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Achievement Stakes

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Inaugurated
  
1953

Surface
  
Polytrack

Distance
  
6 furlongs

Location
  
Woodbine Racetrack Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Race type
  
Thoroughbred - Flat racing

Website
  
www.woodbineentertainment.com/qct/default.asp

The Achievement Stakes is a Canadian Thoroughbred horse race run annually at Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto, Ontario. An allowance race restricted to three-year-old horses foaled in the province of Ontario, it is held on the July 1 Canada Day holiday and run on Polytrack synthetic dirt over a distance of six furlongs. The race currently offers a purse of $150,000.

First run as the Achievement Handicap at the Fort Erie Racetrack in 1953, over the years the event has been run on both dirt and turf and at a variety of distances:

  •  1 1⁄16 miles on dirt : 1953-1957, 1968-1979 (Fort Erie Racetrack)
  • 1 mile on turf : 1958 (Fort Erie Racetrack), 1959-1966 (Woodbine Racetrack)
  • 1 mile on turf : 1967 (Fort Erie Racetrack)
  • 7 furlongs on dirt : 1980 (Woodbine Racetrack), 1981-1993 (Greenwood Raceway)
  • 6 furlongs on dirt : 1994 to present (Woodbine Racetrack)

    • Records

    Speed record:

  • 1:08.33 - Tothemoonandback (2006) (at current distance of six furlongs)

    • Most wins by an owner:

  • 5 - Edward P. and/or Winnifred Taylor and/or Windfields Farm (1954, 1955, 1957, 1961, 1979)

    • Most wins by a jockey:

  • 6 - Sandy Hawley (1970, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1979, 1990)
  • 6 - David Clark (1980, 1985, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2008)

    • Most wins by a trainer:

  • 4 - Roger Attfield (1976, 1987, 1989, 1993)

    • References

    Achievement Stakes Wikipedia
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