Nassau Stakes (Canada)
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The Nassau 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 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...

 held annually 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
Toronto
Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...

, 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....

. A Grade II
Graded stakes race
A graded stakes race is a term applied since 1973 by the American Graded Stakes Committee of the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association to thoroughbred horse races in the United States and Canada to describe races that derive their name from the stake, or entry fee, owners must pay...

 event raced in early June, it is open to horses aged three and older and run over a distance of one mile on turf
Grass
Grasses, or more technically graminoids, are monocotyledonous, usually herbaceous plants with narrow leaves growing from the base. They include the "true grasses", of the Poaceae family, as well as the sedges and the rushes . The true grasses include cereals, bamboo and the grasses of lawns ...

. Currently, the Nassau Stakes offers a purse of $300,000.

Inaugurated in 1956, it was raced on dirt until 1968 when it was shifted permanently to the turf. Over the years, it has been run at various distances both at the Woodbine Racetrack and at Fort Erie Race Track
Fort Erie Race Track
Fort Erie Race Track is a horse racing facility in Fort Erie, Ontario, Canada built by the Fort Erie Jockey Club and inaugurated on June 16, 1897....

:

On dirt:
  • 7 furlongs : 1956-1958 at Woodbine
  • 1 mile : 1959-1966 at Woodbine, 1967 at Fort Erie


On turf:
  • 1 mile : beginning 2010 at Woodbine Racetrack
  • 11/16 miles : 1968 & 1994 at Fort Erie, 1969-1993, 1995 to present at Woodbine


The Nassau Stakes was run in two divisions in 1978, 1982, 1983, 1985, 1989, 1990

Records

Time record: (at current 11/16 miles on turf)
  • 1:39.60 - Bold Ruritana
    Bold Ruritana
    Bold Ruritana Bold Ruritana Bold Ruritana (foaled 1990 in Ontario is a Canadian Thoroughbred Champion Filly racehorse. She was bred and raced by Minshall Farms, the successful horse farm at Hillsburgh, Ontario owned and managed by trainer Barbara Minshall and her husband, Aubrey....

     (1996 on Woodbine Racetrack)


Most wins:
  • 2 - Belle Geste (1971, 1972)
  • 2 - Momigi
    Momigi
    Momigi was a Canadian three-time Champion Thoroughbred filly racehorse. Bred by E. P. Taylor at his Windfields Farm in Oshawa, Ontario, he was sold to Japanese veterinarian Koichiro Hayata whose Hayata Farm would later breed 1996 Japanese Triple Crown winner and Horse of the Year, Narita Brian...

     (1976, 1977)
  • 2 - Pointe Aux Pins
    Pointe aux Pins
    Pointe aux Pins is a peninsula running south into Lake Erie at about 82 degrees west longitude. The majority of land which comprises the peninsula is owned by the province of Ontario and is designated as Rondeau Provincial Park...

     (1978, 1979)
  • 2 - Eternal Search
    Eternal Search
    Eternal Search was a Canadian Champion Thoroughbred filly racehorse foaled in Ontario.Purchased at age two for $50,000 by Mel Lawson who rasced her under his Jim Dandy Stable banner, she was trained by Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame inductee, Ted Mann...

     (1982, 1983)
  • 2 - Lake Country (1985, 1986)
  • 2 - Radiant Ring (1991, 1992)
  • 2 - Bold Ruritana
    Bold Ruritana
    Bold Ruritana Bold Ruritana Bold Ruritana (foaled 1990 in Ontario is a Canadian Thoroughbred Champion Filly racehorse. She was bred and raced by Minshall Farms, the successful horse farm at Hillsburgh, Ontario owned and managed by trainer Barbara Minshall and her husband, Aubrey....

     (1995, 1996)


Most wins by an owner:
  • 6 - Sam-Son Farm
    Sam-Son Farm
    Sam-Son Farm is a thoroughbred horse racing stable with farms locations in Milton, Ontario, Canada and Ocala, Florida. Originating in the 60's by Ernie Samuel, it began as a home for hunter/jumper horses...

     (1989, 1991, 1992, 1998, 2001, 2007)


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:...

