{"id":26378,"date":"2020-04-16T15:18:17","date_gmt":"2020-04-16T19:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=26378"},"modified":"2020-04-16T15:18:22","modified_gmt":"2020-04-16T19:18:22","slug":"canadian-horse-racing-hall-of-fame-inductees-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/canadian-horse-racing-hall-of-fame-inductees-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame inductees announced"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Aurora, King and Caledon will see new representation in\nthe Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame\u2019s Class of 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame selects ten\ninductees each year to join a prestigious group of individuals and\nthoroughbreds. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

King City native and thoroughbred horse \u201cPlay the King\u201d\nfrom Kinghaven Farms, standardbred horse McWicked, owned by the owner of SSG\nGloves in Aurora, Ed James, and Caledon resident Michael Keogh have been\nannounced as the inductees, according the Hall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Linda Rainey, Managing Director of the Canadian Horse\nRacing Hall of Fame, says the induction process is quite extensive. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s based on significant contributions to horse racing\nin Canada,\u201d she explains. \u201cIt\u2019s voted on two committees for an individual to be\ninducted.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The nominating committee oversees all of the public\nsubmissions. People within this committee have historical knowledge of the sport,\ncurrent racing knowledge, breeding and background knowledge. These votes\ndetermine who proceeds to the ballot. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rainey believes there were 80 nominations per breed\npresented to the Standardbred and Thoroughbred Nomination Committees this year.\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ballots are categorized and sent off to the final group\nof voters who ultimately decide which inductees are named for the year — all\nof whom, of course, hold notable records to entice voters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trained by Roger Attfield, Play the King has had an exceptional\nfour-year career. When the horse was only four years of age, victory at the\nToboggan Handicap (G3) in Aqueduct sparked a good run of form. Victories at\nJacques Cartier, Vigil Handicap, Toronto Budweiser Breeders\u2019 Cup at Woodbine,\nSuffolk Sprint in Boston (G3) and Nearctic Stakes (G3) earned the horse the\n1987 Sovereign Award champion as Canada\u2019s top, older male horse and champion\nsprinter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1988, Play the King repeated as Sovereign Award\nchampion with another championship at Woodbine, Nearctic Stakes (G3), the\nBreeder\u2019s Cup Sprint (G1) and Churchill Downs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second horse nominated from the local areas is\nMcWicked from Aurora, owned by Ed James\u2019 SSG Stables.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recently retired from racing, McWicked earned $5.1\nmillion during a race career that began in 2013 and included 40 wins in 110\nstarts while setting his lifetime mark of 1:46.2 at age 7. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

During his career McWicked won four O\u2019Brien awards as\nCanada\u2019s top Older Pacing Horse of the Year in 2018 and 2019 and overall Horse\nof the Year in 2018. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

His 2018 bankroll of $1.662 million made him the oldest\nhorse to top North American harness racing’s earnings standings at the age of\nseven, and his $5.1 million in career earnings makes him the richest pacing\nstallion in the history of the sport. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finally, Bolton resident Michael Keogh, former trainer\nfor the Hall of Fame builder Gus Schickedanz, has been racing since 1993. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2,689 starts, Keogh has amassed 330 wins and earning\nover $21.5 million. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He is most famously known for winning the Queen\u2019s Plate twice\nin 1999 with Woodcarver, and again in 2003 with Wando who went on to win the\nCanadian Triple Crown. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other Keogh trained horses include Sovereign Award-winners\nMobil and Langfuhr. Early in his career Keogh was an assistant to Hall of Fame\ntrainer Roger Attfield from 1986-1993.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During that time Keogh worked with one of his favourite\nhorses, Play the King who coincidently is also being inducted to the CHRHF in\n2020. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since its establishment in 1976, the Canadian Horse\nRacing Hall of Fame holds 500 inductees. It is open to the public at Woodbine\nRacetrack in Etobicoke.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other 2020 Hall of Fame inductees representing\nthoroughbreds include Builder Sue Leslie, Jockey Gary Boulanger and horse\nTepin. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Standardbred Inductees include Driver Paul MacDonell, Trainer Ben Wallace, female horse Amour Angus and veteran horse Rambling Willie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Robert Belardi<\/strong><\/p>\n\r\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Aurora, King and Caledon will see new representation in the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame\u2019s Class of 2020. The Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame selects ten inductees each year to join a prestigious group of individuals and thoroughbreds. King City native and thoroughbred horse \u201cPlay the King\u201d from Kinghaven Farms, standardbred horse McWicked, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[24,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-sports","category-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3D2k4-6Rs","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-03 13:09:04","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}