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Canadian Champion Male Turf Horse
The Canadian Champion Male Turf Horse is a Canada, Canadian Thoroughbred horse racing honour that is part of the Sovereign Awards program awarded annually to the top male Thoroughbred turf horse competing in Canada. Created in 1975 by the Jockey Club of Canada as a single award for Champion Turf Horse, it was split into male and female categories in 1995. Past winners *1975 : Victorian Queen (filly) *1976 : Victorian Prince *1977 : Momigi (mare) *1978 : Overskate *1979 : Overskate *1980 : Overskate *1981 : Ben Fab *1982 : Frost King *1983 : Kingsbridge (horse), Kingsbridge *1984 : Bounding Away *1985 : Imperial Choice *1986 : Carotene (horse), Carotene *1987 : Carotene (horse), Carotene *1988 : Carotene (horse), Carotene *1989 : Charlie Barley (horse), Charlie Barley *1990 : Izvestia (horse), Izvestia *1991 : Sky Classic *1992 : Rainbows For Life *1993 : Hero's Love *1994 : Alywow *1995 : Hasten To Add *1996 : Chief Bearhart *1997 : Chief Bearhart *1998 : Chief Bearhart *1999 : Tho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canada
Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by total area. Its southern and western border with the United States, stretching , is the world's longest binational land border. Canada's capital is Ottawa, and its three largest metropolitan areas are Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver. Indigenous peoples have continuously inhabited what is now Canada for thousands of years. Beginning in the 16th century, British and French expeditions explored and later settled along the Atlantic coast. As a consequence of various armed conflicts, France ceded nearly all of its colonies in North America in 1763. In 1867, with the union of three British North American colonies through Confederation, Canada was formed as a federal dominion of four provinces. This began an accretion of provinces an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Izvestia (horse)
Izvestia (May 5, 1987 – October 21, 1991) was a Thoroughbred racehorse who won the Canadian Triple Crown in 1990. A grandson of Nearctic, who sired the legendary Northern Dancer, his damsire Personality was the 1970 Co-American Horse of the Year. Owned and bred by Kinghaven Farms, Izvestia began racing in the United States, winning two Graded stakes races at the Keeneland Race Course in Kentucky. He was shipped north in the spring of 1990 to his home base at Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto from which he won the Triple Crown. Having won it a year earlier on With Approval, jockey Don Seymour became the only jockey in history to ride two Canadian Triple Crown winners. Izvestia's career ended on October 21, 1991, when he had to be humanely euthanized after breaking a left hind leg in three places while competing in the Rothmans International. In 1999, he was inducted into the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame. References {{reflist External links Izvestia's Triple Crown wins ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sky Conqueror
Sky Conqueror (foaled May 9, 2002 in Ontario) is a Canadian Thoroughbred racehorse. Background Out of the mare Heavenly Ballerina, a daughter of 1982 United States Horse of the Year, Conquistador Cielo, he was sired by Sky Classic, a son of the 1970 British Triple Crown champion, Nijinsky. Sky Conqueror was trained by Darwin Banach, Racing career Sky Conqueror was sent to the track at age three with his best Stakes race result a second in the Chief Bearhart Stakes at Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto and a third at Churchill Downs in November's Commonwealth Turf Stakes. Back on the track in April 2006, he had a fourth-place finish at Keeneland Race Course before being sent north to race again at Woodbine. After another third-place finish, he won the Grade II King Edward Breeders' Cup Stakes and the Northern Dancer Breeders' Cup Turf. He won an allowance race tune-up for the prestigious $2 million Canadian International Stakes in which he ran third. Sky Conqueror made his 2007 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Bit O'Gold
A Bit O'Gold (foaled 2001 in Ontario) is a Canadian Thoroughbred Sovereign Award, Champion horse racing, racehorse. Background A Bit O'Gold was sired by Grade I winner Gold Fever (horse), Gold Fever, a son of the 1987 American Champion Two-Year-Old Male Horse, American Champion Two-Year-Old Colt, Forty Niner (horse), Forty Niner, out of the mare, Annasan, Racing career Equally effective racing on both dirt and grass, A Bit O'Gold began racing at age two in 2003 for owner/trainer Catherine Day Phillips. He won his first three starts, including the important Coronation Futurity Stakes in early November. At age three, the gelding won two of the three races comprising the Canadian Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing, Canadian Triple Crown series. After winning the Plate Trial Stakes, Plate Trial, A Bit O'Gold finished second in the Queen's Plate, then won the Prince of Wales Stakes and on turf, the third leg of the Triple Crown, the Breeders' Stakes. A Bit O'Gold's 2004 performances e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soaring Free
Soaring Free (foaled January 28, 1999 in Ontario) is a retired Canadian Champion Thoroughbred racehorse. Background Soaring Free was bred and raced by one of Canada's leading Thoroughbred operations, Sam-Son Farm. He was out of the mare Dancing With Wings, a daughter of three-time Champion Sire, Danzig. Soaring Free's sire is the increasingly influential Smart Strike who also sired Eclipse Award winner English Channel and the 2007 American Horse of the Year, Curlin. A turf specialist who raced from a home base at Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto, at age four in 2003 Soaring Free won five of eight starts including the Nearctic Stakes plus his first of two Play The King Stakes. Racing career In 2004 he won the Grade III Shakertown Stakes at Keeneland Race Course in Kentucky and at Woodbine Racetrack set a North American record of 1:19.38 for 7 furlongs on turf in winning the Ontario Jockey Club Stakes. Soaring Free also won his second straight Play The King Stakes in 2004 as well ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portcullis (horse)