:
  • 5 - Todd Kabel
    Todd Kabel
    Todd K. Kabel is a Canadian Thoroughbred horse racing jockey. He began his career riding at Assiniboia Downs in Winnipeg, Manitoba and in 1987 started competing at tracks in Ontario, moving to Toronto permanently in 1991.Riding out of Woodbine Racetrack, Todd Kabel won the Sovereign Award for...

     (1994, 1998, 2001, 2004, 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...

:
  • 3 - Donnie Walker (1973, 1985, 1986)
  • 3 - James E. Day (1989, 1991, 1992)
  • 3 - Mark Frostad
    Mark Frostad
    Mark R. Frostad is a Canadian Thoroughbred horse trainer. He grew up with a father who owned a stud farm but before becoming involved in thoroughbred horse racing, Frostad obtained a BA degree in literature from Princeton University then in 1976 an MBA degree from the University of Western Ontario...

     (1998, 2001, 2007)
  • 3 - Tom Skiffington, Jr. (1989, 1990, 1999)

Winners of the Nassau Stakes

Year
Winner
Age
Jockey
Trainer
Owner
Time
2011 Bay to Bay 4 Luis Contreras Brian Lynch
Brian Lynch
Brian Michael Lynch is an American film and comic book writer. Lynch was the initial writer and co-creator with Joss Whedon of Angel: After The Fall for IDW Publishing, and has written the film adaptation of The Sims.-Biography:...

Robert Smithen 1:36.48
2010 Simply Splendid 5 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...

Gail Cox J. Menary & Gail Cox 1:34.23
2009 Rutherienne 5 Alan Garcia
Alan Garcia (jockey)
Alan Garcia is a thoroughbred horse racing jockey. He was Peru's leading apprentice jockey in 2003 and in that same year he began racing in the United States at the Meadowlands Racetrack where he was also the leading apprentice. His father and grandfather were both jockeys in Peru...

Christophe Clement
Christophe Clement
Christophe Clement is a Thoroughbred horse trainer in the United States.- Racing background :Christophe Clement initially acquired his training skills from father Miguel, a leading trainer in France, Christophe later worked for the prominent French racing family of trainer Alec Head...

Virginia Kraft Payson 1:41.89
2008 Callwood Dancer 4 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....

Roger Attfield
Roger Attfield
Roger L. Attfield is a Canadian thoroughbred horse trainer and owner.In his native England, Attfield had become an accomplished international-level equestrian competitor when he emigrated to Canada in 1970...

Harlequin Ranches 1:40.46
2007 Strike Softly 4 Todd Kabel
Todd Kabel
Todd K. Kabel is a Canadian Thoroughbred horse racing jockey. He began his career riding at Assiniboia Downs in Winnipeg, Manitoba and in 1987 started competing at tracks in Ontario, moving to Toronto permanently in 1991.Riding out of Woodbine Racetrack, Todd Kabel won the Sovereign Award for...

Mark Frostad
Mark Frostad
Mark R. Frostad is a Canadian Thoroughbred horse trainer. He grew up with a father who owned a stud farm but before becoming involved in thoroughbred horse racing, Frostad obtained a BA degree in literature from Princeton University then in 1976 an MBA degree from the University of Western Ontario...

Sam-Son Farm
Sam-Son Farm
Sam-Son Farm is a thoroughbred horse racing stable with farms locations in Milton, Ontario, Canada and Ocala, Florida. Originating in the 60's by Ernie Samuel, it began as a home for hunter/jumper horses...

1:39.90
2006 Naissance Royale 4 Kent Desormeaux
Kent Desormeaux
Kent Jason Desormeaux is an American thoroughbred horse racing Hall of Fame jockey who holds the U.S. record for most races won in a single year, 1989.-Brief biography:...

Christophe Clement
Christophe Clement
Christophe Clement is a Thoroughbred horse trainer in the United States.- Racing background :Christophe Clement initially acquired his training skills from father Miguel, a leading trainer in France, Christophe later worked for the prominent French racing family of trainer Alec Head...

