Victoria Park (horse)
| Victoria Park | |
|---|---|
| Sire | Queen's Plate (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
racehorse
. He was the first Canadian-bred horse to place in an American Triple Crown race.
Background
Victoria Park was a bay horse bred and raced by E. P. Taylor.[1]
Racing career
At age two, the colt won the
Canadian Champion 2-Yr-Old Colt
.
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
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
.
Stud record
Retired to stud, Victoria Park sired 25 stakes winners, including three Queen's Plate winners: Almoner (1970), Kennedy Road (1971), and Victoria Song (1972). He is the damsire of The Minstrel as well as the damsire of Northern Taste, who led the Japanese leading sires list for ten years, and topped the broodmare sires list a number of times.
On its formation in 1976, Victoria Park was inducted into the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame.[6]
Pedigree
| Sire Chop Chop |
Flares | Gallant Fox | Sir Gallahad |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marguerite | |||
| Flambino | Wrack | ||
| Flambette | |||
| Sceptical | Buchan | Sunstar | |
| Hamoaze | |||
| Clodagh | Tredennis | ||
| Clare | |||
| Dam Victoriana |
Windfields | Bunty Lawless | Ladder |
| Mintwina | |||
| Nandi | Stimulus | ||
| Golden Feast | |||
| Iribelle | Osiris | Papyrus | |
| Most Beautiful | |||
| Belmona | King James | ||
| Belmon (family: 1-h) |
References
- ^ "Victoria Park". Equibase Co. LLC. 2020-01-08. Retrieved 2020-01-08.
- ^ "1960". Kentuckyderby.com. Retrieved 2016-06-14.
- ISBN 9780786476985.
- ^ "Track Records - Main Track". Delaware Racing Association. Retrieved April 20, 2024.
- ^ "2017 Media Guide - Thoroughbred Stakes Results" (PDF). Woodbine Entertainment Group. 2018-01-01. Retrieved 2018-11-29.
- ^ "Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame". Woodbine Entertainment. 1976-01-01. Retrieved 2019-10-02.