Canadian Hall of Fame inductees for 2020 and 2021 get their night

The delayed event recognizing the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame classes for 2020 and 2021 was staged at the Mississauga Convention Center in suburban Toronto on Wednesday night.

The class of 2020 inductees on the Thoroughbred side were jockey Gary Boulanger, trainer Mike Keogh, and builder Sue Leslie.

Boulanger captured the 2001 Queen’s Plate on Dancethruthedawn and won numerous other stakes at Woodbine, including the Grade 3 Maple Leaf on Moonlit Beauty in 2013. The still active journeyman has won 3,679 races, including 237 stakes. His mounts banked over $82 million.

Keogh won the Queen’s Plate twice, most recently in 2003 with Wando, who went on to sweep the Canadian Triple Crown. Keogh trained numerous other stakes winners, most notably 1997 Metropolitan Handicap victor Langfuhr, a multiple Grade 1 winner. Keogh has won 340 races, including 60 stakes, for earnings of $22 million.

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Leslie is the longtime president of the Horsemen’s Benevolent and Protective Association of Ontario.

The 2021 inductees on the Thoroughbred side were Play the King, Tepin, Heart to Heart, Not Too Shy, and Vicki Pappas.

Play the King was Canada’s Horse of the Year in 1988, the year he finished second in the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Sprint at Churchill Downs for trainer Roger Attfield.

The Mark Casse-trained Tepin won the 2016 Woodbine Mile after taking the Group 1 Queen Anne Stakes at the prestigious Royal Ascot meet in England. She is also being inductedto the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame on Friday.

Heart to Heart, a Grade 1-winning millionaire trained by Brian Lynch, was the Canadian champion male 3-year-old in 2014.

Not Too Shy was a durable 11-time stakes winner from 1969 to 1971 for legendary owner Conn Smythe.

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Vicki Pappas is the chairperson and founding member of the LongRun Thoroughbred Retirement Society in Ontario.

The Standardbred inductees for both years were horses Amour Angus, McWicked, Rambling Willie, and Great Memories, along with trainer Ben Wallace, builder Jim Bullock, and drivers Randy Waples and Paul MacDonell.