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Course record time for the Virginia Gold Cup — set at Great Meadow, in a time of 8:27, by Saluter, Jack Fisher up, in 1995
* Average starting field of horses in the Virginia Gold Cup — nine horses
* Record number of horses starting in the Virginia Gold Cup— 18 horses in 1954
* Smallest field of starters in the Gold Cup — two in 1938
* Current odds of finishing the Gold Cup — 60 percent
* All time leading riders (three or more wins) —
Joe Aitcheson Jr. — Won 8 limes on eight different horses 1957, I960, 1961, 1964, 1967, 1968, 1971 and 1972
Jack Fisher — 1981, 1989, 1992, 1994, 1995 and 1996
Jack Skinner — 1932, 1933 and 1934
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