Victoria Park (horse)

Victoria Park
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Sire:	Chop Chop
Grandsire:	Flares
Dam:	Victoriana
Damsire:	Windfields Farm
Sex:	Stallion
Foaled:	1957
Country:	Canada
Colour:	Bay
Breeder:	E. P. Taylor
Owner:	Windfields Farm
Trainer:	Horatio Luro
Record:	19: 10-4-2
Earnings:	$250,076
Major Racing Wins & Honours & Awards
Major Racing Wins
Cup and Saucer Stakes (1959) Coronation Futurity Stakes (1959) Queen's Plate (1960)
Racing Awards
Canadian Champion 2-Yr-Old Colt (1959) Canadian Champion 3-Yr-Old Colt (1960) Canadian Horse of the Year (1960)
Honours
Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame (1976) Victoria Park Stakes at Woodbine Racetrack
Infobox last updated on: September 19, 2006.

Victoria Park (1957-1985) was a Canadian Thoroughbred racehorse. A grandson of American Triple Crown champion, Gallant Fox, he was the first Canadian-bred horse to place in an American Triple Crown race. At age two, the colt won the two richest 2-year-old races in Canada, the Coronation Futurity Stakes and Cup and Saucer Stakes and was voted Canadian Champion 2-Yr-Old Colt.

Victoria Park finished 3rd behind Venetian Way in the 1960 Kentucky Derby. In the Preakness Stakes, he finished 2nd to Bally Ache whom he had beaten in the Leonard Richards Stakes while setting a new Hialeah Park track record. His owner bypassed the Belmont Stakes to return for Canada's most important race, the Queen's Plate which Victoria Park won in a record time that stood for more than forty years. He was voted 1960's Canadian Champion 3 Yr-Old Colt and Canadian Horse of the Year.

Retired to stud, Victoria Park sired 25 stakes winners including three Queen's Plate winners and is the damsire of The Minstrel.

On its formation in 1976, Victoria Park was inducted into the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame