It was won by Keynote, a strawberry roan filly owned by the Wheatley Stable and ridden by future Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame inductee Hedley Woodhouse.
[1] USN Rear-Admiral Howard Adams Flanigan won the 1954 running of the Astarita with his good filly Two Stars.
On the same racecard, future U. S. Racing Hall of Fame jockey Ted Atkinson reached a milestone in his career with his 3,000th win aboard the Greentree Stable colt Devastation.
[5] In 1964 Queen Empress won by a nose but was disqualified to second for interference giving the win to runner-up I Deceive.
It was won by Sensation with Eibar Coa aboard for owner Gary and Betty Biszantz's Cobra Farm and their partner, the Castletop Stable owned by Morton and Bobbi Topfer.