Display Stakes

Updated on Dec 11, 2024

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Inaugurated 1956
Location Woodbine RacetrackToronto, Ontario Race type Thoroughbred - Flat racing Website www.woodbineentertainment.com/qct/default.asp Distance 1 ⁄16 miles (8.5 furlongs) Surface Synthetic "all weather" dirt

The Display Stakes is a Thoroughbred horse race run annually at Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Contested on a synthetic "all weather" surface over a distance of 1 ¹⁄₁₆ miles (8.5 furlongs), it is open to two-year-old horses. Raced during the latter part of November or early December, the ungraded stakes race offers a purse of C$125,000.

Inaugurated in 1956 at Toronto's Old Woodbine Race Course as a sprint race, it was named for American Walter J. Salmon's colt Display, winner of the 1926 Preakness Stakes and who frequently raced in Canada where he won a number of important races.

The Display stakes was run in two divisions in 1959. There was no race in 1993. Since inception, it has been contested at various distances:

6 furlongs : 1956 at Old Woodbine Race Course

7 furlongs : 1957-1958 at Old Woodbine Race Course

8 furlongs (1 mile) : 1959-1960 Old Woodbine Race Course, 1977-1992 at Greenwood Raceway

8.5 furlongs ( 1 ¹⁄₁₆ miles) : 1969-1976 at Greenwood Raceway, 1994 to present at Woodbine Racetrack

9 furlongs ( 1 ¹⁄₈ miles) : 1961-1963 at Old Woodbine Race Course

9.5 durlongs: 1964-1968 at Greenwood Raceway

Records

Speed record: (Through 1998, times were recorded in fifths of a second. Since 1999 they are in hundredths of a second)

1:43.04 - Gigawatt (2002)

Most wins by an owner:

4 - Stafford Farms (1962, 1967, 1972, 1978)

Most wins by a jockey:

4 - Patrick Husbands (1999, 2002, 2005, 2010)

Most wins by a trainer:

4 - Gil Rowntree (1967, 1972, 1978, 1983)

References

Display Stakes Wikipedia

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