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The Queen's Plate is North America's
North America

North America is the northern continent of the Americas, situated in the Earth's northern hemisphere and almost totally in the western hemisphere....
 oldest 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....
. It is run at a distance of 1¼ miles for 3-year-old thoroughbed horses foaled in Canada
Canada

Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
. The race takes place each June 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 horse and standardbred horse horseracing programs on the same day....
, Etobicoke
Etobicoke, Ontario

Etobicoke is the western portion of the City of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, with an official population of 338,117 as measured by the 2001 Census and 334,491 people as of the 2006 Census....
 (Toronto
Toronto

Toronto is the List of the 100 largest municipalities in Canada by population in Canada and the Provinces and territories of Canada Provincial and territorial capitals of Canada of Ontario....
), Ontario
Ontario

Ontario is a Provinces and territories of Canada located in the Central Canada part of Canada, the largest by population and second largest, after Quebec, in total area....
. For safety reasons, since 1995 the race has been limited to a maximum of 17 starters.

The first race in the Canadian Triple Crown
Canadian Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing

The Canadian Triple Crown is a series of three Thoroughbred horse races run annually in Canada which is open to three-year-old horses foaled in Canada....
, it is followed by the Prince of Wales Stakes
Prince of Wales Stakes

The Prince of Wales Stakes is a graded stakes race stakes race for Thoroughbred horse racing first run in 1929. In 1959, the Prince of Wales Stakes became the marquis event at the Fort Erie Race Track when it became the second race in the Canadian Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing for three-year-old colts and fillies foaled in Canada....
 in July and the Breeders' Stakes
Breeders' Stakes

The Breeders' Stakes is a Canadian stakes race for Thoroughbred horse racing first run in 1889. Since 1959 it has been the third race in the Canadian Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing for three-year-olds....
 in August.

Initiated in 1859 by the then president of the Toronto Turf Club, Sir Casimir Gzowski
Casimir Gzowski

Sir Kazimierz Stanislaus Gzowski, Order of St. Michael and St. George , was an engineer who served as acting Lieutenant Governor of Ontario from 1896 to 1897....
, a distinguished Polish
Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe. Poland is bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian Enclave and exclave, to the north....
 engineer and ancestor of the popular Canadian broadcaster, Peter Gzowski
Peter Gzowski

Peter Gzowski, Order of Canada was a popular Canada Presenter, writer and reporter, most famous for his work on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation radio show Morningside . His biographer has argued that Gzowski's contribution to Canadian media must be considered in the context of efforts by a generation of Canadian nationalism to unde...
, the Queen's Plate was inaugurated on June 27, 1860, at the Carleton racetrack in Toronto, Ontario.






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The Queen's Plate is North America's
North America

North America is the northern continent of the Americas, situated in the Earth's northern hemisphere and almost totally in the western hemisphere....
 oldest 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....
. It is run at a distance of 1¼ miles for 3-year-old thoroughbed horses foaled in Canada
Canada

Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
. The race takes place each June 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 horse and standardbred horse horseracing programs on the same day....
, Etobicoke
Etobicoke, Ontario

Etobicoke is the western portion of the City of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, with an official population of 338,117 as measured by the 2001 Census and 334,491 people as of the 2006 Census....
 (Toronto
Toronto

Toronto is the List of the 100 largest municipalities in Canada by population in Canada and the Provinces and territories of Canada Provincial and territorial capitals of Canada of Ontario....
), Ontario
Ontario

Ontario is a Provinces and territories of Canada located in the Central Canada part of Canada, the largest by population and second largest, after Quebec, in total area....
. For safety reasons, since 1995 the race has been limited to a maximum of 17 starters.

The first race in the Canadian Triple Crown
Canadian Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing

The Canadian Triple Crown is a series of three Thoroughbred horse races run annually in Canada which is open to three-year-old horses foaled in Canada....
, it is followed by the Prince of Wales Stakes
Prince of Wales Stakes

The Prince of Wales Stakes is a graded stakes race stakes race for Thoroughbred horse racing first run in 1929. In 1959, the Prince of Wales Stakes became the marquis event at the Fort Erie Race Track when it became the second race in the Canadian Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing for three-year-old colts and fillies foaled in Canada....
 in July and the Breeders' Stakes
Breeders' Stakes

The Breeders' Stakes is a Canadian stakes race for Thoroughbred horse racing first run in 1889. Since 1959 it has been the third race in the Canadian Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing for three-year-olds....
 in August.

Initiated in 1859 by the then president of the Toronto Turf Club, Sir Casimir Gzowski
Casimir Gzowski

Sir Kazimierz Stanislaus Gzowski, Order of St. Michael and St. George , was an engineer who served as acting Lieutenant Governor of Ontario from 1896 to 1897....
, a distinguished Polish
Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe. Poland is bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian Enclave and exclave, to the north....
 engineer and ancestor of the popular Canadian broadcaster, Peter Gzowski
Peter Gzowski

Peter Gzowski, Order of Canada was a popular Canada Presenter, writer and reporter, most famous for his work on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation radio show Morningside . His biographer has argued that Gzowski's contribution to Canadian media must be considered in the context of efforts by a generation of Canadian nationalism to unde...
, the Queen's Plate was inaugurated on June 27, 1860, at the Carleton racetrack in Toronto, Ontario. The prize of 50 guineas was originally awarded by Queen Victoria
Victoria of the United Kingdom

Victoria was from 20 June 1837 the Queen regnant of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and from 1 May 1876 the first Empress of India of the British Raj until her death....
. Elizabeth II
Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom

Elizabeth II is the queen regnant of sixteen independent states known as the Commonwealth realms: Monarchy of the United Kingdom, Monarchy of Canada, Monarchy of Australia, Monarchy of New Zealand, Monarchy of Jamaica, Monarchy of Barbados, the Bahamas, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, the Monarchy of the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Saint Lucia, Sain...
, as Queen of Canada
Monarchy in Canada

The monarchy of Canada, or Canadian monarchy, is a constitutional system of government in which a hereditary monarch is the Sovereignty and head of state of Canada, forming the core of the country's Westminster system Parliamentary system democracy....
, is patron of the event, and various other members of the Canadian Royal Family
Monarchy in Canada

The monarchy of Canada, or Canadian monarchy, is a constitutional system of government in which a hereditary monarch is the Sovereignty and head of state of Canada, forming the core of the country's Westminster system Parliamentary system democracy....
 have been in attendance through the years.

Horses owned by Windfields Farm
Windfields Farm

Windfields Farm is a six square kilometre thoroughbred Stud farm founded by businessman E. P. Taylor in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada. The first stable and breeding operation of E....
 have won the Queen's Plate eleven times, but the most successful was the stable owned by Joseph E. Seagram
Joseph E. Seagram

Joseph Emm Seagram was a Canada Distilled beverage founder, politician, philanthropist, and major owner of thoroughbred racehorses.Son of Octavius Augustus Seagram and Amelia Stiles, who emigrated to Canada from Wiltshire, England in 1837, Joseph was born at Fisher's Mills, now part of Cambridge, Ontario....
, a prominent distiller
Distilled beverage

A distilled beverage, liquor, or spirit is a drinkable liquid containing ethanol that is produced by means of distillation Fermentation grain, fruit, or vegetables....
 from Waterloo, Ontario
Waterloo, Ontario

Waterloo is a city in Ontario, Canada. It is the smallest of the three cities in the Regional Municipality of Waterloo, Ontario, and is adjacent to the larger city of Kitchener, Ontario....
. Seagram's stable won it on twenty occasions between 1891 and 1935 including eight times in a row between 1891 and 1898, and ten times in eleven years from 1891 to 1901.

The record time for the race since 1957 when it was run at 1¼ miles is 2:01 4/5 set by Kinghaven Farms
Kinghaven Farms

Kinghaven Farms is a thoroughbred horse racing stable founded in 1967 by Donald G. Willmot. Located in King City, Ontario, 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....
 Izvestia
Izvestia (horse)

Izvestia was a Thoroughbred Thoroughbred horse race who won the Canadian Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing in 1990. A descendant of Nearco, his damsire Personality was the 1970 American Horse of the Year....
 in 1990.

