Josie Carroll

Josie Carroll (born December 8, 1957) is a Canadian Thoroughbred horse trainer and the first woman trainer to win the Queen's Plate, the oldest thoroughbred horse race in Canada and Canada's most prestigious race.

Josie Carroll
OccupationTrainer
Born (1957-12-08) December 8, 1957
Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
Career wins703+ (ongoing)
Major racing wins
Marine Stakes (1995, 2008)
Queenston Stakes (1995)
Woodstock Stakes (1995)
Achievement Stakes (1998)
Toronto Cup Stakes (1998)
Victoria Stakes (2000, 2005)
Glorious Song Stakes (2001, 2002)
Lecomte Stakes (2001)
Sugar Bowl Handicap (2001)
My Dear Stakes (2002)
Ontario Debutante Stakes (2002)
Black Gold Stakes (2003)
La Lorgnette Stakes (2003, 2011)
Mazarine Stakes (2003)
Summer Stakes (2003)
Colin Stakes (2005)
Maple Leaf Stakes (2005)
Whimsical Stakes (2006)
Shady Well Stakes (2007)
Display Stakes (2008)
Belle Mahone Stakes (2008)
Canadian Derby (2008)
Delaware Oaks (2009)
Cotillion Handicap (2009)
Alabama Stakes (2009)
Woodbine Oaks (2011)

Canadian Classic Race wins:
Queen's Plate (2006, 2011)
Prince of Wales Stakes (2016)
Breeders' Stakes (2014)

Honours
Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame (2019)
Significant horses
Tethra, Edenwold, Careless Jewel, Inglorious, Amis Gizmo

Born in Scarborough, Ontario, Ms Carroll undertook an equine studies course at Humber College before embarking on a racing career in 1975 in the employ of Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame trainer Mac Benson at Windfields Farm. She worked as an assistant trainer until 1994. She had early success with Tethra, owned by members of the prominent Eaton family.

In recent years she has been one of the leading trainers at Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto and has won a number of graded stakes races both in Canada and in the United States.

Prior to the 2006 winning run, she had had one horse compete in the Queen's Plate. Her 2006 entry, Edenwold, earned the Sovereign Award as Canada's top two-year-old in 2005, but observers of the sport believed the colt could not sustain the Queen's Plate distance of a mile and a quarter. Ridden by jockey Emile Ramsammy, her winning horse was considered a long shot, going off at 16-1odds in the $1 million Grade I Queen's Plate.

Carroll is the second female trainer to take Canada's most prestigious race for three-year-old fillies, the Woodbine Oaks with Inglorious in 2011 – who went on to win the Plate for Carroll that same year. In 2019, she was inducted into the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame.[1]

References
  1. "Josie Carroll". Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame. Retrieved 26 April 2019.
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