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The Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame was established in 1978 located at the Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto, Ontario to honor those who have made a significant contribution to the sport of harness and thoroughbred horse racing in Canada. Woodbine Racetrack in southwest Toronto, Ontario is the only horseracing track in North America which stages, or is capable of staging, thoroughbred and standardbred horseracing programs on the same day. ...
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A trotter training at Vincennes hippodrome Harness racing is a form of horse-racing in which the horses race in a specified gait. ...
Thoroughbred horse racing is the main form of horse-racing throughout the world. ...
The Hall of Fame annually inducts Thoroughbred and Standardbred horses, sulky drivers, jockeys, trainers and the horse racing industry's builders. The Thoroughbred is a horse breed developed in 18th century England when English mares were bred with imported Arabian stallions to create a distance racer. ...
Standardbred harness racing horses are so called because in the early years of the Trotting Registry, the standardbred stud book established in the United States in 1879 by the National Association of Trotting Horse Breeders, only horses who could race a mile in a standard time or better, or whose...
A sulky is a lightweight two-wheeled racing cart that is used in most forms of harness racing in the United States, Australia, and New Zealand, including both trotting and pacing races. ...
Toulouse-Lautrec - The Jockey (1899) This article is about the sports occupation. ...
In horse racing, a trainer is responsible for preparing a horse for races. ...
Horse-racing is an equestrian sporting activity which has been practiced over the centuries; the chariot races of Roman times were an early example, as was the contest of the steeds of the god Odin and the giant Hrungnir in Norse mythology. ...
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Inductees (year inducted)
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Thoroughbred horses - Ace Marine (2003)
- Afleet (1992)
- Anita's Son (2005)
- Arise (1983)
- Awesome Again (2001)
- Belle Geste (1990)
- Bold Ruckus (2006)
- Bull Page (1977)
- Bunty Lawless (1976)
- Canadiana (1978)
- Carotene (2003)
- Casa Camara (2000)
- Chief Bearhart (2002)
- Chop Chop (1977)
- Ciboulette (1983)
- Classy n' Smart (2004)
- Cool Reception (2005)
- Dance Smartly (1995) †
- Deputy Minister (1988)
- Duchess of York (1976)
- E Day (1989)
- Flaming Page (1980)
- Fanfreluche (1981)
- Frost King (1986)
- Gallant Kitty (1977)
- George Royal (1976)
- Glorious Song (1995)
- He's A Smoothie (2003)
- Horometer (1976)
- Inferno (1976)
- Izvestia (1999)
- Joey (1976)
- Kennedy Road (2000)
- Kingarvie (1976)
- Langcrest (1984)
- Langfuhr (2004)
- La Prevoyante (1976) †
- Lauries Dancer (2006)
- Major Presto (1982)
- Martimas (2001)
- Mona Bell (2000)
- Nearctic (1977)
- New Providence (1982)
- Nijinsky II (1976)
- No Class (1997)
- Norcliffe (2005)
- Northern Dancer (1976) †
- Northernette (1987)
- Overskate (1993)
- Queensway (2003)
- Runaway Groom (2001)
- Shepperton (1976)
- Sir Barton (1976) †
- Sky Classic (1998)
- South Shore (2000)
- Sunny's Halo (1986)
- Terror (1996)
- The Minstrel (1979)
- Vice Regent (1989)
- Victoria Park (1976)
- Windfields (2002)
- With Approval (1993)
- Wonder Where (2004)
- Yellow Rose (1996)
- Youville (1977)
Dance Smartly (born 1988) is a champion thoroughbred racehorse and the first Canadian-bred to ever win a Breeders Cup race. ...
The racehorse Nijinsky II (named after the dancer Vaslav Nijinsky) was a son of Northern Dancer and Flaming Page and a grandson of Nearco. ...
Northern Dancer (May 27, 1961 - November 16, 1990) was a Canadian-bred thoroughbred racehorse and the most successful sire in racing history. ...
Sir Barton, (1916-1937), was a chestnut thoroughbred colt, who, in 1919 became the first winner of the American Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing even before the phrase Triple Crown was applied. ...
The Minstrel, (1974-1990), was a champion thoroughbred racehorse. ...
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Thoroughbred jockeys - Ted Atkinson (2002) †
- Larry Attard (2001)
- Hugo Dittfach (1983)
- Dude Foden (2000)
- Dick O’Leary (2000)
- Don Seymour (1999)
- Bobby Watson (1998)
- Robin Platts (1997)
- Jeff Fell (1993)
- Jim Fitzsimmons (1984)
- David A. Gall (1993)
- Avelino Gomez (1977) †
- Sandy Hawley (1986) †
Theodore F. Atkinson (June 17, 1916 – May 5, 2005) was a Canadian-born thoroughbred horse racing Hall of Fame jockey. ...
D. Sanford (Sandy) Hawley, born April 16, 1949 in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada, is a Hall of Fame jockey. ...
John Eric Longden, born February 14, 1907 in Wakefield, Yorkshire, England - died February 14, 2003 in Banning, California, was a Hall of Fame jockey. ...
John Red Pollard (1909 - 1981) was a Canadian-born American jockey best known for riding Seabiscuit. ...
Ron Joseph Morel Turcotte (born July 22, 1941) is a world-famous jockey. ...
George Woolf statue at Santa Anita Park George Monroe Woolf (May 10, 1910 – January 4, 1946) was a Canadian-born thoroughbred race horse jockey and the namesake of the annual jockeys award given by the United States Jockeys Guild. ...
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Thoroughbred trainers - Bert Alexandra (2002)
- Roger Attfield (1999)
- Mac Benson (2002)
- Jim Bentley (1982)
- Charles Boyle (2001)
- Bill Bringloe (2000)
- Duke Campbell (1984)
- Lou Cavalaris, Jr. (1995)
- David C. Cross, Jr. (2006)
- Jim Day (2006)
- John Dyment Jr. (2001)
- Morris Fishman (2001)
- Harry Giddings, Jr. (1985)
- Robert K. Hodgson (2001)
- Gord Huntley (1998)
- Roy Johnson (2003)
- Barry Littlefield (2000)
- Lucien Laurin (1978) †
- Ted Mann (1982)
- Pete McCann (1979)
- Frank H. Merrill, Jr. (1981)
- Jerry Meyer (1999)
- John Nixon (2002)
- John Passero (2000)
- Gil Rowntree (1997)
- Fred Schelke (2002)
- Red Smith (2004)
- Yonnie Starr (1979)
- Butch Taylor (1987)
- Johnny Thorpe (2002)
- John R. Walker (2000)
- James White (1996)
- Ed Whyte (2001)
- Arthur H. Warner (1984)
Roger L. Attfield (November 28, 1939 in Newbury, Berkshire, England) is a Canadian thoroughbred horse trainer and owner. ...
Jim Day (born July 7, 1946 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian Olympic equestrian show-jumping champion and thoroughbred horse trainer. ...
Lucien Laurin, born March 18, 1912 in Joliette, Quebec, Canada - died June 26, 2000 at Key Largo, Florida, was a French-Canadian jockey and Hall of Fame thoroughbred horse trainer. ...
Note: A † designates they are also an inductee of the United States National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame. The National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame was founded in 1950 in Saratoga Springs, New York, to honor the achievements of American thoroughbred race horses, jockeys, and trainers. ...
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External link - Official website for the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame
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