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New Providence Stakes

New Providence Stakes
Restricted Stakes race
Location Woodbine Racetrack
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Inaugurated 1982
Race type Thoroughbred - Flat racing
Website www.woodbineentertainment.com
Race information
Distance Six 6 furlongs sprint
Surface Tapeta
Track left-handed
Qualification Three-Years-Old & Up
(Ontario Sire Stakes program)
Weight Allowances
Purse $100,000

The New Providence Stakes is a Canadian Thoroughbred horse race run annually in mid May at Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto, Ontario. An Ontario Sire Stakes, it is a restricted race for horses aged three and older. A sprint race, it is competed over a distance of 6 furlongs on Polytrack synthetic dirt and currently carries a purse of $125,000.

Inaugurated in 1982, the race is named in honour of the Windfields Farm Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame colt New Providence who in 1959 became the first official winner of the Canadian Triple Crown.

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