South Ocean Stakes

South Ocean Stakes
Restricted stakes race
LocationWoodbine Racetrack
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Inaugurated1997
Race typeThoroughbred - Flat racing
Websitewoodbine.com
Race information
Distance11⁄16
SurfaceTapeta synthetic dirt
Trackleft-handed
QualificationFour-year-olds and up
Purse$100,000

The South Ocean Stakes is a Canadian Thoroughbred horse race held annually at Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto, Ontario. A race for two-year-old fillies on Tapeta synthetic dirt over a distance of a mile and a sixteen, it offers a purse of $100,000.[1] Part of the Ontario Sire Stakes program, it is restricted to horses sired by a stallion certified as standing in the Province of Ontario.[2]

From the first running in 1997 through 2005, the race was contested on natural dirt. In 2006 the synthetic racing surface known as Polytrack was installed and used until 2016 when it was replaced with the current Tapeta synthetic racing surface.[3]

Race name

The stakes was named for the racemare South Ocean, a multiple stakes winner bred by E. P. Taylor at his Windfields Farm in Ontario. Bred to super-sire and sire of sires Northern Dancer, South Ocean was the dam of the Champion runner and important sire Storm Bird. Again with Northern Dancer, South Ocean produced Northernette, a Canadian Champion at age two and three and a Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame inductee who herself became an influential broodmare.[4]

Records

Speed record:

Most wins by a jockey:

Most wins by a trainer:

Most wins by an owner:

  • As at 2019, no owner has won this race more than once.

Winners

Year
 Winner
 Age
 Jockey
 Trainer
 Owner
 Dist.
(Miles) 		Time
 Win$
2019 Gun Society 2 Kazushi Kimura Roger Attfield Roger Attfield 11⁄16 1:45.34 $60,000
2018 Preferred Guest 2 Jerome Lermyte Mark Casse G. G. Racing Stable 11⁄16 1:46.10 $60,000
2017 Line of Vision 2 Luis Contreras Andrew Smith Joey Gee Thoroughbreds (Joe Guerrieri) 11⁄16 1:45.55 $75,000
2016 Cindervella 2 Eurico Rosa Da Silva Michael P. DePaulo Frank Annecchini & D'Alimonte Holdings 11⁄16 1:44.81 $75,000
2015 Trini Brewnette 2 Alan Garcia Daniel Vella Derek Chin 11⁄16 1:47.00 $75,000
2014 Galina Point 2 Patrick Husbands Mark Casse Gary Barber 11⁄16 1:47.35 $75,000
2013 Lexie Lou 2 Gary Boulanger John A. Ross J.R. Racing Stable Inc. 11⁄16 1:44.70 $75,000
2012 Nipissing 2 Steve Bahen Rachel Halden Chiefswood Stable (Robert & Mark Krembil) 11⁄16 1:45.79 $75,000
2011 Grace Phil 2 Steve Bahen Robert Tiller Hoof Hearted Stables 11⁄16 1:46.48 $75,000
2010 Isabella Bay 2 Chantal Sutherland Ian Howard Donald, Gretchen & Felicia Ross & Frances White 11⁄16 1:45.69 $75,000
2009 Attitude Included 2 Corey Fraser Mark Casse Quintessential Racing 11⁄16 1:46.75 $75,000
2008 Double Malt 2 Eurico Rosa Da Silva Malcolm Pierce Mike Ambler & Partners 11⁄16 1:44.77 $75,000
2007 Krz Exec 2 Jerry Baird Michael P. DePaulo Sylon Stable & Partner 11⁄16 1:46.52 $75,000
2006 Moon Path 2 Emma-Jayne Wilson Mark Frostad Sam-Son Farm 11⁄16 1:49.00 $75,000
2005 La Gran Marylin 2 Slade Callaghan Hugo S. Taft Fieldstone Farms (Ron Delmas & family) 11⁄16 1:48.64 $75,000
2004 Coastal Fortress 2 Todd Kabel Barbara Minshall Minshall Farms 11⁄16 1:48.89 $80,700
2003 My Vintage Port 2 Jono Jones Kenneth B. Parsley K. Parsley & R. Pettifer 11⁄16 1:47.35 $79,875
2002 Santerra 2 Todd Kabel Michael Mattine Ted Burnett 11⁄16 1:47.23 $79,575
2001 Galadriel 2 David Clark Roger Attfield Kinghaven Farms 11⁄16 1:46.45 $62,400
2000 Classical Romance 2 Na Somsanith John Cardella California Stable 11⁄16 1:46.77 $64,200
1999 Inspired Kiss 2 Neil Poznansky Thomas O'Keefe Caroga Stables & Wings Of Erin Farm 11⁄16 1:47.60 $32,100
1998 Ring Star 2 Sean Mario Giblin Brian Ottaway M. Stable 11⁄16 1:49.20 $22,050
1997 Pompeii Hollow 2 Kelly A. MacKay Beverly Buck Beverly Buck 11⁄16 1:47.40 $22,680

References

  1. ^ "Woodbine Media Guide - Thoroughbred Stakes Results" (PDF). Woodbine Entertainment Group. 2019-01-01. Retrieved 2020-01-09.
  2. ^ "History of Harness Racing & Industry Information". Georgian Downs. Archived from the original on 15 October 2012. Retrieved 1 December 2013.
  3. ^ "Training begins on Woodbine's new Tapeta surface" (Press release). Toronto, ON: Woodbine Entertainment. 2016-03-18. Retrieved 2016-03-19.
  4. ^ "South Ocean". American Classic Pedigrees (Avalyn Hunter). 2020-04-28. Retrieved 2020-04-28.