2025 Dates & Deadlines

Events in Red are set dates every year

We will try and update the calendar with new dates or announcements as soon as they are released.

31: CTHS Membership Renewal Deadline

1: Thoroughbred naming Deadline for 2-year olds with the Jockey Club (without a fee)

14: Deadline for CTHS (British Columbia Division) Sales Stakes sustaining fee deadline

23: BC Industry Awards Dinner, Vancouver, BC

24: 50th Sovereign Awards, Awards Ceremony

25-27: Horse Expo Canada, Red Deer, Alberta   (https://horseexpo.ca/)

26: Opening Day – Woodbine Racetrack, Toronto, ON

2: Opening Day – for Thoroughbred Racing at Century Mile, Edmonton, AB

3: Night of Champions – Alberta Thoroughbreds Awards Night

10: CTHS (Manitoba Division) & HBPA Annual Awards Banquet

11: Opening Day - Hastings Racecourse, Vancouver, BC

13: Opening Day - Assiniboia Downs, Winnipeg, MB

17: CTHS (Manitoba Division) Annual General Meeting

27: Opening Day - Fort Erie Racetrack, Fort Erie, ON

30: Entries close for CTHS (Manitoba Division) Yearling Sale

TBD: Entries close for CTHS (British Columbia Division) Yearling and Mixed Sale

1:  Entries close for CTHS (Ontario Division) Canadian Premiere Yearling Sales

4: CTHS (Ontario Division) Annual General Meeting

7: CTHS (National Office) Annual General Meeting

7: CTHS (Alberta Division) Annual General Meeting

9: Entries close for CTHS (Alberta Division) Thoroughbred Sale

11: CTHS (Ontario Division) Annual Awards Dinner

TBD: CTHS (British Columbia Division) Annual General Meeting

20: Woodbine Oaks (First Jewel in the Triple Tiara) & Plate Trial, Woodbine Racetrack, Toronto, ON

1: Filing date for Report of Mares bred to The Jockey Club.

4: BC Cup Day; (BC Cup Classic & BC Cup Distaff) Hastings Racecourse, Vancouver, BC

4: Manitoba Derby, Assiniboia Downs, Winnipeg, MB

6: Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame Induction Gala, Mississauga, ON

9: Bison City Stakes, Woodbine Racetrack, ON (Second Jewel in the Canadian Triple Tiara)

16:The   King's Plate, Woodbine Racetrack, Toronto, ON (First Jewel in the Canadian Triple Crown)

20: CTHS Sales Stakes, CTHS (Manitoba Division), Assiniboia Downs, Winnipeg, MB

23: Canadian Derby, Century Mile, Edmonton, AB

24: CTHS (Manitoba Division) Yearling Sale, Assiniboia Downs, Winnipeg, MB

24: Sales Stakes Day, CTHS (Ontario Division) – Woodbine Racetrack, Toronto, ON

25: 2 Year Old (colts/geldings & fillies) Sales Stakes, CTHS (British Columbia Division), Hastings Racecourse, Vancouver, BC

25: 3 & 4 Year Olds (colts/geldings & fillies/mares) Sales Stakes, CTHS (British Columbia Division), Hastings Racecourse, Vancouver, BC

27: CTHS (Ontario Division) Canadian Premier Yearling Sale – Woodbine Sales Pavilion, Toronto, ON

TBD: CTHS (British Columbia Division) Yearling & Mixed Sale - Thunderbird Show Park, Langley, BC

6:Wonder Where Stakes, Woodbine Racetrack, ON (Third Jewel in the Canadian Triple Tiara)

9: Prince of Wales, Fort Erie Racetrack, Fort Erie, ON (Second Jewel in the Canadian Triple Crown)

13:Closing Day – for Thoroughbred Racing at Century Mile, Nisku, AB

13: Alberta Breeder's Fall Classic – Century Mile, AB

13: BC Derby, Hastings Racecourse, Vancouver, BC

13: BC Oaks, Hastings Racecourse, Vancouver, BC

20: Sadie Diamond Futurity, Hastings Racecourse, Vancouver, BC

20: Jack Diamond Futurity, Hastings Racecourse, Vancouver, BC

20: CTHS (Alberta Division) Thoroughbred Sale – Westerner Park, Red Deer, AB

26: Opening Day – Century Downs, Rocky View, AB

28: Breeders' Stakes, Woodbine Racetrack, Toronto, ON (Third Jewel of the Canadian Triple Crown)

4: 2 Year Old Sale Stakes, CTHS (Alberta Division), Century Downs, AB

4: 3 & 4 Year Old Sales Stakes, CTHS (Alberta Division), Century Downs, AB

8: Closing Day - Assiniboia Downs, Winnipeg, MB

19: Closing Day – Hastings Racecourse, Vancouver, BC

21: Closing Day – Fort Erie Racetrack, Fort Erie, ON

31: Deadline for entries to Geographical Index of Stallions prepared by CTHS National Office

1: Closing Day – Century Downs, Rocky View, AB

14: Closing Day - Woodbine Racetrack, Toronto, ON