In 2006, Josie Carroll
Josie Carroll

Josie Carroll is a Canada Thoroughbred horse trainer and the first woman trainer to win the Queen's Plate, the oldest thoroughbred horse race in North America and Canada's most prestigious race....
 became the first woman trainer
Horse trainer

In horse racing, a trainer is responsible for preparing a horse for races. As such, he or she takes responsibility for exercising it, getting it race-ready and determining which races it should enter....
 to ever win the Queen's Plate. In 2007, Emma-Jayne Wilson
Emma-Jayne Wilson

Emma-Jayne Wilson is a Sovereign Award 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....
 became the first female jockey to win the race.

Evolution of Queen's Plate Distances:
  • 1860-1867 1 mile heats
  • 1868-1870 2 miles
  • 1871 1¾ miles
  • 1872-1886 1½ miles
  • 1887-1923 1¼ miles
  • 1924-1956 1? miles
  • since 1957 1¼ miles


Winningest Jockeys:
  • 4 - Avelino Gomez
    Avelino Gomez

    Avelino Gomez was a Cuban-born Hall of Fame jockey in American and Canadian Thoroughbred horse race.Born in Havana, Gomez began a career as a jockey at the urging of a family member....
      (1957, 1960, 1966, 1969)
  • 4 - Sandy Hawley
    Sandy Hawley

    Desmond Sanford "Sandy" Hawley, Order of Canada is a Hall of Fame jockey.Sandy Hawley started his career as a 17-year-old boy, hotwalking horses at a Toronto racetrack....
      (1970, 1971, 1975, 1978)
  • 4 - Robin Platts
    Robin Platts

    Robin Platts is a Canada thoroughbred horse racing Hall of Fame jockey. He began his jockey career at age 16 and went on to become the winner of the 1979 Sovereign Award for Outstanding Jockey, a record four-time winner of Canada's most prestigious horse race, the Queen's Plate, and the recipient of the 1992 Avelino Gomez Memorial Award....
    : (1972, 1974, 1977, 1984)


Winningest Trainers:
  • 8 - Harry Giddings, Jr.
    Harry Giddings, Jr.

    Harry Giddings, Jr. was a Canada owner, horse breeding, and horse trainer of thoroughbred racehorses. He was born in Trafalgar Township in Halton County, Ontario now at the outskirts of the city of Oakville, Ontario....
     (1911, 1913, 1914, 1920, 1931, 1932, 1934, 1942)
  • 8 - Roger Attfield
    Roger Attfield

    Roger L. Attfield is a Canada thoroughbred horse trainer and owner.In his native England, Attfield had become an accomplished international-level equestrianism competitor when he emigrated to Canada in 1970....
     (1976, 1987, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1993, 1995, 2008)
  • 6 - John R. Walker (1891, 1892, 1893, 1894, 1895, 1896)
  • 6 - Gordon J. "Pete" McCann
    Gordon J. McCann

    Gordon J. "Pete" McCann was a Canada Thoroughbred horse trainer. He was born in East York, Ontario, now part of the city of Toronto. Known to his family as Gordon, in racing circles he was nicknamed Pete....
     (1940, 1951, 1953, 1957, 1959, 1963)


Winners of the Queen's Plate

Year
Winner
Jockey
Trainer
Owner
Time
2008Not Bourbon
Not Bourbon

Not Bourbon is a Canadian Thoroughbred race horse. He is owned and bred by Chuck Fipke and ridden by Jono Jones. At age two, Not Bourbon set a new Woodbine Racetrack track record in winning the Bull Page Stakes....
Jono JonesRoger Attfield
Roger Attfield

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

Charles Edgar Fipke is a former prospector who discovered the existence of diamonds around Lac de Gras in Canada's Northwest Territories. He is now a multimillionaire diamond magnate....
2:03.59
2007Mike Fox
Mike Fox (horse)

Mike Fox is a Canada Thoroughbred horse racing best known as the upset winner of Canada's most prestigious race, the Queen's Plate.In winning the Queen's Plate aboard Mike Fox, jockey Emma-Jayne Wilson became the first female rider to ever win the race in its one hundred and forty eight runnings....
Emma-Jayne Wilson
Emma-Jayne Wilson

Emma-Jayne Wilson is a Sovereign Award 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....
Ian BlackD. Morgan Firestone2:05.45
2006EdenwoldEmile Ramsammy
Emile Ramsammy

Emile Ramsammy is a Canada thoroughbred horse racing Sovereign Award jockey. He had more than 500 victories racing in the Caribbean before emigrating to Canada in the early 1990s....
Josie Carroll
Josie Carroll

Josie Carroll is a Canada Thoroughbred horse trainer and the first woman trainer to win the Queen's Plate, the oldest thoroughbred horse race in North America and Canada's most prestigious race....
Jim and Alice Sapara2:05.30
2005Wild DesertPat Valenzuela
Pat Valenzuela

Patrick Angel Valenzuela is an United States thoroughbred horse racing jockey. Born into a racing family, his father plus three of his uncles were jockeys....
Robert J. FrankelDaniel Borislow & Partners2:07.37
2004NiigonRobert LandryEric CoatrieuxChiefswood Stable2:04.72
2003Wando
Wando (horse)

Wando is a Thoroughbred Thoroughbred horse race who won the Canadian Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing in 2003. The Chestnut Stallion , raced with moderate success as a four-year-old then was retired on the 12th of May 2005 to stand at horse breeding at Lane's End Farm near Lexington, Kentucky....
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....
Michael Keogh
Michael Keogh

Michael Keogh, known as Max Keogh was a nationalist politician and journalist in Northern Ireland.Based in Newry, Keogh became the editor of the Frontier Sentinel....
Gus Schickedanz2:02.48
2002T J's Lucky MoonSteve BahenVito ArmataMolinaro Stable2:06.88
2001Dancethruthedawn
Dancethruthedawn

Dancethruthedawn is a Canada Thoroughbred horse racing sired by leading United States stallion Mr. Prospector from Dance Smartly, a Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing#Canada mare and inductee of the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame and National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame....
Gary BoulangerMark Frostad
Mark Frostad

Mark R. Frostad is a Canada Thoroughbred horse trainer. He grew up with a father who owned a stud farm but before becoming involved in thoroughbred horse race, Frostad obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in literature from Princeton University then in 1976 an MBA degree from the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario,....
Sam-Son Farm
Sam-Son Farm

Sam-Son Farm is a thoroughbred horse racing stable in Milton, Ontario, Canada. Originating in the 60's by Ernie Samuel, it began as a home forequestrianism horses....
2:03.78
2000Scatter The GoldTodd Kabel
Todd Kabel

Todd K. Kabel is a Canada 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....
Mark Frostad
Mark Frostad

Mark R. Frostad is a Canada Thoroughbred horse trainer. He grew up with a father who owned a stud farm but before becoming involved in thoroughbred horse race, Frostad obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in literature from Princeton University then in 1976 an MBA degree from the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario,....
Sam-Son Farm
Sam-Son Farm

Sam-Son Farm is a thoroughbred horse racing stable in Milton, Ontario, Canada. Originating in the 60's by Ernie Samuel, it began as a home forequestrianism horses....
2:05.53
1999WoodcarverMickey WallsMichael Keogh
Michael Keogh

Michael Keogh, known as Max Keogh was a nationalist politician and journalist in Northern Ireland.Based in Newry, Keogh became the editor of the Frontier Sentinel....
Gus Schickedanz2:03.13
1998Archers BayKent Desormeaux
Kent Desormeaux

image=|name = Kent Desormeaux||caption = Kent Desormeaux and Big Brown head into the gate for the 2008 Belmont Stakes.|occupation = Jockey|birthplace = Maurice, Louisiana, Louisiana, United States...
Todd Pletcher
Todd Pletcher

Todd Pletcher is a leading American Thoroughbred horse horse trainer. He has won four consecutive Eclipse Awards as outstanding Trainer of the Year, while topping the leader board in purse earnings in 2004, 2005, and 2006....
Melnyk
Eugene Melnyk

