The winner's purse was $300,000 in the handicap race for 3-year-olds and up.
The Cup, a handicap race, gives ordinary horses a chance.
From inception through 1968, it was a handicap race for horses age three and older.
It is a handicap race, and takes place each year in April.
He again won two major flat handicap races in 2005.
Additional events were held for professionals and a series of handicap races also took place.
Anyone could win because, since its earliest days, this has been a handicap race run along Corinthian lines to give everyone a chance.
Today he will be racing a mile and a quarter against the winners of almost every major handicap race this year.
Prior to that, it was a 3,200 metres handicap race.
It was a limited handicap race, and it took place in January 2006.