Emile Ramsammy

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Emile Ramsammy
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Occupation: Jockey
Birthplace: Trinidad, Trinidad and Tobago
Birth date: December 11, 1962
Career wins: 1750+ (ongoing)
Major Racing Wins & Honours & Awards
Major Racing Wins
Barbados Gold Cup (1985, 1987, 1988)
Princess Elizabeth Stakes (1994, 2004)
Eclipse Stakes (1995)
Sir Barton Stakes (1995, 2001)
Swynford Stakes (1995, 1999, 2000)
Wonder Where Stakes (1995, 2003)
Toronto Cup Stakes (1997)
New Providence Stakes (1997, 2004)
Vandal Stakes (1997)
Baldwin Stakes (1999)
Col. R. S. McLaughlin Stakes (1999)
Nearctic Stakes (1999)
Connaught Cup Stakes (2000, 2001)
Coronation Futurity Stakes (2000)
Deputy Minister Stakes (2000, 2001, 2002)
Display Stakes (2000)
Victoria Stakes (2000)
Bison City Stakes (2001)
Bull Page Stakes (2001)
Clarendon Stakes (2002)
Highlander Handicap (2002)
Jacques Cartier Stakes (2002)
Vigil Stakes (2002, 2003)
Royal North Stakes (2002, 2007)
Maple Leaf Stakes (2003, 2004)
Seagram Cup Stakes (2003, 2004, 2005)
Turf Paradise Derby (2004)
Natalma Stakes (2004, 2006)
Dance Smartly Stakes (2005)
Overskate Stakes (2005, 2006)
Nijinsky Stakes (2007)
Hill 'n' Dale Stakes (2007)
Selene Stakes (2007)

Canadian Classic Race wins:
Queen's Plate (1996, 2006)

Racing Awards
Barbadian Champion jockey by wins (1986, 1989)
Sovereign Award for Outstanding Jockey
(1996, 1997)

Emile Ramsammy (born December 11, 1962 in Trinidad, Trinidad and Tobago) is a Canadian thoroughbred horse racing Champion jockey. He had more than 500 victories racing in the Caribbean before emigrating to Canada in the early 1990s.

Ramsammy has won a number of important graded stakes races in Canada including the 1996 and 2006 Queen's Plate, the country's most prestigious race. He was voted the 1996 and 1997 Sovereign Award for Outstanding Jockey in Canada.

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