Gold Cup

Gold Cup may refer to:

In art and archaeology:

  • Royal Gold Cup, 14th century French cup in the British Museum
  • Rillaton Gold Cup, late Neolithic, from Rillaton Barrow in England
  • Ringlemere Cup, Bronze Age from England

In horse racing:

  • Ascot Gold Cup, horse race run at Ascot Racecourse during June
  • Awapuni Gold Cup, major horse race run under weight-for-age conditions held in Awapuni, Palmerston North, New Zealand
  • Ayr Gold Cup, flat horse race in the United Kingdom for three-year-old and above thoroughbreds run over a straight 6 furlongs
  • Cheltenham Gold Cup, highlight of the Cheltenham Festival held on the last day (the Friday)
  • Geraldton Gold Cup, one of Western Australia's most popular races
  • Gold Cup Steeplechase
  • Gold Cup Vase or Queen's Vase, a Group 3 flat horse race in Great Britain which is open to three-year-old thoroughbreds
  • Hawthorne Gold Cup Handicap, Grade II race for thoroughbred horses run at Hawthorne Race Course each year
  • Hollywood Gold Cup, Grade I stakes race for thoroughbred horses inaugurated in 1938 at Hollywood Park in Inglewood, California
  • Jockey Club Gold Cup, horse race
  • Paddy Power Gold Cup, Grade 3 National Hunt horse race in the United Kingdom for five-year-old and above horses
  • Tattersalls Gold Cup, horse race run at The Curragh, Ireland in May
  • Virginia Gold Cup, Steeplechase run on the first Saturday in May

In association football:

  • Copa de Oro (Spanish: Gold Cup), South American association football competition between the club winners of the Copa Libertadores de América, the Supercopa Sudamericana, the Copa CONMEBOL, and the Supercopa Masters
  • CONCACAF Gold Cup, association football competition between nations from North and Central America and from the Caribbean
  • CONCACAF Women's Gold Cup, women's association football competition
  • Gold Cup (Northern Ireland), defunct association football competition

In motorsport:

  • Oulton Park International Gold Cup, an annual non-Championship Formula One race of the 1950s and '60s, recently reinstated for historic F1 cars
  • Gold Cup (motorsport), an annual hydroplane racing cup on the Detroit River since 1904

In sailing:

  • Several unrelated racing events, best-known of which is perhaps Scandinavian Gold Cup, annual nation race of 5.5 metre class yachts.

In contract bridge:

  • Gold Cup (bridge), the premier open competition in the United Kingdom

Famous quotes containing the word cup:

    “I believe that water is the only drink for a wise man: wine is not so noble a liquor; and think of dashing the hopes of a morning with a cup of warm coffee, or of an evening with a dish of tea! Ah, how low I fall when I am tempted by them! Even music may be intoxicating. Such apparently slight causes destroyed Greece and Rome, and will destroy England and America.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)