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WillowWarm Gold Cup

steeplechase horse race in Ireland

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ7236817 ↗
Source-derived summary

The WillowWarm Gold Cup is a Grade 1 National Hunt steeplechase in Ireland which is open to horses aged five years or older. It is run at Fairyhouse over a distance of about 2 miles and 4 furlongs (4,023 metres), and during its running there are sixteen fences to be jumped. The race is for novice chasers, and it is scheduled to take place each year on Easter Sunday.

The event was formerly sponsored by Irish Distillers, the producers of Powers Whiskey and from 2015 to 2019 it was sponsored by Irish airline Ryanair. In 2021 it was sponsored by Underwriting Exchange, in 2022 by BoyleSports and since 2023 by WillowWarm. It is run during the Fairyhouse Easter Festival, a three-day meeting which also features the Irish Grand National. Prior to 1994 it was contested over 2 miles and 2 furlongs.

Records

Winners since 1960

See also

Horse racing in Ireland

List of Irish National Hunt races

References

Racing Post:

1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997

1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007

2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017

2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025

pedigreequery.com – Powers Gold Cup – Fairyhouse.

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This entry incorporates text from “WillowWarm Gold 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.