Coronation Cup


History

The event was established in 1902 to commemorate the coronation of a new British monarch, King Edward VII. Epsom had staged a similar race, the Epsom Gold Cup, which was open to horses aged three or older. The Coronation Cup was temporarily switched to alternative venues during wartime periods, with runnings at Newmarket and Newbury.
The race is contested on the first day of Epsom's two-day Derby Festival meeting, the same day as the Epsom Oaks. Its distance is the same as that of both the Oaks and the Epsom Derby, and it often features horses who competed in those events in the preceding seasons.
The race was run on the Thursday of the Derby meeting until 1994, it was run on a Saturday in 1975, 1995–97, 2012–16 and finally run on the Friday from 1998–2011 then from 2017-2025, from 2026, the Coronation Cup will return to a Saturday, the same day as the Derby.

Records

Most successful horse :
Leading jockey :
Leading trainer :
Leading owner :
  • Sue Magnier – ''Yeats, Scorpion, Soldier of Fortune, Fame and Glory, St Nicholas Abbey, Highland Reel, Luxembourg, Jan Brueghel ''

    Winners