John Smith's Silver Cup Stakes

The John Smith's Silver Cup Stakes is a Group 3 flat horse race in Great Britain open to horses aged four years or older.

It is run at York over a distance of 1 mile 5 furlongs and 188 yards (2,787 metres), and it is scheduled to take place each year in July. The race was first run in 1985 as the Sun Page 3 Stakes at Lingfield Park. The following year it had Listed status and was renamed the Sun Page 3 Silver Cup. It was moved to York in 1990 and was run as a handicap race between 1993 and 2015. In 2018 it was upgraded to Group 3 status and restricted to four-year-olds and up as part of the European Pattern Committee's commitment to improving the race programme for stayers in Europe.

Records

Leading jockey (4 wins):

• Kieren Fallon – Benatom (1997), Distinction (2004), Lost Soldier Three (2005), Mount Athos (2012)

Leading trainer (6 wins):

• Sir Henry Cecil – Skaramanga (1985), Rakaposhi King (1986), Wajna (1990), Great Marquess (1991), Benatom (1997), Eminence Grise (2000)

Winners

Silver Cup Stakes

John Smith's Silver Cup Handicap

• Weights given in stones and pounds.

John Smith's Silver Cup Stakes

See also

• Horse racing in Great Britain
• List of British flat horse races

References

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• ifhaonline.org International Federation of Horseracing Authorities – John Smith's Silver Cup Stakes (2019).