Eugene Melnyk is a Canada businessman of Ukrainian origin who now resides free of Canadian taxes in Barbados. He is the current owner, governor and chairman of the Ottawa Senators professional ice hockey club of the National Hockey League ....
 & Bristow
2:02.10
1997Awesome Again
Awesome Again

Awesome Again is an Canada Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame Thoroughbred horse racing. Owned and bred by Frank Stronach of Newmarket, Ontario, Awesome Again was sired by Deputy Minister out of the 2000 Broodmare of the Year, Primal Force ....
Mike E. Smith
Mike E. Smith

Michael Earl "Mike" Smith is an United States jockey who has been one of the leading riders in U.S. thoroughbred horse racing since the early 1990s....
David Hofmans
David Hofmans

David E. Hofmans is an American horse trainer of Thoroughbred horse racing. Born and raised in Los Angeles, as a boy his father brought him to watch horse racing at area tracks....
Frank Stronach
Frank Stronach

Frank H. Stronach, Order of Canada is an Austrian-Canada businessman. He is the founder of Magna International, an international automotive parts company based in Aurora, Ontario, Canada, and Magna Entertainment Corp., which specializes in horse-racing entertainment....
2:04.20
1996Victor CooleyEmile Ramsammy
Emile Ramsammy

Emile Ramsammy is a Canada thoroughbred horse racing Sovereign Award jockey. He had more than 500 victories racing in the Caribbean before emigrating to Canada in the early 1990s....
Mark Frostad
Mark Frostad

Mark R. Frostad is a Canada Thoroughbred horse trainer. He grew up with a father who owned a stud farm but before becoming involved in thoroughbred horse race, Frostad obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in literature from Princeton University then in 1976 an MBA degree from the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario,....
Windways Farm2:03.80
1995Regal DiscoveryTodd Kabel
Todd Kabel

Todd K. Kabel is a Canada 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....
Roger Attfield
Roger Attfield

Roger L. Attfield is a Canada thoroughbred horse trainer and owner.In his native England, Attfield had become an accomplished international-level equestrianism competitor when he emigrated to Canada in 1970....
No. 1 Stable2:03.80
1994Basqueian
Basqueian

Basqueian is a Canada Thoroughbred horse racing best known for winning two of the 1994 Canadian Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing races.Basqueian was bred and raced by prominent businessman and major stable owner, Frank Stronach....
Jack Lauzon
Jack M. Lauzon

Jack M. Lauzon is a retired Canada Thoroughbred horse racing jockey whom The Blood-Horse magazine magazine called "one of the most respected riders in Canada."...
Daniel J. Vella
Daniel J. Vella

Daniel J. "Dan" Vella is a Canada Sovereign Award Thoroughbred horse racing horse trainer.Dan Vella was introduced to Thoroughbred horse racing by an uncle who owned horses and, after graduating from High School, went to work at a racetrack in his native Toronto....
Frank Stronach
Frank Stronach

Frank H. Stronach, Order of Canada is an Austrian-Canada businessman. He is the founder of Magna International, an international automotive parts company based in Aurora, Ontario, Canada, and Magna Entertainment Corp., which specializes in horse-racing entertainment....
2:03.40
1993Peteski
Peteski

Peteski was a Thoroughbred Thoroughbred horse race who won the Canadian Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing in 1993. He was sired by the Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing#United States winner, Affirmed, and was out of the mare Vive, a daughter of Nureyev ....
Craig Perret
Craig Perret

Craig Perret is an United States thoroughbred horse race jockey. He began riding horses at age five and by seven was riding American Quarter Horse in match races....
Roger Attfield
Roger Attfield

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

Earle Irving Mack is an United States businessman and former Ambassadors from the United States to Finland....
2:04.20
1992Alydeed
Alydeed

Alydeed is a Canada Thoroughbred horse racing. Bred by Anderson Farms of St. Thomas, Ontario, he was out of the unraced Mare Bialy, a daughter of National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame inductee, Alydar....
Craig Perret
Craig Perret

Craig Perret is an United States thoroughbred horse race jockey. He began riding horses at age five and by seven was riding American Quarter Horse in match races....
Roger Attfield
Roger Attfield

Roger L. Attfield is a Canada thoroughbred horse trainer and owner.In his native England, Attfield had become an accomplished international-level equestrianism 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. Willmot. Located in King City, Ontario, 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....
2:04.60
1991Dance Smartly
Dance Smartly

Dance Smartly was a Eclipse Award thoroughbred filly racehorse who went undefeated in 1991 while winning the Canadian Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing and becoming the first horse bred in Canada to ever win a Breeders' Cup race....
Pat Day
Pat Day

Patrick Alan "Pat" Day is an United States 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....
Jim Day
Jim Day

James E. "Jim" Day is a Canada Olympic Games equestrianism show jumping champion and thoroughbred horse trainer.Jim Day first came to international prominence at the 1967 Pan American Games when he won gold in the individual equestrian competition....
Sam-Son Farm
Sam-Son Farm

Sam-Son Farm is a thoroughbred horse racing stable in Milton, Ontario, Canada. Originating in the 60's by Ernie Samuel, it began as a home forequestrianism horses....
2:03.40
1990Izvestia
Izvestia (horse)

Izvestia was a Thoroughbred Thoroughbred horse race who won the Canadian Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing in 1990. A descendant of Nearco, his damsire Personality was the 1970 American Horse of the Year....
Don Seymour
Don Seymour

Donald J. Seymour is a Canada jockey in Thoroughbred horse race who is the only jockey in history to win two Canadian Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing....
Roger Attfield
Roger Attfield

Roger L. Attfield is a Canada thoroughbred horse trainer and owner.In his native England, Attfield had become an accomplished international-level equestrianism 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. Willmot. Located in King City, Ontario, 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....
2:01.80
1989With Approval
With Approval

With Approval is a Thoroughbred Thoroughbred horse race who won the Canadian Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing in 1989 under jockey Don Seymour....
Don Seymour
Don Seymour

Donald J. Seymour is a Canada jockey in Thoroughbred horse race who is the only jockey in history to win two Canadian Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing....
Roger Attfield
Roger Attfield

Roger L. Attfield is a Canada thoroughbred horse trainer and owner.In his native England, Attfield had become an accomplished international-level equestrianism 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. Willmot. Located in King City, Ontario, 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....
2:03.00
1988Regal Intention
Regal Intention

Regal Intention is a Canada Sovereign Award Thoroughbred horse racing. A grandson of Northern Dancer, he was out of the mare, Tiffany Tam and sired by the important Vice Regent who also sired his stablemate and arch rival, Regal Classic....
Jack Lauzon
Jack M. Lauzon

Jack M. Lauzon is a retired Canada Thoroughbred horse racing jockey whom The Blood-Horse magazine magazine called "one of the most respected riders in Canada."...
Jim Day
Jim Day

James E. "Jim" Day is a Canada Olympic Games equestrianism show jumping champion and thoroughbred horse trainer.Jim Day first came to international prominence at the 1967 Pan American Games when he won gold in the individual equestrian competition....
Sam-Son Farm
Sam-Son Farm

Sam-Son Farm is a thoroughbred horse racing stable in Milton, Ontario, Canada. Originating in the 60's by Ernie Samuel, it began as a home forequestrianism horses....
2:06.20
1987Market ControlKen SkinnerRoger Attfield
Roger Attfield

Roger L. Attfield is a Canada thoroughbred horse trainer and owner.In his native England, Attfield had become an accomplished international-level equestrianism 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. Willmot. Located in King City, Ontario, 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....
2:03.60
1986Golden Choice
Golden Choice

Golden Choice is a Canada Thoroughbred horse racing best known for winning Canada's most prestigious horse race, the Queen's Plate. Sired by Val de l'Orne, the 1975 Prix du Jockey Club winner, his damsire was Barachois, a son of Northern Dancer....
Vincent Bracciale, Jr.Michael TammaroDick Sanderson2:07.20
1985La Lorgnette
La Lorgnette

