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Revision as of 11:57, 24 July 2009
Roger Attfield | |
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Occupation | Trainer |
Career wins | Not found |
Major racing wins | |
In Canada: Coronation Futurity Stakes (1975, 1994) Canadian Classic Race wins: Yellow Ribbon Stakes (1987) Pan American Handicap (1988) Carter Handicap (1993) Wood Memorial Stakes (1995) Shadwell Turf Mile Stakes (2003) Maker's Mark Mile Stakes (2004) | |
Racing awards | |
Sovereign Award for Outstanding Trainer (1986, 1987, 1989, 1990, 1993, 2002) | |
Honours | |
Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame (1999) | |
Significant horses | |
Norcliffe, Carotene, Alydeed, Play The King Alywow, With Approval, Izvestia, Peteski Talkin Man, Not Bourbon |
Roger L. Attfield (November 28, 1939 in Newbury, Berkshire, England) is a Canadian thoroughbred horse trainer and owner.
In his native England, Attfield had become an accomplished international-level equestrian competitor when he emigrated to Canada in 1970. Five years later he returned to the sport he loved and began working as a trainer of show jumping horses and eventually was offered the chance to train thoroughbred race horses. Instant success led to training opportunities for other owners including for Frank Stronach and Kinghaven Farms where he met with his greatest success.
A resident of Nobleton, Ontario, Roger Attfield won the Sovereign Award for Outstanding Trainer a record six times. Of the seven horses who have won the Canadian Triple Crown, three were trained by Attfield. A winner of twenty Canadian Triple Crown races, he holds or equals the record for most wins in each of the three races. In 2001, he set a record for most wins by a trainer in the Breeders' Stakes and in 2005 set the record for trainers by winning his fifth Prince of Wales Stakes. At the 2008 Queen's Plate, Attfield tied the record with Harry Giddings, Jr. as a trainer with eight wins. This was his first win as an owner. Overall he has trained nearly forty Champions, six of which were voted Canadian Horse of the Year.
As the trainer for Kinghaven Farms, in 1990 his stable was the leading money winner in North America. In the United States, his horses race at Gulfstream Park in Hallandale Beach, Florida, the Fair Grounds Race Course, in New Orleans, Louisiana and at the Keeneland Race Course in Lexington, Kentucky. Attfield trained horse has won a number of important U.S. Stakes races including the 1995 Wood Memorial and Gotham Stakes.
In 1999, Roger Attfield was inducted into the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame and in 2006, he was nominated for induction into the U.S. National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame.
- 1939 births
- Living people
- 20th-century English people
- 20th-century horse trainers
- 20th-century racehorse owners and breeders
- 21st-century English people
- 21st-century horse trainers
- 21st-century racehorse owners and breeders
- Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame inductees
- English equestrians
- English horse trainers
- English immigrants to Canada
- English racehorse owners and breeders
- Ontario sportspeople
- People from Newbury, Berkshire
- People from King, Ontario