Monceaux Stable 1:46.16
2005 Que Puntual 5 Cornelio Velasquez
Cornelio Velásquez
Cornelio H. Velásquez is a jockey in American Thoroughbred horse racing. He was introduced to horse racing at age fifteen by trainer Carlos Salazar Guardia in his native Panama and enrolled in the national jockey school...

Angel Penna, Jr. Earle I. Mack
Earle I. Mack
Earle Irving Mack is an American businessman and former United States Ambassador to Finland.-Education:Mack graduated from Drexel University with a B.S. in 1959. He then went on to attend Fordham School of Law. In 1992 Mack was one of first 100 alumni inducted into the newly formed Drexel 100...

1:41.96
2004 Inish Glora
Inish Glora
Inish Glora is a Canadian Thoroughbred Champion Filly racehorse. She was sired by the Canadian Champion 2-Yr-Old-Colt, Regal Classic, a grandson of Northern Dancer...

6 Todd Kabel
Todd Kabel
Todd K. Kabel is a Canadian Thoroughbred horse racing jockey. He began his career riding at Assiniboia Downs in Winnipeg, Manitoba and in 1987 started competing at tracks in Ontario, moving to Toronto permanently in 1991.Riding out of Woodbine Racetrack, Todd Kabel won the Sovereign Award for...

Macdonald Benson
Macdonald Benson
Macdonald "Mac" Benson is a Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame trainer. A resident of Woodbridge, Ontario, Benson came to Canada in 1978 to train for E. P. Taylor's renowned Windfields Farm...

Robert J. Costigan 1:40.38
2003 Strait From Texas 4 Richard Dos Ramos
Richard Dos Ramos
Richard Anthony Dos Ramos is a Canadian jockey in Thoroughbred horse racing. He grew up in Malton, Ontario where his family emigrated when he was young...

Paul Buttigieg James Michael 1:42.92
2002 Siringas 4 Jose Santos Christophe Clement
Christophe Clement
Christophe Clement is a Thoroughbred horse trainer in the United States.- Racing background :Christophe Clement initially acquired his training skills from father Miguel, a leading trainer in France, Christophe later worked for the prominent French racing family of trainer Alec Head...

Skymarc Farm
Chryss Goulandris
Chryss Goulandris, Lady O'Reilly , also known as Christina or Chryssanthie, is one of the richest women associated with Ireland, and holds both USA and Greek citizenship, she owns a major horse breeding operation located in Ireland, France and other countries and has been Chairperson of the Irish...

1:41.01
2001 Only To You 5 Todd Kabel
Todd Kabel
Todd K. Kabel is a Canadian Thoroughbred horse racing jockey. He began his career riding at Assiniboia Downs in Winnipeg, Manitoba and in 1987 started competing at tracks in Ontario, moving to Toronto permanently in 1991.Riding out of Woodbine Racetrack, Todd Kabel won the Sovereign Award for...

Mark Frostad
Mark Frostad
Mark R. Frostad is a Canadian Thoroughbred horse trainer. He grew up with a father who owned a stud farm but before becoming involved in thoroughbred horse racing, Frostad obtained a BA degree in literature from Princeton University then in 1976 an MBA degree from the University of Western Ontario...

Sam-Son Farm
Sam-Son Farm
Sam-Son Farm is a thoroughbred horse racing stable with farms locations in Milton, Ontario, Canada and Ocala, Florida. Originating in the 60's by Ernie Samuel, it began as a home for hunter/jumper horses...

1:47.31
2000 Heliotrope 5 Neil Poznansky David R. Bell R. F. & J. E. Shaw 1:40.14
1999 Anguilla 4 Robert Landry Tom Skiffington, Jr. John & Glenn Sikura 1:41.52
1998 Colorful Vices 5 Todd Kabel
Todd Kabel
Todd K. Kabel is a Canadian Thoroughbred horse racing jockey. He began his career riding at Assiniboia Downs in Winnipeg, Manitoba and in 1987 started competing at tracks in Ontario, moving to Toronto permanently in 1991.Riding out of Woodbine Racetrack, Todd Kabel won the Sovereign Award for...

