Summer Cup
Encyclopedia
The Summer Cup is an AJC
Group 3
Australian Thoroughbred
horse race held at Randwick Racecourse
, Sydney
in December. The event is an open handicap run over a distance of 2400 metres. Total prize money for the race is A$125,000. The race was first run in 1890.
Australian Jockey Club
The Australian Jockey Club was founded in January 1842. It morphed from the former Australian Racing Committee set up in May 1840 to set the standards for racing in the colony...
Group 3
Group races
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Australian Thoroughbred
Thoroughbred
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horse race held at Randwick Racecourse
Randwick Racecourse
Royal Randwick Racecourse is a racecourse for horseracing in the Eastern Suburbs in Sydney, New South Wales. Randwick Racecourse, is operated by the Australian Jockey Club and known to many Sydney racegoers as headquarters...
, Sydney
Sydney
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in December. The event is an open handicap run over a distance of 2400 metres. Total prize money for the race is A$125,000. The race was first run in 1890.
Distance
- 1890 - 1952 The race distance was 13 furlongs.
- 1953 - 1971 The race distance was 12 furlongs
- 1972 onwards The race distance was 2400 metres
Past winners
- 2010 Spechenka
- 2009 Solid Billing
- 2008 Ready To Lift
- 2007 no race held
- 2006 Jamberoo
- 2005 Aqua D'Amore
- 2004 This Manshood
- 2003 Stadium
- 2002 Stoway
- 2001 Majestically
- 2000 Lanolin
- 1999 Zanetta
- 1998 Dance Til Dawn
- 1997 Linesman
- 1996 Century Boy
- 1995 Catalan Prince
- 1994 Spiritual Star
- 1993 Striking Gold
- 1992 Mr. Eurostar
- 1991 Cross Swords
- 1990 Magnolia Hall
- 1989 Lord Hybrow
- 1988 Super ImposeSuper ImposeSuper Impose was a New Zealand bred Thoroughbred racehorse who was inducted into the Australian Racing Hall of Fame. In a career spanning 74 starts, Super Impose won eight Group One races and a then Australasian record $5.6 million in prize money...
- 1987 Perfect Jet
- 1986 Limitless
- 1985 Britt's Kingdom
- 1984 Rising Prince
- 1983 Our Shout