The Canadian Champion Male Turf Horse is a Canadian Thoroughbred horse racing honor that is part of the Sovereign Awards program awarded annually to the top 2-Year-Old male Thoroughbred horse competing in Canada. Created in 1975 by the Jockey Club of Canada as a single award for Champion Turf Horse, it was split into male and female categories in 1995.
Past winners:
- 1975 : Victorian Queen (filly)
- 1976 : Victorian Prince
- 1977 : Momigi
- 1978 : Overskate
- 1979 : Overskate
- 1980 : Overskate
- 1981 : Ben Fab
- 1982 : Frost King
- 1983 : Kingsbridge
- 1984 : Bounding Away
- 1985 : Imperial Choice
- 1986 : Carotene
- 1987 : Carotene
- 1988 : Carotene
- 1989 : Charlie Barley
- 1990 : Izvestia
- 1991 : Sky Classic
- 1992 : Rainbows For Life
- 1993 : Hero's Love
- 1994 : Alywow
- 1995 : Hasten To Add
- 1996 : Chief Bearhart
- 1997 : Chief Bearhart
- 1998 : Chief Bearhart
- 1999 : Thornfield
- 2000 : Quiet Resolve
- 2001 : Numerous Times
- 2002 : Portcullis
- 2003 : Perfect Soul
- 2004 : Soaring Free
- 2005 : A Bit O'Gold
- 2006 : Sky Conqueror
- 2007 : Cloudy's Knight
- 2008 : Rahy's Attorney
- 2009 : Champs Elysees
- 2010 : Grand Adventure
- 2011 : Musketier
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—John Rhodes Sturdy, Canadian screenwriter. Richard Rossen. Joyce Cartwright (Ella Raines)
“What a terrible thing has happened to us all! To you there, to us here, to all everywhere. Peace who was becoming bright-eyed, now sits in the shadow of death; her handsome champion has been killed as he walked by her very side. Her gallant boy is dead. What a cruel, foul, and most unnatural murder! We mourn here with you, poor, sad American people.”
—Sean O’Casey (1884–1964)
“... censorship often boils down to some male judges getting to read a lot of dirty books—with one hand.”
—Robin Morgan (b. 1941)
“Oh! snatch’d away in beauty’s bloom,
On thee shall press no ponderous tomb;
But on thy turf shall roses rear
Their leaves, the earliest of the year;”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“Half the failures of this world arise from pulling in one’s horse as he is leaping.”
—Julius Hare (1795–1855)