The Valedictory Stakes is a Canadian

Canada

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 Thoroughbred horse race

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 run annually in early December 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

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, Ontario

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. Open to horses age three and older, the n;on-graded stakes is contested on Polytrack synthetic dirt over a distance of 1¾ miles (14 furlongs).

Inaugurated as the Valedictory Handicap in 1952 at the Dufferin Park Racetrack

Dufferin Park Racetrack

Dufferin Park Racetrack was a Canadian racetrack for thoroughbred horse races located on Dufferin Street in the city of Toronto, Ontario. It was demolished in 1955 and its stakes races moved to Woodbine Racetrack as part of a consolidation of racetracks in the Toronto area.-History:After a...

, it was moved to the new 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...

 for the 1956 running where it remained through 1960. From 1991 through 1993, the race was hosted by Greenwood Raceway

Greenwood Raceway

Greenwood Raceway is a defunct horse racing facility in Toronto.Inaugurated in 1874 as Woodbine Race Course at the foot of Woodbine Avenue and Lake Ontario, it was owned and operated by two gentlemen named Pardee and Howell. Within a few years financial problems resulted in the property reverting...

; thereafter, the race returned to Woodine were it remains.

Always a longer distance race on dirt, over the years it has been contested at a variety of distances:

• 1952 : 1⅝ miles
• 1954–1955 : 1⅜ miles
• 1956–present : 1¾ miles

There was no race run in 1953 and the regularly scheduled race on December 7, 2008 had to be cancelled due to extreme cold weather forced.

Records

Speed record:

• 2:52.60 - Major Pots (1994) (At current distance of 1¾ miles)

Most wins:

• 2 - Bernfield (1957, 1958)
• 2 - Whiteborough (1962, 1963)
• 2 - Caesar B. Good (1967, 1968)
• 2 - Knight's Turn (1979, 1980)

Most wins by a jockey

Jockey

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:

• 4 - Hugo Dittfach (1959, 1966, 1967, 1975)

Most wins by a trainer

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:

• 5 - Lou Cavalaris, Jr. (1964, 1970, 1974, 1976, 1994)

Most wins by an owner:

• 7 - George R. Gardiner
  George R. Gardiner
  George Ryerson Gardiner, was a Toronto businessman, philanthropist and co-founder of the Gardiner Museum, the only museum in Canada devoted exclusively to ceramic art.-Biography:...
  
  /Gardiner Farms (1961, 1964, 1970, 1972, 1974, 1976, 1994)

