Before the Classics were first run at Bombay in 1943 and soon emulated at other centres, the “Cup Races” were the yardstick by which horses were measured in India. In the pecking order, the Viceroy’s Cup and the King Emperor’s Cup at Calcutta and later, the Eclipse Stakes of India at Bombay stood above all others. A good horse had to win one of these three Cups; a great horse had to win it more than once.
The Viceroy’s Cup was the ‘Jewel in the Triple Crown’ and seven horses have the distinction of winning it more than twice. Mayfowl and Finalist both won it four times. Mayfowl was triumphant in consecutive years though, in his third year, he dead-heated with the mare Brogue. Satellite was the first to record three wins in the Viceroy’s Cup; one of them, however, was a substitute race run at Delhi. Kingcraft is thus the first to win it three times at Calcutta. Lord William's...
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