Now run over 2000 metres, the Cup has been held in Autumn since 1898 and on the first Friday each May since 1982.
The inaugural two-mile Wagga Cup, worth 400 sovereigns, with a sweepstakes of 10 sovereigns each added, was the third of five races on Wednesday, 26 November, 1873 – the first day of the annual three-day Spring meeting.
It was won in a field of 15 by the three-year-old bay gelding Mountaineer (Snowden (GB)-Mitta Mitta), having only his third start, owned by Henry Bowler, trained by William Yeomans and ridden by James Layton.
We honour and thank all who have participated, in any way, in the 150 years of “The Race That Stops The Region”.
