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Pages in category "Canadian racehorse owners and breeders" The following 75 pages are in this category, out of 75 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Willie the Kid (foaled 1937 in Ontario) was a Canadian Thoroughbred racehorse best known for winning the eighty-first running of the King's Plate, [1] Canada's most important race and the oldest continuously run race in North America, [2] having been founded in 1860. [3] Bred by Willie Morrissey, Willie the Kid got his owner's nickname.
A major horse breeding and racing operation based in Oshawa, Ontario, Windfields Farm also ran a breeding farm in Chesapeake City, Maryland. The Canadian farm is the birthplace of racing great and champion sire Northern Dancer , called by the National Thoroughbred Racing Association as "one of the most influential sires in Thoroughbred history."
Many years later Juravinski and the younger Grant joined forces to co-own a horse named American Rock. [15] In 1997, Brad Grant got drawn back into the horse racing industry through the ownership of horses. [16] On January 4, 2016, a devastating barn fire at Classy Lane Training Centre in Puslinch, Ontario killed 43 horses. Grant himself lost ...
George Gardiner was a major figure in Canadian Thoroughbred horse racing.In the 1950s he established Gardiner Farms, a breeding operation in Caledon East, Ontario. [4] He raced horses in Canada and the United States.
The Taylor thoroughbred horse breeding operation produced Northern Dancer, who in 1964 became the first Canadian-bred horse to win the Kentucky Derby. Northern Dancer then became arguably the greatest sire and sire of sires of the 20th century, whose impact on the breed is still felt worldwide. In 1970, Taylor was the world's leading horse ...
Pink Lloyd is a chestnut gelding who was bred in Ontario by John Carey. He was sired by Old Forester and is out Gladiator Queen, a stakes-placed daughter of Great Gladiator. He was sold at the 2013 Canadian September yearling sales for US$28,446 to Entourage Stable, the nom de course for a group of five investors headed by Frank Di Giulio Jr. and friends Ed Longo, John Peri, John Lucato and ...
Shepperton (foaled 1939 in Ontario) was a Canadian Thoroughbred Hall of Fame racehorse.He was a son of Sun Craig, who was sired by Sun Briar, the 1917 American Champion Two-Year-Old Colt who sired such outstanding runners as Firethorn, Pompey, and U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee Sun Beau.