Gold Cup at Santa Anita top three finishers

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'). Since 2014, it has been held at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California; earlier runnings were held at Hollywood Park.[1][2] (List - 1938 to Present)

Year
Winner
Second
Third
Starters
2016 Melatonin Win the Space Hard Aces 8
2015 Hard Aces Hoppertunity Catch a Flight 11
2014 Majestic Harbor Clubhouse Ride Imperative 7
2013 Game On Dude Kettle Korn Sky Kingdom 5
2012 Game On Dude Richard's Kid Kettle Corn 7
2011 First Dude Game On Dude Setsuko 8
2010 Awesome Gem Rail Trip Richard's Kid 6
2009 Rail Trip Tres Borrachos Life Is Sweet 13
2008 Mast Track Student Council Go Between 9
2007 Lava Man A. P. Xcellent Big Booster 9
2006 Lava Man Ace Blue Super Frolic 5
2005 Lava Man Borrego Congrats 9
2004 Total Impact Olmodavor Even the Score 7
2003 Congaree Harlan's Holiday Kudos 7
2002 Sky Jack Momentum Milwaukee Brew 6
2001 Aptitude Skimming Futural 5
2000 Early Pioneer General Challenge David 9
1999 Real Quiet Budroyale Malek 4
1998 Skip Away Puerto Madero Gentlemen 8
1997 Gentlemen Siphon Sandpit 6
1996 Siphon Geri Helmsman 8
1995 Cigar Tinners Way Tossofthecoin 8
1994 Slew of Damascus Fanmore Del Mar Dennis 5
1993 Best Pal Bertrando Major Impact 10
1992 Sultry Song Marquetry Another Review 6
1991 Marquetry Farma Way Itsallgreektome 9
1990 Criminal Type Sunday Silence Opening Verse 7
1989 Blushing John Sabona Payant 7
1988 Cutlass Reality Alysheba Ferdinand 6
1987 Ferdinand Judge Angelucci Tasso 11
1986 Super Diamond Alphabatim Precisionist 6
1985 Greinton Precisionist King's Island 6
1984 Desert Wine John Henry Sari's Dreamer 8
1983 Island Whirl Poley Prince Spellbound 6
1982 Perrault Erins Isle It's the One 8
1981 Eleven Stitches Caterman Super Moment 10
1980 Go West Young Man Balzac Caro Bambino 10
1979 Affirmed Sirlad Text 10
1978 Exceller Text Vigors 7
1977 Crystal Water Cascapedia Caucasus 12
1976 Pay Tribute Avatar Riot in Paris 8
1975 Ancient Title Big Band El Tarta 7
1974 Tree of Knowledge Ancient Title War Heim 10
1973 Kennedy Road Quack Cougar II 6
1972 Quack Droll Role War Heim 14
1971 Ack Ack Comtal Manta 8
1970 Pleasure Seeker Neurologo T V Commercial 7
1969 Figonero Nodouble Poleax 6
1968 Princessnesian Racing Room Quicken Tree 11
1967 Native Diver Pretense Biggs 5
1966 Native Diver O'Hara Travel Orb 10
1965 Native Diver Babington Hill Rise 7
1964 Colorado King Mustard Plaster Native Diver 11
1963 Cadiz Aldershot Olympiad King 10
1962 Prove It Windy Sands Cadiz 12
1961 Prince Blessed Grey Eagle Whodunit 14
1960 Dotted Swiss Bagdad Prize Host 8
1959 Hillsdale Find Terrang 8
1958 Gallant Man Eddie Schmidt Seaneen 5
1957 Round Table Porterhouse Find 11
1956 Swaps Mister Gus Porterhouse 7
1955 Rejected Alidon Determine 6
1954 Correspondent Rejected Trusting 7
1953 Royal Serenade Fleet Bird A Gleam 7
1952 Two Lea Cyclotron Sturdy One 12
1951 Citation Bewitch Be Fleet 10
1950 Noor Palestinian Hill Prince 8
1949 Solidarity Ace Admiral Pretal 11
1948 Shannon On Trust Olhaverry 9
1947 Cover Up Burning Dream Honeymoon 12
1946 Triplicate Honeymoon Historian 16
1945 Challenge Me Bull Reigh Sirde 12
1944 Happy Issue Bull Reigh Okana 13
1943
1942
Not held - World War II
1941 Big Pebble Paperboy Mioland 13
1940 Challedon Specify Can't Wait 11
1939 Kayak II Cravat Specify 7
1938 Seabiscuit Specify Whichcee 10

References

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  1. ^ Stakes Histories, The Original Racing Almanac 2009, page 344–345 on June 26, 2008.
  2. ^ "Statistics - Hollywood Gold Cup". www.equibase.com. Retrieved 30 June 2016.