Dance Smartly Stakes

The Dance Smartly Stakes is a Canadian Thoroughbred horse race run annually during July at Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto, Ontario. A Grade II stakes race raced on turf, it is open to horses three years of age and older. Inaugurated in 1986, it was raced on dirt through 1989 at a distance of 1�...> miles. In 1990 it was switched over to the turf course and raced that year at 11/16 miles after which it remained on the turf but at its original 1-1/8 miles. It was raced as the Woodbine (Breeders' Cup) Handicap until 1998 when it was renamed to honor Dance Smartly, a Canadian and United States Racing Hall of Fame inductee and one of Canada's greatest racing fillys.

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Woodbine Racetrack Graded Stakes Races

Stakes Race	Grade	Purse
Eclipse Stakes	III	$150,000
Nassau Stakes	II	$300,000
King Edward Stakes	II	$250,000
Highlander Stakes	II	$200,000
Singspiel Stakes	III	$150,000
Queen's Plate Stakes	I	$1,000,000
Dominion Day Stakes	III	$200,000
Dance Smartly Stakes	II	$300,000
Ontario Matron Stakes	III	$150,000
Nijinsky Stakes	II	$300,000
Royal North Stakes	III	$150,000
Sky Classic Stakes	II	$250,000
Ontario Colleen Stakes	III	$150,000
Play the King Stakes	II	$200,000
Seaway Stakes	III	$150,000
Natalma Stakes	III	$200,000
Summer Stakes	III	$250,000
Canadian Stakes	II	$300,000
Northern Dancer Turf Stakes	I	$500,000
Woodbine Mile Stakes	I	$1,000,000
Selene Stakes	III	$250,000
Grey Stakes	III	$200,000
Nearctic Stakes	I	$500,000
E.P. Taylor Stakes	I	$1,000,000
Canadian International Stakes	I	$1,500,000
Autumn Stakes	II	$150,000
Kennedy Road Stakes	III	$150,000
Bessarabian Stakes	III	$150,000
Valedictory Stakes	III	$150,000