The Display Stakes is a Canadian Thoroughbred horse race run annually at Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto, Ontario. Contested on Polytrack synthetic dirt over a distance of 11/ miles (8.5 furlongs), it is open to two-year-old horses. Raced during the latter part of November, the ungraded stakes race offers a purse of $150,000.
Inaugurated in 1956 at Toronto's Old Woodbine Race Course as a sprint race, it was named for American Walter J. Salmon's colt Display, winner of the 1926 Preakness Stakes and who frequently raced in Canada where he won a number of important races.
The Display stakes was run in two divisions in 1959. There was no race in 1993. Since inception, it has been contested at various distances:
- 6 furlongs : 1956 at Old Woodbine Race Course
- 7 furlongs : 1957-1958 at Old Woodbine Race Course
- 8 furlongs (1 mile) : 1959-1960 Old Woodbine Race Course, 1977-1992 at Greenwood Raceway
- 8.5 furlongs (11/ miles) : 1969-1976 at Greenwood Raceway, 1994 to present at Woodbine Racetrack
- 9 furlongs (1 1/8 miles) : 1961-1963 at Old Woodbine Race Course
- 9.5 durlongs: 1964-1968 at Greenwood Raceway
Read more about Display Stakes: Records, Winners of The Display Stakes
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