Mark Frostad
Mark Frostad
Mark R. Frostad is a Canadian Thoroughbred horse trainer. He grew up with a father who owned a stud farm but before becoming involved in thoroughbred horse racing, Frostad obtained a BA degree in literature from Princeton University then in 1976 an MBA degree from the University of Western Ontario...

Sam-Son Farm
Sam-Son Farm
Sam-Son Farm is a thoroughbred horse racing stable with farms locations in Milton, Ontario, Canada and Ocala, Florida. Originating in the 60's by Ernie Samuel, it began as a home for hunter/jumper horses...

1:41.80
1997 Classic Wonder 5 Mickey Walls
Mickey Walls
Mickey K. Walls is a retired Thoroughbred horse racing jockey who was a Champion in both the United States and Canada....

John P. MacKenzie Rudy Singh 1:41.00
1996 Bold Ruritana
Bold Ruritana
Bold Ruritana Bold Ruritana Bold Ruritana (foaled 1990 in Ontario is a Canadian Thoroughbred Champion Filly racehorse. She was bred and raced by Minshall Farms, the successful horse farm at Hillsburgh, Ontario owned and managed by trainer Barbara Minshall and her husband, Aubrey....

6 Robert Landry Barbara Minshall Minshall Farms 1:39.60
1995 Bold Ruritana
Bold Ruritana
Bold Ruritana Bold Ruritana Bold Ruritana (foaled 1990 in Ontario is a Canadian Thoroughbred Champion Filly racehorse. She was bred and raced by Minshall Farms, the successful horse farm at Hillsburgh, Ontario owned and managed by trainer Barbara Minshall and her husband, Aubrey....

5 Robert Landry Barbara Minshall Minshall Farms 1:41.20
1994 Strong and Steady 4 Todd Kabel
Todd Kabel
Todd K. Kabel is a Canadian Thoroughbred horse racing jockey. He began his career riding at Assiniboia Downs in Winnipeg, Manitoba and in 1987 started competing at tracks in Ontario, moving to Toronto permanently in 1991.Riding out of Woodbine Racetrack, Todd Kabel won the Sovereign Award for...

Dan Vella John Sikura, Jr. et al. 1:41.20
1993 Dance For Donna 4 Robert Landry Sherry Noakes Aubrey W. Minshall 1:43.60
1992 Radiant Ring * 4 Garrett Gomez James E. Day Sam-Son Farm
Sam-Son Farm
Sam-Son Farm is a thoroughbred horse racing stable with farms locations in Milton, Ontario, Canada and Ocala, Florida. Originating in the 60's by Ernie Samuel, it began as a home for hunter/jumper horses...

1:41.00
1991 Radiant Ring 3 Pat Day
Pat Day
Patrick Alan "Pat" Day is an American jockey. He is a four-time winner of the Eclipse Award for Outstanding Jockey and was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 1991...

James E. Day Sam-Son Farm
Sam-Son Farm
Sam-Son Farm is a thoroughbred horse racing stable with farms locations in Milton, Ontario, Canada and Ocala, Florida. Originating in the 60's by Ernie Samuel, it began as a home for hunter/jumper horses...

1:42.20
1990 Seattle Sangue 5 Larry Attard
Larry Attard
Larry Attard is a retired Hall of Fame Champion jockey and current horse trainer in Canadian Thoroughbred horse racing....

Danny O'Callaghan John Sikura, Jr. 1:40.80
1990 Maison Close 5 Dave Penna
Dave Penna
David "Dave" Penna was an American jockey in Thoroughbred horse racing who competed in the United States but had his gretest successes in Canada. Born in Auburn, New York, he began his career as a professional rider in 1978 and three years later went to compete at Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto...

Tom Skiffington, Jr. John Sikura, Jr. 1:41.00
1989 Regal Wonder 5 Sandy Hawley
Sandy Hawley
Desmond Sanford "Sandy" Hawley, CM is a Hall of Fame jockey.Sandy Hawley started out as a plumber then later decided to be a jockey. He started his career as a jockey when he was a 17-year-old boy, hotwalking horses at a Toronto racetrack...

James E. Day Sam-Son Farm
Sam-Son Farm
Sam-Son Farm is a thoroughbred horse racing stable with farms locations in Milton, Ontario, Canada and Ocala, Florida. Originating in the 60's by Ernie Samuel, it began as a home for hunter/jumper horses...

