[3] The Ontario Jockey Club (OJC) was founded in 1881 to improve the quality of horse racing in the city of Toronto.

During his term, Taylor bought out competing tracks, making the OJC the largest operation in the province, starting with the Thorncliffe Park Raceway.

In 1962, the club bought out the Fort Erie Racetrack, and OJC tracks thus held all three races of the Canadian Triple Crown.

Woodbine Entertainment Group possesses a C spring barouche landau, which was originally imported from the United Kingdom in the 1960s by E.P.

Made by Barker and Company of the United Kingdom, it has been used to transport members of the Canadian royal family and viceroys during the Queen's Plate in Toronto.The carriage is stored and maintained by the keeper of the landau, who also delivers it to Woodbine Race Track and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police provides the postilion turnout.