Woodbine Entertainment has unveiled its stakes schedule for the 2019 Thoroughbred racing season, highlighted by the prestigious $1-million Queen's Plate June 29 and the $1-million GI Ricoh Woodbine Mile Sept. 14. Strengthened by the previously announced purse increases for 2019, the $16-million-plus stakes schedule consists of 95 stakes to be contested over the course of the 133-day meet, running from Apr. 20 to Dec. 15.
The GI Natalma S. and companion GI Summer S. will follow a stakes-filled Ricoh Woodbine Mile day Sept. 15. The GI Pattison Canadian International will be contested at the height of the fall stakes season Oct. 12. GI The E.P. Taylor S. is among the usual supporting features that day and will serve as the final leg of Woodbine's new Ladies of the Lawn Series, which offers $75,000 in bonuses to the top performers based on points accumulated in the designated graded turf routes for fillies and mares. Woodbine's stakes schedule includes a total of 41 graded stakes.
Click here to view the complete stakes lineup for Woodbine's 2019 Thoroughbred racing season.
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