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The Ontario Jockey Club (OJC) was founded in 1881 to improve the quality of horse racing in the city of Toronto. William Hendrie, president of the Ontario Jockey Club and of the Hendrie Co., Limited, was a railway promoter and capitalist who was the founder of one of the most prominent families in the history of Thoroughbred racing in Canada.
The Jockey Club of Canada was formed in 1973 to oversee thoroughbred horse racing in Canada. Based in Toronto , Ontario , the club is responsible for the annual Sovereign Awards program and the Canadian Graded Stakes Committee.
The record for most wins by a jockey on a single raceday at Woodbine is seven, set by Richard Grubb on May 16, 1967, and twice equaled by the legendary Canadian jockey Sandy Hawley, first on May 22, 1972 and then again on October 10, 1974. Elizabeth II attends the Queen's Plate in 2010. Founded in 1860, it is Canada's oldest thoroughbred horse ...
Desmond Sandford "Sandy" Hawley, CM (born April 16, 1949) is a Canadian Hall of Fame jockey. Sandy Hawley was born in Oshawa, Ontario, decided to be a jockey when he was a 17-year-old boy, hotwalking, grooming horses at a Woodbine racetrack in Toronto Ontario. When he was 19 years old, he rode his first race at Woodbine race track as a Jockey.
Norcliffe, painted by Bob Demuyser. Although the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame (CHRHF) was founded in 1976, it was not until 1997 that it had a physical location. At that time, the Ontario Jockey Club granted a permanent site located at the West Entrance to Woodbine Racetrack.
The old facility was completely renovated and renamed Greenwood Raceway in 1963. It held both harness racing and Thoroughbred racing meets until its closure at the end of 1993.
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Teneca Wolfe-Bell (born 1987) is a Canadian jockey, the only Black female rider running races in Ontario, and believed to be the first Black female jockey to win a race in North America. She won her first race at Fort Erie Race Track on June 28, 2016.