Winners

Year	Winner	Age	Jockey	Trainer	Owner	Time
2010	Pool Play	5			William S. Farish, Jr.	3:01.42
2009	Cloudy's Knight Cloudy's Knight Cloudy's Knight is an American Thoroughbred racehorse.Out of Northern Dancer's grandadaughter, Cloudy Spot, he was sired by the 1980 American Champion Two-Year-Old Colt, Lord Avie...	9	Rosemary Homeister, Jr. Rosemary Homeister, Jr. Rosemary Homeister, Jr. is an American jockey in thoroughbred horse racing. Both of Homeister's parents were jockeys and as a result she grew up riding horses. Her mother is now a horse trainer at the Calder Race Course where Rosemary won her first race as an apprentice jockey...	Jonathan E. Sheppard Jonathan E. Sheppard Jonathan E. Sheppard is a Hall of Fame trainer in American Thoroughbred horse racing....	S J Stables LLC	2:59.32
2008	no race
2007	Torquay	5	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....	Nickolas DeToro	Nickolas DeToro	3:01.08
2006	Marsh Side	3	Emma-Jayne Wilson Emma-Jayne Wilson Emma-Jayne Wilson is a Sovereign and Eclipse Award-winning jockey in Thoroughbred horse racing. The daughter of a computer programmer and a corporate marketing executive, she began taking riding lessons as a girl of nine...	Michael Dickinson	Robert S. Evans	2:58.27
2005	Seattlespectacular	5	Patrick Husbands Patrick Husbands Patrick Husbands is a Barbadian jockey in Thoroughbred horse racing. The son of a jockey, he began riding as a young boy, turning professional in his home country where he rode successfully until emigrating to Toronto, Ontario in 1994.Racing out of Woodbine Racetrack, in 2003 Husbands won the...	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...	RWP Corp. Inc.	3:01.81
2004	Daddy Cool	6	James McAleney James S. McAleney James S. "Jim" McAleney is a Canadian Thoroughbred horse racing jockey.A native of Fort St. John, British Columbia, Jim McAleney began his career as a jockey in Western Canada where in 1986 at Northlands Park in Edmonton, Alberta he got his first win. The following year, he competed in the West as...	Sean Smullen	Stronach Stable	3:03.52
2003	Hydrogen	4	Emile Ramsammy Emile Ramsammy 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....	Mark E. Casse	Earle I. Mack Earle I. Mack Earle Irving Mack is an American businessman and former United States Ambassador to Finland.-Education:Mack graduated from Drexel University with a B.S. in 1959. He then went on to attend Fordham School of Law. In 1992 Mack was one of first 100 alumni inducted into the newly formed Drexel 100...	3:00.28
2002	Lucky Molar	7	Chantal Sutherland Chantal Sutherland 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...	Michael Wright Jr.	Richard A. Englander	3:03.83
2001	Queensgate	5	Gerry Olguin	Tino Attard	Carmen Attard	2:57.37
2000	A Fleets Dancer	5	Robert Landry Robert C. Landry Robert Charles Landry is a Canadian Champion jockey in Thoroughbred horse racing.Landry embarked on his career while in his teens, earning his first victory on June 21, 1981, at Fort Erie Racetrack. He went on to a stellar career as one of his country's top jockeys and in 1993 and 1994 was voted...	Roger Attfield Roger Attfield Roger L. Attfield is a Canadian thoroughbred horse trainer and owner.In his native England, Attfield had become an accomplished international-level equestrian competitor when he emigrated to Canada in 1970...	Cam Allard	3:05.49
1999	Salty Note	4	David Clark David K. Clark David K. Clark is a Champion jockey in Canadian Thoroughbred horse racing. He began riding professionally at Ontario racetracks in 1973 and went on to become one of Canada's most successful jockeys of all-time.Clark won the 1998 Sovereign Award as Canadian Champion Jockey and on July 17 of that...	Alec Fehr	Bruno Schickedanz	2:58.57
1998	Sunshine Journey	4	Richard Dos Ramos Richard Dos Ramos Richard Anthony Dos Ramos is a Canadian jockey in Thoroughbred horse racing. He grew up in Malton, Ontario where his family emigrated when he was young...	John P. MacKenzie	Rudy Singh	2:58.00
