Woodbine Racetrack

Woodbine Racetrack in southwest Toronto, Ontario is the only horseracing track in North America which stages, or is capable of staging, thoroughbred and standardbred horseracing programs on the same day. It is owned by Woodbine Entertainment Group, formerly the Ontario Jockey Club.

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Toronto, Ontario - Horseracing - North America - Thoroughbred - Standardbred - Woodbine Entertainment Group - Ontario Jockey Club

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The track was opened in 1956. It has been extensively remodelled since 1993, and in 2004 has three racecourses:

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• The outermost, the E. P. Taylor turf course for thoroughbreds, is one and a half miles (2414 m) long with a chute allowing races of a mile and an eighth (1811 m) to be run around one turn. It is irregularly shaped, the clubhouse turn departing from the traditional North American oval, and the backstretch is from 2 ft 6 in to 3 ft (80 cm to 90 cm) higher than the homestretch. The Taylor turf course and the main dirt course at Belmont Park on New York's Long Island are the only mile-and-a-half layouts in Canadian and American thoroughbred racing.
• Inside the Taylor course is the main dirt course for thoroughbreds, an oval one mile in circumference with chutes facilitating races at seven furlongs (1408 m) and at a mile and a quarter (2011 m).
• Inside the dirt course is an oval standardbred racecourse seven-eighths (1408 m) of a mile in circumference, made of crushed limestone
 
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