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The Newcastle Gold Cup is a Group 3 staying event held at Newcastle Racecourse in mid-September.

Raced over 2300m, the Newcastle Gold Cup presents horses with an interesting challenge and punters with a half-decent guide to the Melbourne Cup. Run under open handicap conditions, the Newcastle Gold Cup allows genuine winners to rise to the occasion and prove their staying abilities.

With $200,000 prize money, the Newcastle Gold Cup is quite a lucrative Group 3 event. Trainers from both local stables and Sydney stables seek entry into the Newcastle Gold Cup for their higher-class stayers.

Although only holding Group 3 status, the Newcastle Gold Cup attracts horses of a higher calibre; it is not unusual to see some past Group 1 winners in the Newcastle Cup field. Sometimes, horses from Queensland will make the journey down south, although it is rarer for Victorian and Western Australian horses to travel for the Newcastle Gold Cup.

The Newcastle Gold Cup is held at beautiful Broadmeadow, the home of the Newcastle Jockey Club. The Newcastle Gold Cup is the headline event of the two-day Newcastle Racing Carnival. There are four other black-type events held during the Newcastle Racing Carnival, including two Group 3 events, the Cameron Handicap (1500m) and the Tibbie Stakes (1400m).

Depending on their spring campaign plans and their results in the Newcastle Gold Cup, many of the runners will continue on to major feature races during the Sydney Spring Racing Carnival including Group 1 The Metropolitan (2400m) on Epson Handicap Day at Randwick.

The Newcastle Gold Cup winner is exempt from The Metropolitan ballot and Glencadam Gold (2012) was the last horse to do the double.

The year before, Green Moon (2011) won the Newcastle Gold Cup before a next-up second in the Group 1 Caulfield Cup (2400m). Green Moon also went on to win the 2012 Melbourne Cup over the two miles at Flemington.

The 2020 Newcastle Gold Cup ran on Friday September 18, 2020 and saw local trainer Kris Lees finally take out his home-town Cup with the favourite Mugatoo. 

Newcastle Gold Cup
Date:	Friday September 18, 2020
Track:	Newcastle Racecourse
Distance:	2300m
Conditions:	Open Handicap
Status:	Group 3
Prizemoney:	$200,000

2020 Newcastle Gold Cup Results

• 1st: #1 Mugatoo
• 2nd: #2 Hush Writer
• 3rd: #12 Attention Run

Last start Group 3 Premier’s Cup winner at Rosehill, six-year-old Australian Bloodstock import Mugatoo ($2.40F) continued his spring success taking out the Newcastle Gold Cup 2020 results. Fifteen-time Group 1 winning trainer Kris Lees finally saluted in his home-town Cup with Mugatoo ridden to victory by triple Melbourne Cup winning jockey Kerrin McEvoy, the favourite defeating last year’s champion Hush Writer in a powerful finish.

Click here to read more on the Newcastle Cup 2020 win by Mugatoo.

