Achievement Stakes

The Achievement Stakes is a Canadian Thoroughbred horse race run annually at Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto, Ontario. An allowance race restricted to three-year-old horses foaled in the province of Ontario, it is held on the July 1 Canada Day holiday and run on Polytrack synthetic dirt over a distance of six furlongs. The race currently offers a purse of $150,000.

First run as the Achievement Handicap at the Fort Erie Racetrack in 1953, over the years the event has been run on both dirt and turf and at a variety of distances:

• 11/16 miles on dirt : 1953-1957, 1968-1979 (Fort Erie Racetrack)
• 1 mile on turf : 1958 (Fort Erie Racetrack), 1959-1966 (Woodbine Racetrack)
• 1 mile on turf : 1967 (Fort Erie Racetrack)
• 7 furlongs on dirt : 1980 (Woodbine Racetrack), 1981-1993 (Greenwood Raceway)
• 6 furlongs on dirt : 1994 to present (Woodbine Racetrack)

Records

Speed record:

• 1:08.33 - Tothemoonandback (2006) (at current distance of six furlongs)

Most wins by an owner:

• 5 - Edward P. and/or Winnifred Taylor and/or Windfields Farm (1954, 1955, 1957, 1961, 1979)

Most wins by a jockey:

• 6 - Sandy Hawley (1970, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1979, 1990)
• 6 - David Clark (1980, 1985, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2008)

Most wins by a trainer:

• 4 - Roger Attfield (1976, 1987, 1989, 1993)

Winners of the Achievement Stakes

References

• Achievement Stakes at Pedigree Query