Hollywood Gold Cup
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The Hollywood Gold Cup is a Grade I stakes race for thoroughbred horses inaugurated in 1938 at Hollywood Park in Inglewood, California. It was run as a handicap race race until 1997 when it was switched to weight-for-age conditions. In 2005, the Gold Cup returned to the original handicap format.
The Hollywood Gold Cup is run over a distance of 1¼ miles on the dirt and currently carries a purse of $750,000. It is open to three year olds and up and is one of the premier races on the West Coast of the United States, along with the Santa Anita Handicap from Santa Anita Park, and the Pacific Classic Stakes from the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club.
Ridden by Laffit Pincay, Jr., Affirmed became the first horse to achieve career earnings of $2 million with his victory in the 1979 edition of the Hollywood Gold Cup.
[edit] Past winners
Winners (jockey) of the Gold Cup in the past include:
- 2006 : Lava Man - (Corey Nakatani)
- 2005 : Lava Man - (Pat Valenzuela)
- 2004 : Total Impact - (Mike E. Smith)
- 2003 : Congaree - (Jerry Bailey)
- 2002 : Sky Jack - (Laffit Pincay, Jr.)
- 2001 : Aptitude (by the disqualification of Futural)
- 2000 : Early Pioneer - (Victor Espinoza)
- 1999 : Real Quiet - (Jerry Bailey)
- 1998 : Skip Away - (Jerry Bailey)
- 1990 : Criminal Type - José Santos
- 1987 : Ferdinand - (Bill Shoemaker)
- 1979 : Affirmed - (Laffit Pincay, Jr.)
- 1976 : Exceller
- 1973 : Kennedy Road (Canadian Champion)
- 1971 : Ack Ack
- 1951 : Citation - (Steve Brooks)
- 1944 : Happy Issue - (Hedley Woodhouse)
