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Shady Well Stakes

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Inaugurated
  
1956

Surface
  
Polytrack

Distance
  
5 ⁄2 furlong sprint

Purse
  
118,500 USD (2015)

Location
  
Woodbine Racetrack Toronto, Ontario

Race type
  
Thoroughbred - Flat racing

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

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The Shady Well Stakes is a Canadian Thoroughbred horse race run annually since 2000 at Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto, Ontario. Held in mid July, the ungraded stakes race is open to two-year-old fillies foaled in the Province of Ontario. A sprint race, it is contested over a distance of  5 1⁄2 furlongs on Polytrack synthetic dirt, it currently offers a purse of $118,500. It was raced in two divisions in 1958 and 1968.

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Inaugurated in 1956, the race is named in honour of Edward F. Seagram's filly, Shady Well, whose career wins included three straight Durham Cup Handicaps during 1932-1934.

Since inception, the race has been contested at a variety of distances:

  •  5 1⁄2 furlongs : 1980-2005, 2007 to present (at Woodbine Racetrack)
  • 5 furlongs : 2006 (at Woodbine Racetrack)
  • 6 furlongs : 1974-1979 (at Woodbine Racetrack)
  •  6 1⁄2 furlongs : 1956-1959, (at Woodbine Racetrack), 1969-1972 (at Fort Erie Racetrack), 1973 (at Woodbine Racetrack)
  • 7 furlongs : 1960-1967 (at Woodbine Racetrack), 1968 (at Greenwood Raceway)

    • Records

    Speed record:

  • 1:03.14 - Roxy Gap (2010)

    • Most wins by an owner:

  • 6 - Kinghaven Farms (1974, 1980, 1982, 1983, 1984, 2000)

    • Most wins by a jockey:

  • 4 - Avelino Gomez (1966, 1972, 1976, 1978)
  • 4 - David Clark (1981, 1989, 1998, 2005)
  • 4 - Robert Landry (1994, 1996, 1999, 2002)

    • Most wins by a trainer:

  • 4 - Frank H. Merrill, Jr. (1958, 1965, 1972, 1976)
  • 4 - John Tammaro, Jr. (1980, 1982, 1983, 1984)

    • References

    Shady Well Stakes Wikipedia
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