# Gold Cup at Santa Anita top three finishers

This is a listing of the horses that finished in first, second, and third place (and the number of starters) in the Gold Cup at Santa Anita Stakes (formerly the Hollywood Gold Cup), an American Grade 1 race for three-year-olds and up at 1 1/4 miles on dirt (except 2007-2013 when on the synthetic surface, 'Cushion Track'). Since 2014, it has been held at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California; earlier runnings were held at Hollywood Park. (List - 1938 to Present)
| Year | Winner | Second | Third | Starters |
| 2016 | Melatonin | Win the Space | Hard Aces | 8 |
| 2015 | Hard Aces | Hoppertunity | Catch a Flight | 11 |
| 2014 | Majestic Harbor | Clubhouse Ride | Imperative | 7 |
| 2013 | Game On Dude | Kettle Korn | Sky Kingdom | 5 |
| 2012 | Game On Dude | Richard's Kid | Kettle Corn | 7 |
| 2011 | First Dude | Game On Dude | Setsuko | 8 |
| 2010 | Awesome Gem | Rail Trip | Richard's Kid | 6 |
| 2009 | Rail Trip | Tres Borrachos | Life Is Sweet | 13 |
| 2008 | Mast Track | Student Council | Go Between | 9 |
| 2007 | Lava Man | A. P. Xcellent | Big Booster | 9 |
| 2006 | Lava Man | Ace Blue | Super Frolic | 5 |
| 2005 | Lava Man | Borrego | Congrats | 9 |
| 2004 | Total Impact | Olmodavor | Even the Score | 7 |
| 2003 | Congaree | Harlan's Holiday | Kudos | 7 |
| 2002 | Sky Jack | Momentum | Milwaukee Brew | 6 |
| 2001 | Aptitude | Skimming | Futural | 5 |
| 2000 | Early Pioneer | General Challenge | David | 9 |
| 1999 | Real Quiet | Budroyale | Malek | 4 |
| 1998 | Skip Away | Puerto Madero | Gentlemen | 8 |
| 1997 | Gentlemen | Siphon | Sandpit | 6 |
| 1996 | Siphon | Geri | Helmsman | 8 |
| 1995 | Cigar | Tinners Way | Tossofthecoin | 8 |
| 1994 | Slew of Damascus | Fanmore | Del Mar Dennis | 5 |
| 1993 | Best Pal | Bertrando | Major Impact | 10 |
| 1992 | Sultry Song | Marquetry | Another Review | 6 |
| 1991 | Marquetry | Farma Way | Itsallgreektome | 9 |
| 1990 | Criminal Type | Sunday Silence | Opening Verse | 7 |
| 1989 | Blushing John | Sabona | Payant | 7 |
| 1988 | Cutlass Reality | Alysheba | Ferdinand | 6 |
| 1987 | Ferdinand | Judge Angelucci | Tasso | 11 |
| 1986 | Super Diamond | Alphabatim | Precisionist | 6 |
| 1985 | Greinton | Precisionist | King's Island | 6 |
| 1984 | Desert Wine | John Henry | Sari's Dreamer | 8 |
| 1983 | Island Whirl | Poley | Prince Spellbound | 6 |
| 1982 | Perrault | Erins Isle | It's the One | 8 |
| 1981 | Eleven Stitches | Caterman | Super Moment | 10 |
| 1980 | Go West Young Man | Balzac | Caro Bambino | 10 |
| 1979 | Affirmed | Sirlad | Text | 10 |
| 1978 | Exceller | Text | Vigors | 7 |
| 1977 | Crystal Water | Cascapedia | Caucasus | 12 |
| 1976 | Pay Tribute | Avatar | Riot in Paris | 8 |
| 1975 | Ancient Title | Big Band | El Tarta | 7 |
| 1974 | Tree of Knowledge | Ancient Title | War Heim | 10 |
| 1973 | Kennedy Road | Quack | Cougar II | 6 |
| 1972 | Quack | Droll Role | War Heim | 14 |
| 1971 | Ack Ack | Comtal | Manta | 8 |
| 1970 | Pleasure Seeker | Neurologo | T V Commercial | 7 |
| 1969 | Figonero | Nodouble | Poleax | 6 |
| 1968 | Princessnesian | Racing Room | Quicken Tree | 11 |
| 1967 | Native Diver | Pretense | Biggs | 5 |
| 1966 | Native Diver | O'Hara | Travel Orb | 10 |
| 1965 | Native Diver | Babington | Hill Rise | 7 |
| 1964 | Colorado King | Mustard Plaster | Native Diver | 11 |
| 1963 | Cadiz | Aldershot | Olympiad King | 10 |
| 1962 | Prove It | Windy Sands | Cadiz | 12 |
| 1961 | Prince Blessed | Grey Eagle | Whodunit | 14 |
| 1960 | Dotted Swiss | Bagdad | Prize Host | 8 |
| 1959 | Hillsdale | Find | Terrang | 8 |
| 1958 | Gallant Man | Eddie Schmidt | Seaneen | 5 |
| 1957 | Round Table | Porterhouse | Find | 11 |
| 1956 | Swaps | Mister Gus | Porterhouse | 7 |
| 1955 | Rejected | Alidon | Determine | 6 |
| 1954 | Correspondent | Rejected | Trusting | 7 |
| 1953 | Royal Serenade | Fleet Bird | A Gleam | 7 |
| 1952 | Two Lea | Cyclotron | Sturdy One | 12 |
| 1951 | Citation | Bewitch | Be Fleet | 10 |
| 1950 | Noor | Palestinian | Hill Prince | 8 |
| 1949 | Solidarity | Ace Admiral | Pretal | 11 |
| 1948 | Shannon | On Trust | Olhaverry | 9 |
| 1947 | Cover Up | Burning Dream | Honeymoon | 12 |
| 1946 | Triplicate | Honeymoon | Historian | 16 |
| 1945 | Challenge Me | Bull Reigh | Sirde | 12 |
| 1944 | Happy Issue | Bull Reigh | Okana | 13 |
| 1943 1942 | Not held - World War II | Not held - World War II | Not held - World War II | Not held - World War II |
| 1941 | Big Pebble | Paperboy | Mioland | 13 |
| 1940 | Challedon | Specify | Can't Wait | 11 |
| 1939 | Kayak II | Cravat | Specify | 7 |
| 1938 | Seabiscuit | Specify | Whichcee | 10 |