Kingarvie Stakes

Restricted Stakes race
Kingarvie Stakes
Location Woodbine Racetrack
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Inaugurated 1975
Race type Thoroughbred - Flat racing
Website www.woodbineentertainment.com
Race information
Distance 1 1/16 miles (8.5 furlongs)
Track Polytrack, left-handed
Qualification Two-year-olds
(Ontario Sire Stakes program)
Weight Allowances
Purse $125,000

The Kingarvie Stakes is a Canadian Thoroughbred horse race run annually in late November/early December at Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto, Ontario. An Ontario Sire Stakes, it is a restricted race for two-year-old horses. Raced over a distance of 11/16 miles on Polytrack, the Kingarvie Stakes currently carries a purse of $125,000.

Inaugurated in 1975 at Greenwood Raceway as a one mile event, it was competed there until 1994 when it was moved to Woodbine Racetrack and set at a distance of 11/16 miles.

The race was named to honor Col. Samuel McLaughlin's Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame horse, Kingarvie.

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