The short answer is none. The British Champions Long Distance Cup was inaugurated, as the Jockey Club Cup, which was originally run over two and a quarter miles on the Rowley Mile Course at Newmarket, in 1873. The race was shortened to a mile and a half in 1959, before being lengthened to its current distance, of two miles, four years later. However, in 2011, the Jockey Club Cup was transferred from Newmarket to Ascot – along with the Champion Stakes and the Pride Stakes – to become part of a single, end-of-season ‘championship’ meeting, known as ‘British Champions Day’.
Under its new title, the ‘British Champions Long Distance Cup’, the race received a massive prize money boost, from £65,000 in 2010 to £200,000 in 2011. The prize money has since increased to £500,000, such that it is the third most valuable race of its kind run in Britain, behind only the Gold Cup, at Royal Ascot, and the Goodwood Cup, befitting the final of the ‘Long Distance’ category of the British Champion Series, sponsored by Qatar Investment & Projects Development Holding Company (QIPCO).
In January, 2014, the British Champions Long Distance Cup was upgraded to Group 2 status by the European Pattern Committee but, otherwise, the conditions have remained the same, insofar as the race has always been open to horses aged three years and upwards. That said, the last three-year-old to win was Akmal, trained by the late John Dunlop and ridden by Richard Hills, in 2009, when the race was still run at Newmarket. Since 2011, four four-year-olds, four five-year-olds, one six-year-old, two seven-year-olds and one eight-year-old have been successful.