Tags: Horse Race, Race.
The Jockey Club Gold Cup established in 1919 is a 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 Travers Stakes is of the summer meeting at Saratoga.Part of the Breeders’ Cup Challenge series the winner of the 2008 Jockey Club Gold Cup automatically qualified for the Breeders’ Cup Classic.