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Ontario Lassie Stakes

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Inaugurated
  
1979

Purse
  
131,385 USD

Location
  
Woodbine Racetrack Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Race type
  
Thoroughbred - Flat racing

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

Distance
  
1 ⁄16 miles (8.5 furlongs)

Surface
  
Polytrack synthetic dirt

The Ontario Lassie Stakes is a Canadian Thoroughbred horse race run annually at Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto, Ontario. Open to Ontario-bred two-year-old fillies, it is contested on Polytrack synthetic dirt over a distance of  1 1⁄16 miles (8.5 furlongs).

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Inaugurated at Toronto's Greenwood Raceway in 1979, it was raced there through 1993 at a distance of one mile. In 1994, the race was moved to Woodbine Racetrack and set at  1 1⁄16 miles.

The Ontario Lassie Stakes was run in two divisions in 1995.

2016 ontario lassie stakes ellan vannin woodbine


Records

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

  • 1:45.32 - Inspired Kiss (1999) (on natural dirt)
  • 1:43.98 - Resentless (2009) (on Polytrack)

    • Most wins by an owner:

  • 4 - Sam-Son Farm (1984, 1986, 1987, 1993)

    • Most wins by a jockey:

  • 3 - Robin Platts (1982, 1990, 1994)
  • 3 - Todd Kabel (1991, 1999, 2006)
  • 3 - Emma-Jayne Wilson (2005, 2014, 2015)

    • Most wins by a trainer:

  • 4 - James E. Day (1984, 1986, 1987, 1993)
  • 4 - Roger Attfield (1989, 1992, 1995, 2000)

    • References

    Ontario Lassie Stakes Wikipedia
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