Endurance Gold Cup Stakes

The Endurance Gold Cup Stakes was an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually during the latter part of November at Bowie Race Track in Bowie, Maryland. Open to two-year-old horses, it was contested on dirt over a distance of a mile and a sixteenth (8.5 furlongs).

Endurance Gold Cup Stakes
Discontinued stakes race
LocationBowie Race Track
Bowie, Maryland, United States
Inaugurated1921
Race typeThoroughbred - Flat racing
Race information
Distance1+116 miles (8.5 furlongs)
SurfaceDirt
Trackleft-handed
QualificationTwo-year-olds
WeightAssigned

Inaugurated as the Endurance Handicap at a distance of one mile, seventy yards, its name was changed in 1952 by new track President, Larry MacPhail.

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