1997	Cimarron Secret	6	Emile Ramsammy Emile Ramsammy 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....	Jim Hartley	Francis C. McDonnell	2:59.00
1996	Whomsoever Proud	6	Brian Bochinski	Ronald G. Burke	Bruno Schickedanz	3:00.00
1995	Stellarina	4	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...	Daniel J. Vella Daniel J. Vella Daniel J. "Dan" Vella is a Canadian Champion Thoroughbred racehorse trainer.Dan Vella was introduced to Thoroughbred horse racing by an uncle who owned horses and, after graduating from High School, went to work at a racetrack in his native Toronto...	Frank Stronach Frank Stronach Frank Stronach, CM is an Austrian-Canadian businessman. He is the founder of Magna International, an international automotive parts company based in Aurora, Ontario, Canada, and Magna Entertainment Corp., which specializes in horse-racing entertainment...	2:55.80
1994	Major Pots	5	Dino Luciani	Lou Cavalaris, Jr.	Gardiner Farms	2:52.60
1993	All Canadian	4	Robert Landry Robert C. Landry Robert Charles Landry is a Canadian Champion jockey in Thoroughbred horse racing.Landry embarked on his career while in his teens, earning his first victory on June 21, 1981, at Fort Erie Racetrack. He went on to a stellar career as one of his country's top jockeys and in 1993 and 1994 was voted...	Robert P. Tiller Robert P. Tiller Robert P. Tiller is a Canadian Thoroughbred racehorse trainer. A resident of Brampton, Ontario, in 1972 he embarked on a career conditioning horses and in 2007 marked the eighteenth straight year he has been one of the top-five trainers at Toronto's Woodbine Racetrack.In 2001, Tiller trained Win...	Frank Stronach Frank Stronach Frank Stronach, CM is an Austrian-Canadian businessman. He is the founder of Magna International, an international automotive parts company based in Aurora, Ontario, Canada, and Magna Entertainment Corp., which specializes in horse-racing entertainment...	3:00.80
1992	Stage Actor	4	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...	Ross Armata	Sais Singh	2:55.40
1991	Cozzene's Prince	4	Robin Platts Robin Platts Robin Platts is a Canadian thoroughbred horse racing Hall of Fame jockey. He began his jockey career at age 16 and went on to become the winner of the 1979 Sovereign Award for Outstanding Jockey, a record four-time winner of Canada's most prestigious horse race, the Queen's Plate, and the...	Tino Attard	Kirby Canada Farm	2:55.00
1990	Most Valiant	4	Brian Swatuk	James E. Day	Sam-Son Farm Sam-Son Farm Sam-Son Farm is a thoroughbred horse racing stable with farms locations in Milton, Ontario, Canada and Ocala, Florida. Originating in the 60's by Ernie Samuel, it began as a home for hunter/jumper horses...	2:57.00
1989	Take Account	3	Don Seymour Don Seymour Donald J. Seymour is a Canadian jockey in Thoroughbred horse racing who is the only jockey in history to win two Canadian Triple Crowns....	Roger Attfield Roger Attfield Roger L. Attfield is a Canadian thoroughbred horse trainer and owner.In his native England, Attfield had become an accomplished international-level equestrian competitor when he emigrated to Canada in 1970...	Kinghaven Farms Kinghaven Farms Kinghaven Farms is a thoroughbred horse racing stable founded in 1967 by Donald G. "Bud" Willmot. Located in King City, Ontario, north of Toronto, the success of the stable would see it expand to the United States with the acquisition of a farm and training center near Ocala, Florida. Kinghaven...	2:56.40
1988	Steady Power Steady Power Steady Power is a Canadian Thoroughbred racehorse. Bred and raced by Kinghaven Farms, Steady Power was a versatile runner at both short and long distances whose wins included the seven-furlong Achievement Handicap, and the mile and three quarter Valedictory Handicap.In 1989, five-year-old Steady...	4	Don Seymour Don Seymour Donald J. Seymour is a Canadian jockey in Thoroughbred horse racing who is the only jockey in history to win two Canadian Triple Crowns....	Roger Attfield Roger Attfield Roger L. Attfield is a Canadian thoroughbred horse trainer and owner.In his native England, Attfield had become an accomplished international-level equestrian competitor when he emigrated to Canada in 1970...	Kinghaven Farms Kinghaven Farms Kinghaven Farms is a thoroughbred horse racing stable founded in 1967 by Donald G. "Bud" Willmot. Located in King City, Ontario, north of Toronto, the success of the stable would see it expand to the United States with the acquisition of a farm and training center near Ocala, Florida. Kinghaven...	3:02.60