La Lorgnette is a Canada Sovereign Award for Champion 3-Year-Old Filly Thoroughbred filly horse racing. A giant sized filly at 17.1 hands, she was bred and raced by E....
David ClarkMacdonald BensonWindfields Farm
Windfields Farm

Windfields Farm is a six square kilometre thoroughbred Stud farm founded by businessman E. P. Taylor in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada. The first stable and breeding operation of E....
2:04.60
1984Key To The MoonRobin Platts
Robin Platts

Robin Platts is a Canada thoroughbred horse racing Hall of Fame jockey. He began his jockey career at age 16 and went on to become the winner of the 1979 Sovereign Award for Outstanding Jockey, a record four-time winner of Canada's most prestigious horse race, the Queen's Plate, and the recipient of the 1992 Avelino Gomez Memorial Award....
Gil Rowntree
Gil Rowntree

Gil H. Rowntree is a Canada Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame Thoroughbred horse 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....
B. K. Y. Stable2:03.80
1983BompagoLarry Attard
Larry Attard

Larry Attard is a retired Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame Sovereign Award jockey and current horse trainer in Canada Thoroughbred horse race....
John CardellaCarl Cardella & Partners2:04.20
1982Son of Briartic
Son of Briartic

Son of Briartic was a Canada Thoroughbred horse racing, Bred by Canada's most prominent horsemen, E. P. Taylor, he was out of the mare Tabola, a daughter of National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame inductee, Round Table ....
Paul SouterJerry G. LavignePaddockhurst Stable2:04.60
1981Fiddle Dancer BoyDavid ClarkJames C. BentleyJ. B. W. Carmichael2:04.80
1980Driving HomeWilliam ParsonsGlenn MangussonCFCW Racing Stable2:04.20
1979Steady GrowthBrian SwatukJohn J. Tammaro, Jr.
John J. Tammaro, Jr.

John J. Tammaro, Jr. was an United States Thoroughbred horse trainer.Born in Baltimore, Maryland into a horse racing family, John Tammaro was still a young boy when his father died from injuries suffered in a racing accident at Belmont Park....
Kinghaven Farms
Kinghaven Farms

Kinghaven Farms is a thoroughbred horse racing stable founded in 1967 by Donald G. Willmot. Located in King City, Ontario, 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....
2:06.60
1978Regal EmbraceSandy Hawley
Sandy Hawley

Desmond Sanford "Sandy" Hawley, Order of Canada is a Hall of Fame jockey.Sandy Hawley started his career as a 17-year-old boy, hotwalking horses at a Toronto racetrack....
Macdonald BensonWindfields Farm
Windfields Farm

Windfields Farm is a six square kilometre thoroughbred Stud farm founded by businessman E. P. Taylor in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada. The first stable and breeding operation of E....
2:02.00
1977Sound ReasonRobin Platts
Robin Platts

Robin Platts is a Canada thoroughbred horse racing Hall of Fame jockey. He began his jockey career at age 16 and went on to become the winner of the 1979 Sovereign Award for Outstanding Jockey, a record four-time winner of Canada's most prestigious horse race, the Queen's Plate, and the recipient of the 1992 Avelino Gomez Memorial Award....
Gil Rowntree
Gil Rowntree

Gil H. Rowntree is a Canada Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame Thoroughbred horse 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....
Stafford Farms2:06.60
1976Norcliffe
Norcliffe

Norcliffe was a Canada Thoroughbred horse racing. He was sired by National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame Champion Buckpasser out of the mare Drama School by Northern Dancer....
Jeff FellRoger Attfield
Roger Attfield

Roger L. Attfield is a Canada thoroughbred horse trainer and owner.In his native England, Attfield had become an accomplished international-level equestrianism competitor when he emigrated to Canada in 1970....
Norcliffe Stable2:05.00
1975L'Enjoleur
L'Enjoleur

L'Enjoleur was a Canada Thoroughbred Horse racing. Bred and owned by prominent Montreal businessman Jean-Louis L?vesque, L'Enjoleur was sired by National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame inductee, Buckpasser, a son of another Hall of Famer, Tom Fool....
Sandy Hawley
Sandy Hawley

Desmond Sanford "Sandy" Hawley, Order of Canada is a Hall of Fame jockey.Sandy Hawley started his career as a 17-year-old boy, hotwalking horses at a Toronto racetrack....
Yonnie Starr
Yonnie Starr

Joseph "Yonnie" Starr was a Canadian Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame Thoroughbred horse racing Horse trainer about whom the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame says has a "record unmatched in Canadian racing history."...
J. Louis Lévesque2:02.60
1974Amber HerodRobin Platts
Robin Platts

Robin Platts is a Canada thoroughbred horse racing Hall of Fame jockey. He began his jockey career at age 16 and went on to become the winner of the 1979 Sovereign Award for Outstanding Jockey, a record four-time winner of Canada's most prestigious horse race, the Queen's Plate, and the recipient of the 1992 Avelino Gomez Memorial Award....
Gil Rowntree
Gil Rowntree

Gil H. Rowntree is a Canada Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame Thoroughbred horse 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....
Stafford Farms2:09.20
1973Royal Chocolate
Royal Chocolate

Royal Chocolate was a Canada Thoroughbred horse racing. Bred and raced by Jack H. Stafford Stafford Farms of King City, Ontario, Ontario, he was out of the mare Rocket Shot, a granddaughter of the influential sire, Princequillo who was a seven-time Leading broodmare sire in North America....
Ted ColangeloGil Rowntree
Gil Rowntree

Gil H. Rowntree is a Canada Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame Thoroughbred horse 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....
Stafford Farms2:08.20
1972Victoria SongRobin Platts
Robin Platts

Robin Platts is a Canada thoroughbred horse racing Hall of Fame jockey. He began his jockey career at age 16 and went on to become the winner of the 1979 Sovereign Award for Outstanding Jockey, a record four-time winner of Canada's most prestigious horse race, the Queen's Plate, and the recipient of the 1992 Avelino Gomez Memorial Award....
Larry GrantGreen Hills Farm
Green hills farm

Green Hills Farm is the sixty-acre Homesteading in Bucks County, Pennsylvania where Nobel prize-winning United States author Pearl Buck lived for 40 years, raising her family, writing, pursuing humanitarian interests, and gardening....
2:03.20
1971Kennedy Road
Kennedy Road (horse)

Kennedy Road was a Canada Thoroughbred Sovereign Award horse racing who dominated Canadian racing for three years before going to success in California....
Sandy Hawley
Sandy Hawley

Desmond Sanford "Sandy" Hawley, Order of Canada is a Hall of Fame jockey.Sandy Hawley started his career as a 17-year-old boy, hotwalking horses at a Toronto racetrack....
James C. BentleyHelen G. Stollery2:03.00
1970AlmonerSandy Hawley
Sandy Hawley

Desmond Sanford "Sandy" Hawley, Order of Canada is a Hall of Fame jockey.Sandy Hawley started his career as a 17-year-old boy, hotwalking horses at a Toronto racetrack....
Jerry LavigneParkview Stable2:04.80
1969Jumpin JosephAvelino Gomez
Avelino Gomez

Avelino Gomez was a Cuban-born Hall of Fame jockey in American and Canadian Thoroughbred horse race.Born in Havana, Gomez began a career as a jockey at the urging of a family member....
Robert S. BatemanWarren Beasely2:04.20
1968Merger
Merger (horse)

Merger is a Canada Thoroughbred horse racing best known for winning the 1968 Queen's Plate, Canada's most prestigious horse race.Merger was bred and raced by Golden West Farms, a partnership of prominent Canadian businessmen, Frank M....
Wayne Harris
Wayne Harris (jockey)

Wayne Harris is a retired Canada jockey in Thoroughbred horse race 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....
Roy JohnsonGolden West Farms
Golden West Farms

Golden West Farms was a Canada Thoroughbred horse racing stable and horse breeding farm at Okotoks, Alberta owned by Frank M. McMahon and Max Bell....
2:05.20
1967Jammed LovelyJim FitzsimmonsYonnie Starr
Yonnie Starr

Joseph "Yonnie" Starr was a Canadian Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame Thoroughbred horse racing Horse trainer about whom the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame says has a "record unmatched in Canadian racing history."...
Conn Smythe
Conn Smythe

