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The December Gold Cup (run in 2013 as the Stewart Family Thank You Gold Cup) is a Grade 3 National Hunt chase in Great Britain which is open to horses aged four years or older. It is run on the New Course at Cheltenham over a distance of about 2 miles and 5 furlongs (4225 metres) and during its running there are seventeen fences to be jumped. It is a handicap race and it is scheduled to take place each year in December.The event was first run in 1963.