1987	Bodmin Moor	3	Don Seymour Don Seymour Donald J. Seymour is a Canadian jockey in Thoroughbred horse racing who is the only jockey in history to win two Canadian Triple Crowns....	Roger Attfield Roger Attfield Roger L. Attfield is a Canadian thoroughbred horse trainer and owner.In his native England, Attfield had become an accomplished international-level equestrian competitor when he emigrated to Canada in 1970...	Kinghaven Farms Kinghaven Farms Kinghaven Farms is a thoroughbred horse racing stable founded in 1967 by Donald G. "Bud" Willmot. Located in King City, Ontario, north of Toronto, the success of the stable would see it expand to the United States with the acquisition of a farm and training center near Ocala, Florida. Kinghaven...	3:02.20
1986	Royal Treasurer	3	Don Seymour Don Seymour Donald J. Seymour is a Canadian jockey in Thoroughbred horse racing who is the only jockey in history to win two Canadian Triple Crowns....	James E. Day	Sam-Son Farm Sam-Son Farm Sam-Son Farm is a thoroughbred horse racing stable with farms locations in Milton, Ontario, Canada and Ocala, Florida. Originating in the 60's by Ernie Samuel, it began as a home for hunter/jumper horses...	3:02.80
1985	Old Gun Powder	3	Lloyd Duffy Lloyd Duffy Lloyd Duffy is a retired Canadian Champion jockey in Thoroughbred flat horse racing who uniquely is also a licensed driver of harness racing horses....	Jerry G. Lavigne	Paddockhurst Stable	3:09.00
1984	Roman Strategy	3	Irwin Driedger	Duke Campbell	D. Mann	3:04.60
1983	Creigneish	4	Richard Dos Ramos Richard Dos Ramos Richard Anthony Dos Ramos is a Canadian jockey in Thoroughbred horse racing. He grew up in Malton, Ontario where his family emigrated when he was young...	Martin Velden	Hamilton/S. G. S. Stable	2:59.80
1982	Turnablade	5	George HoSang	Emile M. Allain	John Sikura, Jr.	2:57.60
1981	Jadosa Toker	4	Gary Stahlbaum	L. Nacht	Knightsbridge et al.	3:03.80
1980	Knight's Turn	5	John Bell	Emile M. Allain	Mrs. C. Tefloth	2:57.40
1979	Knight's Turn	4	John Bell	Emile M. Allain	Mrs. C. Tefloth	3:00.80
1978	Party Surprise	3	Lloyd Duffy Lloyd Duffy Lloyd Duffy is a retired Canadian Champion jockey in Thoroughbred flat horse racing who uniquely is also a licensed driver of harness racing horses....	Peter DiPasquale	Berketa/Buchanan	3:02.80
1977	Gore Park	5	B. Smythe	Jerry G. Lavigne	Parkview Stable	3:02.00
1976	Double Quill	7	Lloyd Duffy Lloyd Duffy Lloyd Duffy is a retired Canadian Champion jockey in Thoroughbred flat horse racing who uniquely is also a licensed driver of harness racing horses....	Lou Cavalaris, Jr.	Gardiner Farms	3:03.00
1975	George of Canada	6	Hugo Dittfach	W. H. Moorhead	S. V. Lima & M. Rose	3:07.20
1974	Carney's Point	5	Robin Platts Robin Platts Robin Platts is a Canadian thoroughbred horse racing Hall of Fame jockey. He began his jockey career at age 16 and went on to become the winner of the 1979 Sovereign Award for Outstanding Jockey, a record four-time winner of Canada's most prestigious horse race, the Queen's Plate, and the...	Lou Cavalaris, Jr.	Gardiner Farms	2:55.40
1973	Fabe Count	5	Sandy Hawley Sandy Hawley Desmond Sanford "Sandy" Hawley, CM is a Hall of Fame jockey.Sandy Hawley started out as a plumber then later decided to be a jockey. He started his career as a jockey when he was a 17-year-old boy, hotwalking horses at a Toronto racetrack...	Jerry G. Lavigne	Parkview Stable	3:01.80
