TODAY’S TRADEMARK – THE VIRGINIA GOLD CUP

The Virginia Gold Cup is a legendary steeplechase race celebrating the hunt country tradition. The Virginia Gold Cup is held on the first Saturday of May at Great Meadow in The Plains, Virginia, a field events centre and passed on by the Arundel Family in 1984.

The Virginia Gold Cup event was founded by eight sportsmen who met at the Fauquier Club in Warranton and organized a four-mile race alongside the natural walls and fences of the nearby hunting countryside on April 3, 1922 and thirty-four days later was the first Virginia Gold Cup race. In 1924, the race moved to a new course i.e., Broadview Farm near Warrenton and was organized for the first time under the national steeplechasing rules.

The event received international recognition in the year 1993 when the British Jockey club determined that the winners of the Virginia Gold Cup would automatically qualify as the starters in the famed Grand National at Aintree, an honour previously granted only to the winner of the Pardubice in Czechoslovakia and the Maryland Hunt Cup.

The trademark of “The Virginia Gold Cup” was registered in USPTO bearing registration number 1361081 on September 17, 1985.