Constantine Falkland Cary Smythe Military Cross was a Canada builder in the National Hockey League. He is best known as the principal owner of the Toronto Maple Leafs from 1927 to 1961 and as the builder of Maple Leaf Gardens....
2:03.00
1966Titled HeroAvelino Gomez
Avelino Gomez

Avelino Gomez was a Cuban-born Hall of Fame jockey in American and Canadian Thoroughbred horse race.Born in Havana, Gomez began a career as a jockey at the urging of a family member....
Patrick MacMurchyPeter K. Marshall2:03.60
1965Whistling SeaTak InouyeRoy JohnsonOlivier Ranches2:03.80
1964Northern Dancer
Northern Dancer

Northern Dancer was a Canada-bred Thoroughbred horse and the most successful Father of the 20th Century. The National Thoroughbred Racing Association calls him "one of the most influential sires in Thoroughbred history"....
Bill Hartack
Bill Hartack

William John Hartack Jr. was a National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame jockey. He was born in Ebensburg, Pennsylvania.Referred to by the media as both "Bill" and "Willie" during his racing career, Hartack grew up on his widowed father's farm in the Blacklick Township area of Cambria County, Pennsylvania....
Horatio 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 States....
Windfields Farm
Windfields Farm

Windfields Farm is a six square kilometre thoroughbred Stud farm founded by businessman E. P. Taylor in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada. The first stable and breeding operation of E....
2:02.20
1963Canebora
Canebora

Canebora is a Thoroughbred Thoroughbred horse race who won the Canadian Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing in 1963 and was voted the Sovereign Award for Horse of the Year....
Manuel Ycaza
Manuel Ycaza

Manuel Ycaza is a retired National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame jockey who led the way for Latin American jockeys in the United States.The son of a bus driver, Deycaza began riding ponies at age six and by age fourteen was riding professionally in Panama....
Gordon J. McCann
Gordon J. McCann

Gordon J. "Pete" McCann was a Canada Thoroughbred horse trainer. He was born in East York, Ontario, now part of the city of Toronto. Known to his family as Gordon, in racing circles he was nicknamed Pete....
Windfields Farm
Windfields Farm

Windfields Farm is a six square kilometre thoroughbred Stud farm founded by businessman E. P. Taylor in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada. The first stable and breeding operation of E....
2:04.00
1962Flaming Page
Flaming Page

Flaming Page was a Canadian Canadian Horse Racing Hall of FameThoroughbred racehorse. Out of the mare Flaring Top, a daughter of the 1937 American Champion Two-Year-Old Colt, Menow, she was sired by Bull Page, the 1951 Canadian Horse of the Year and a Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame inductee....
Jim FitzsimmonsHoratio 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 States....
Windfields Farm
Windfields Farm

Windfields Farm is a six square kilometre thoroughbred Stud farm founded by businessman E. P. Taylor in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada. The first stable and breeding operation of E....
2:04.60
1961Blue LightHugo DittfachPatrick MacMurchyK. R. Marshall2:05.00
1960Victoria Park
Victoria Park (horse)

Victoria Park was a Canada Thoroughbred Thoroughbred horse race. A grandson of Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing champion, Gallant Fox, he was the first Canadian-bred horse to place in an American Triple Crown race....
Avelino Gomez
Avelino Gomez

Avelino Gomez was a Cuban-born Hall of Fame jockey in American and Canadian Thoroughbred horse race.Born in Havana, Gomez began a career as a jockey at the urging of a family member....
Horatio 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 States....
Windfields Farm
Windfields Farm

Windfields Farm is a six square kilometre thoroughbred Stud farm founded by businessman E. P. Taylor in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada. The first stable and breeding operation of E....
2:02.00
1959New Providence
New Providence (horse)

New Providence is a Thoroughbred Thoroughbred horse race who in 1959 became the first official winner of the Canadian Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing....
Bobby Ussery
Bobby Ussery

Robert N. "Bobby" Ussery is an United states thoroughbred horse racing Hall of Fame jockey. He began his career as a jockey in 1951 and by the end of the decade had won the Travers Stakes, Whitney Stakes and Alabama Stakes....
Gordon J. McCann
Gordon J. McCann

Gordon J. "Pete" McCann was a Canada Thoroughbred horse trainer. He was born in East York, Ontario, now part of the city of Toronto. Known to his family as Gordon, in racing circles he was nicknamed Pete....
Windfields Farm
Windfields Farm

Windfields Farm is a six square kilometre thoroughbred Stud farm founded by businessman E. P. Taylor in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada. The first stable and breeding operation of E....
2:04.80
1958Caledon BeauAl CoyYonnie Starr
Yonnie Starr

Joseph "Yonnie" Starr was a Canadian Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame Thoroughbred horse racing Horse trainer about whom the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame says has a "record unmatched in Canadian racing history."...
Conn Smythe
Conn Smythe

Constantine Falkland Cary Smythe Military Cross was a Canada builder in the National Hockey League. He is best known as the principal owner of the Toronto Maple Leafs from 1927 to 1961 and as the builder of Maple Leaf Gardens....
2:04.20
1957Lyford CayAvelino Gomez
Avelino Gomez

Avelino Gomez was a Cuban-born Hall of Fame jockey in American and Canadian Thoroughbred horse race.Born in Havana, Gomez began a career as a jockey at the urging of a family member....
Gordon J. McCann
Gordon J. McCann

Gordon J. "Pete" McCann was a Canada Thoroughbred horse trainer. He was born in East York, Ontario, now part of the city of Toronto. Known to his family as Gordon, in racing circles he was nicknamed Pete....
E. P. Taylor
E. P. Taylor

Edward Plunket Taylor, was a Canadian business tycoon and famous breeder of thoroughbred horse racing. Known to his friends as "Eddie," he is universally recorded as "E....
2:02.60
1956Canadian Champ
Canadian Champ

Canadian Champ was a Canada Thoroughbred Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame horse racing who in 1956 won the three races that would become the Canadian Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing in 1959....
David StevensonJohn PasseroW. R. "Bill" Beasley1:55.00
1955Ace Marine
Ace Marine

Ace Marine was a Canada Thoroughbred Sovereign Award horse racing who in 1955 won the three races that four years later were officially designated the Canadian Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing....
George WalkerYonnie Starr
Yonnie Starr

Joseph "Yonnie" Starr was a Canadian Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame Thoroughbred horse racing Horse trainer about whom the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame says has a "record unmatched in Canadian racing history."...
Larkin Maloney1:52.40
1954CollisteoChris Rogers
Chris Rogers (jockey)

Christopher Rogers was a Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame jockey about whom the great National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame inductee Eddie Arcaro called "one of the most complete riders he had ridden against or watched." According to the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame, "Many horsemen consider Rogers the best jockey produced in Ca...
Richard TownrowBur-Fit Stable1:52.00
1953Canadiana
Canadiana (horse)

Canadiana was the first Canada-Horse breeding horse racing to earn more than $100,000 Canada. She was bred by E. P. Taylor at his Windfields Farm near Oshawa, Ontario....
Eddie Arcaro
Eddie Arcaro

Edward Arcaro , known professionally as Eddie Arcaro, was an United States Thoroughbred horse race National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame jockey who won more American Classic Races than any other jockey in history and is the only rider to have won the United States Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing twice....
Gordon J. McCann
Gordon J. McCann

Gordon J. "Pete" McCann was a Canada Thoroughbred horse trainer. He was born in East York, Ontario, now part of the city of Toronto. Known to his family as Gordon, in racing circles he was nicknamed Pete....
E. P. Taylor
E. P. Taylor

Edward Plunket Taylor, was a Canadian business tycoon and famous breeder of thoroughbred horse racing. Known to his friends as "Eddie," he is universally recorded as "E....
1:52.20
1952EpigramGil RobillardStanley V. BowdenThree V's Stable1:58.60
1951Major FactorAlf BavingtonGordon J. McCann
Gordon J. McCann

