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Roger L. Attfield

Roger Attfield
Roger L. Attfield
Induction Year: 
2012
Born: 
Nov. 28, 1939, Newbury, England
Career Years: 
1972-present
Number of Starters: 
10,869
Number of Winners: 
1,931
Winning Percentage: 
17.80%
Earnings: 
$103,801,345.00

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Bio

Following a stint as a steeplechase rider and an accomplished career as an international show jumper, Roger Attfield established himself as one of the top thoroughbred trainers in North America. Born on Nov. 28, 1939 in Newbury, England, Attfield immigrated to Canada in 1970 and took his first training job with Gateway Farms. In the years since, Attfield has won the Sovereign Award for Outstanding Canadian Trainer eight times, trained three Canadian Triple Crown winners, six Canadian Horse of the Year winners, and won 22 races in the Canadian Triple Crown series.

 

In 1976, Attfield developed the colt Norcliffe into the first of his eight Queen’s Plate winners and his first Canadian Horse of the Year. Norcliffe won 10 stakes under Attfield’s care and helped launch the trainer to stardom. Attfield conditioned his first Canadian Triple Crown winner, With Approval, in 1989. Attfield swept the Queen’s Plate, Prince of Wales Stakes, and Breeders’ Stakes again the following year with Izvestia, and once again in 1993 with Peteski.

 

Along with his eight wins in the Queen’s Plate, Attfield has won the Breeders’ Stakes nine times and the Prince of Wales five times. Attfield has also found considerable success in the United States. He won his first Breeders’ Cup race in 2011 when Perfect Shirl took the Filly and Mare Turf at Churchill Downs. Other major wins in the United States include the Shadwell Turf Mile, Flower Bowl, Elkhorn, Lake George, Glens Falls, Ohio Derby, Makers Mark Mile, Wood Memorial, Gotham, Arlington Matron, Molly Pitcher, Carter Handicap, Derby Trial, Yellow Ribbon Invitational, Stymie Handicap, Hialeah Turf Cup, and Pan American Handicap, among others.

 

Through March 2019, Attfield had won more than 1,900 career races and ranked 22nd all time among North American trainers with more than $103 million in earnings.

 

 

 

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