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The Ontario Derby is a Canadian Thoroughbred horse race run annually at the end of September/early October at Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto Ontario. A Grade III stakes since 2006 it is open to three-year-old horses. Raced over a distance of 1⅛ miles (9 furlongs) on Polytrack synthetic dirt the Ontario Derby offers a purse of $150000.Inaugurated in 1972 as the Colonel R. S. McLaughlin Handicap the race was renamed the Ontario Derby for the 2003 running.