The Chinese Cultural Centre Seagram Cup Stakes is a

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run annually during the last week of July/first week of August at

Woodbine Racetrack Woodbine Racetrack is a race track for Thoroughbred horse racing in the Etobicoke area of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Owned by Woodbine Entertainment Group, Woodbine Racetrack manages and hosts Canada's most famous race, the King's Plate. The track ...

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, Canada. A Grade III event, it is open to horses Three years old and up. Raced over a distance of one and one-sixteenth miles, the race currently offers a purse of $115,065. The Seagram Cup was inaugurated at the

Old Woodbine Racetrack Greenwood Raceway (originally Woodbine Race Course) was a horse racing facility in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. History Woodbine Race Course Inaugurated in 1874 as Woodbine Race Course at the foot of Woodbine Avenue and Lake Ontario, it was owned ...

in 1903. A race on dirt, it was named in honor of owner/breeder

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whose Seagram Stables dominated Canadian racing at the time and who had won Canada's most prestigious race, the

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, eight consecutive times between 1891 and 1898. With the cessation of Thoroughbred racing at Old Woodbine Racetrack, the Seagram Cup was moved to the new Woodbine Racetrack and in 1959 became a race on turf. In 1998 the Seagram Cup reverted to being run permanently on dirt with the 2007 edition marking the first time it would be raced on the new synthetic

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surface. Over the years the Seagram Cup has been contested at various distances:
On dirt: * miles : 1903–1924 (

) * miles : 1925-26 (Old Woodbine Racetrack) * miles : 1928–1930 (Old Woodbine Racetrack) * miles : 1934–1958 (Old Woodbine Racetrack), 1959–1963 and 1998 to present at

* miles : 1980–1981

Greenwood Raceway Greenwood Raceway (originally Woodbine Race Course) was a horse racing facility in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. History Woodbine Race Course Inaugurated in 1874 as Woodbine Race Course at the foot of Woodbine Avenue and Lake Ontario, it was owned a ...

On turf: * miles : 1959–1963 (Woodbine Racetrack) * miles : 1964–1979, 1982–1993 (Woodbine Racetrack) * miles : 1994–1997 (Woodbine Racetrack)

Records

Speed record: * 1:41.40 -

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(1998) (at miles on dirt) * 2:00.60 -

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(1991) (at miles on turf) Most wins by a

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: * 7 -

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(1974, 1976, 1978, 1979, 1988, 1989, 1996) Most wins by a trainer: * 4 - James E. Day (1986, 1988, 1989, 1991) Most wins by an owner: * 6 -

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(1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1996, 2014)

Winners of the Seagram Cup Stakes

Earlier winners

*1954 - Verey Light *1953 - Teddy's Sister *1952 - Bulverde *1951 -

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*1950 -

*1949 - ''No race'' *1948 - ''No race'' *1947 - Mugwump *1946 - ''No race'' *1945 - ''No race'' *1944 - Chance Cross *1943 - Tulachmore *1942 - ''No race'' *1941 - McMark *1940 - High Honors *1939 - Siete Colores *1938 - Storm Lass *1937 - Sun Power *1936 - ''No race'' *1935 - ''No race'' *1934 - Prince Fox *1933 - ''No race'' *1932 - ''No race'' *1931 - ''No race'' *1930 - Sandy Ford *1929 - Jollan *1928 -

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*1927 - ''No race'' *1926 - Harrovan *1925 - Edisto *1924 - Nancy Langhorne *1923 - New Hampshire *1922 - Baby Grand *1921 - Golden Sphere *1920 - ''No race'' *1919 - ''No race'' *1918 - ''No race'' *1917 - ''No race'' *1916 - Sands of Pleasure *1915 - Redland *1914 - Privet Petal *1913 - Rifle Brigade *1912 - Chepontuc *1911 - Ganogue *1910 - Ta Nun Da *1909 - Direct *1908 - Photographer *1907 - Picaroon *1906 - Moonraker *1905 - Charles Elwood *1904 - Nameoki *1903 - Easy Street *In 1954, Queen's Own finished first but was disqualified and set back to second{{refend

Records

Winners of the Seagram Cup Stakes

Earlier winners

See also