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Woodbine 2008 stakes schedule to feature “Win and You’re In” races oodbine’s 2008 Thoroughbred stakes racing programmes will serve fans and horsemen a stakes schedule visit
schedule, features a new incentive that is stakes menu worth $1.5 million or more. www.woodbineentertainment.com.
certain to attract a strong cast of participants.
In addition to offering more than $22 million in
This year, the $750,000 Northern Dancer Breeders’ Cup Turf Stakes, which was upgraded to Grade 1, will be contested
on Woodbine Mile day and should serve
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purses, six of the calendar’s 103 stakes races are part of the Breeders’ Cup Challenge Series and feature a lucrative “Win and You’re In” guarantee.
as a natural stepping stone to the Pattison Canadian International. The Grade 2, $300,000 Canadian Stakes, for turf llies and mares, will also take place on Mile day.
A win in one of the six events, all of which take place over the world-renowned E.P. Taylor Turf Course, earns the victor a berth in the corresponding event at the Breeders’ Cup, set for October 24 & 25 at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California.
The Queen’s Plate, Canada’s most renowned horse race and North America’s oldest continuously-run stakes event, will have its 149th running on Sunday, June 22. The 1 1/4-mile classic, the rst jewel in Canada’s Triple Crown of Racing, is worth $1 million.
The winner of the $1 million Woodbine Mile on Sunday, September 7, for instance, is assured an entry in the $2 million Breeders’ Cup Mile. The two-year-old lly that takes the Sunday, September 14 Natalma Stakes will receive a spot in the new Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf.
The $200,000 Scotts Highlander Stakes and the $150,000 Singspiel Stakes, now a Grade 3 event, will complement the Plate day programme.
The nal four Woodbine events in the Series will anchor a stellar autumn card on Saturday, October 4.
The Breeders’ Stakes, third and turf gem
of racing’s Triple Crown, is set for Sunday, August 3 at Woodbine. The 1 1/2-mile turf event carries a purse of $500,000. The middle leg of the three-race series, the $500,000 Prince of Wales Stakes, will be run at Fort Erie on Sunday, July 13.
The Toronto oval’s richest event, the $2 million Pattison Canadian International, and the $1 million E.P. Taylor Stakes, for llies and mares, were moved up two weeks for inclusion in the “Win and You’re In” concept.
The Grade 1 turf features are accompanied by the $500,000 Nearctic Stakes, a Grade 2 turf sprint, and the $300,000 Summer Stakes, a Grade 3 grass test for two-year-olds. Both are also part of the Challenge Series.
The $500,000 Woodbine Oaks, presented by Budweiser, the rst leg in the Canada’s Triple Tiara of Racing, is scheduled for Sunday,
June 8. Known for the last several years as the Labatt Woodbine Oaks, the race is now sponsored by the company’s Budweiser brand.
ESPN, the prominent U.S. TV sports network, will be broadcasting all four International day “Win and You’re In” events live from Woodbine.
The Woodbine meet runs for 167 dates from Saturday, April 5 to Sunday, December 7.
As in 2007, Woodbine is committed to the cre- ation of full-day events and has grouped important added-money features on the same card. Three
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