Nijinsky Stakes (Canada)

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Nijinsky Stakes
Grade II race
Location Woodbine Racetrack
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Inaugurated1998
Race type ThoroughbredFlat racing
Website Woodbine Racetrack
Race information
Distance1+12 miles (12 furlongs)
SurfaceTurf
TrackLeft-handed
QualificationThree-year-olds & Up
WeightAssigned
Purse CAN$175,000 added (since 2013) [1]

The Nijinsky Stakes is a Canadian Thoroughbred horse race held annually at Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto. Since 2009, it has been run in late July. The Grade II race is open to horses aged three years and up and is run on Woodbine Racetrack's E. P. Taylor Turf Course at a distance of one and one eight miles. The race currently offers a purse of CAD$175,000 added. [1]

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Inaugurated as the Hong Kong Jockey Club Trophy Stakes in 1998, it was raced during the third week of July on turf at a distance of 1+38 miles. In 2002, the Chinese Cultural Centre sponsored the race and it was renamed the Chinese Cultural Centre Stakes. In 2006, the race was renamed the Nijinsky Stakes and the Chinese Cultural Centre assumed sponsorship for the Seagram Cup Stakes .

The race honors the Canadian-born Nijinsky, the 1970 English Triple Crown champion and a son of Canada's most famous horse and most important sire of the 20th century, Northern Dancer.

Records

Time record:

Most wins by a horse

Most wins by a jockey:

Most wins by a trainer:

Most wins by an owner:

Winners

Year
Winner
Age
Jockey
Trainer
Owner
Dist.
(Miles)
Time
Win$
Gr.
2020Not run due to the COVID-19 pandemic .
2019Tiz a Slam5 Steven Bahen Roger Attfield Chiefswood Stable (Robert & Mark Krembil)1122:24.45$132,930G2
2018Tiz a Slam4 Steven Bahen Roger Attfield Chiefswood Stable (Robert & Mark Krembil)1122:29.06$105,000G2
2017Dragon Bay4 Gary Boulanger Stuart C. Simon McLellan/McLellan/Simon1142:02.10$105,000G2
2016 Up With the Birds 6 Eurico Rosa Da Silva Malcolm Pierce Sam-Son Farm 1181:49.18$144,000G2
2015Are You Kidding Me5 Alan Garcia Roger L. Attfield Kirk/Bates/Riordan1181:46.59$120,000G2
2014 Up With the Birds 4 Eurico Rosa Da Silva Malcolm Pierce Sam-Son Farm 1181:45.74$144,000G2
2013So Long George4 Emma-Jayne Wilson John Charalambous Up Hill Stable1181:45.28$120,000G2
2012Riding the River5 Todd Kabel David Cotey Dominion Bloodstock/HGHR/Linmac Farm1181:48.05$180,000G2
2011 Windward Islands 7 Emma-Jayne Wilson Mark Frostad Sam-Son Farm 1181:49.82$180,000G2
2010 Windward Islands 6 Chantal Sutherland Mark Frostad Sam-Son Farm 1181:53.58$180,000G2
2009 Rahy's Attorney 5 Slade Callaghan Ian Black Ellie-Boje Farm, et al.1142:08.42$207,000G2
2008 Seaside Retreat 5 Patrick Husbands Mark E. Casse William S. Farish IV 1142:00.60$180,000G2
2007Last Answer7 Emile Ramsammy Michael Keogh Gus Schickedanz 1122:31.25$180,000G2
2006Rush Bay4 David Clark Tom Amoss Mueller Thoroughbred Stable1122:33.89$180,000G2
2005 A Bit O'Gold 4 Jono Jones Catherine Day Phillips The Two Bit Racing Stable 1382:15.94$205,920G2
2004Shoal Water4 Todd Kabel Mark Frostad Sam-Son Farm 1382:12.37$199,980G2
2003Strut The Stage5 Todd Kabel Mark Frostad Sam-Son Farm 1382:13.85$198,540G2
2002Strike Smartly5 Laurie Gulas Mark Frostad Sam-Son Farm 1382:13.16$201,780G2
2001Allende4 Na Somsanith Macdonald Benson Augustin Stable 1382:16.98$164,100G2
2000 Quiet Resolve 5 Robby Albarado Mark Frostad Sam-Son Farm 1382:13.20$169,950G2
1999Crown Attorney6 Mickey Walls John MacKenzie Tony & Mary Jane Lamb1382:18.53$132,360
1998 Buck's Boy 5 Earlie Fires P. Noel Hickey Quarter B. Farm (George Bunn)1382:15.40$131,640

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References

  1. 1 2 "Statistics – Nijinsky Stakes". www.equibase.com. Retrieved 26 July 2016.