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Woodbine Racetrack is a race track for Thoroughbred horse racing in the Etobicoke area of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Owned by Woodbine Entertainment Group, Woodbine Racetrack manages and hosts Canada's most famous race, the King's Plate. The track was opened in 1956 with a one-mile oval dirt track, as well as a seven-eights turf course. [1]
The OJC bought and closed the Orpen-owned Dufferin Park and Long Branch race tracks. By 1956, the OJC operated just three facilities, consisting of the Fort Erie Racetrack in Fort Erie, Ontario, and two facilities in Toronto. A new facility for Thoroughbred horse races was constructed in Etobicoke and given the name Woodbine Racetrack.
The Valedictory Stakes is a Canadian Thoroughbred horse race run annually in late November or early December at Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto, Ontario. Open to horses age three and older, the Grade III stakes is contested on a synthetic "all weather" surface over a distance of 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles (12 furlongs).
Woodbine Entertainment Group (WEG), known as the Ontario Jockey Club from 1881 to 2001, is the operator of two horse racing tracks, a casino and off-track betting stations in the Greater Toronto Area of Ontario, Canada.
HO-104, Thaddeus Crapster's Log House, 3101 Cabin Run, Woodbine; HO-105, Ellicott House (Rockland Farm), 3500 Woodbine Road (MD 94), Woodbine; HO-106, Robert Hunter House, Annapolis Rock Road, Woodbine; HO-107, George G. Willson Log House, site, Annapolis Rock Road, Woodbine; HO-108, Hipsley's Mill Road Log Ruins, site, Hipsley Mill Road, Woodbine
Mohawk Racetrack (renamed Woodbine Mohawk Park in 2018 [1]) is a harness racing track in Campbellville, Ontario. [2] It is owned by Woodbine Entertainment Group (known as Ontario Jockey Club until 2001) and is about 40 km southwest of the company's other racetrack , Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto , Ontario.
The race continued to be held at Old Woodbine until that track was replaced by "New" Woodbine in northern Toronto in 1956. The race has been run at Woodbine ever since. In 2006, Woodbine changed the track surface for the main track from natural dirt to a synthetic surface known as Polytrack. In 2016, the surface was changed to Tapeta.
Woodbine Centre is a shopping mall in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is located at Rexdale Boulevard and Highway 27 in the Rexdale area of Toronto, across Rexdale Boulevard from Woodbine Racetrack . The mall has over 130 stores and is home to Fantasy Fair, a year-round indoor amusement park .