The Canadian Triple Crown (branded as the OLG Canadian Triple Crown for sponsorship reasons) is a series of three Thoroughbred horse races run annually in Canada which is open to three-year-old horses foaled in Canada. Established in 1959, the series is unique in that it shares the same distances as its American counterpart but is contested on three different track surfaces .
11-623: Canadian Classic Race wins: Prince of Wales Stakes (1995, 1996) Barbara J. Minshall (born November 6, 1953) is a Canadian Thoroughbred racehorse trainer and owner who has competed both in Canada and the United States. She is the widow of Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame inductee Aubrey W. Minshall , the successful breeder and owner of the 350-acre (1.4 km) Minshall Farms near Hillsburgh, Ontario . Following her husband's death in 1993, Barbara Minshall, having been involved in
22-611: A Canadian Triple Crown race when the Minshall Farms colt Kiridashi won the Prince of Wales Stakes at Fort Erie Racetrack . She followed that up by being voted the 1996 Sovereign Award as Canada's outstanding trainer and her Minshall Farms won the Sovereign Award for Outstanding Breeder and Outstanding Owner . Among her other top horses have been Mt. Sassafras , Bold Ruritana , and Stephanotis . Mt. Sassafras
33-542: A Canadian Triple Crown race. In 2004, Catherine Day Phillips became the first woman trainer to win the Breeders' Stakes. The 1994 renewal was held at Fort Erie Race Track while the Woodbine turf course was undergoing renovations. Since 1957, the race has been run at 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles. Earlier renewals were held at: The greatest longshot to win the race was Miami Deco in 2010, who paid $ 132.10 for
44-595: Is raced on Tapeta synthetic dirt and the Prince of Wales on a traditional dirt track). In 1959, the Canadian Triple Crown was created and then won by New Providence . Six more three-year-olds, including the filly Dance Smartly , have since equalled the feat, with four of them doing so in a five-year period from 1989 to 1993. Six horses have won the first two legs of the Triple Crown but lost on
55-612: The Prince of Wales Stakes in September is a 1 ³ / 16 mile event run on dirt at Fort Erie Race Track in Fort Erie, Ontario . The final leg is the 1½ mile Breeders' Stakes in October, which is run on turf over one full lap of the E. P. Taylor Turf Course at Woodbine. The Canadian Triple Crown shares another characteristic with its American counterpart – all of the races in both series are open to geldings . This differs from
66-475: The grass in the Breeders' Stakes. They are: In 1973 Saskatoon native, Joan Phipps made history aboard Singing Spirit. Though she finished 11th, she became the first female jockey to compete in one of the Canadian Triple Crown races. In 1999, 26 years after Phipps landmark race, Laurie Gulas rode Free Vacation to victory in the Breeders' Stakes, becoming the first female jockey to win
77-714: The operation of the farm, continued the business and became a licensed trainer in 1999. Born in Montreal, Quebec , Ms. Minshall was raised around horses and as a young lady rode jumpers and qualified for the Canadian dressage team for the Summer Olympics and the Pan-American Games . In her first year as a trainer in Thoroughbred racing, Barbara Minshall became the first woman to train the winner of
88-708: The situation in Europe, where many important flat races, notably the British and all but one of the French classics, bar geldings. Since 2014, all of the races in the Canadian Triple Crown have been televised by TSN . Twelve horses are officially recognized as winning the Canadian Triple Crown: Champions: Notes In 2011, Luis Contreras became the first jockey to sweep the Triple Crown races with different horses. He won
99-513: The then Queen's Plate on Inglorious and the next two races on Pender Harbour. In 2020, trainer Josie Carroll won all three legs of the Canadian Triple Crown with Mighty Heart winning the then Queen's Plate and Prince of Wales Stakes and Belichick winning the Breeders' Stakes . Breeders%27 Stakes The Breeders' Stakes is a stakes race for Thoroughbred race horses foaled in Canada, first run in 1889. Since 1959, it has been
110-638: The third race in the Canadian Triple Crown for three-year-olds. Held annually in October at Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto, Ontario , the Breeders' Stakes follows the August running of the King's Plate and the September running of the Prince of Wales Stakes . At a distance of one-and-a-half miles, the Breeders' Stakes is the longest of the three Triple Crown races and is the only jewel raced on turf (the King's Plate
121-559: Was the 1996 Canadian Horse of the Year and Canadian Champion Older Male Horse . On March 29, 2021, Mt. Sassafras was one of three horses named as a finalist for induction in the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame in its Thoroughbred Veteran Category. Canadian Classic Races The first leg, the King's Plate in August, is contested at 1¼ miles on Tapeta at Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto, Ontario , whereas
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