Colour	Finish	No.	Horse	Trainer	Jockey	Margin	Bar.	Weight	Penalty	Starting Price
	1	1	MUGATOO (IRE)	Kris Lees	Kerrin McEvoy		7	59kg		$2.40F
	2	2	HUSH WRITER (JPN)	Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott	Tim Clark	1.54L	11	56kg		$5
	3	12	ATTENTION RUN (GER)	Kris Lees	Andrew Gibbons	2.13L	14	54kg		$26
	4	8	PATHS OF GLORY (GB)	Richard & Michael Freedman	Ms Rachel King	2.27L	15	54kg		$9.50
	5	7	NORWAY (IRE)	Chris Waller	Sam Clipperton	3.98L	13	54kg		$31
	6	4	CARZOFF (FR)	Chris Waller	Lee Magorrian	5.33L	3	54.5kg		$19
	7	9	THE LORD MAYOR (NZ)	Chris Waller	Tommy Berry	8.17L	2	54kg		$8.50
	8	14	ALIFEROUS	Kris Lees	Regan Bayliss	9.01L	9	54kg		$14
	9	15	ZACADA (NZ)	Jim & Greg Lee	Brandon Griffiths (a)	9.03L	1	54kg		$151
	10	3	AZURO (FR)	Ciaron Maher & David Eustace	Robbie Dolan	9.95L	8	54.5kg		$41
	11	16	THE GETAWAY	Paul Perry	Ms Rachael Murray	9.97L	4	54kg		$201
	12	11	HERENGAWE (NZ)	Chris Waller	Brenton Avdulla	10.41L	6	54kg		$15
	13	6	BIG DUKE (IRE)	Kris Lees	Jason Collett	12.14L	10	54kg		$31
	14	17e	NOTHING TOO HARD	Paul Perry	Ms Mikayla Weir (a)	15.98L	12	54kg		$201
	15	13	SWEET THOMAS (GER)	Matthew Smith	Glen Boss	22.4L	5	54kg		$101
		10	GREY LION (IRE)	Matthew Smith	Ms Kathy O’Hara		0
		5	SIR CHARLES ROAD	Lance O’Sullivan & Andrew Scott			0

Table Credit: Racing Australia.

2020 Newcastle Gold Cup Odds

The spring’s top Newcastle Gold Cup 2020 racing odds and betting market links to Ladbrokes.com.au will be available for punters below once released.

Mugatoo ($2.40 in 2020) was the last favourite in Newcastle Gold Cup betting to salute for the punters.

2020 Newcastle Gold Cup Field

The Newcastle Gold Cup field attracts a quality line-up of second tier spring stayers each season, many coming off lead-up runs in races like the Listed Wyong Cup (2100m) a fortnight earlier or Rosehill’s Listed Premiers’ Cup (1900m) the month before. Carzoff (2018) was the last horse to do the Wyong Cup – Newcastle Cup double.

The official Newcastle Gold Cup Final Field & Barriers are announced on the Wednesday of race week.

Kris Lees’ last start Group 3 Premier’s Cup winner Mugatoo heads a capacity 2020 Newcastle Gold Cup field carrying the 59kg topweight this Friday.

Update: #5 Sir Charles Road (15) drawn wide has been scratched from the Newcastle Cup field and the only emergency, Nothing Too Hard (12) coming in for a run.

Update: #10 Grey Lion (13) has been scratched.

Click here to read more on the key chances in the 2020 Newcastle Gold Cup field & betting markets.

No	Last 10	Horse	Trainer	Jockey	Barrier	Weight	Probable Weight	Penalty	Hcp Rating
1	6x11126x11	MUGATOO (IRE)	Kris Lees	Kerrin McEvoy	7	59kg			108
2	816x7000x3	HUSH WRITER (JPN)	Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott	Tim Clark	11	56kg			102
3	55313770×7	AZURO (FR)	Ciaron Maher & David Eustace	Robbie Dolan	8	54.5kg			99
4	x024923328	CARZOFF (FR)	Chris Waller	Lee Magorrian	3	54.5kg			99
5	0533499×00	SIR CHARLES ROAD	Lance O’Sullivan & Andrew Scott		15	54kg			98
6	6x750x9084	BIG DUKE (IRE)	Kris Lees	Jason Collett	10	54kg			97
7	731x7836x0	NORWAY (IRE)	Chris Waller	Sam Clipperton	14	54kg			97
8	11123×0011	PATHS OF GLORY (GB)	Richard & Michael Freedman	Ms Rachel King	17	54kg			97
9	3×08364252	THE LORD MAYOR (NZ)	Chris Waller	Tommy Berry	2	54kg			97
10	40880×0830	GREY LION (IRE)	Matthew Smith	Ms Kathy O’Hara	13	54kg			96
11	36221×0553	HERENGAWE (NZ)	Chris Waller	Brenton Avdulla	6	54kg			95
12	6x507x1925	ATTENTION RUN (GER)	Kris Lees	Andrew Gibbons	16	54kg			94
13	x47740715x	SWEET THOMAS (GER)	Matthew Smith	Glen Boss	5	54kg			92
14	442944×333	ALIFEROUS	Kris Lees	Regan Bayliss	9	54kg			90
15	76P8x8x600	ZACADA (NZ)	Jim & Greg Lee	Brandon Griffiths (a)	1	54kg	54kg		87
16	4×00000759	THE GETAWAY	Paul Perry	Ms Rachael Murray	4	54kg			67
17e	63213×1374	NOTHING TOO HARD	Paul Perry		12	54kg			63

