Hill 'n' Dale Stakes

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Hill 'n' Dale Stakes
Ungraded Stakes race
Location Woodbine Racetrack
Toronto, Ontario
Inaugurated 2004
Race type Thoroughbred - Flat racing
Website www.woodbineentertainment.com/qct/default.asp
Race information
Distance​1 1⁄16 miles (8.5 furlongs)
Surface Polytrack
Track left-handed
Qualification Fillies & Mares, 3-years-old & up
Weight Assigned
Purse $100,000 plus stallion season

The Hill 'n' Dale Stakes is a Thoroughbred horse race run annually since 2004 at Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Held in mid June, the ungraded stakes race is open to fillies & mares, age three and older. It is raced over a distance of ​1 1⁄16 miles on Polytrack synthetic dirt.

Woodbine Racetrack Canadian casino and horse racing track

Woodbine Racetrack is a casino and horse racing track in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is the only horse racing track in North America which stages, or is capable of staging, thoroughbred and standardbred horse racing programs on the same day. It is owned by Woodbine Entertainment Group.

Toronto Provincial capital city in Ontario, Canada

Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the most populous city in Canada, with a population of 2,731,571 in 2016. Current to 2016, the Toronto census metropolitan area (CMA), of which the majority is within the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), held a population of 5,928,040, making it Canada's most populous CMA. Toronto is the anchor of an urban agglomeration, known as the Golden Horseshoe in Southern Ontario, located on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A global city, Toronto is a centre of business, finance, arts, and culture, and is recognized as one of the most multicultural and cosmopolitan cities in the world.

Ontario Province of Canada

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The event currently offers a purse of $100,000 plus her owners receive a choice of three stallion services, courtesy of Hill 'n' Dale Farms in Lexington, Kentucky owned by Canadian John G. Sikura. The race winner gets first choice, then the runner-up chooses from the remaining two, leaving the final stallion's services for the third-place finisher.

Hill 'n' Dale Farms is a thoroughbred race horse breeding farm with operations in Canada and the United States. It was founded in 1960 in Aurora, Ontario in 1960 by John Sikura, Jr., who died in a car fire in 1994. The Canadian operation is now run by his son, R. Glenn Sikura.

Lexington, Kentucky Consolidated city-county in Kentucky, United States

Lexington, consolidated with Fayette County and often denoted as Lexington-Fayette, is the second-largest city in Kentucky and the 60th-largest city in the United States. By land area, Lexington is the 28th largest city in the United States. Known as the "Horse Capital of the World," it is the heart of the state's Bluegrass region. It has a nonpartisan mayor-council form of government, with 12 council districts and three members elected at large, with the highest vote-getter designated vice mayor. In the 2017 U.S. Census Estimate, the city's population was 321,959, anchoring a metropolitan area of 512,650 people and a combined statistical area of 856,849 people.

This race appears to be discontinued as of 2010.

Records

Speed record:

Most wins:

Most wins by an owner:

Most wins by a jockey:

Most wins by a trainer:

Winners of the Hill 'n' Dale Stakes

Year
Winner
Age
 Jockey
Trainer
Owner
Time
2010Tasty Temptation4 Patrick Husbands Mark Casse Woodford Racing1:43.93
2009Smart Surprise5 Patrick Husbands Josie Carroll Hill 'n' Dale Equine Holdings 1:43.30
2008 Bear Now 4 Jerry Baird Reade Baker Bear Stables Ltd.1:43.49
2007 Bear Now 3 Emile Ramsammy Reade Baker Bear Stables Ltd.1:43.78
2006Flaming Heart5 Todd Kabel Brian A. Lynch Stronach Stables 1:44.45
2005Lemon Maid3 Todd Kabel Malcolm Pierce Live Oak Plantation 1:47.81
2004My Lordship3 Todd Kabel Malcolm Pierce Live Oak Plantation 1:43.63

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