Josie Carroll

Last updated
Josie Carroll
Occupation Trainer
Born (1957-12-08) December 8, 1957 (age 66)
Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
Career wins958+ (ongoing) [1]
Major racing wins
Marine Stakes (1995, 2008)
Queenston Stakes (1995)
Woodstock Stakes (1995)
Achievement Stakes (1998)
Toronto Cup Stakes (1998)
Delaware Oaks (1999, 2009)
Victoria Stakes (2000, 2005)
Glorious Song Stakes (2001, 2002)
Lecomte Stakes (2001)
Sugar Bowl Handicap (2001)
My Dear Stakes (2002)
Ontario Debutante Stakes (2002)
Black Gold Stakes (2003)
La Lorgnette Stakes (2003, 2011)
Mazarine Stakes (2003, 2015, 2019)
Summer Stakes (2003)
Colin Stakes (2005)
Maple Leaf Stakes (2005, 2017)
Whimsical Stakes (2006)
Shady Well Stakes (2007)
Display Stakes (2008)
Belle Mahone Stakes (2008)
Canadian Derby (2008)
Manitoba Derby (2008)
Cotillion Handicap (2009)
Alabama Stakes (2009)
Seagram Cup Stakes (2011, 2019, 2020)
Woodbine Oaks (2011, 2020)
Gulfstream Park Turf Handicap (2016)
Ontario Derby (2016)
Bessarabian Stakes (2017, 2018)
Connaught Cup Stakes (2021)
Autumn Stakes (2021)
Nearctic Stakes (2021)
Royal North Stakes (2022)
Jacques Cartier Stakes (2023)
Eclipse Stakes (2023)

Canadian Triple Crown wins:
Queen's Plate (2006, 2011, 2020)
Prince of Wales Stakes (2016, 2020, 2022)
Breeders' Stakes (2014, 2020)

Contents

Honours
Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame (2019)
Significant horses
Tethra, Edenwold, Careless Jewel, Inglorious, Amis Gizmo, Mighty Heart

Josie Carroll (born December 8, 1957) is a Canadian Thoroughbred horse trainer, who in 2006 became the first woman trainer to win the Queen's Plate, the oldest thoroughbred horse race in Canada and Canada's most prestigious race. She also won the Queen's Plate in 2011 and 2020, the Prince of Wales Stakes in 2016 and 2020, and the Breeder's Stakes in 2014 and 2020.

Born in Scarborough, Ontario, Carroll undertook an equine studies course at Humber College before embarking on a racing career in 1975 in the employ of Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame trainer Mac Benson at Windfields Farm. She worked as an assistant trainer until 1994. She had early success with Tethra, owned by members of the prominent Eaton family.

In recent years she has been one of the leading trainers at Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto and has won a number of graded stakes races both in Canada and in the United States.

Prior to the 2006 winning run, she had had one horse compete in the Queen's Plate. Her 2006 entry, Edenwold, earned the Sovereign Award as Canada's top two-year-old in 2005, but observers of the sport believed the colt could not sustain the Queen's Plate distance of a mile and a quarter. Ridden by jockey Emile Ramsammy, her winning horse was considered a long shot, going off at 16-1 odds in the $1 million Grade I Queen's Plate.

Carroll's first Grade I win came in 2009 with Careless Jewel, who won the Alabama Stakes.

Carroll is the second female trainer to take Canada's most prestigious race for three-year-old fillies, the Woodbine Oaks with Inglorious in 2011 – who went on to win the Queen's Plate for Carroll that same year. She again won the Woodbine Oaks in 2020 with Curlin's Voyage.

In 2019, she was inducted into the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame. [2]

Canadian Triple Crown

Prior to the 2006 winning run, she had had one horse compete in the Queen's Plate. Her 2006 entry, Edenwold, earned the Sovereign Award as Canada's top two-year-old in 2005, but observers of the sport believed the colt could not sustain the Queen's Plate distance of a mile and a quarter. Ridden by jockey Emile Ramsammy, her winning horse was considered a long shot, going off at 16-1 odds in the $1 million Grade I Queen's Plate.

In 2020, Josie Carroll won all three of the Canadian Triple Crown series. She won the first two with Mighty Heart and the third with stablemate Belichick.

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">King's Plate</span> Canadian Thoroughbred horse race

The King's Plate is Canada's oldest thoroughbred horse race and the oldest continuously run race in North America, having been founded in 1860. It is run at a distance of 1+14 miles for a maximum of 17 three-year-old thoroughbred horses foaled in Canada.

Sam-Son Farm is a Thoroughbred horse racing stable with farms located in Milton, Ontario (Canada) and Ocala, Florida (U.S.). Established in the 1960s by Ernest L. "Ernie" Samuel, it began as a home for competition hunter/jumper horses. One Sam-Son horse won the 1967 Pan-American Games Individual Jumping Gold Medal and was a member of the 1968 Team Gold Medal for Canada at the Mexico Olympics.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Dance Smartly</span> Canadian-bred Thoroughbred racehorse

Dance Smartly (1988–2007) was a Champion Thoroughbred racemare who went undefeated in 1991 while winning the Canadian Triple Crown and becoming the first horse bred in Canada to win a Breeders' Cup race. She was inducted into both the Canadian and American Racing Halls of Fame.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Emile Ramsammy</span>

Emile Ramsammy is a Canadian thoroughbred horse racing Champion jockey. He had more than 500 victories racing in the Caribbean before emigrating to Canada in the early 1990s.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Norcliffe</span> Canadian-bred Thoroughbred racehorse

Norcliffe (1973–1984) was a Canadian Hall of Fame Thoroughbred racehorse. He was sired by U.S. Hall of Fame Champion Buckpasser out of the mare Drama School by Northern Dancer.

