Hawthorne Gold Cup Handicap
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The Hawthorne Gold Cup Handicap is a Grade II race for thoroughbred horses run at Hawthorne Race Course in Stickney, Illinois each year. The Hawthorne Gold Cup trophy always been made of solid gold.
After 1939, the race was suspended through the remainder of World War II.
Historically, a premier race of the season that attracted the best horses from across the United States, U.S. Hall of Fame horse Sun Beau won it three times in a row between 1929 and 1931. Other Hall of Fame iductees have their name on the Gold Cup, including Equipoise (1933), Discovery (1935), Challedon (1936), Round Table, who won it back-to-back in 1957 and 1958, Kelso (1960) and Dr. Fager in 1967.
In 1959, Day Court, ridden by Henry Moreno, set a new track record in winning the race, a record that stood until Ron Turcotte broke it again in 1970 aboard Gladwin.
The Hawthorne Gold Cup Handicap is currently a Grade II event open to horses, age three and up, willing to race ten furlongs or one and one-quarter miles on the dirt and carries a purse of $500,000. (Recently reduced from $750,000.)
[edit] Winners
| Year | Winner | Jockey | Trainer | Owner |
| 2006 | It's No Joke | Eddie Razo, Jr. | Rebecca Maker | Stan Fulton |
| 2005 | Super Frolic | Victor Espinoza | Vladimir Cerin | Millennium Farms |
| 2004 | Freefourinternet | Greta Kuntzweiler | Michael Maker | Equirace.com |
| 2003 | Perfect Drift | Pat Day | Murray Johnson | Stonecrest Farm |
| 2002 | Hail The Chief | Jorge Chavez | Niall O'Callaghan | Peter M. Crane |
| 2001 | Duckhorn | Randall Meier | Patrick Byrne | Michael Tabor |
| 2000 | Dust On The Bottle | Tim Doocy | Glenn Hild | Sharon Hild |
| 1999 | Supreme Sound | Randall Meier | Michael Dickinson | P. Harris |
| 1998 | Awesome Again | Pat Day | Patrick B. Byrne | Stronach Stables |
| 1997 | Buck’s Boy | Mark Guidry | Hilary Pridham | Quarter B Farm |
| 1996 | Come On Flip | Chris Emigh | Lou Goldfine | R. Ackerman & S. Sommer |
| 1995 | Yourmissinthepoint | Mark Guidry | Steve Klesaris | M. Parezo |
| 1994 | Recoup The Cash | Juvenal L. Diaz | J. R. Smith, Sr. | R. Trebat |
| 1993 | Evanescent | Aaron Gryder | Lou Goldfine | M. Levy |
| 1992 | Irish Swap | Bruce Poyadou | Joseph E. Broussard | R. Hendricks |
| 1991 | Sunny Sunrise | Chris Antley | Bud Delp | Harry & Mary Jo Meyerhoff |
| 1990 | Black Tie Affair | Juvenal L. Diaz | Ernie T. Poulos | Jeff Sullivan |
| 1989 | Cryptoclearance | Jose Santos | Scotty Schulhofer | Philip Teinowitz |
| 1988 | Cryptoclearance | Jose Santos | Scotty Schulhofer | Philip Teinowitz |
| 1987 | Nostalgia’s Star | Fernando Toro | Jay M. Robbins | Hinds, Robbins & Duckett |
| 1986 | Ends Well | Randy Romero | R. Reinadner, Jr. | Greentree Stable |
| 1985 | Garthorn | Rafael Meza | Robert J. Frankel | Mr. & Mrs. Jerry S. Moss |
| 1984 | Proof | Eddie Delahoussaye | Robert J. Frankel | B. Firestone, J. S. Moss |
| 1983 | Water Bank | Chris Lamance | Robert J. Frankel | Elmendorf Farm |
| 1982 | Recusant | Ronald Hirdes, Jr. | M. Ball | Donamire Farms |
| 1981 | Spruce Bouquet | K. Clark | R. C. Wood, Jr. | D. O. Wolfe |
| 1980 | Tunerup | Jorge Vasquez | F. Fernandez | Daybreak Farm |
| 1979 | Young Bob | Ron Turcotte | G. McGrath | J. A. Logan |
| 1977 | On The Sly | Gregg McCarron | Mel Gross | Balmak Stable |
| 1976 | Almost Grown | Michael Morgan | Jack Van Berg | Flash III Stable |
| 1975 | Royal Glint | Jorge Tejeira | G. R. Potter | Dan Lasater |
| 1974 | Group Plan | Jorge Velasquez | H. Allen Jerkens | Hobeau Farm |
| 1973 | Tri Jet | Braulio Baeza | T. W. Kelly | Fred W. Hooper |
| 1972 | Droll Role | Eddie Maple | Thomas J. Kelly | John M. Schiff |
| 1971 | Twice Worthy | Laffit Pincay, Jr. | James P. Conway | Saddle Rock Farm |
| 1970 | Gladwin | Ron Turcotte | E. Jackson | H. Harcourt |
| 1969 | Nodouble | Eddie Belmonte | J. Bert Sonnier | Verna Lea Farm |
| 1968 | Nodouble | M. Heath | J. Bert Sonnier | Verna Lea Farm |
| 1967 | Dr. Fager | Braulio Baeza | John A. Nerud | Tartan Stable |
| 1966 | Bold Bidder | Pete Anderson | Woody Stephens | John R. Gaines |
| 1965 | Moss Vale | R. Baldwin | J. J. Molay | Gentilly Stable |
| 1964 | Going Abroad | Ray Broussard | J. H. Pierce, Jr. | E. H. N. Seltzer |
| 1963 | Admiral Vic | Mickey Solomone | P. J. Dispenza | Sunny Blue Farm |
| 1962 | Beau Purple | William Boland | H. Allen Jerkens | Hobeau Farm |
| 1961 | T. V. Lark | Johnny Longden | Paul K. Parker | Preston W. Madden |
| 1960 | Kelso | Eddie Arcaro | Carl H. Hanford | Bohemia Stable |
| 1959 | Day Court | Henry Moreno | W. A. Kelley | Elmendorf Farm |
| 1958 | Round Table | Bill Shoemaker | William Molter | Kerr Stable |
| 1957 | Round Table | Willie Harmatz | William Molter | Kerr Stable |
| 1956 | Dedicate | William Boland | G. Carey Winfrey | Jan Burke |
| 1955 | Hasseyampa | Billie Fisk | John J. Greely, Jr. | Walmac Farm |
| 1954 | Rejected | Eric Guerin | Max Hirsch | King Ranch |
| 1953 | Sub Fleet | Steve Brooks | Jack C. Hodgins | Dixiana Farm |
| 1952 | To Market | William Boland | Max Hirsch | King Ranch |
| 1951 | Seaward | Avelino Gomez | Harry Trotsek | Hasty House Farm |
| 1950 | Dr. Ole Nelson | Gerald Porch | Howard Wells | M. A. & R. Saffir |
| 1949 | Volanic | A. D. Rivera | Howard Wells | Walmac Farm |
| 1948 | Billings | Melvin Peterson | Howard Wells | Walmac Farm |
| 1947 | Be Faithful | Willie Garner | H. H. Battle | Mrs. E. E. D. Shaffer |
| 1946 | Jack's Jill | Jesse Higley | John Milton Goode | J. A. Goodwin |
| 1939 | Challedon | Harry Richards | Louis F. Schaefer | William L. Brann |
| 1938 | Esposa | Nick Wall | Matthew P. Brady | William Ziegler, Jr. |
| 1937 | Sahri II | Fred A. Smith | J. Cuevas | L. Barker |
| 1935 | Discovery | John Bejshak | Bud Stotler | Alfred G. Vanderbilt II |
| 1933 | Equipose | Raymond Workman | Thomas J. Healey | C. V. Whitney |
| 1932 | Plucky Play | George Woolf | Woody Fitzgerald | Northway Stable |
| 1931 | Sun Beau | Charles Kurtsinger | Jack Whyte | Willis Sharpe Kilmer |
| 1930 | Sun Beau | Frank Coltiletti | Andy Schuttinger | Willis Sharpe Kilmer |
| 1929 | Sun Beau | Frank Coltiletti | Andy Schuttinger | Willis Sharpe Kilmer |
| 1928 | Display | John Maiben | Thomas J. Healey | Walter J. Salmon, Sr. |
