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Dance Smartly Stakes

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Inaugurated
  
1986

Surface
  
Turf

Website
  
Woodbine Racetrack

Location
  
Woodbine Racetrack Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Race type
  
Thoroughbred - Flat racing

Distance
  
1 ⁄8 miles (9 furlongs)

The Dance Smartly Stakes is a thoroughbred horse race run annually during July at Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. A Grade II stakes race raced on turf, it is open to horses three years of age and older.

Inaugurated in 1986, it was raced on dirt through 1989 at a distance of  1 1⁄8 miles. In 1990 it was switched over to the turf course and raced that year at  1 1⁄16 miles after which it remained on the turf but at its original  1 1⁄8 miles.

It was raced as the Woodbine (Breeders' Cup) Handicap until 1998 when it was renamed to honor Dance Smartly, a Canadian and United States Racing Hall of Fame inductee and one of Canada's greatest racing fillys.

Records

Time record: (on Turf at  1 1⁄8 miles)

  • 1:44.25 - Overheard (2014)

    • Most wins:

  • 2 - Radiant Ring (1991, 1992)

    • Most wins by an owner:

  • 3 - Sam-Son Farm (1991, 1992, 1998)

    • Most wins by a jockey:

  • 4 - Patrick Husbands (1999, 2003, 2010, 2016)
  • 3 - Todd Kabel (1997, 1998, 2006)

    • Most wins by a trainer:

  • 3 - Roger Attfield (1987, 2002, 2005)

    • References

    Dance Smartly Stakes Wikipedia
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