TODAY’S TRADEMARK – INTERNATIONAL GOLD CUP

The International Gold Cup Race highlights the fall steeplechase season. The first International Gold Cup was held in 1930 at Grasslands Downs in Tennessee, similar to the English Grand National Course at  Aintree. After the Tennessee race meet ended in 1932, the race event moved to the Rolling Rock Hunt Meet Course in Pennsylvania, a course built by General Richard King Mellon, who won the International Gold Cup in 1931 in Tennessee.

The International Gold Cup Race was again relocated after the 1983 to the Great Meadow racecourse after the Rolling Rock Hunt Meet’s racecourse fell victim to the land development. On October 20, 1984, the International Gold Cup started a new chapter before a crowd of 8,500 with some 80 horses on a seven-race card. Befitting Virginia’s tradition of being the nation’s leader of timber racing, the International Gold Cup Race became a timber race.

The trademark of “International Gold Cup” was registered in USPTO bearing registration number 1558474 on September 26, 1989.