The Canadian Maturity Stakes was a Canadian Thoroughbred horse race run annually in late November at Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto, Ontario.
Inaugurated in 1953,[1] the race was restricted to four-year-old horses bred in Canada.
At a time when Thoroughbreds regularly ran on both dirt and turf, the Canadian Maturity Stakes attracted the best four-year-olds in Canada.
However, by the late 1980s that situation had changed dramatically and by the time of the 1994 running, it attracted a field of only four horses.
[2] The Canadian Maturity Stakes was won for five consecutive years between 1990 and 1994 by Sam-Son Farm and Hall of Fame trainer, Jim Day.