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Royal North Stakes

Royal North Stakes
Grade III race
Location Woodbine Racetrack
Toronto, Ontario Canada
Inaugurated 1989
Race type Thoroughbred - Flat racing
Website woodbineentertainment.com
Race information
Distance 6 furlongs (0.75 mi) sprint
Surface Turf
Track Left-handed
Qualification Fillies & Mares, three-years-old & up
Weight Allowances
Purse $115,065 (2016)

The Royal North Stakes is a Canadian Thoroughbred horse race run annually since 1989 at Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto, Ontario. Held in early August, the Grade III sprint race is open to fillies and mares aged three and older and is run over a distance of six furlongs on turf. It currently offers a purse of $115,065.

Inaugurated in 1989 as the Royal North Handicap, it was run as a six furlong race on dirt until 1996 when it was switched to Woodbine Racetrack's E. P. Taylor turf course.

Speed record: (Through 1998, times were recorded in fifths of a second. Since 1999 they are in hundredths of a second)

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