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The race inaugurated in 1938 at Hollywood Park Racetrack in Inglewood, California as the Hollywood Gold Cup. Hollywood Park Racetrack opened its doors on June 10, 1938, and Seabiscuit, under jockey George Woolf, won the $50,000 added race's inaugural running on July 16. The race was not run in 1942 or 1943 due to Hollywood Park being closed and ...
Rejected (foaled 1950) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse whose wins included the Hollywood Gold Cup in track record time [1] and Santa Anita Handicap, [2] the two most important races in California open to older horses. Bred and raced by Robert Kleberg's King Ranch, Rejected was trained by future U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee, Buddy ...
This is a listing of the horses that finished in first, second, and third place (and the number of starters) in the Gold Cup at Santa Anita Stakes (formerly the Hollywood Gold Cup), an American Grade 1 race for three-year-olds and up at 1 1/4 miles on dirt (except 2007-2013 when on the synthetic surface, 'Cushion Track').
Meanwhile, the U.S. Ski Team withdraws from the World Cup circuit due to the Gulf War. January 26 World champion Svetlana Boginskaya is upset by teammate Tatiana Lisenko in the all-around at the World Cup Gymnastics Championships. Meanwhile, the World Challenge of Champions feature 1984 Olympic Games gold medalists Torvill and Dean, February 2
Awesome Gem won his first stakes race at the start of the 2007 season, on January 13, in the 1-1/16-mile Grade II San Fernando Breeders' Cup Stakes on the dirt after bounding down the stretch to snatch the lead from favorite Midnight Lute just before the wire.
Round Table started a streak where he won eleven consecutive races, including the Hollywood Gold Cup and United Nations Handicap which later became Grade I stakes races. He was the leading money winner of 1957 and won the first of his three straight U.S. Champion Turf Horse titles. In 1958, Round Table dominated American Thoroughbred racing.
In his next race, the $750,000 Grade 1 Hollywood Gold Cup in July, Lava Man won by a stakes-record margin of over 8 lengths and earned his career-high Beyer Speed Figure of 120 while carrying the highweight. [11] Kenly later said, "The first Gold Cup, that was the biggest race we’d ever run in, and that was the most special because it was our ...
His wins throughout 1982 helped him gain entry to the 1982 Jockey Club Gold Cup, where he placed 4th. During the summer of 1983, Island Whirl picked up two major Graded Stakes wins in a row with victories in the prestigious [Hollywood Gold Cup]] at Hollywood Park [ 2 ] and the 1983 Whitney Handicap , which turned out to be the last wins of his ...