Gordon J. "Pete" McCann was a Canada Thoroughbred horse trainer. He was born in East York, Ontario, now part of the city of Toronto. Known to his family as Gordon, in racing circles he was nicknamed Pete....
E. P. Taylor
E. P. Taylor

Edward Plunket Taylor, was a Canadian business tycoon and famous breeder of thoroughbred horse racing. Known to his friends as "Eddie," he is universally recorded as "E....
1:53.00
1950McGillChris Rogers
Chris Rogers (jockey)

Christopher Rogers was a Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame jockey about whom the great National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame inductee Eddie Arcaro called "one of the most complete riders he had ridden against or watched." According to the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame, "Many horsemen consider Rogers the best jockey produced in Ca...
Pete KeiserVincent J. Sheridan1:52.40
1949EpicChris Rogers
Chris Rogers (jockey)

Christopher Rogers was a Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame jockey about whom the great National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame inductee Eddie Arcaro called "one of the most complete riders he had ridden against or watched." According to the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame, "Many horsemen consider Rogers the best jockey produced in Ca...
Bert AlexandraE. P. Taylor
E. P. Taylor

Edward Plunket Taylor, was a Canadian business tycoon and famous breeder of thoroughbred horse racing. Known to his friends as "Eddie," he is universally recorded as "E....
1:52.20
1948Last MarkHoward R. BaileyJim G. FairJim G. Fair1:52.00
1947MoldyColin McDonaldArthur BrentParkwood Stable
Parkwood Stable

Parkwood Stable was a thoroughbred horse racing founded in the early 1930s and expanded to include a horse breeding near Toronto, Ontario in 1937....
1:54.20
1946Kingarvie
Kingarvie

Kingarvie was a Canada Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame Thoroughbred horse racing. Owned and bred by the renowned automobile pioneer, Samuel McLaughlin, he was out of the Mare , Forsworn....
Johnny DewhurstArthur BrentParkwood Stable
Parkwood Stable

Parkwood Stable was a thoroughbred horse racing founded in the early 1930s and expanded to include a horse breeding near Toronto, Ontario in 1937....
1:55.60
1945Uttermost
Uttermost

Uttermost was a Canada Thoroughbred horse racing who in 1945 won the three races that would later form the official Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing#Canada series....
Robert B. Watson
Robert B. Watson

Robert B. "Bobby" Watson was a Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame jockey. He was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, the son of Helen Booth and her husband, Alexander Watson....
Cecil HowardHarry C. Hatch
Harry C. Hatch

Harold Clifford "Harry" Hatch was a self-made millionaire industrialist from Prince Edward County, Ontario specializing in the business of wine and spirits....
1:53.80
1944AcaraRobert B. Watson
Robert B. Watson

Robert B. "Bobby" Watson was a Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame jockey. He was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, the son of Helen Booth and her husband, Alexander Watson....
Cecil HowardHarry C. Hatch
Harry C. Hatch

Harold Clifford "Harry" Hatch was a self-made millionaire industrialist from Prince Edward County, Ontario specializing in the business of wine and spirits....
1:54.80
1943PaolitaPat RemillardWilliam ThurnerCharles H. Hemstead2:02.60
1942Ten To AceCharles W. SmithHarry Giddings, Jr.
Harry Giddings, Jr.

Harry Giddings, Jr. was a Canada owner, horse breeding, and horse trainer of thoroughbred racehorses. He was born in Trafalgar Township in Halton County, Ontario now at the outskirts of the city of Oakville, Ontario....
Harry Giddings, Jr.
Harry Giddings, Jr.

Harry Giddings, Jr. was a Canada owner, horse breeding, and horse trainer of thoroughbred racehorses. He was born in Trafalgar Township in Halton County, Ontario now at the outskirts of the city of Oakville, Ontario....
1:57.80
1941Budpath
Budpath

Budpath was a Canada Thoroughbred horse racing best known for winning Canada's most prestigious race, the Queen's Plate. Owned and bred by distilling magnate and prominent Thoroughbred owner Harry C....
Robert B. Watson
Robert B. Watson

Robert B. "Bobby" Watson was a Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame jockey. He was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, the son of Helen Booth and her husband, Alexander Watson....
Lloyd Gentry, Sr.Harry C. Hatch
Harry C. Hatch

Harold Clifford "Harry" Hatch was a self-made millionaire industrialist from Prince Edward County, Ontario specializing in the business of wine and spirits....
1:56.80
1940Willie the Kid
Willie the Kid

Willie the Kid was a Canada Thoroughbred horse racing best known for winning the eighty-first running of the Queen's Plate, Canada's most important race....
Ronnie NashGordon J. McCann
Gordon J. McCann

Gordon J. "Pete" McCann was a Canada Thoroughbred horse trainer. He was born in East York, Ontario, now part of the city of Toronto. Known to his family as Gordon, in racing circles he was nicknamed Pete....
Mildred A. Kane1:55.80
1939ArchworthSydney Denny BirleyMark CowellC. George McCullagh1:54.40
1938Bunty Lawless
Bunty Lawless

Bunty Lawless was a Canada Thoroughbred horse racing who in 1951 was voted Canada's "Horse of the Half-Century".Racing during the Great Depression of the 1930s, Bunty Lawless competed for purse money that was very small....
John W. BaileyJack AndersonWillie F. Morrissey1:54.40
1937GoldlureSterling YoungWilliam H. BringloeHarry C. Hatch
Harry C. Hatch

Harold Clifford "Harry" Hatch was a self-made millionaire industrialist from Prince Edward County, Ontario specializing in the business of wine and spirits....
1:55.40
1936MonsweepDanny BrammerWilliam H. BringloeHarry C. Hatch
Harry C. Hatch

Harold Clifford "Harry" Hatch was a self-made millionaire industrialist from Prince Edward County, Ontario specializing in the business of wine and spirits....
1:55.00
1935Sally FullerHerb LindbergJohnny ThorpeSeagram Stables1:55.40
1934Horometer
Horometer

Horometer was a Canada Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame Thoroughbred horse racing. Bred and raced by Samuel McLaughlin Parkwood Stable, he was out of the mare Star Pal and sired by Hourless, the 1917 American Champion Three-Year-Old Male Horse and winner of the Belmont Stakes....
Frankie MannHarry Giddings, Jr.
Harry Giddings, Jr.

Harry Giddings, Jr. was a Canada owner, horse breeding, and horse trainer of thoroughbred racehorses. He was born in Trafalgar Township in Halton County, Ontario now at the outskirts of the city of Oakville, Ontario....
Col. Samuel McLaughlin
Samuel McLaughlin

Colonel Robert Samuel McLaughlin, Order of Canada, Canadian Efficiency Decoration, Canadian Forces Decoration was an important Canada businessman, philanthropist and founder, in 1907, of the McLaughlin automobile, one of the first major automobile manufacturers in Canada....
1:54.20
1933King O'ConnorEddie LegereWilliam H. BringloeSeagram Stables1:56.40
1932QueenswayFrankie MannHarry Giddings, Jr.
Harry Giddings, Jr.

Harry Giddings, Jr. was a Canada owner, horse breeding, and horse trainer of thoroughbred racehorses. He was born in Trafalgar Township in Halton County, Ontario now at the outskirts of the city of Oakville, Ontario....
Robert W. R. Cowie1:55.20
1931Froth BlowerFrankie MannHarry Giddings, Jr.
Harry Giddings, Jr.

