No your right mate. Its not just sponsorship though, there's plenty of other races which they have now just named after people, like the Andrew Ramsden (formerly Duke of Norfolk.)
Have they just not heard about being traditional or something. Sponsorship of races I'm OK with, I mean not that I like them but the industry needs them and the sponsorship of races brings in good money, but they just go and completely name the race after a sponsor - that I can't stand.
And your right that at least they've maintained some sort of a decent name for the Sandown Cup but even still, why change the name?

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