The Gold Cup Sprint will be run at Borrowdale Park this Sunday, the 8th of December 2024. This race has a proud history – sponsored over many years by the likes of Schweppes and HRIB – so let’s look at one that went before – together with the race report published then.

DESPERATE DASH FOR HRIB GOLD CUP

What a race. The first four horses in the 2017 HRIB Gold Cup finished within 1.10 lengths, with Coachella holding on to win by a whisker from a fast finishing Super Good .

Bridget Stidolph saddled the first two horses past the post, Life Is Good ran third and Road To Dubai fourth. Fanie Chambers was aboard the winner.

By Alado (GB), Coachella was bred by Prof I.M. Sanne and is owned by John Koumides. The four-year-old gelding carried 61 kgs on Saturday and it has been quite a while since that was equalled in the HRIB – Zimbabwe’s most prestigious sprint.

It was Coachella’s sixth win and this one completed a hat-trick.

Congratulations to the winning connections.