The Hennessy Gold Cup is a grade 3 class one handicap chase for horses of 4 years and older.
The Hennessy Gold Cup is a handicap chase run at Newbury racecourse late November / early December. It has been run since 1957 and in all that time it has has continued sponsorship from the same company "Hennessy".
This is a race is an early season target for young horses on the way to better things. Won in the past twice by Gold Cup winner Denman and also Burrough Hill Lad. Many good horses have won this with the likes of Suny Bay, One Man and more recently Teeton Mill.
The race is very much one for up and coming horses with no winner older than 10 since Diamond Edge won in 1981.
Dual winners are also very rare, with Denman in 2007 and 2009 being in very good company with the only other twice winner the greatest national hunt racehorse ever to have lived "ARKLE" in 1964 and 1965.
2015 Hennessy Gold Cup Our Guide
2014 Hennessy Gold Cup Our Guide
| Year | Winner | Age | Weight | Trainer | Jockey |
| 2014 | Many Clouds | 7 | 11-06 | Oliver Sherwood | Leighton Aspell |
| 2013 | Triolo D'Alene | 6 | 11-01 | Nicky Henderson | Barry Geraghty |
| 2012 | Bobs Worth | 7 | 11-06 | Nicky Henderson | Barry Geraghty |
| 2011 | Carruthers | 8 | 10-04 | Mark Bradstock | Mattie Batchelor |
| 2010 | Diamond Harry | 7 | 10-00 | Nick Williams | Daryl Jacob |
| 2009 | Denman | 9 | 11-12 | Paul Nicholls | Ruby Walsh |
| 2008 | Madison du Berlais | 7 | 11-04 | David Pipe | Tom Scudamore |
| 2007 | Denman | 7 | 11-12 | Paul Nicholls | Sam Thomas |
| 2006 | State of Play | 6 | 11-04 | Evan Williams | Paul Moloney |
| 2005 | Trabolgan | 7 | 11-12 | Nicky Henderson | Mick Fitzgerald |
| 2004 | Celestial Gold | 6 | 10-05 | Martin Pipe | Timmy Murphy |
| 2003 | Strong Flow | 6 | 11-00 | Paul Nicholls | Ruby Walsh |
| 2002 | Gingembre [1] | 8 | 10-13 | Lavinia Taylor | Andrew Thornton |
| 2001 | What's Up Boys | 7 | 10-12 | Philip Hobbs | Paul Flynn |
| 2000 | King's Road | 7 | 10-07 | Nigel Twiston-Davies | Jamie Goldstein |
| 1999 | Ever Blessed | 7 | 10-00 | Mark Pitman | Timmy Murphy |
| 1998 | Teeton Mill | 9 | 10-05 | Venetia Williams | Norman Williamson |
| 1997 | Suny Bay | 8 | 11-08 | Charlie Brooks | Graham Bradley |
| 1996 | Coome Hill | 7 | 10-00 | Walter Dennis | Jamie Osborne |
| 1995 | Couldn't Be Better | 8 | 10-08 | Charlie Brooks | Dean Gallagher |
| 1994 | One Man | 6 | 10-00 | Gordon W. Richards | Tony Dobbin |
| 1993 | Cogent | 9 | 10-01 | Andrew Turnell | Dan Fortt |
| 1992 | Sibton Abbey | 7 | 10-00 | Ferdy Murphy | Adrian Maguire |
| 1991 | Chatam | 7 | 10-06 | Martin Pipe | Peter Scudamore |
| 1990 | Arctic Call | 7 | 11-00 | Oliver Sherwood | Jamie Osborne |
| 1989 | Ghofar | 6 | 10-02 | David Elsworth | Hywel Davies |
| 1988 | Strands of Gold | 9 | 10-00 | Martin Pipe | Peter Scudamore |
| 1987 | Playschool | 9 | 10-08 | David Barons | Paul Nicholls |
| 1986 | Broadheath | 9 | 10-05 | David Barons | Paul Nicholls |
| 1985 | Galway Blaze | 9 | 10-00 | Jimmy FitzGerald | Mark Dwyer |
| 1984 | Burrough Hill Lad | 8 | 12-00 | Jenny Pitman | John Francome |
| 1983 | Brown Chamberlin | 8 | 11-08 | Fred Winter | John Francome |
| 1982 | Bregawn | 8 | 11-10 | Michael Dickinson | Graham Bradley |
| 1981 | Diamond Edge | 10 | 11-10 | Fulke Walwyn | Bill Smith |
| 1980 | Bright Highway | 6 | 11-06 | Michael O'Brien | Gerry Newman |
| 1979 | Fighting Fit | 7 | 11-07 | Ken Oliver | Richard Linley |
| 1978 | Approaching | 7 | 10-06 | Josh Gifford | Bob Champion |
| 1977 | Bachelor's Hall | 7 | 10-10 | Peter Cundell | Martin O'Halloran |
| 1976 | Zeta's Son | 7 | 10-09 | Peter Bailey | Ian Watkinson |
| 1975 | April Seventh | 9 | 11-02 | Bob Turnell | Andrew Turnell |
| 1974 | Royal Marshall II | 7 | 10-00 | Tim Forster | Graham Thorner |
| 1973 | Red Candle | 9 | 10-04 | Ricky Vallance | Jimmy Fox |
| 1972 | Charlie Potheen | 7 | 11-04 | Fulke Walwyn | Richard Pitman |
| 1971 | Bighorn | 7 | 10-11 | Charlie Vernon Miller | David Cartwright |
| 1970 | Border Mask | 8 | 11-01 | Peter Cazalet | David Mould |
| 1969 | Spanish Steps | 6 | 11-08 | Edward Courage | John Cook |
| 1968 | Man of the West | 7 | 10-00 | Fulke Walwyn | Willie Robinson |
| 1967 | Rondetto | 11 | 10-01 | Bob Turnell | Jeff King |
| 1966 | Stalbridge Colonist | 7 | 10-00 | Ken Cundell | Stan Mellor |
| 1965 | Arkle | 8 | 12-07 | Tom Dreaper | Pat Taaffe |
| 1964 | Arkle | 7 | 12-07 | Tom Dreaper | Pat Taaffe |
| 1963 | Mill House | 6 | 12-00 | Fulke Walwyn | Willie Robinson |
| 1962 | Springbok | 8 | 10-08 | Neville Crump | Gerry Scott |
| 1961 | Mandarin | 10 | 11-05 | Fulke Walwyn | Willie Robinson |
| 1960 | Knucklecracker | 7 | 11-01 | Derek Ancil | Derek Ancil |
| 1959 | Kerstin | 9 | 11-10 | Verly Bewicke | Stan Hayhurst |
| 1958 | Taxidermist | 6 | 11-01 | Fulke Walwyn | Mr John Lawrence |
| 1957 | Mandarin | 6 | 11-00 | Fulke Walwyn | Gerry Madden |
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