Clarendon Stakes

The Clarendon Stakes is a Thoroughbred horse race currently run annually at Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Held in early July, the sprint race is open to two-year-old horses foaled in the Province of Ontario and is contested over a distance of five and a half furlongs on Polytrack synthetic dirt. It currently offers a purse of $150,000.

Clarendon Stakes
Restricted Stakes race
C. George McCullagh (left) receives the 1940 Clarendon Plate, at Thorncliffe Park race track
LocationWoodbine Racetrack
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Inaugurated1926
Race typeThoroughbred - Flat racing
Websiteweb.archive.org/web/20100316214346/http://www.woodbineentertainment.com:80/qct/default.asp
Race information
Distance5.5 furlongs
SurfacePolytrack
Trackleft-handed
QualificationTwo-Year-Olds, foaled in Ontario
WeightAllowances
Purse$150,000

Inaugurated in 1926 at Toronto's now defunct Thorncliffe Park Raceway, it was known as the Clarendon Plate. In 1953 the race was moved to the Old Woodbine Racetrack then in 1956 to its present home at the new Woodbine Racetrack.

In 1967 Dancer's Image won this race and went on to win the following year's Kentucky Derby.

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