E. P. Taylor Stakes

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The E. P. Taylor Stakes is a Thoroughbred horse race for fillies and mares held annually since 1956 in October at Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto, Ontario, Canada run on grass at a distance of 1 ¼ miles.

Distances:

• 1956-1961 - 1 1/16 miles; Greenwood; main track
• 1962-1963 - 1 1/16 miles; Woodbine; main track
• 1964-1967 - 1 1/8 miles; Woodbine; main track
• 1968 to date - 1 1/4 miles; Woodbine; turf

The race, and the turf course it is run on, is named for the late Edward Plunket Taylor, President of the Ontario Jockey Club from 1953 to 1973 and a founder of the Jockey Club of Canada. An inductee of the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame, E. P. Taylor owned Windfields Farm, Canada's most successful horse breeding operation.

The $1 million Grade I E. P. Taylor Stakes is raced as a companion event to the Canadian International Stakes and is a final stepping stone for the Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf and draws horses from North America and Europe. Recent winners and their jockeys are:

[edit] Winners of the E. P. Taylor Stakes

Year	Winner	Jockey	Trainer	Owner	Time
2006	Arravale	Jose Valdivia, Jr.	Mac Benson	Robert J. Costigan	2:10.34
2005	Honey Rider	John Velazquez	Todd Pletcher	Glencrest Farm LLC	2:06.70
2004	Commercante	John Velazquez	Robert J. Frankel	A. Falourd/H. Guy/R. Trussell	2:04.02
2003	Volga	Richard Migliore	Kiaran McLaughlin	H. Joseph Allen	2:05.68
2002	Fraulein	Kevin Darley	Edward Dunlop	Philip Freedman	2:10.03
2001	Choc Ice	John Murtagh	Robert Collet	Micheline Vidal	2:03.01
2000	Fly For Avie	Todd Kabel	David Bell	Ivan Dalos	2:03.78
1999	Insight	Mike E. Smith	John E. Hammond	Flaxman Holdings	2:05.34
1998	Zomaradah	Gary Stevens	Luca Cumani	Darley Racing	2:02.20

[edit] Earlier winners