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The North America Cup is an annual harness racing event for 3-year-old standardbred pacing horses which is held at Woodbine Mohawk Park in Campbellville, Ontario, Canada. [1] The race replaced the Queen City Pace run from 1964 to 1983.
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.
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]
While they are in the Harness Racing Hall of Fame, trainer Ron Burke and driver Yannick Gingras have something they missing from their resumes — a win in the Hambletonian. Burke and Gingras will ...
Over the years, it has been run at various distances both at the Woodbine Racetrack and at Fort Erie Race Track: On dirt: 7 furlongs : 1956–1958 at Woodbine; 1 mile : 1959–1966 at Woodbine, 1967 at Fort Erie; On turf: 1 mile : beginning 2010 at Woodbine Racetrack; 1 + 1 ⁄ 16 miles : 1968 & 1994 at Fort Erie, 1969–1993, 1995 to present ...
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. Steeplechase races were held at Woodbine/Greenwood for a few years, and there was a Thoroughbred race announcer by the name of Foster "Buck" Dryden for several years.
In 1953, the racing distance was increased to 1 + 1 ⁄ 16 miles and remained at that distance after moving to the new Woodbine Racetrack in 1956. Converted to a turf race in 1959, the Cup and Saucer Stakes was raced at 1 + 1 ⁄ 8 miles from 1973 to 1982 but then reverted to its 1 + 1 ⁄ 16 miles in 1983.
The Canadian International has been contested by many of the horses, jockeys, and trainers in thoroughbred racing history worldwide. Its success as a North American race drew an international field, helped inspire the creation of the Breeders' Cup races in 1984, which were held at Woodbine in 1996.