Day At The Races - Woodbine
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Oshawa (Parkwood)
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Woodbine – Day A The Races – Register with Janice Coupland TODAY. Bring your
$20 deposit per person to register. Total Cost with gratuity included $48.08 per person. Noon
(buffet starts at noon; racing 1 to 5 pm and the slots). Great day to carpool too.
On Saturday, August 26: The running of The SEAWAY STAKES GR. III Fillies & Mares, Three-Year-Olds & Upward Seven Furlongs Saturday, August 26, 2017 $125,000 Guar. (Plus up to $25,000 for Eligible Ontario Breds)
The Seaway Stakes is a Canadian Thoroughbred horse race run annually in late August or early September at Woodbine Racetrack. A Grade III race since 2004, it is open to fillies and mares aged three and older. Contested over a distance of 7 furlongs on Tapeta synthetic dirt, it carries a purse of C$150,000.
Sandy Hawley won the race twice and we will see Sandy at Woodbine on Saturday.
Some Seaway Stakes History: This race was also won by Windfileds Farm's Neacrtic in 1958, when the race was open to the boys. Bred by E. P. Taylor, he was out of the Irish mare Lady Angela, a daughter of the British Champion sire Hyperion. He was sired by the extremely important stallion Nearco. Conditioned for racing by future Canadian Hall of Fame trainer "Pete" McCann, Nearctic had his most successful season on the track at age four, when he won nine races and was voted Canadian Horse of the Year.
Retired to stand at stud at Windfields Farm in Oshawa, Ontario. In 1967 he was syndicated for $1,050,000(US) and was moved to stand at Allaire du Pont's Woodstock Farm at Chesapeake City, Maryland. An outstanding stallion, Nearctic sired Kentucky Derby winner and the 20th century's greatest sire Northern Dancer. He also sired Icecapade, Ice Water, Nonoalco, Northern Queen, and Canadian Hall of Fame inductee, Cool Reception.
Over and above the many highly successful sons of Northern Dancer, Nearctic was the grandsire of Northern Taste, Wild Again, Fanfreluche, Izvestia, and Son of Briartic, among others. He was also the damsire of Kennedy Road and the Canadian and U.S. Hall of Fame filly La Prevoyante.