Marine Stakes

The Marine Stakes is a Thoroughbred horse race run annually at Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Held in mid May, it is open to three-year-old horses and is contested over a distance of miles on Polytrack synthetic dirt. It currently offers a purse of $150,000.
Inaugurated in 1956 at Greenwood Raceway, for Canadian-bred horses the Marine Stakes is the final prep for the Queen's Plate, Canada's most prestigious horse race. Since inception, it has been raced at various distances:

7 furlongs : 1968–1975 at Woodbine Racetrack
miles : 1956, 1961–1962, 1965–1966 at Greenwood Raceway, 1967, 1976 to present at Woodbine Racetrack
miles 1957, 1963 at Greenwood Raceway
1 mile 1958–1960 at Greenwood Raceway
miles : 1964 at Greenwood Raceway
Records

Speed record:

1:41.80 - Victor Cooley

Most wins by an owner:

6 - Sam-Son Farm

Most wins by a jockey:

5 - Sandy Hawley

Most wins by a trainer:

5 - Roger Attfield
Winners of the Marine Stakes
1964 Jammed Lively finished first but was disqualified and set back to third.
In 1985 there was a dead heat for first.