1:43.60
1989 Fieldy 6 Pat Day
Pat Day
Patrick Alan "Pat" Day is an American jockey. He is a four-time winner of the Eclipse Award for Outstanding Jockey and was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 1991...

Tom Skiffington, Jr. Seltzer/Fernwood Stable 1:43.40
1988 Anglia 4 Robbie King, Jr. N. Smith Golden Willow Farm 1:42.00
1987 Carotene
Carotene (horse)
Carotene is a Canadian Thoroughbred Hall of Fame racehorse who holds the filly or mare record for winning the most Sovereign Awards. Bred by David Willmot's Kinghaven Farms, she was a daughter of the British sire Great Nephew who also sired Epsom Derby winners Grundy and Shergar...

4 Don Seymour
Don Seymour
Donald J. Seymour is a Canadian jockey in Thoroughbred horse racing who is the only jockey in history to win two Canadian Triple Crowns....

Roger Attfield
Roger Attfield
Roger L. Attfield is a Canadian thoroughbred horse trainer and owner.In his native England, Attfield had become an accomplished international-level equestrian competitor when he emigrated to Canada in 1970...

Kinghaven Farms
Kinghaven Farms
Kinghaven Farms is a thoroughbred horse racing stable founded in 1967 by Donald G. "Bud" Willmot. Located in King City, Ontario, north of Toronto, the success of the stable would see it expand to the United States with the acquisition of a farm and training center near Ocala, Florida. Kinghaven...

1:43.20
1986 Lake Country 5 Jeffrey Fell
Jeffrey Fell
Jeffrey J. Fell is a retired jockey and a Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame inductee who was also a successful rider in the United States.-References:* * *...

Donnie Walker Prowse / Mclntosh 1:43.80
1985 Lake Country 4 Jeffrey Fell
Jeffrey Fell
Jeffrey J. Fell is a retired jockey and a Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame inductee who was also a successful rider in the United States.-References:* * *...

Donnie Walker Prowse / McIntosh 1:46.00
1985 Annie Edge 5 Jim Walford Jonathan Sheppard
Jonathan E. Sheppard
Jonathan E. Sheppard is a Hall of Fame trainer in American Thoroughbred horse racing....

Augustin Stable 1:46.00
1984 Northern Blossom 4 Dan Beckon Gil Rowntree
Gil Rowntree
Gil H. Rowntree is a Canadian Hall of Fame Thoroughbred racehorse trainer and owner.One of the most successful trainers in Canadian Thoroughbred racing history, Rowntree embarked on his racing career as a jockey in his native Toronto, riding from 1949 through 1951...

B. K. Y. Stable 1:44.60
1983 Face The Verdict 4 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...

James C. Bentley D. W. Carmichael 1:47.20
1983 Eternal Search
Eternal Search
Eternal Search was a Canadian Champion Thoroughbred filly racehorse foaled in Ontario.Purchased at age two for $50,000 by Mel Lawson who rasced her under his Jim Dandy Stable banner, she was trained by Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame inductee, Ted Mann...

5 Gary Stahlbaum James C. Bentley Jim Dandy Stable 1:47.00
1982 Eternal Search
Eternal Search
Eternal Search was a Canadian Champion Thoroughbred filly racehorse foaled in Ontario.Purchased at age two for $50,000 by Mel Lawson who rasced her under his Jim Dandy Stable banner, she was trained by Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame inductee, Ted Mann...

4 Brian Swatuk Janet Bedford Jim Dandy Stable 1:43.40
1982 Sunny Sparkler 3 Jean-Luc Samyn
Jean-Luc Samyn
Jean-Luc Samyn is a jockey in American Thoroughbred horse racing.The son of a pastry chef, Jean-Luc Samyn was one of three children. At age thirteen, he went to work for the stable of trainer John Cunnington at Chantilly, a racecourse about north of Paris city center...

Scotty Schulhofer
Flint S. Schulhofer
Flint S. "Scotty" Schulhofer was an American Hall of Fame Thoroughbred racehorse trainer.Schulhofer was born into a racing family in Aiken, South Carolina, where his father owned a racing stable as well as a riding academy...

