Jacques Cartier Stakes
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| Ungraded Stakes race | |
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| Jacques Cartier Stakes | |
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| Location | Woodbine Racetrack Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Inaugurated | 1954 |
| Race type | Thoroughbred - Flat racing |
| Website | www.woodbineentertainment.com |
| Race information | |
| Distance | 6 furlongs |
| Track | Polytrack, left-handed |
| Qualification | Four-Years-Old & Up |
| Weight | Allowances |
| Purse | $125,000 |
The Jacques Cartier Stakes is a Canadian Thoroughbred horse race run annually since 1954 at Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto, Ontario. Run in mid April, the sprint race is open to horses aged four and older and is run over a distance of six furlongs on Polytrack synthetic dirt. It currently offers a purse of $125,000.
The Jacques Cartier Stakes is named in honour of Jacques Cartier (1491-1557), a French navigator and explorer who first described and mapped[1] the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and the shores of the Saint Lawrence River, which he called Canada based on the St. Lawrence Iroquoian word, kanata.
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- ^ His maps are lost but referred to in a letter by his nephew Jacques Noël, dated 1587 and printed by Richard Hakluyt with the Relation of Cartier's third voyage, in The Principall Navigations [...], London, G. Bishop, 1600.
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