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Numerous Times
Many may refer to: * grammatically plural in number *an English quantifier used with count nouns indicating a large but indefinite number of; at any rate, more than a few ;Place names * Many, Moselle, a commune of the Moselle department in France * Mány, a village in Hungary * Many, Louisiana, a town in the United States * Many, Masovian Voivodeship, east-central Poland Surname * Moshe Many, Israeli urologist; President of Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv University (TAU) ( he, אוּנִיבֶרְסִיטַת תֵּל אָבִיב, ''Universitat Tel Aviv'') is a public research university in Tel Aviv, Israel. With over 30,000 students, it is the largest university in the country. Locate ..., and President of Ashkelon Academic College. {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quiet Resolve
Quiet Resolve (1995–2007) was a Canadian Thoroughbred racehorse foaled in Ontario who was voted the 2000 Canadian Horse of the Year. A turf specialist, the son of U.S. Triple Crown Champion Affirmed set a new track record for 8.5 furlongs at Keeneland Race Course. In his 2000 Champion season, Quiet Resolve won races in Canada and the United States and ran second to Kalanisi in the 2000 Breeders' Cup Turf at Churchill Downs. Quiet resolve was retired in October 2002 following a training injury. He had to be euthanized on February 1, 2007, after colic surgery at the Ontario Veterinary College hospital at the University of Guelph. He was buried at Sam-Son Farm near Milton, Ontario. In 2017, Quiet Resolve was posthumously inducted into the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame The Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame was established in 1976 to honour those who have made a significant contribution to the sport of harness and Thoroughbred horse racing in Canada. It is located at Wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thornfield
Thornfield (foaled 1994 in Ontario) is a Canadian Thoroughbred Champion racehorse. Background Thornfield was bred by Steve Stavro's Knob Hill Farm, he was sired by Eclipse and Sovereign Award and Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame inductee Sky Classic, a son of the English Triple Crown winner, Nijinsky. Thornfield's dam was Alexandrina, a daughter of 1982 American Horse of the Year, Conquistador Cielo. Racing career In 1999, under trainer Phil England, five-year-old Thornfield won the Grade 2 Niagara Breeders' Cup Handicap. Ridden by Richard Dos Ramos, they then won the $1.5 million Canadian International as the longest shot in the field. The win made Thornfield the first winner sired by an International winner. His 1999 performances earned him Canadian Horse of the Year and Canadian Champion Male Turf Horse honours. Retirement Retired from racing, the gelding Thornfield now resides at the branch of Old Friends Equine at Kentucky Downs in Franklin, Kentucky Franklin is a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chief Bearhart
Chief Bearhart (February 1, 1993 – September 18, 2012) was a Canadian Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. A turf specialist, he won six Sovereign Awards and was voted American Champion Male Turf Horse for 1997. Background Chief Bearheart was bred by Richard D. Maynard and sired by Chief's Crown out of the mare Amelia Bearhart by Bold Hour. His grandsire was Danzig. He was owned by Sam-Son Farm of Milton, Ontario and was trained by Mark Frostad. Racing career In 1995, at age two, injuries kept Chief Bearhart out of all but one race. At age 3, he had only modest success until his trainer switched him from racing on dirt tracks to racing on turf. He then won the 1996 Breeders' Stakes, the final and only leg on grass of the Canadian Triple Crown. On July 25, 1996, Chief Bearhart won an allowance race of about a mile and three-eighths on turf at Woodbine Racetrack in a track record time of 2:16 flat. Popular with racing fans because he almost always came from well back in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hasten To Add
The national anthem of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, , "Chant of the Saudi Nation" was first officially adopted in 1950 without lyrics. The piece was gifted by the then Egyptian King Farouq when King Abdulaziz made a visit to Egypt. It was then adopted again in 1984 with lyrics written by Ibrāhīm Khafājī. The original composition was by Abdul-Raḥman al-Khaṭīb in 1947, and the brass instrumental version was later arranged by Sirāj Umar. Overview In 1947, because Saudi Arabia did not have a national anthem like other neighbouring countries, King Abdulaziz visited Egypt and asked Egyptian composer Abdul-Raḥman al-Khaṭīb to create a national anthem, and thus "Āsh al-Malīk" was created. The melody is based on an Arab fanfare style, and is similar to the national anthems of other Arab states in the area at the time. In 1958, Mohammed Talat wrote the first set of lyrics, which were not often heard, so King Fahd asked poet Ibrāhīm Khafājī in 1984 to come up with a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alywow
{{Infobox racehorse , horsename = Alywow , image = , caption = , sire = Alysheba , grandsire = Alydar , dam = Triple Wow , damsire = Coastal , sex = Filly , foaled = February 7, 1991 , death_date = {{dda, 2002, 3, 2, 1991, 2, 7 , country = Canada , colour = Bay , breeder = Kinghaven Farms , owner = Kinghaven Farms , trainer = Roger Attfield , record = 19: 7-6-3 , earnings = $648,431 , race = Natalma Stakes (1993) Nijana Stakes (1994) Canadian Breeders' Cup Handicap (1994)Canadian Maturity Stakes (1995) , awards= Canadian Champion 3-Yr-Old Filly (1994) Canadian Champion Turf Horse (1994)Canadian Horse of the Year (1994) , honours = Alywow Stakes at Woodbine RacetrackCanadian Racing Hall Of Fame (2009) , updated= January 28, 2010 Alywow (February 7, 1991 – March 2, 2002) was a Canadian Thoroughbred Champion racehorse and a member of the Canadian Racing Hall Of Fame. Background Alywow was owned and bred by David Willmot's Kinghaven Farms in King, Ont ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