Table Credit: Racing Australia.

2020 Newcastle Gold Cup Nominations

Nominations for the Newcastle Gold Cup close the Monday of race week and will be published below once announced.

The 2020 Newcastle Gold Cup Nominations feature a class list of 19 stayers including the defending champion Hush Writer coming off a third in the Wyong Gold Cup, winner of that race Paths Of Glory, Chris Waller’s Wyong and Grafton Cup runner-up The Lord Mayor, and the in-form Kris Lees-trained Mugatoo coming off a Group 3 Rosehill win.

	Last 10	Horse	Sex	Age	Trainer	Hcp Rating
1	442944×333	ALIFEROUS	M	5	Kris Lees	90
2	6x507x1925	ATTENTION RUN (GER)	M	6	Kris Lees	94
3	55313770×7	AZURO (FR)	G	7	Ciaron Maher & David Eustace	99
4	6x750x9084	BIG DUKE (IRE)	G	9	Kris Lees	97
5	x024923328	CARZOFF (FR)	G	8	Chris Waller	99
6	40880×0830	GREY LION (IRE)	G	9	Matthew Smith	96
7	36221×0553	HERENGAWE (NZ)	G	6	Chris Waller	95
8	816x7000x3	HUSH WRITER (JPN)	G	6	Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott	102
9	6x11126x11	MUGATOO (IRE)	G	6	Kris Lees	108
10	160x1225x0	MUSTAJEER (GB)	G	8	Kris Lees	112
11	731x7836x0	NORWAY (IRE)	G	5	Chris Waller	97
12	63213×1374	NOTHING TOO HARD	G	6	Paul Perry
13	11123×0011	PATHS OF GLORY (GB)	G	6	Richard & Michael Freedman	97
14	0533499×00	SIR CHARLES ROAD	G	7	Lance O’Sullivan & Andrew Scott	98
15	x47740715x	SWEET THOMAS (GER)	G	9	Matthew Smith	92
16	32142×2314	TAIKOMOCHI	G	7	Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott	105
17	4×00000759	THE GETAWAY	G	7	Paul Perry
18	3×08364252	THE LORD MAYOR (NZ)	G	6	Chris Waller	97
19	76P8x8x600	ZACADA (NZ)	G	8	Jim & Greg Lee	87

Table Credit: Racing Australia. 

Newcastle Gold Cup History

Inaugurated in 1898, the Newcastle Gold Cup has an extensive history of prestige. Over time, the Newcastle Gold Cup has garnered a reputation as one of the most renowned country cup events in the nation. The reputation is shared by Broadmeadow Racecourse and the Newcastle Jockey Club. Originally a Principal race, the Newcastle Gold Cup was granted Group 2 status in 1980. In 2001, however, the event was downgraded to Group 3, a status it has held since.

The calendar slot the Newcastle Gold Cup occupies ensures that the race attracts a number of top-rated horses each year. Many of the runners in the Newcastle Gold Cup have plans to contest major Group 1 events further down the track. 2012 Melbourne Cup winner Green Moon took out the Newcastle Gold Cup in 2011. 1982 Newcastle Cup winner Gurners Lane went on to win the Caulfield Cup-Melbourne Cup double. Bianca, who took out the 2008 Newcastle Gold Cup, went on to place second in The Metropolitan.

