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Ontario Debutante Stakes

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Inaugurated
  
1979

Surface
  
Polytrack

Distance
  
Six furlong sprint

Location
  
Woodbine Racetrack Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Race type
  
Thoroughbred - Flat racing

Website
  
www.woodbineentertainment.com

Purse
  
95,163 USD (2015, Plus $50,000 for Ontario Breds from the T.I.P.)

The Ontario Debutante Stakes is a Canadian Thoroughbred horse race run annually in mid-August at Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto, Ontario. Open to Two-year-old Fillies, it is contested over Six furlongs on Polytrac synthetic dirt.

From 1989 through 1993 and from 1995 through 1997, the Ontario Debutante Stakes was hosted by Fort Erie Racetrack in Fort Erie, Ontario.The race was run in two divisions in 1979.

Records

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

  • 1:09.75 - Knights Templar (2005)
  • Most wins by an owner:

  • 3 - Kinghaven Farms (1982, 1983, 2000)
  • Most wins by a jockey:

  • 5 - David Clark (1979, 1980, 1987, 1989, 2006)
  • Most wins by a trainer:

  • 3 - Roger Attfield (1995, 2000, 2004)
  • References

    Ontario Debutante Stakes Wikipedia