Regal Embrace

Regal Embrace (foaled 1975 in Ontario) was a Canadian Thoroughbred racehorse.

Bred by E. P. Taylor and raced under the name of his Windfields Farm, he was out of the mare Close Embrace, a daughter of Nentego who was a son of Never Say Die, winner of the 1954 Epsom Derby and St. Leger Stakes.

Ridden by another Hall of Fame inductee, Sandy Hawley, Regal Embrace defeated the great Overskate to win the 1978 Queen's Plate, Canada's most prestigious race and North America's oldest annually run stakes race.

[1] In winning, Regal Embrace equaled the stakes record set by Victoria Park in 1960.

[2] Standing at stud in 1979, Regal Embrace eventually stood at Blue Sky Farms in New York State.