Victoria Park (horse)
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| Victoria Park | |
|---|---|
| Sire | Chop Chop |
| Grandsire | Flares |
| Dam | Victoriana |
| Damsire | Windfields |
| Sex | Stallion |
| Foaled | 1957 |
| Country | Canada |
| Colour | Bay |
| Breeder | Edward P. Taylor |
| Owner | Windfields Farm |
| Trainer | Horatio Luro |
| Record | 19: 10-4-2 |
| Earnings | $250,076 |
| Major wins | |
| Clarendon Stakes (1959) Cup and Saucer Stakes (1959) Coronation Futurity Stakes (1959) Remsen Stakes (1959) Leonard Richards Stakes (1960)Canadian Triple Crown wins: Queen's Plate (1960) American Classic Race placing: Preakness Stakes 2nd (1960) | |
| Awards | |
| Canadian Champion 2-Yr-Old Colt (1959) Canadian Champion 3-Yr-Old Colt (1960) Canadian Horse of the Year (1960) Leading broodmare sire in Great Britain & Ireland (1977) | |
| Honours | |
| Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame (1976) Victoria Park Stakes at Woodbine Racetrack | |
| Last updated on March 20, 2020 | |
Victoria Park (1957–1985) was a Canadian Thoroughbred racehorse. He was the first Canadian-bred horse to place in an American Triple Crown race.
Victoria Park was a bay horse bred and raced by E. P. Taylor, at his Windfields Farm in Oshawa, Ontario.[1]
Racing career
At age two, the colt won the Clarendon Stakes plus the two richest 2-year-old races in Canada, the Coronation Futurity Stakes and Cup and Saucer Stakes, and was voted Canadian Champion 2-Yr-Old Colt.
In the 1960 Kentucky Derby, Victoria Park was ridden by Manuel Ycaza and finished third behind winner Venetian Way and Bally Ache.[2] In the 1960 Preakness Stakes, ridden by Anthony DeSpirito, he ran second to Bally Ache, whom he had previously beaten in the Leonard Richards Stakes while setting a new Delaware Park track record.[3] Victoria Park still holds the Delaware Park track record he set on June 18, 1960, of 1:47+4⁄5 for one and an eighth miles (1.8 km) on dirt.[4]
Owner E. P. Taylor chose to bypass the Belmont Stakes to return for Canada's most important race, the Queen's Plate. Victoria Park won that race in a record time that stood for more than 40 years.[5] He was voted 1960's Canadian Champion Three-Year-Old Male Horse and Canadian Horse of the Year.