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Inaugurated
  
1956

Location
  
Woodbine Racetrack Toronto, 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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