Suvarna Garge (Editor)

Singapore Gold Cup

Updated on
Edit
Like
Comment
Share on FacebookTweet on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on Reddit
Inaugurated
  
1924

Surface
  
Turf

Distance
  
2,200 m

Website
  
Singapore Turf Club

Track
  
Left-handed

Purse
  
1.35 million SGD

Singapore Gold Cup newsasiaonecomA1MEDIAnews10Oct11others20111

Location
  
Kranji Racecourse Singapore

Race type
  
Thoroughbred – Flat racing

Dester singapore gold cup 2016


The Singapore Gold Cup is a Thoroughbred horse race held annually at the end of November at Kranji Racecourse in Singapore. Contested on turf over a left-handed course, the domestic Group One race is run over a distance 2,200 metres (1.4 miles) and is open to domestic horses age three and older.

Contents

The Singapore Gold Cup follows the Kranji Mile and the Raffles Cup as the third leg of the Singapore Triple Crown.

Longines singapore gold cup 2015


History

Inaugurated in 1924 at the Serangoon Road Race Course at Farrer Park, it was raced there until 1933 at which time it was moved to the new Bukit Timah Race Course. It remained there through 1999 when the Bukit Timah facility was closed to be replaced by the new Kranji Racecourse.

In 1958, Abdul Mawi became the first local jockey to win the Gold Cup. In 2008, El Dorado won the event, making him the first ever Japanese-bred horse trained in Singapore to win a Singapore Group 1 race.

Since to 2002, the race has been closed to international entries. The residency conditions are specified on the Singapore Turf Club website

As a result of World War II, there was no race run from 1942 through 1947.

Since inception the race has been contested at various distances:

  • 2011.25 meters : 1924–1931, 1933–1935, 1948, 1965–1968
  • 2011.25 (about) : 1936–1941, 1948, 1953–1964
  • 2044.19 meters : 1949–1952
  • 2212.375 meters : 1969–1975
  • 2200 meters : 1976 to present
  • 2414 meters : 1932

    • Records

    Speed record: (at current distance of 2200 meters)

  • 2:12.5 – Zatopek II (1996)

    • Most wins:

  • 3 – Three Rings (1954, 1956, 1957)
  • 3 – El Dorado (2008, 2009, 2011)

    • Most wins by an owner:

  • 5 – Zatopek II (1974, 1977, 1985, 1991, 1995)

    • Most wins by a jockey:

  • 3 – T. Farthing (1936, 1939, 1941)
  • 3 – Alan J. Trevena (1963, 1966, 1968)

    • Most wins by a trainer:

  • 9 – Ivan Allan (1973, 1976, 1978, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1984, 1989, 1990)

    • References

    Singapore Gold Cup Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA