Gold Cup Day (GB)
Gold Cup Day won his only success in the Class 4 Fitzdares World Of Sport Podcast British EBF Maiden Stakes at Salisbury over 1m2f – 1m4f on good to firm in May 2025. The colt by Golden Horn out of a Galileo mare has one win and one place from three turf starts, all over 1m2f – 1m4f. He led when finishing fifth of six as beaten favourite in the Class 2 Darley EBF Novice Stakes at Newmarket later that month.
- 1–3Wins / Runs
- 33.3%Strike rate
- 1 (33.3%)Placed
- −1.27£1 level staken=3 at SP
- 13dBetween runs (median)
KTB Speed and Rating
Best recent Speed 102
How fast the horse ran, as points against the day-corrected standard time for its course and distance: 100 is the median GB Class 4 handicap winner on that code; one point is 0.1% of the standard time. A, B or C is how much the day's card could tell us, not how good the run was. What this means →
| Going | Runs | Best | Median | Since 4 Nov 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Good to Firm | 2 | 102A | 86.5 | — |
| Good | 1 | — | — | — |
| Distance | Runs | Best | Median | Since 4 Nov 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1m2f – 1m4f | 3 | 102A | 71 | — |
KTB Speed v1 · batch 15 Sep 2026 · GB & Irish racing only · 3 figures from 3 runs · as at 3 Oct 2026 · a record, not a forecast
Both figures are KTB's own, computed from the archive; no vendor rating enters either. Every run's figure is on its form line below with its grade. Grades measure how much the archive could see, never the merit of the run.
Run style from 3 analysed runs since Apr 2025
- Led 2 (67%) · 1 win
- Held up 1 (33%) · 0 wins
Pedigree intelligence
Progeny in our archive have won 13.9% of 3,756 runs since May 2019 (347 horses).
Weakest on heavy going: 9.2% from 163. Weakest over 6f – 7f (all codes): 8.2% from 233.
| Going | Runs | Wins | SR | vs sire | This horse |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Firm | 11 | 3 | 27.3% | +13.4 | — |
| Good to Firm | 441 | 69 | 15.6% | +1.7 | 1 from 2 |
| Good | 1,026 | 143 | 13.9% | 0 | 0 from 1 |
| Good to Soft | 482 | 80 | 16.6% | +2.7 | — |
| Soft | 580 | 73 | 12.6% | −1.3 | — |
| Heavy | 163 | 15 | 9.2% | −4.7 | — |
| Standard (AW) | 1,053 | 138 | 13.1% | −0.8 | — |
| Distance (all codes) | Runs | Wins | SR | vs sire | This horse |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Under 6f | 1 | 0 | 0% | −13.9 | — |
| 6f – 7f | 233 | 19 | 8.2% | −5.7 | — |
| 1m – 1m1f | 616 | 60 | 9.7% | −4.2 | — |
| 1m2f – 1m4f | 1,425 | 206 | 14.5% | +0.6 | 1 from 3 |
| 1m5f – 2m | 984 | 155 | 15.8% | +1.9 | — |
| 2m1f – 2m4f | 407 | 66 | 16.2% | +2.3 | — |
| 2m5f – 3m | 85 | 14 | 16.5% | +2.6 | — |
| Over 3m | 5 | 1 | 20% | +6.1 | — |
Flat and jumps together (all codes) · since May 2019 · as at 4 Nov 2026 · rows under 30 runs muted · win % is the measure, a record not a forecast
4 siblings in the archive, 2 winners — best of them Wise And Wonderful (GB) (1 win).
The wins came over 7f–1m4f; the highest grade won is Class 4 (Wise And Wonderful (GB)).
| Produce | Runs | Wins | Win trips | Best grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wise And Wonderful (GB) | 7 | 1 | 7f | Class 4 |
| Head Girl (GB) | 10 | 1 | 1m4f | Class 6 |
| Ingleton (GB) | 2 | 0 | — | — |
| Warbler (GB) | 5 | 0 | — | — |
Record by conditions
| Going | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Good to Firm | 2 | 1 | 50% | −0.27 |
| Good | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Class | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Class 2 | 2 | 0 | 0% | −2.00 |
| Class 4 | 1 | 1 | 100% | +0.73 |
| Course | Runs | Wins | SR | £1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Newmarket | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
| Salisbury | 1 | 1 | 100% | +0.73 |
| Newbury | 1 | 0 | 0% | −1.00 |
Splits include every sample, however small — muted rows are under 3 runs. A one-from-one record is a fact, not a trend: read the Runs column before the strike rate.
Form
| Date | Course | Race | Pos | Btn | Wgt | Spd | KTB | Jockey | SP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 · 3 runs | |||||||||
| 17 May 25+13d | Newmarket | Darley EBF Novice Stakes (GBB/GBBPlus Race) Set the pace early - pushed along and lost the advantage inside the last two furlongs - dropped away close home to finish 5th | 5/6 | 2½ | 9-10 | 71A | 78B | Cieren Fallon | EvensF |
| 04 May 25+22d | Salisbury | Fitzdares World Of Sport Podcast British EBF Maiden Stakes (GBB/GBBPlus Race) Set the pace from the start - urged on with three furlongs left - edged left approaching the final furlong - eased clear under pressure inside the last to score without being seriously threatened | 1/6 | 9-7 | 102A | 90B | Cieren Fallon | 8/11F | |
| 12 Apr 25 | Newbury | Darley 'Confined' EBF Maiden Stakes (GBB/GBBPlus Race) Settled at the back - stayed on past a fading horse inside the final furlong without the speed to challenge - finished fifth | 5/7 | ¾ | 9-7 | 59A | 79A | Cieren Fallon | 6/1 |
Quick answers
- How many races has Gold Cup Day won?
- Gold Cup Day (GB) won 1 of 3 archived starts in 2025, a strike rate of 33.3%. Placed 1 time in total (33.3% of starts).
- Who trained Gold Cup Day?
- Gold Cup Day (GB) was trained by William Haggas on the most recent run on record, at Newmarket on 17 May 2025.
- Who is Gold Cup Day's sire?
- Gold Cup Day (GB) is by Golden Horn (GB) out of Great And Small (GB), whose sire is Galileo.
- What is Gold Cup Day's sire's record?
- Golden Horn (GB)'s progeny in our archive have won 13.9% of 3,756 runs since May 2019 (347 horses), Flat and jumps together. Weakest on heavy going: 9.2% from 163. Weakest over 6f – 7f (all codes): 8.2% from 233.
- Who are Gold Cup Day's siblings?
- Out of Great And Small (GB), Gold Cup Day (GB) has 4 other produce in our archive, 2 of them winners. Most wins: Wise And Wonderful (GB) (1). Highest grade won: Class 4 (Wise And Wonderful (GB)). The wins came over 7f–1m4f. As at Nov 2026.