Canadian Champ

Canadian Champ
Sire	Windfields
Grandsire	Bunty Lawless
Dam	Bolesteo
Damsire	Filisteo
Sex	Stallion
Foaled	1953
Country	Canada
Colour	Bay
Breeder	E. P. Taylor
Owner	W. R. "Bill" Beasley
Trainer	John Passero
Record	42: 20-11-3
Earnings	$151,705
Major wins
Coronation Futurity Stakes (1955) Cup and Saucer Stakes (1955) Achievement Handicap (1956) Seagram Cup (1956) Plate Trial Stakes (1956) Queen's Plate (1956) Prince of Wales Stakes (1956) Breeders' Stakes (1956) Swynford Stakes (1957)
Awards
5th Canadian Triple Crown Champion (1956) Canadian Horse of the Year (1956)
Honours
Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame (2007)
Last updated on September 17, 2007

Canadian Champ (1953–1978) was a Canadian Thoroughbred Hall of Fame racehorse who in 1956 won the three races that became the Canadian Triple Crown Championship in 1959. Sired by Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame inductee Windfields, he was out of the mare Bolesteo.

Trained by John Passero, during his racing career Canadian Champ set three track records at Woodbine Racetrack and equalled another there as well as at Gulfstream Park in Florida. In his two-year-old season, he won 1955's Coronation Futurity Stakes and the Cup and Saucer Stakes, the two most important races for his age group in Canada. Sent south to Saratoga Race Course, he ran second in the United States Hotel Stakes to Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney's colt Career Boy. The following year, he won Canada's most prestigious race, the Queen's Plate, as well as the Prince of Wales Stakes and the Breeders' Stakes, which constituted the Triple Crown series created three years later. His 1956 performances earned Canadian Champ Canadian Horse of the Year honors, and he retired as the richest Thoroughbred in Canadian racing history. Canadian Champ was ridden by jockeys David Stevenson and Eugene Rodriguez.