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The Holland&Holland World Timber Championship challenge trophy and a $100,000-added money bonus will be awarded to the horse winning both the MercedesBenz Virginia Gold Cup (along with the winner’s share of the $40,000 purse) and the Holland & Holland Marlborough Cup (with its purse of $30,000.)
The Gold Cup is contested over a demanding four-mile course of 23 4-foot fences. The Marlborough race is run over three miles and 18 fences. The Marlborough course, located about an hour southwest of London in Wiltshire, is a long, gradual uphill climb from start to finish. No fence is jumped twice. The course includes two open ditches (with the ditch on the take-off side of the jump.)
The Gold Cup, on the other hand, is run on the relatively flat course at Great Meadow on which most fences are jumped twice. The only fence different from the others on Great Meadow’s course is the water jump. Though wide, the running stream is located behind the fence, and horses
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