Harry Giddings, Jr. was a Canada owner, horse breeding, and horse trainer of thoroughbred racehorses. He was born in Trafalgar Township in Halton County, Ontario now at the outskirts of the city of Oakville, Ontario....
Robert W. R. Cowie1:59.20
1930Aymond
Aymond

Aymond was a Canada Thoroughbred horse racing best known for winning the 1930 Queen's Plate.Bred by Whitby, Ontario James Heffering, he was out of the mare, Ablaze, and sired by Roselyon, a son of the 1911 Epsom Derby winner and British Horseracing Hall of Fame inductee, Sunstar....
Henry LittleJack HuttonRyland H. New
Ryland H. New

Ryland Herbert New was a Canada businessman and owner of Thoroughbred horse racing who twice won the Queen's Plate.Born in Toronto, Ontario, New was educated at Upper Canada College and the University of Toronto....
1:57.20
1929ShorelintJohn D. MooneyFred H. SchelkeThorncliffe Stable
Thorncliffe Stable

Thorncliffe Stable is a defunct Thoroughbred and Standardbred horse racing and horse breeding operation established in 1888 in Toronto, Ontario by businessman Robert T....
1:57.60
1928Young KittyLester PichonWilliam H. BringloeSeagram Stables1:57.00
1927TroutletFrancis HornJohn NixonRyland H. New
Ryland H. New

Ryland Herbert New was a Canada businessman and owner of Thoroughbred horse racing who twice won the Queen's Plate.Born in Toronto, Ontario, New was educated at Upper Canada College and the University of Toronto....
1:55.80
1926HapliteHenry EricksonWilliam H. BringloeSeagram Stables1:59.60
1925FairbankChick LangJack GivensJames C. Fletcher1:56.40
1924Maternal PrideGeorge WallsWilliam G. WilsonHugh S. Wilson1:57.60
1923FlowerfulTerry WilsonWilliam H. BringloeSeagram Stables2:11.00
1922South ShoreKenny ParringtonFred H. SchelkeThorncliffe Stable
Thorncliffe Stable

Thorncliffe Stable is a defunct Thoroughbred and Standardbred horse racing and horse breeding operation established in 1888 in Toronto, Ontario by businessman Robert T....
2:12.00
1921HerendesyJames H. Butwell
James H. Butwell

James H. "Jimmy" Butwell was an United States National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame jockey. His birth year placed at the Latter Day Saint website states it as 1896....
George WalkerBrookdale Stable2:10.00
1920St. PaulRoxy RomanelliHarry Giddings, Jr.
Harry Giddings, Jr.

Harry Giddings, Jr. was a Canada owner, horse breeding, and horse trainer of thoroughbred racehorses. He was born in Trafalgar Township in Halton County, Ontario now at the outskirts of the city of Oakville, Ontario....
Harry Giddings, Sr.2:09.00
1919Ladder of LightLarry LykeJoseph H. DoaneGeorge W. Beardmore2:09.40
1918SpringsideLee MinkEd WhyteGeorge M. Hendrie2:08.80
1917Belle MahoneFrank RobinsonBarry Littlefield
Barry Littlefield

Barak Thomas "Barry" Littlefield From a Canadian mother, he was born in Preakness, New Jersey, New Jersey where his American father Charles S. Littlefield , was employed by Milton H....
Joseph E. Seagram
Joseph E. Seagram

Joseph Emm Seagram was a Canada Distilled beverage founder, politician, philanthropist, and major owner of thoroughbred racehorses.Son of Octavius Augustus Seagram and Amelia Stiles, who emigrated to Canada from Wiltshire, England in 1837, Joseph was born at Fisher's Mills, now part of Cambridge, Ontario....
2:08.80
1916MandarinArthur PickensBarry Littlefield
Barry Littlefield

Barak Thomas "Barry" Littlefield From a Canadian mother, he was born in Preakness, New Jersey, New Jersey where his American father Charles S. Littlefield , was employed by Milton H....
Joseph E. Seagram
Joseph E. Seagram

Joseph Emm Seagram was a Canada Distilled beverage founder, politician, philanthropist, and major owner of thoroughbred racehorses.Son of Octavius Augustus Seagram and Amelia Stiles, who emigrated to Canada from Wiltshire, England in 1837, Joseph was born at Fisher's Mills, now part of Cambridge, Ontario....
2:12.00
1915TartareanHarry WattsJohn NixonCharles Millar2:09.20
1914BeehiveGuy BurnsHarry Giddings, Jr.
Harry Giddings, Jr.

Harry Giddings, Jr. was a Canada owner, horse breeding, and horse trainer of thoroughbred racehorses. He was born in Trafalgar Township in Halton County, Ontario now at the outskirts of the city of Oakville, Ontario....
Harry Giddings, Sr.2:10.60
1913Hearts of OakJohnny WilsonHarry Giddings, Jr.
Harry Giddings, Jr.

Harry Giddings, Jr. was a Canada owner, horse breeding, and horse trainer of thoroughbred racehorses. He was born in Trafalgar Township in Halton County, Ontario now at the outskirts of the city of Oakville, Ontario....
Harry Giddings, Sr.2:09.20
1912HeresyRobert SmallJohn NixonBrookdale Stable2:11.00
1911St. BassEddie DuganHarry Giddings, Jr.
Harry Giddings, Jr.

Harry Giddings, Jr. was a Canada owner, horse breeding, and horse trainer of thoroughbred racehorses. He was born in Trafalgar Township in Halton County, Ontario now at the outskirts of the city of Oakville, Ontario....
Harry Giddings, Sr.2:08.80
1910ParmerJohnny WilsonJohn NixonValley Farm Stable2:12.40
1909ShimoneseClifford GilbertJohn NixonValley Farm Stable2:10.40
1908SeismicCharles FairbrotherBarry Littlefield
Barry Littlefield

Barak Thomas "Barry" Littlefield From a Canadian mother, he was born in Preakness, New Jersey, New Jersey where his American father Charles S. Littlefield , was employed by Milton H....
Joseph E. Seagram
Joseph E. Seagram

Joseph Emm Seagram was a Canada Distilled beverage founder, politician, philanthropist, and major owner of thoroughbred racehorses.Son of Octavius Augustus Seagram and Amelia Stiles, who emigrated to Canada from Wiltshire, England in 1837, Joseph was born at Fisher's Mills, now part of Cambridge, Ontario....
2:11.00
1907KelvinJames FoleyCharles PhairT. Ambrose Woods2:12.60
1906SlaughterJohn K. TreubelBarry Littlefield
Barry Littlefield

Barak Thomas "Barry" Littlefield From a Canadian mother, he was born in Preakness, New Jersey, New Jersey where his American father Charles S. Littlefield , was employed by Milton H....
Joseph E. Seagram
Joseph E. Seagram

Joseph Emm Seagram was a Canada Distilled beverage founder, politician, philanthropist, and major owner of thoroughbred racehorses.Son of Octavius Augustus Seagram and Amelia Stiles, who emigrated to Canada from Wiltshire, England in 1837, Joseph was born at Fisher's Mills, now part of Cambridge, Ontario....
2:11.60
1905Inferno
Inferno (horse)

Inferno was a Canada Thoroughbred horse racing. He was owned and bred by Distilled beverage magnate Joseph E. Seagram who in 1906 was voted president of the Woodbine Entertainment Group....
H. Kelly PhillipsBarry Littlefield
Barry Littlefield

Barak Thomas "Barry" Littlefield From a Canadian mother, he was born in Preakness, New Jersey, New Jersey where his American father Charles S. Littlefield , was employed by Milton H....
Joseph E. Seagram
Joseph E. Seagram

Joseph Emm Seagram was a Canada Distilled beverage founder, politician, philanthropist, and major owner of thoroughbred racehorses.Son of Octavius Augustus Seagram and Amelia Stiles, who emigrated to Canada from Wiltshire, England in 1837, Joseph was born at Fisher's Mills, now part of Cambridge, Ontario....
2:12.00
1904SapperJimmy WalshJohn Dyment, Jr.Nathaniel Dyment2:12.00
1903ThessalonQuintin CastroJohn Dyment, Jr.Nathaniel Dyment2:15.50
1902LydditeSam WainwrightEddie WhyteWilliam Hendrie2:15.00
1901John RuskinHarry VititoeHarry BlairJoseph E. Seagram
Joseph E. Seagram

Joseph Emm Seagram was a Canada Distilled beverage founder, politician, philanthropist, and major owner of thoroughbred racehorses.Son of Octavius Augustus Seagram and Amelia Stiles, who emigrated to Canada from Wiltshire, England in 1837, Joseph was born at Fisher's Mills, now part of Cambridge, Ontario....
2:18.75
1900DalmoorHarry LewisHarry BlairJoseph E. Seagram
Joseph E. Seagram

