The Chinese Cultural Centre Seagram Cup Stakes is a Thoroughbred horse race run annually during the last week of July/first week of August at Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. A Grade III event, it is open to horses Three years old and up. Raced over a distance of one and one-sixteenth miles, the race currently offers a purse of $115,065. The Seagram Cup was inaugurated at the Old Woodbine Racetrack in 1903. A race on dirt, it was named in honor of owner/breeder Joseph E. Seagram whose Seagram Stables dominated Canadian racing at the time and who had won Canada's most prestigious race, the Queen's Plate, eight consecutive times between 1891 and 1898. With the cessation of Thoroughbred racing at Old Woodbine Racetrack, the Seagram Cup was moved to the new Woodbine Racetrack and in 1959 became a race on turf. In 1998 the Seagram Cup reverted to being run permanently on dirt with the 2007 edition marking the first time it would be raced on the new synthetic Polytrack surface. Over the years the Seagram Cup has been contested at various distances: On dirt: miles : 1903–1924 (Old Woodbine Racetrack) miles : 1925-26 (Old Woodbine Racetrack) miles : 1928–1930 (Old Woodbine Racetrack) miles : 1934–1958 (Old Woodbine Racetrack), 1959–1963 and 1998 to present at Woodbine Racetrack miles : 1980–1981 Greenwood Raceway On turf: miles : 1959–1963 (Woodbine Racetrack) miles : 1964–1979, 1982–1993 (Woodbine Racetrack) miles : 1994–1997 (Woodbine Racetrack) Records Speed record: 1:41.40 - Terremoto (1998) (at miles on dirt) 2:00.60 - Sky Classic (1991) (at miles on turf) Most wins by a jockey: 7 - Sandy Hawley (1974, 1976, 1978, 1979, 1988, 1989, 1996) Most wins by a trainer: 4 - James E. Day (1986, 1988, 1989, 1991) Most wins by an owner: 6 - Sam-Son Farm (1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1996, 2014) Winners of the Seagram Cup Stakes Earlier winners 1954 - Verey Light 1953 - Teddy's Sister 1952 - Bulverde 1951 - McGill 1950 - McGill 1949 - No race 1948 - No race 1947 - Mugwump 1946 - No race 1945 - No race 1944 - Chance Cross 1943 - Tulachmore 1942 - No race 1941 - McMark 1940 - High Honors 1939 - Siete Colores 1938 - Storm Lass 1937 - Sun Power 1936 - No race 1935 - No race 1934 - Prince Fox 1933 - No race 1932 - No race