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The Woodbine Mile is a Grade I stakes race on turf for Thoroughbred racehorses three years old and up held annually in mid September at Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto, Canada. Currently sponsored by Ricoh , the Woodbine Mile offers a purse of Can$ 1,000,000.
The current Woodbine Racetrack owes its namesake to the original race course. The current Woodbine carries the name originally used by a racetrack which operated in southeast Toronto, at Queen Street East and Kingston Road, from 1874 through 1993. (While the Old Woodbine Race Course was at the south end of Woodbine Avenue, the current Woodbine ...
Month Race Name Racecourse Dist. (f) Age/Sex June: Highlander Stakes: Woodbine: 6 3yo+ September: Woodbine Mile: Woodbine: 8: 3yo+ September: Northern Dancer Turf Stakes
Master of The Seas starting at odds 33-10 raced a mile on firm turf in 1:32.45, following quick fractions of :22.16, :45.37 and 1:09.12. In addition to capturing the Mile for the third time, the Charlie Appleby notched his 10th Breeders' Cup victory from 20 starters and William Buick won his eighth Breeders' Cup race. [19]
The Achievement Stakes was a Canadian Thoroughbred horse race run annually at Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto, Ontario.An allowance race restricted to three-year-old horses foaled in the province of Ontario, it was run on Tapeta synthetic dirt over a distance of six furlongs.
The Natalma Stakes is a Canadian Thoroughbred horse race held annually at Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto, Ontario.Run in mid-September, the Grade I race is run at a distance of one mile (8 furlongs) on turf and is open to two-year-old fillies.
Shipped north to Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Leroidesanimaux set the Woodbine Mile race record for the largest margin of victory at seven and three-quarter lengths while carrying the highest weight of any winner in the race's history.
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.