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Old Newton Cup

horse race

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ18127135 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Old Newton Cup is a flat Handicap horse race in Great Britain open to horses of four-year-old and up. It is run at Haydock over a distance of 1 mile 3 furlongs and 175 yards (2,373 metres), and it is scheduled to take place each year in July.

The race has been won by several top-class horses including Collier Hill, Alkaased, Dangerous Midge and Dylan Mouth.

Winners since 1900

See also

Horse racing in Great Britain

List of British flat horse races

References

Paris-Turf:

"1983"., "1984"., "1986".

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“Old Newton Cup” enters the record as horse race. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Newton, horse and race can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1900, 1983, 1984, 1986—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Newton, horse and race.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q18127135. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1900, 1983, 1984 and 1986.

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This entry incorporates text from “Old Newton Cup” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.