1972	Monte Christo	5	Sandy Hawley Sandy Hawley Desmond Sanford "Sandy" Hawley, CM is a Hall of Fame jockey.Sandy Hawley started out as a plumber then later decided to be a jockey. He started his career as a jockey when he was a 17-year-old boy, hotwalking horses at a Toronto racetrack...	Jerry G. Lavigne	Gardiner Farms	2:54.40
1971	Cool Moon	3	Sandy Hawley Sandy Hawley Desmond Sanford "Sandy" Hawley, CM is a Hall of Fame jockey.Sandy Hawley started out as a plumber then later decided to be a jockey. He started his career as a jockey when he was a 17-year-old boy, hotwalking horses at a Toronto racetrack...	Frank Merrill, Jr.	W. P. Gilbride	2:59.20
1970	Frenetico	6	C. Billingsley	Lou Cavalaris, Jr.	Gardiner Farms	3:02.60
1969	Mr. Amber	3	R. Pion	Samuel Dixon Sam Dixon Sam Dixon is a high school basketball coach. Since April 2002 he has been the eighth head coach of women's basketball coach at Furman University...	P. M. P. Stable	3:00.00
1968	Caesar B. Good	5	Richard Armstrong	B. Puccini	E. C. Pasquale	3:02.60
1967	Caesar B. Good	4	Hugo Dittfach	B. Puccini	E. C. Pasquale	3:09.20
1966	He's A Smoothie He's A Smoothie He's A Smoothie was a Canadian Thoroughbred Champion and Hall of Fame racehorse who set track records on both dirt and turf. Bred and raced by William R. Beasley, his sire was the U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee Round Table. His dam was Ratine, a daughter of Bahram, the Aga Khan's 1935 British...	3	Hugo Dittfach	Warren Beasley	William R. Beasley	3:00.60
1965	Albion Star	5	M. Ferro	Carl F. Chapman	D. Knight	3:12.80
1964	Latin Artist	4	G. Gordon	Lou Cavalaris, Jr.	Gardiner Farms	3:04.20
1963	Whiteborough	6	Richard Armstrong	W. F. Edmiston	C. Softley	3:09.00
1962	Whiteborough	5	Richard Armstrong	W. H. Moorhead	C. Softley	2:58.80
1961	Ramsay	3	Sam McComb	Edward "Ted" Mann	George R. Gardiner George R. Gardiner George Ryerson Gardiner, was a Toronto businessman, philanthropist and co-founder of the Gardiner Museum, the only museum in Canada devoted exclusively to ceramic art.-Biography:...	3:00.60
1960	Calais	5	James Fitzsimmons	Arthur H. Warner	Lanson Farm	2:57.20
1959	Calais	4	Hugo Dittfach	Arthur H. Warner	Lanson Farm	2:59.40
1958	Bernfield	5	Sam Cosentino	Frank Merrill, Jr.	Roxie Gian	3:03.40
1957	Bernfield	4	Norm Leid	J. Hunter	Roxie Gian	3:05.20
1956	Dark Armor	3	Juan Sanchez	Horatio Luro Horatio Luro Horatio A. Luro was a thoroughbred horse racing trainer in the United States.Born in Argentina into a wealthy family that had been involved with horses for several generations, a suave young Horatio Luro grew up as something of a playboy and maintained this lifestyle after moving to the United...	Horatio Luro Horatio Luro Horatio A. Luro was a thoroughbred horse racing trainer in the United States.Born in Argentina into a wealthy family that had been involved with horses for several generations, a suave young Horatio Luro grew up as something of a playboy and maintained this lifestyle after moving to the United...	2:57.00
1955	Captor	3	L. Richards	Gordon J. McCann Gordon J. McCann Gordon J. "Pete" McCann was a Canadian Thoroughbred horse trainer. He was born in East York, now part of the city of Toronto. Known to his family as Gordon, in racing circles he was nicknamed Pete....	E. P. Taylor E. P. Taylor Edward Plunket Taylor was a Canadian business tycoon and famous breeder of thoroughbred race horses. Known to his friends as "Eddie", he is universally recorded as "E. P...	2:26.60
1954	Teddy's Sister	6	F. Higgins	R. Buisson	J. J. Fleming	2:25.20
1953	no race
1952	Try On	3	Alf Bavington	John Passero	William R. Beasley	2:57.80

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• Fort Harrod Stakes
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• Gallant Man Handicap
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• Tokyo City Cup
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On turf

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• Carleton F. Burke Handicap
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• Kentucky Cup Turf Stakes
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