Greyhound Stable 1:44.60
1981 Suave Princess 3 Dave Dennie Emile Allain John Sikura, Jr. 1:45.40
1980 Smidge Girl 5 Gary Stahlbaum Jacque Dumas P. & J. Petrakos 1:43.40
1979 Pointe Aux Pins
Pointe aux Pins
Pointe aux Pins is a peninsula running south into Lake Erie at about 82 degrees west longitude. The majority of land which comprises the peninsula is owned by the province of Ontario and is designated as Rondeau Provincial Park...

 *
5 Gary Stahlbaum Gerry Belanger N. Rajnovich 1:44.20
1978 Pointe Aux Pins
Pointe aux Pins
Pointe aux Pins is a peninsula running south into Lake Erie at about 82 degrees west longitude. The majority of land which comprises the peninsula is owned by the province of Ontario and is designated as Rondeau Provincial Park...

4 Paul Souter Gerry Belanger N. Rajnovich 1:43.00
1978 Majestic Kahala 4 Sandy Hawley
Sandy Hawley
Desmond Sanford "Sandy" Hawley, CM is a Hall of Fame jockey.Sandy Hawley started out as a plumber then later decided to be a jockey. He started his career as a jockey when he was a 17-year-old boy, hotwalking horses at a Toronto racetrack...

James Mort Hardy Windhaven 1:43.60
1977 Momigi
Momigi
Momigi was a Canadian three-time Champion Thoroughbred filly racehorse. Bred by E. P. Taylor at his Windfields Farm in Oshawa, Ontario, he was sold to Japanese veterinarian Koichiro Hayata whose Hayata Farm would later breed 1996 Japanese Triple Crown winner and Horse of the Year, Narita Brian...

5 Sandy Hawley
Sandy Hawley
Desmond Sanford "Sandy" Hawley, CM is a Hall of Fame jockey.Sandy Hawley started out as a plumber then later decided to be a jockey. He started his career as a jockey when he was a 17-year-old boy, hotwalking horses at a Toronto racetrack...

John Morahan Koichiro Hayata 1:52.20
1976 Momigi
Momigi
Momigi was a Canadian three-time Champion Thoroughbred filly racehorse. Bred by E. P. Taylor at his Windfields Farm in Oshawa, Ontario, he was sold to Japanese veterinarian Koichiro Hayata whose Hayata Farm would later breed 1996 Japanese Triple Crown winner and Horse of the Year, Narita Brian...

4 Sandy Hawley
Sandy Hawley
Desmond Sanford "Sandy" Hawley, CM is a Hall of Fame jockey.Sandy Hawley started out as a plumber then later decided to be a jockey. He started his career as a jockey when he was a 17-year-old boy, hotwalking horses at a Toronto racetrack...

John Morahan Koichiro Hayata 1:45.00
1975 Reasonable Win 3 John B. LeBlanc Fred H. Loschke Hammer Kopf Farm 1:42.20
1974 Two Rings 4 James Kelly Andrew G. Smithers Kinghaven Farms
Kinghaven Farms
Kinghaven Farms is a thoroughbred horse racing stable founded in 1967 by Donald G. "Bud" Willmot. Located in King City, Ontario, north of Toronto, the success of the stable would see it expand to the United States with the acquisition of a farm and training center near Ocala, Florida. Kinghaven...

1:44.40
1973 Connie Pat 5 James Kelly Donnie Walker Conn Smythe
Conn Smythe
Constantine Falkland Cary Smythe MC was a Canadian businessman, soldier and sportsman in ice hockey and horse racing. He is best known as the principal owner of the Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League from 1927 to 1961 and as the builder of Maple Leaf Gardens...

1:44.20
1972 Belle Geste 4 Noel Turcotte Carl F. Chapman Mrs. W. D. Latimer 1:43.40
1971 Belle Geste 3 John Bell Carl F. Chapman Mrs. W. D. Latimer 1:42.80
1970 A. T's Olie 3 Rudy L. Turcotte Willard C. Freeman Peter Fuller
Peter Fuller
Peter Michael Fuller was a British art critic and magazine editor who was educated at Epsom College and Peterhouse, Cambridge....