Joseph Emm Seagram was a Canada Distilled beverage founder, politician, philanthropist, and major owner of thoroughbred racehorses.Son of Octavius Augustus Seagram and Amelia Stiles, who emigrated to Canada from Wiltshire, England in 1837, Joseph was born at Fisher's Mills, now part of Cambridge, Ontario....
2:14.00
1899Butter ScotchR. J. MasonEddie WhyteWilliam Hendrie2:15.50
1898Bon InoTiny WilliamsCharles BoyleJoseph E. Seagram
Joseph E. Seagram

Joseph Emm Seagram was a Canada Distilled beverage founder, politician, philanthropist, and major owner of thoroughbred racehorses.Son of Octavius Augustus Seagram and Amelia Stiles, who emigrated to Canada from Wiltshire, England in 1837, Joseph was born at Fisher's Mills, now part of Cambridge, Ontario....
2:15.50
1897FerdinandHarry LewisCharles BoyleJoseph E. Seagram
Joseph E. Seagram

Joseph Emm Seagram was a Canada Distilled beverage founder, politician, philanthropist, and major owner of thoroughbred racehorses.Son of Octavius Augustus Seagram and Amelia Stiles, who emigrated to Canada from Wiltshire, England in 1837, Joseph was born at Fisher's Mills, now part of Cambridge, Ontario....
2:13.00
1896MillbrookHarry LewisJohn R. WalkerJoseph E. Seagram
Joseph E. Seagram

Joseph Emm Seagram was a Canada Distilled beverage founder, politician, philanthropist, and major owner of thoroughbred racehorses.Son of Octavius Augustus Seagram and Amelia Stiles, who emigrated to Canada from Wiltshire, England in 1837, Joseph was born at Fisher's Mills, now part of Cambridge, Ontario....
2:19.00
1895BonniefieldAlf BrookerJohn R. WalkerJoseph E. Seagram
Joseph E. Seagram

Joseph Emm Seagram was a Canada Distilled beverage founder, politician, philanthropist, and major owner of thoroughbred racehorses.Son of Octavius Augustus Seagram and Amelia Stiles, who emigrated to Canada from Wiltshire, England in 1837, Joseph was born at Fisher's Mills, now part of Cambridge, Ontario....
2:17.50
1894Joe MillerFrank ReganJohn R. WalkerJoseph E. Seagram
Joseph E. Seagram

Joseph Emm Seagram was a Canada Distilled beverage founder, politician, philanthropist, and major owner of thoroughbred racehorses.Son of Octavius Augustus Seagram and Amelia Stiles, who emigrated to Canada from Wiltshire, England in 1837, Joseph was born at Fisher's Mills, now part of Cambridge, Ontario....
2:28.50
1893MartelloHarry BlaylockJohn R. WalkerJoseph E. Seagram
Joseph E. Seagram

Joseph Emm Seagram was a Canada Distilled beverage founder, politician, philanthropist, and major owner of thoroughbred racehorses.Son of Octavius Augustus Seagram and Amelia Stiles, who emigrated to Canada from Wiltshire, England in 1837, Joseph was born at Fisher's Mills, now part of Cambridge, Ontario....
2:14.00
1892O'DonohueF. HortonJohn R. WalkerJoseph E. Seagram
Joseph E. Seagram

Joseph Emm Seagram was a Canada Distilled beverage founder, politician, philanthropist, and major owner of thoroughbred racehorses.Son of Octavius Augustus Seagram and Amelia Stiles, who emigrated to Canada from Wiltshire, England in 1837, Joseph was born at Fisher's Mills, now part of Cambridge, Ontario....
2:22.00
1891VictoriousMichael GormanJohn R. WalkerJoseph E. Seagram
Joseph E. Seagram

Joseph Emm Seagram was a Canada Distilled beverage founder, politician, philanthropist, and major owner of thoroughbred racehorses.Son of Octavius Augustus Seagram and Amelia Stiles, who emigrated to Canada from Wiltshire, England in 1837, Joseph was born at Fisher's Mills, now part of Cambridge, Ontario....
2:14.50
1890KitestringFred ColemanDaniel Curtin
Daniel Curtin

Daniel James Curtin was an Australian politician. Born in Sydney, he was educated at a Catholic primary school before becoming a boilermaker and organiser of the Boilermakers' Society....
Thomas D. Hodgens2:22.00
1889ColonistRichard O'LearyRichard O'LearyJ. D. Matheson2:16.00
1888Harry CooperRichard O'LearyRichard O'LearyJ. D. Matheson2:18.50
1887Bonnie DukeCharlie WiseWilliam E. OwenRobert Bond2:19.00
1886Wild RoseCharles ButlerCharles ButlerDavid Watson Campbell2:48.25
1885Willie W.William JamiesonErastus BurgessErastus Burgess2:58.00
1884WilliamsA. MartinA. MartinJohn Halligan2:50.75
1883Roddy PringleJacob SmithCharles BoyleCharles Boyle2:52.50
1882Fanny WiserAllie GatesW.E. OwenArthur Abingdon Stable2:51.00
1881Vice ChancellorMr. BrownErastus BurgessJohn White2:53.00
1880Bonnie BirdRichard O'LearyErastus BurgessJohn Forbes2:47.00
1879Moss RoseAllie GatesJonathan ScottJohn White2:54.50
1878King GeorgeAllie GatesRichard O'LearyCol. John Peters2:49.50
1877AmeliaCharles PhairJonathan ScottJohn White2:56.50
1876Norah P.Mr. CookDaniel Curtin
Daniel Curtin

Daniel James Curtin was an Australian politician. Born in Sydney, he was educated at a Catholic primary school before becoming a boilermaker and organiser of the Boilermakers' Society....
Col. John Peters2:52.00
1875Young TrumpeterUnknownDaniel SchoffR. Ellison & C. Horton2:52.50
1874The SwallowJohn HazardWilliam H. HannonDr. Robert Thompson2:51.75
1873MignonetteUnknownJacob SmithRoddy Pringle2:57.00
1872FearnaughtRichard O'LearyRichard O'LearyAlex Simpson2:54.50
1871FlossJames LeeRobert T. Davies
Robert T. Davies

Robert T. Davies was a Canada businessman and Thoroughbred and Standardbred horse racing owner and Horse breeding.Born in Toronto, Ontario, he studied at Park School and Upper Canada College, in the early 1870s Robert Davies married Margaret Anne Taylor, the daughter of John Taylor , owner of paper mills in Todmorden Mills....
Robert T. Davies
Robert T. Davies

Robert T. Davies was a Canada businessman and Thoroughbred and Standardbred horse racing owner and Horse breeding.Born in Toronto, Ontario, he studied at Park School and Upper Canada College, in the early 1870s Robert Davies married Margaret Anne Taylor, the daughter of John Taylor , owner of paper mills in Todmorden Mills....
3:21.00
1870John BellJohn BennettCharlie N. GatesCharlie N. Gates3:54.50
1869Bay JackAbe Robinson, Jr.James BerryEdward S. Bilton3:50.00
1868NettieArchie FisherJonathan ScottJames & John White3:55.00
1867Wild RoseAlex McLaughlinMr. FaganJames & John White1:50.50
1866BeaconJohnny GagenJohnny GagenPeter D. McKellar1:54.00
1865Lady NorfolkUnknownJohn SheppardJohn Sheppard Ukn
1864BrunetteUnknownDr. George D. MortonDr. George D. Morton2:00.00
1863TouchstoneWilliam SmallJames WhiteJames & John White1:59.00
1862PalermoCharles S. LittlefieldCharles BoyleGeorge C. Chalmers2:03.00
1861Wild IrishmanBen AlcottGeorge HendersonGeorge Henderson2:00.00
1860Don JuanCharles S. LittlefieldJames WhiteJames White1:58.00


See also

  • List of Canadian organizations with royal patronage
    List of Canadian organizations with royal patronage

    This is a list of Canadian organizations with royal patronage. The practice of members of the Monarchy of Canada#Canadian Royal Family giving their patronage to Canadian organizations stems from that which started in the United Kingdom in pre-Industrial Revolution times, when all development of the sciences and arts were under the direct cont...