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The Canadian Stakes is a Canadian Grade II Thoroughbred horse race run annually at Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto Ontario. Run in mid September it is a Grade II event open to fillies and mares three years of age and older. It is raced on turf over a distance of about 1⅛ miles.Known as the Canadian Handicap until 2006 it was inaugurated at the now defunct Greenwood Raceway in 1955 as a 11/16 mile race on dirt and was open to horses of either sex aged three and older.