Jewitt – Sweetbread (1882), Elzevir (1883), Shillelagh (1888), Suspender (1892), Knight of the Thistle (1897)

    • Winners since 1980

  • Weights given in stones and pounds.

    • a The 2005 running took place at York.

    Earlier winners

    * The race was run at Newbury in 1941.

    References

    Royal Hunt Cup Wikipedia
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