Deputy Minister was a Canadian-bred Thoroughbred horse racing Champion. At age two, he won eight out of his nine starts and was voted both the Sovereign and Eclipse Awards for Champion 2-Year-Old in Canada and the United States respectively. He also received Canada's Sovereign Award for Horse of the Year. Although his three-year-old campaign was restricted by injury, Deputy Minister rebounded at age four with several major wins.

Runaway Groom (1979–2007) was a Canadian Hall of Fame Thoroughbred racehorse.

Canadian Champ (1953–1978) was a Canadian Thoroughbred Hall of Fame racehorse who in 1956 won the three races that became the Canadian Triple Crown Championship in 1959. Sired by Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame inductee Windfields, he was out of the mare Bolesteo.

Alywow was a Canadian Thoroughbred Champion racehorse and a member of the Canadian Racing Hall Of Fame.

Robert P. Tiller is a Canadian Thoroughbred racehorse trainer. A resident of Brampton, Ontario, he has long been one of the top trainers at Toronto's Woodbine Racetrack. He has won four training titles at Woodbine Racetrack, earned three Sovereign Awards for Outstanding Trainer and was inducted into the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame in 2008.

Not Bourbon is a Canadian Thoroughbred race horse. He is owned and bred by Charles E. Fipke and ridden by Jono Jones. At age two, Not Bourbon set a new Woodbine track record in winning the Bull Page Stakes. Racing at age three, he won the Queenston Stakes then upset heavily favored Harlem Rocker in the Plate Trial Stakes.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Chantal Sutherland</span>

Chantal Sutherland is a Canadian model, television personality and jockey in North American Thoroughbred horse racing. She is referred to as the Danica Patrick of horse racing. She is known for her appearances on the reality tv show, Jockeys on Animal Planet, as well as being the poster girl for the Del Mar racetrack. During an interview on Sky Sports in the lead-up to the Dubai World Cup race, she said that her primary vocation was jockey.

The Canadian Triple Crown is a series of three Thoroughbred horse races run annually in Canada which is open to three-year-old horses foaled in Canada. Established in 1959, the series is unique in that it shares the same distances as its American counterpart but is contested on three different track surfaces.

Nice Dancer (1969–1997) was a Canadian Thoroughbred racehorse.

Key to the Moon (1981–1988) was a Canadian thoroughbred champion racehorse.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Mark E. Casse</span> American racehorse trainer

Mark E. Casse is a Thoroughbred racehorse trainer whose most notable horses include 2015 American champion turf mare Tepin and Canadian Horses of the Year Sealy Hill (2007), Uncaptured (2012), Lexie Lou (2014), Catch A Glimpse (2015) and Wonder Gadot. He has won thirteen Sovereign Awards for outstanding trainer in Canada and has been the leading trainer at Woodbine Racetrack 14 times. In 2019, he won his first American Classic with War of Will in the Preakness Stakes.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Lexie Lou</span> Canadian Thoroughbred racehorse

Lexie Lou is a Canadian Thoroughbred racehorse. In 2014, she won the Queen's Plate and two legs of the Canadian Triple Tiara on her way to winning three Sovereign Awards. She has also won three graded stakes in the United States and Canada, and finished second to American Horse of the Year California Chrome in the 2014 Hollywood Derby. In 2019, Lexie Lou was inducted into the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame.

Luis Contreras is a Mexican jockey since 2006. After starting his career in Mexico, Contreras started competing in the United States and Canada during the late 2000s. For his graded stakes race career, Contreras has won thirty six Grade III races, twenty two Grade II races and four Grade I races. At the 2011 Canadian Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing, Contreras won the Queen's Plate, Prince of Wales Stakes, and Breeders' Stakes. He became the first jockey to use two horses to win the Canadian Triple Crown. In 2014, Contreras came short of another Canadian Triple Crown after finishing tenth at the Breeders' Stakes following wins at the Queen's Plate and Prince of Wales.

Mighty Heart is a one-eyed Canadian Thoroughbred racehorse who was named the 2020 Canadian Horse of the Year and Champion three-year-old colt after winning the Queen's Plate and Prince of Wales Stakes, the first two legs of the Canadian Triple Crown. His victory time of 2.01.98 in the Queen's Plate was the second-fastest since 1957, when it moved to its current length at Woodbine Racetrack. As a four-year-old in 2021, he won the Blame, Dominion Day and Autumn Stakes.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Moira (horse)</span> Canadian-bred Thoroughbred racehorse

Moira is a Canadian-bred Thoroughbred racehorse who won the 2022 Woodbine Oaks and Queen's Plate. She set a track record in the Queen's Plate while becoming the 38th filly to win the race.

References

  1. "Trainer profile - Josie Caroll". www.equibase.com. Retrieved 26 July 2023.
  2. "Josie Carroll". Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame. Retrieved 26 April 2019.