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The Fanfreluche Stakes is a Canadian

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

Thoroughbred horse race

Thoroughbred horse racing is a worldwide sport and industry involving the racing of Thoroughbred horses. It is governed by different national bodies. There are two forms of the sport: Flat racing and National Hunt racing...

run annually during the last week of October at Woodbine Racetrack

Woodbine Racetrack

Woodbine Racetrack is a Canadian racetrack for Thoroughbred horse races located at 555 Rexdale Blvd. in the city of Toronto, Ontario. It is the only horseracing track in North America which stages, or is capable of staging, thoroughbred and standardbred horseracing programs on the same day...

in Toronto, Ontario. Restricted to two-year-old fillies

Filly

A filly is a young female horse too young to be called a mare. There are several specific definitions in use.*In most cases filly is a female horse under the age of four years old....

foaled in Ontario

Ontario

Ontario is a province of Canada, located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province and second largest in total area. It is home to the nation's most populous city, Toronto, and the nation's capital, Ottawa....

, it is contested on dirt over a distance of six furlong

Furlong

A furlong is a measure of distance in imperial units and U.S. customary units equal to one-eighth of a mile, equivalent to 220 yards, 660 feet, 40 rods, or 10 chains. The exact value of the furlong varies slightly among English-speaking countries....

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Inaugurated in 1981, the race is named in honor of J. Louis Lévesque's Hall of Fame

Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame

The Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame was established in 1976 at the Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto, Ontario to honor those who have made a significant contribution to the sport of harness and thoroughbred horse racing in Canada....

filly, Fanfreluche

Fanfreluche (horse)

Fanfreluche was a Canadian-bred Champion Thoroughbred racehorse. She was named by her French Canadian owner for the title character of a popular children's television show on the French-language division of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation...

Records

Speed record: (Through 1998, Woodbine times were recorded in fifths of a second. Since 1999 they are in hundredths of a second)

1:09.30 - High Mist (2008)

Most wins by an owner:

3 - Eaton Hall Farm (1989, 2005, 2009)

Most wins by a jockey
Jockey
A jockey is an athlete who rides horses in horse racing or steeplechase racing, primarily as a profession. The word also applies to camel riders in camel racing.-Etymology:...

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5 - David Clark
David K. Clark
David K. Clark is a Champion jockey in Canadian Thoroughbred horse racing. He began riding professionally at Ontario racetracks in 1973 and went on to become one of Canada's most successful jockeys of all-time.Clark won the 1998 Sovereign Award as Canadian Champion Jockey and on July 17 of that...

(1981, 1983, 1995, 1999, 2007)

Most wins by a trainer
Horse trainer
In horse racing, a trainer prepares a horse for races, with responsibility for exercising it, getting it race-ready and determining which races it should enter...

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4 - Reade Baker (1996, 2000, 2003, 2008)

Winners since 1999

Year	Winner	Jockey	Trainer	Owner	Time
2011	Kitty's Got Class	Emma-Jayne Wilson Emma-Jayne Wilson Emma-Jayne Wilson is a Sovereign and Eclipse Award-winning jockey in Thoroughbred horse racing. The daughter of a computer programmer and a corporate marketing executive, she began taking riding lessons as a girl of nine...	Michael P. De Paulo	Andrews/Colterjohns	1:10.78
2010	Inglorious	Chantal Sutherland Chantal Sutherland Chantal Sutherland is a Canadian model, television personality and jockey in North American Thoroughbred horse racing. She is referred to as the Danica Patrick of horse racing...	Josie Carroll Josie Carroll Josie Carroll is a Canadian Thoroughbred horse trainer and the first woman trainer to win the Queen's Plate, the oldest thoroughbred horse race in Canada and Canada's most prestigious race....	Donver Stable	1:10
2009	Bodua	Eurico Rosa da Silva Eurico Rosa Da Silva Eurico Rosa da Silva is a jockey based in Canada who competes in North American Thoroughbred horse racing....	Michael J. Doyle	Eaton Hall Farm	1:10.48
2008	High Mist	Emma-Jayne Wilson Emma-Jayne Wilson Emma-Jayne Wilson is a Sovereign and Eclipse Award-winning jockey in Thoroughbred horse racing. The daughter of a computer programmer and a corporate marketing executive, she began taking riding lessons as a girl of nine...	Reade Baker	N C Stable & Wendy Anderson	1:09.30
2007	Shilla	David Clark David K. Clark David K. Clark is a Champion jockey in Canadian Thoroughbred horse racing. He began riding professionally at Ontario racetracks in 1973 and went on to become one of Canada's most successful jockeys of all-time.Clark won the 1998 Sovereign Award as Canadian Champion Jockey and on July 17 of that...	Nicholas Gonzalez	Victura Farm	1:09.62
2006	Grandy's Glory	Steve Bahen	Michael P. DePaulo	Benjamin Hutzel	1:11.47
2005	Gumboots	Patrick Husbands Patrick Husbands Patrick Husbands is a Barbadian jockey in Thoroughbred horse racing. The son of a jockey, he began riding as a young boy, turning professional in his home country where he rode successfully until emigrating to Toronto, Ontario in 1994.Racing out of Woodbine Racetrack, in 2003 Husbands won the...	Josie Carroll Josie Carroll Josie Carroll is a Canadian Thoroughbred horse trainer and the first woman trainer to win the Queen's Plate, the oldest thoroughbred horse race in Canada and Canada's most prestigious race....	Eaton Hall Farm	1:10.09
2004	Simply Lovely	Steve Bahen	Robert P. Tiller Robert P. Tiller Robert P. Tiller is a Canadian Thoroughbred racehorse trainer. A resident of Brampton, Ontario, in 1972 he embarked on a career conditioning horses and in 2007 marked the eighteenth straight year he has been one of the top-five trainers at Toronto's Woodbine Racetrack.In 2001, Tiller trained Win...	Rocco Marcello	1:12.41
2003	Ontheqt	James McAleney James S. McAleney James S. "Jim" McAleney is a Canadian Thoroughbred horse racing jockey.A native of Fort St. John, British Columbia, Jim McAleney began his career as a jockey in Western Canada where in 1986 at Northlands Park in Edmonton, Alberta he got his first win. The following year, he competed in the West as...	Reade Baker	Janis Maine & Reade Baker	1:11.34
2002	Miss Crissy	Steve Bahen	Emile M. Allain	Harlequin Ranches	1:11.41
2001	Miss Noire	Raymond Sabourin	Emile M. Allain	Harlequin Ranches	1:11.00
2000	Ruby Shoes	Constant Montpellier	Reade Baker	A. Barkin & L. Feigman	1:11.80
1999	Golden Path	David Clark David K. Clark David K. Clark is a Champion jockey in Canadian Thoroughbred horse racing. He began riding professionally at Ontario racetracks in 1973 and went on to become one of Canada's most successful jockeys of all-time.Clark won the 1998 Sovereign Award as Canadian Champion Jockey and on July 17 of that...	Nickolas DeToro	Nickolas DeToro	1:10.63

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