Jockey Club Gold Cup

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The Jockey Club Gold Cup (previously the Jockey Club Stakes) is a thoroughbred flat race held in September at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York. Inaugurated in 1919, it is open to horses of either gender three-years-old and up. Part of the Breeders' Cup Challenge series, the winner of the Jockey Club Gold Cup automatically qualifies for the Breeders' Cup Classic. Since its inception, the Jockey Club Gold Cup has primarily been run at Belmont Park as the main event of its fall meeting. The exceptions were all but two runnings between 1958 and 1974, when the race was held at Aqueduct Racetrack, and from 2021 to 2025, when it was run at Saratoga Race Course. It was announced that the 2026 running of the race would return to Belmont Park, which was scheduled to reopen for live racing after several years of track and building reconstruction projects. The past winners of the Gold Cup are a who's who of award-winning Hall of Fame horses, including Easy Goer, Man o' War, Cigar, Skip Away, Curlin...

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