1:42.60
1969 Plegada 5 Hugo Dittfach Lou Cavalaris, Jr. Gardiner Farm 1:44.20
1968 Forest Path 4 Jim Fitzsimmons Arthur H. Warner Lanson Farm 1:42.40
1967 Ice Water
Ice Water (horse)
Ice Water was a Canadian Thoroughbred racehorse. Owned and regally bred by George Gardiner, she was the daughter of Gardiner's unraced filly Seiches who was a daughter of the 1948 U.S. Triple Crown champion, Count Fleet...

4 Avelino Gomez
Avelino Gomez
Avelino Gomez was a Cuban-born Hall of Fame jockey in American and Canadian thoroughbred horse racing.Born in Havana, Gomez began a career as a jockey at the urging of a family member...

Lou Cavalaris, Jr. Gardiner Farm 1:37.00
1966 Kerensa 3 Avelino Gomez
Avelino Gomez
Avelino Gomez was a Cuban-born Hall of Fame jockey in American and Canadian thoroughbred horse racing.Born in Havana, Gomez began a career as a jockey at the urging of a family member...

Frank H. Merrill, Jr. Mrs. H. A. Luro
Horatio Luro
Horatio A. Luro was a thoroughbred horse racing trainer in the United States.Born in Argentina into a wealthy family that had been involved with horses for several generations, a suave young Horatio Luro grew up as something of a playboy and maintained this lifestyle after moving to the United...

1:35.40
1965 Royal Tara 4 John B. LeBlanc Glenn Magnusson Stafford Farms 1:36.00
1964 Barbara 4 Wayne Harris
Wayne Harris (jockey)
Wayne Harris is a retired Canadian jockey in Thoroughbred horse racing who competed in Canada and the United States and who is best known for winning Canada's most prestigious race, the 1968 Queen's Plate....

J. W. Woods S. Cocomile 1:40.00
1963 Reluctant Deb 5 Jerry Harrison J. Simon J. Simon 1:37.40
1962 I Recall 3 Evan L. Anyon Morris Fishman B. & G. Stable 1:35.20
1961 Purple Bow 4 K. Robinson A. Hickling Newtondale Stable 1:37.60
1960 Wonder Where
Wonder Where
Wonder Where was a Canadian Thoroughbred filly racehorse who was Canada's 1959 Horse of the Year and a Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame inductee....

4 Hugo Dittfach Yonie Starr Maloney & Smythe
Conn Smythe
Constantine Falkland Cary Smythe MC was a Canadian businessman, soldier and sportsman in ice hockey and horse racing. He is best known as the principal owner of the Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League from 1927 to 1961 and as the builder of Maple Leaf Gardens...

1:36.40
1959 Kitty Girl 5 Hugo Dittfach Yonnie Starr
Yonnie Starr
Joseph "Yonnie" Starr was a Canadian Hall of Fame Thoroughbred racehorse trainer about whom the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame says has a "record unmatched in Canadian racing history."...

Maloney & Smythe
Conn Smythe
Constantine Falkland Cary Smythe MC was a Canadian businessman, soldier and sportsman in ice hockey and horse racing. He is best known as the principal owner of the Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League from 1927 to 1961 and as the builder of Maple Leaf Gardens...

1:36.20
1958 Windy Answer 3 Ben Sorensen Gordon McCann Windfields Farm
Windfields Farm
Windfields Farm is a six square kilometre thoroughbred horse breeding farm founded by businessman E. P. Taylor in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada. The first stable and breeding operation of E. P. Taylor originated with a property near the city of Toronto known as Parkwood Stable when it was owned by...

1:23.40
1957 Pink Velvet 3 Pat Remillard John Passero William R. Beasley 1:23.20
1956 Baffin Bay 4 Ken Clemes M. Long Mrs. R. Y. Graul, Jr. 1:23.60


  • In 1979, Christy's Mount finished first but was disqualified and set back to second.
  • In 1992, Lady Shirl finished first but following a positive test for a banned medication was disqualified and placed last.
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