Canadian Champ

Thoroughbred racehorse infobox
horsename = Canadian Champ


caption =
sire = Windfields
grandsire = Bunty Lawless
dam = Bolesteo
damsire = Filisteo
sex = Stallion
foaled = 1953
country = Canada flagicon|Canada
colour = Bay
breeder = E. P. Taylor
owner = W. R. "Bill" Beasley
trainer = John Passero
record = 42: 20-11-3
earnings = $151,705
race = Coronation Futurity Stakes (1955)
Cup and Saucer Stakes (1955)
Achievement Handicap (1956)
Seagram Cup (1956)
Plate Trial Stakes (1956)
Queen's Plate (1956)
Prince of Wales Stakes (1956)
Breeders' Stakes (1956)
Swynford Stakes (1957)
awards= Canadian Horse of the Year (1956)
honours = Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame (2007)
updated= September 17, 2007

Canadian Champ (1953-1978) was a Canadian Thoroughbred Hall of Fame racehorse who in 1956 won the three races that would become the Canadian Triple Crown Championship in 1959. Sired by Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame inductee, Windfields, he was out of the mare Bolesteo.

Trained by John Passero, during his racing career Canadian Champ set three track records at Woodbine Racetrack, equalled another there as well as at Gulfstream Park in Florida. In his two-year-old season, Canadian Champ won 1955's Coronation Futurity Stakes and the Cup and Saucer Stakes, the two most important races for his age group in Canada. Sent south to Saratoga Race Course he ran second in the United States Hotel Stakes to Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney's colt, Career Boy. The following year he won Canada's most prestigious race, the Queen's Plate as well as the Prince of Wales Stakes and the Breeders' Stakes which constituted the Triple Crown series created three years later. His 1956 performances earned Canadian Champ Canadian Horse of the Year honors and he retired as the richest Thoroughbred in Canadian racing history.

Racing in 1957 at age four, Canadian Champ's best results were a win in the Swynford Stakes at Woodbine Racetrack and three stakes race seconds.

As a sire

Standing at E. P. Taylor's Windfields Farm in Oshawa, Ontario between 1959 and 1968, Canadian Champ notably sired the 1963 Canadian Triple Crown winner Canebora and the 1966 Queen's Plate winner, Titled Hero.

In 1969 Canadian Champ was sent to a breeding operation in Japan where he died in 1978 at the age of twenty-five.

In 2007, Canadian Champ was inducted in the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame.

References

* [http://www.pedigreequery.com/canadian+champ Canadian Champ's pedigree and partial racing stats]
* [http://www.canadianhorseracinghalloffame.com/thoroughbred/2007/canadian_champ.asp Canadian Champ at the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame]