| Class: | Restricted stakes |
| Horse Race: | South Ocean Stakes |
| Website: | woodbine.com |
| Location: | Woodbine Racetrack Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Inaugurated: | 1997 |
| Race Type: | Thoroughbred - Flat racing |
| Distance: | 1 |
| Surface: | Tapeta synthetic dirt |
| Track: | left-handed |
| Qualification: | Four-year-olds and up |
| Purse: | $100,000 |
The South Ocean Stakes is a Canadian Thoroughbred horse race held annually at Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto, Ontario. A race for two-year-old fillies on Tapeta synthetic dirt over a distance of a mile and a sixteen, it offers a purse of $100,000.[1] Part of the Ontario Sire Stakes program, it is restricted to horses sired by a stallion certified as standing in the Province of Ontario.[2]
From the first running in 1997 through 2005, the race was contested on natural dirt. In 2006 the synthetic racing surface known as Polytrack was installed and used until 2016 when it was replaced with the current Tapeta synthetic racing surface.[3]
The stakes was named for the racemare South Ocean, a multiple stakes winner bred by E. P. Taylor at his Windfields Farm in Ontario. Bred to super-sire and sire of sires Northern Dancer, South Ocean was the dam of the Champion runner and important sire Storm Bird. Again with Northern Dancer, South Ocean produced Northernette, a Canadian Champion at age two and three and a Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame inductee who herself became an influential broodmare.[4]
Speed record:
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Most wins by an owner:
| Year | Winner | Age | Jockey | Trainer | Owner | Dist. (Miles) | Time | Win$ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Gun Society | 2 | Kazushi Kimura | Roger Attfield | Roger Attfield | 1 | 1:45.34 | $60,000 |
| 2018 | Preferred Guest | 2 | Jerome Lermyte | Mark Casse | G. G. Racing Stable | 1 | 1:46.10 | $60,000 |
| 2017 | Line of Vision | 2 | Luis Contreras | Andrew Smith | Joey Gee Thoroughbreds (Joe Guerrieri) | 1 | 1:45.55 | $75,000 |
| 2016 | Cindervella | 2 | Eurico Rosa Da Silva | Michael P. DePaulo | Frank Annecchini & D'Alimonte Holdings | 1 | 1:44.81 | $75,000 |
| 2015 | Trini Brewnette | 2 | Alan Garcia | Daniel Vella | Derek Chin | 1 | 1:47.00 | $75,000 |
| 2014 | Galina Point | 2 | Patrick Husbands | Mark Casse | Gary Barber | 1 | 1:47.35 | $75,000 |
| 2013 | Lexie Lou | 2 | Gary Boulanger | John A. Ross | J.R. Racing Stable Inc. | 1 | 1:44.70 | $75,000 |
| 2012 | Nipissing | 2 | Steve Bahen | Rachel Halden | Chiefswood Stable (Robert & Mark Krembil) | 1 | 1:45.79 | $75,000 |
| 2011 | Grace Phil | 2 | Steve Bahen | Robert Tiller | Hoof Hearted Stables | 1 | 1:46.48 | $75,000 |
| 2010 | Isabella Bay | 2 | Chantal Sutherland | Ian Howard | Donald, Gretchen & Felicia Ross & Frances White | 1 | 1:45.69 | $75,000 |
| 2009 | Attitude Included | 2 | Mark Casse | Quintessential Racing | 1 | 1:46.75 | $75,000 | |
| 2008 | Double Malt | 2 | Eurico Rosa Da Silva | Malcolm Pierce | Mike Ambler & Partners | 1 | 1:44.77 | $75,000 |
| 2007 | Krz Exec | 2 | Jerry Baird | Michael P. DePaulo | Sylon Stable & Partner | 1 | 1:46.52 | $75,000 |
| 2006 | Moon Path | 2 | Emma-Jayne Wilson | Mark Frostad | Sam-Son Farm | 1 | 1:49.00 | $75,000 |
| 2005 | La Gran Marylin | 2 | Hugo S. Taft | Fieldstone Farms (Ron Delmas & family) | 1 | 1:48.64 | $75,000 | |
| 2004 | Coastal Fortress | 2 | Todd Kabel | Barbara Minshall | Minshall Farms | 1 | 1:48.89 | $80,700 |
| 2003 | My Vintage Port | 2 | Jono Jones | Kenneth B. Parsley | K. Parsley & R. Pettifer | 1 | 1:47.35 | $79,875 |
| 2002 | Santerra | 2 | Todd Kabel | Michael Mattine | Ted Burnett | 1 | 1:47.23 | $79,575 |
| 2001 | Galadriel | 2 | David Clark | Roger Attfield | Kinghaven Farms | 1 | 1:46.45 | $62,400 |
| 2000 | Classical Romance | 2 | Na Somsanith | John Cardella | California Stable | 1 | 1:46.77 | $64,200 |
| 1999 | Inspired Kiss | 2 | Neil Poznansky | Thomas O'Keefe | Caroga Stables & Wings Of Erin Farm | 1 | 1:47.60 | $32,100 |
| 1998 | Ring Star | 2 | Sean Mario Giblin | Brian Ottaway | M. Stable | 1 | 1:49.20 | $22,050 |
| 1997 | Pompeii Hollow | 2 | Kelly A. MacKay | Beverly Buck | Beverly Buck | 1 | 1:47.40 | $22,680 |