Tags: Horse Race, Race.
The Victoria Stakes is a Canadian Thoroughbred horse race run annually at Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto Ontario. Held in mid June it has been raced on Polytrack since 2006 over a distance of five furlongs. Open to two-year-old horses it currently offers a purse of $125000.Named in honor of Queen Victoria who had died in 1901 the Victoria Stakes was first run in 1903 at the Old Woodbine Racetrack. Following that facility’s closure the race was moved in 1956 to the new Woodbine race track.