Moonee Valley Gold Cup

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Moonee Valley Gold Cup
Group 2 race
Nightly 1934 Moonee Valley Cup Jockey Maurice McCarten.jpg
Nightly, 1934 winner
Location Moonee Valley Racecourse, Melbourne, Australia
Inaugurated1883
Race type Thoroughbred
Sponsor McCafé (2022)
Race information
Distance2,500 metres
SurfaceTurf
TrackLeft-handed
QualificationFour years old and over
Weight Set Weights with penalties
Purse $1,000,000 (2022)

The Moonee Valley Gold Cup is a registered Moonee Valley Racing Club Group 2 Thoroughbred horse race for horses aged four-years-old and upwards under Set Weights with penalties conditions, over a distance of 2,500 metres, held annually at Moonee Valley Racecourse, Melbourne, Australia in late October on W. S. Cox Plate Day. [1] Prize money is A$1,000,000.

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History

The event is the last major long distance event to be run before the Melbourne Cup. Kingston Rule was the only horse to win the Melbourne Cup after winning the Moonee Valley Cup in 1990. [2] The Moonee Valley Cup has seen several double winners, such as Little Bob in 1891 & 1892, Gladwyn in 1914 and 1915, Gilltown in 1939 and 1940, Valcurl in 1945 and 1946 and Precedence in 2010 and 2013. [1]

1948 racebook

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