Other notable Newcastle Gold Cup winners include Raven’s Plume (1898), Duke Alwyne (1915, 1916), Salazar (1939), Lord Valentine (1941), Mr Mako (1985), Agincourt Express (2001) and Glencadam Gold (2012).

A new Newcastle Gold Cup race record was set in 2019 when Gai Waterhouse won the event for the sixth time since 2000 with Hush Writer who took it out in 2 minutes, 23.25 seconds.

In 2020 Hush Writer just failed to go back-to-back running second to Mugatoo, the winner handing local horseman Kris Lees his first Newcastle Gold Cup success.

Newcastle Gold Cup results since 2000 are provided below.

Newcastle Gold Cup Results

Year	Place	Horse	Time
2020 Newcastle Gold Cup	1st	Mugatoo	2 minutes 25.10 seconds
	2nd	Hush Writer
	3rd	Attention Run
2019 Newcastle Gold Cup	1st	Hush Writer	2 minutes 23.25 seconds (R)
	2nd	Attention Run
	3rd	Our Candidate
2018 Newcastle Gold Cup	1st	Carzoff	2 minutes 24.44 seconds
	2nd	Auvray
	3rd	Just Shine
2017 Newcastle Gold Cup	1st	Broadside	2 minutes 24.26 seconds
	2nd	Auvray
	3rd	Admiral Jello
2016 Newcastle Gold Cup	1st	Sacred Master	2 minutes 14.5 seconds
	2nd	Dee I Cee
	3rd	Junoob
2015 Newcastle Gold Cup	1st	Beyond Thankful	2 minutes 23.5 seconds
	2nd	Orbec
	3rd	Rio Perdido
2014 Newcastle Gold Cup	1st	Disclaimer	2 minutes 23.2 seconds
	2nd	Brigantin
	3rd	Wish Come True
2013 Newcastle Gold Cup	1st	Winning Glory	2 minutes 24.9 seconds
	2nd	Lucripetous
	3rd	Peal Of Bells
2012 Newcastle Gold Cup	1st	Glencadem Gold	2 minutes 23.3 seconds
	2nd	Peal Of Bells
	3rd	Gazza Guru
2011 Newcastle Gold Cup	1st	Green Moon	2 minutes 22.4 seconds
	2nd	Home On A Wing
	3rd	Gazza Guru
2010 Newcastle Gold Cup	1st	Stratofortress	2 minutes 22.2 seconds
	2nd	Snow Alert
	3rd	Scottish Border
2009 Newcastle Gold Cup	1st	Streetfighter	2 minutes 26.9 seconds
	2nd	Lodge The Deeds
	3rd	Enzedex Eagle
2008 Newcastle Gold Cup	1st	Bianca	2 minutes 23.4 seconds
	2nd	Keepin The Dream
	3rd	County Tyrone
2007 Newcastle Gold Cup	Race Not Held
2006 Newcastle Gold Cup	1st	Bikkie Tin Blues	2 minutes 21.3 seconds
	2nd	Exinite
	3rd	Respect
2005 Newcastle Gold Cup	=1st	Carael Boy	2 minutes 25.6 seconds
	=1st	High Cee
	3rd	Cross Bar
2004 Newcastle Gold Cup	1st	Another Warrior	2 minutes 20.5 seconds
	2nd	New York Style
	3rd	County Tyrone
2003 Newcastle Gold Cup	1st	Comforts	2 minutes 21.5 seconds
	2nd	My Tally
	3rd	Daneborough
2002 Newcastle Gold Cup	1st	Time Off	2 minutes 23.4 seconds
	2nd	Red Trinket
	3rd	Danyon
2001 Newcastle Gold Cup	1st	Agincourt Express	2 minutes 24.9 seconds
	2nd	Yuppie
	3rd	Consolidator
2000 Newcastle Gold Cup	1st	Silent Impact	2 minutes 23.4 seconds
	2nd	Prophet’s Kiss
	3rd	She’s Neat