Jacques Cartier Stakes

Horseraces infobox
class = Ungraded Stakes
horse race = Jacques Cartier Stakes


caption =
location = Woodbine Racetrack
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
inaugurated = 1954
race type = Thoroughbred - Flat racing
website = [http://www.woodbineentertainment.com/qct/default.asp www.woodbineentertainment.com]
distance = 6 furlongs
track = Polytrack, left-handed
qualification = Four-Years-Old & Up
weight = Allowances
purse = $125,000
bonuses = The Jacques Cartier Stakes is a Canadian Thoroughbred horse race run annually since 1954 at Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto, Ontario. Run in mid April, the sprint race is open to horses aged four and older and is run over a distance of six furlongs on Polytrack synthetic dirt. It currently offers a purse of $125,000. The Jacques Cartier Stakes is named in honour of Jacques Cartier (1491-1557), a French navigator and explorer who first described and mapped [His maps are lost but referred to in a letter by his nephew Jacques Noël, dated 1587 and printed by Richard Hakluyt with the "Relation" of Cartier's third voyage, in "The Principall Navigations [...] , London, G. Bishop, 1600.] the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and the shores of the Saint Lawrence River, which he called Canada based on the St. Lawrence Iroquoian word, "kanata".

References

* [http://www.pedigreequery.com/index.php?search_bar=stakes&query_type=stakes&field=view&id=178 The Jacques Cartier Stakes at Pedigree Query]