The Bold Venture Stakes is an Canadian

Canada

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 Thoroughbred horse race

Thoroughbred horse race

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 run annually at Woodbine Racetrack

Woodbine Racetrack

Woodbine Racetrack is a Canadian racetrack for Thoroughbred horse races located at 555 Rexdale Blvd. in the city of Toronto, Ontario. It is the only horseracing track in North America which stages, or is capable of staging, thoroughbred and standardbred horseracing programs on the same day...

 in Toronto

Toronto

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, Ontario

Ontario

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. Open to horses age three and older, it is contested during the second half of July on Polytrack synthetic dirt over a distance of six and a half furlong

Furlong

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s. Currently the race offers a purse of $150,000.

Inaugurated in 1956 at the Fort Erie Racetrack, the race was named in honor of Bold Venture

Bold Venture (horse)

Bold Venture , was an American Thoroughbred racehorse that won the Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes.He was sired by the multiple British stakes winner, St Germans, who, after his importation to stand at Greentree Stud in Lexington, Ky., became the leading sire of 1931 when his son Twenty Grand...

, winner of the 1936 Kentucky Derby

Kentucky Derby

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 and Preakness Stakes

Preakness Stakes

The Preakness Stakes is an American flat Thoroughbred horse race for three-year-olds held on the third Saturday in May each year at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland. It is a Grade I race run over a distance of 9.5 furlongs on dirt. Colts and geldings carry 126 pounds ; fillies 121 lb...

.

The 2008 edition was won by Fatal Bullet

Fatal Bullet

Fatal Bullet is a Canadian Thoroughbred racehorse.Trained by Reade Baker for owner Danny Dion's Bear Stables Ltd., in 2008 Fatal Bullet set a new track record for 6.5 furlongs in winning the Bold Venture Stakes at Woodbine Racetrack...

 who set a new track record time for the 6.5 furlong distance of 1:14.54.

Winners

Year	Winner	Age	Jockey	Trainer	Owner	Time
2011	Hollywood Hit	5	James McAleney	Terry Jordan	Peter Redekop B C., Ltd.	1:14.76
2010	Smokey Fire	5		Sid C. Attard Sid C. Attard Sid C. Attard is a Canadian horse trainer in Thoroughbred horse racing. Members of his family emigrated to Canada in the 1960s where older brothers Joseph and Tino Attard became racehorse trainers and Larry became one of the top jockeys in the country and a member of the Canadian Horse Racing...	Jim Dandy Stable	1:15.78
2009	Fatal Bullet Fatal Bullet Fatal Bullet is a Canadian Thoroughbred racehorse.Trained by Reade Baker for owner Danny Dion's Bear Stables Ltd., in 2008 Fatal Bullet set a new track record for 6.5 furlongs in winning the Bold Venture Stakes at Woodbine Racetrack...	4	Eurico Rosa da Silva Eurico Rosa Da Silva Eurico Rosa da Silva is a jockey based in Canada who competes in North American Thoroughbred horse racing....	Reade Baker	Bear Stables	1:14.90
2008	Fatal Bullet Fatal Bullet Fatal Bullet is a Canadian Thoroughbred racehorse.Trained by Reade Baker for owner Danny Dion's Bear Stables Ltd., in 2008 Fatal Bullet set a new track record for 6.5 furlongs in winning the Bold Venture Stakes at Woodbine Racetrack...	3	Eurico Rosa da Silva Eurico Rosa Da Silva Eurico Rosa da Silva is a jockey based in Canada who competes in North American Thoroughbred horse racing....	Reade Baker	Bear Stables	1:14.54
2007	Gangster	6	Todd Kabel Todd Kabel Todd K. Kabel is a Canadian Thoroughbred horse racing jockey. He began his career riding at Assiniboia Downs in Winnipeg, Manitoba and in 1987 started competing at tracks in Ontario, moving to Toronto permanently in 1991.Riding out of Woodbine Racetrack, Todd Kabel won the Sovereign Award for...	Sid C. Attard Sid C. Attard Sid C. Attard is a Canadian horse trainer in Thoroughbred horse racing. Members of his family emigrated to Canada in the 1960s where older brothers Joseph and Tino Attard became racehorse trainers and Larry became one of the top jockeys in the country and a member of the Canadian Horse Racing...	Goldmart Farms	1:16.02

Earlier winners

• 2006 - Are You Serious (1:29.81) (This year, the race was run at 7.5 furlongs)
• 2005 - Judiths Wild Rush (1:15.41)
• 2004 - I'm the Tiger (1:15.69)
• 2003 - Milligan the Great (1:16.77)
• 2002 - Sambuca on Ice (1:16.06)
• 2001 - Tempered Appeal (1:16.05)
• 2000 - One Way Love (1:16.35)
• 1999 - One Way Love (1:16.74)
• 1998 - Deputy Inxs (1:15.60)
• 1997 - Parisianprospector (1:17.00)
• 1996 - Parental Pressure (1:17.60)
• 1995 - Sea Wall (1:17.40)
• 1994 - Premier Explosion (1:15.60)
• 1993 - Megas Vukefalos (1:18.60)
• 1992 - Canadian Silver (1:17.00)
• 1991 - Key Spirit (1:17.60)
• 1990 - Woden (1:17.80)
• 1989 - Overpeer (1:18.20)
• 1988 - Jamaican Gigolo (1:18.80)
• 1987 - Jamaican Gigolo (1:19.60)
• 1986 - S S Enterprise (1:19.00)
• 1985 - Aeronotic (1:17.60)
• 1984 - Nancy's Champion (1:20.40)
• 1983 - Play the Hornpipe (1:19.80)
• 1982 - Frost King
  Frost King
  Frost King is a Canadian Thoroughbred Champion and Hall of Fame racehorse. Bred by Ted Smith of Rockwood, Ontario, he was sired by Manhattan Handicap winner, Ruritania. His dam was Native Flower whose sire, Restless Native, was a son of U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee, Native Dancer....
  
   (1:20.20)
• 1981 - Impressive Prince (1:19.00)
• 1980 - Royal Sparkle (1:21.60)
• 1979 - Stutz Bearcat (1:20.40)
• 1978 - Instead of Roses (1:20.20)
• 1977 - Pres de Tu (1:18.40)
• 1976 - Royal Chocolate
  Royal Chocolate
  Royal Chocolate was a Canadian Thoroughbred racehorse. Bred and raced by Jack Stafford's Stafford Farms of King City, Ontario, he was out of the mare Rocket Shot, a granddaughter of the influential sire, Princequillo who was a seven-time Leading broodmare sire in North America...
  
   (1:25.00) (Race was run at a distance of 7 furlongs)
• 1975 - Frohlich (1:10.20) (Race set at 6 furlongs)
• 1974 - Queen's Splendour (1:10.60)
• 1973 - Dawes Road (1:12.60)
• 1972 - Briartic (1:09.40)
• 1971 - Coup Landing (1:11.40)
• 1970 - Perfect Tan (1:13.00)
• 1969 - Melindroso (1:10.80)
• 1968 - Lane (1:11.20)
• 1967 - One Sunday (1:10.40) (Race run at 6.5 furlongs)
• 1966 - Bright Object (1:10.00)
• 1965 - Lebon M L (1:12.00)
• 1964 - Vindent de Paul (1:10.80)
• 1963 - First Minister (1:13.60)
• 1962 - First Minister (1:11.20)
• 1961 - Reactor (1:08.20) (Race set at a distance of 5 furlongs)
• 1960 - War Eagle (1:04.80)
• 1959 - Riz (0:59.00)
• 1958 - Nearctic
  Nearctic (horse)
  Nearctic was an Canadian-bred Hall of Fame Thoroughbred racehorse. Bred by E. P. Taylor, he was out of the Irish mare Lady Angela, a daughter of the British Champion sire Hyperion...
  
   (0:58.20)
• 1957 - Pot Hunter (1:01.00)
• 1956 - Navy Page (1:00.40) INAUGURAL RUNNING