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The PCSO Silver Cup, formerly known as the PCSO First Lady/First Gentleman Silver Cup, is a horse race in the Philippines. It is positioned as a counterpart race to the Presidential Gold Cup.
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History
The Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) first organized the Silver Cup as the First Lady (FL) Silver Cup as a horse race exclusive to fillies and mares and in honor of the First Lady of the Philippines. The first edition was held on April 23, 1995 at the Santa Ana Race Park in Makati. The race was won by bay filly Pay D' Clay of Augusto Santos, former Philippine Racing Commission (Philracom) chairman. The races was also initially linked to PCSO's Mega Draws.[1]
In 1997, the FL Silver Cup was made an open tournament for locally-bred horses with handicapping imposed. The race was not held in 1999, with the fifth edition taking part in 2000.[1]
In 2001, the tournament became the First Gentleman (FG) Silver Cup in honor of the First Gentleman of the Philippines.[2][3]
Since 2011, the race has only been known simply as the Silver Cup due to an absence of a First Lady or First Gentleman following President Benigno Aquino III's election in 2010.[4]
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