The Jockey Club Gold Cup, established in 1919, is a prestigious thoroughbred flat race open to horses of either gender three-years-old and up. It is typically the main event of the fall meeting at Belmont Park, just as the Belmont Stakes is of the spring meeting and the Jockey Club Gold Cup tickets Travers Stakes is of the summer meeting at Saratoga. Part of the Breeders' Cup Challenge series, the Jockey Club Gold Cup tickets winner of the 2008 Jockey Club Gold Cup automatically qualifies for the Breeders' Cup Classic. The Jockey Club Gold Cup has Jockey Club Gold Cup tickets often been the event in which horses who have done well in a year's U.S. Triple Crown races first face older opponents on a Jockey Club Gold Cup tickets weight-for-age basis. Before it was known as the Jockey Club Gold Cup it began as the Jockey Club Stakes. This was its name when Man o' War won it against the only horse willing to Jockey Club Gold Cup tickets race him. Damask, owned by Harry Payne Whitney, was entered as a sporting gesture and to keep "Red" from having to run alone in a Jockey Club Gold Cup tickets "walkover." Damask finished 15 lengths behind with Red held under strong restraint in order not to humiliate his rival. Even so, Jockey Club Gold Cup tickets Red broke the American record for a mile and a half.
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