The Greenwood Cup Stakes is a Grade III American Thoroughbred horse race for three-year-olds and older, over a distance of one-and-one-half miles on the dirt held annually in September during the fall meeting at Parx Casino and Racing in Bensalem, Pennsylvania. The current purse is $200,000.

History

The race is named for Greenwood Racing, Inc. who purchased Philadelphia Park in December 1990. The inaugural running of the event was on 8 June 2002 under handicap conditions on held on the turf course as the Greenwood Cup Handicap. The event was won by multiple Grade I winner, the Dr. John A. Chandler bred and owned eight-year-old Cetewayo, who finished strongly as the 1/2 odds-on favorite to win by a length in a time of 2:35.01. The following year the event was moved off the turf and raced on a sloppy dirt track and was won by Golden Ticket who led all the way winning by ten-and-one-quarter lengths. The event was not held between 2005 and 2007. When the event resumed it was scheduled in mid-July and was held on the dirt track as a stakes allowance. Previously a Listed race, the event was upgraded to Grade III status for 2012 by the American Graded Stakes Committee. In 2013, Eldaafer a former winner of the Grade III Breeders' Cup Marathon won the event as an eight year old. In 2020, Parx Racing cancelled their race meeting due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States.

Records

Winners

Legend: Notes: † In the 2011 running, A. U. Miner was first past the post and wagering was paid out as the winner, however the horse returned a positive swab for methylprednisolone and was disqualified from first place purse money. The redistributed winner's purse went to Birdrun, who finished second.