Achievement Stakes

Achievement Stakes
Restricted Stakes race
LocationWoodbine Racetrack
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Inaugurated1953
Race typeThoroughbred - Flat racing
Websitewww.woodbineentertainment.com/qct/default.asp
Race information
Distance6 furlongs
SurfaceAll weather synthetic dirt
Trackleft-handed
QualificationThree-year-olds and up
WeightAllowances
Purse$75,000

The Achievement Stakes was 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 was run on Tapeta synthetic dirt over a distance of six furlongs.

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

  • 1+116 miles on dirt : 1953–1957, 1968-1979 (Fort Erie Race Track)
  • 1 mile on turf : 1958 (Fort Erie), 1959-1966 (Woodbine Racetrack)
  • 1 mile on turf : 1967 (Fort Erie)
  • 7 furlongs on dirt : 1980 (Woodbine Racetrack), 1981-1993 (Greenwood Raceway)
  • 6 furlongs on dirt : 1994 to 2018 (Woodbine Racetrack)

In 2019, the race was replaced by the Greenwood Stakes.[1]

  1. ^ "Woodbine Announces 2019 Stakes Schedule". www.bloodhorse.com. Retrieved 17 June 2021.