Sam-Son Farm: Canada’s Gold Standard

Sam-Son Farm is Canada's Gold Standard horse racing stable. In the U.S. there were stables such as Calumet Farm that dominated horse races for decades.

Sam-Son has won many awards in the past. Its best decade was the 1990s. Dance Smartly won all eight of her starts in that decade. Sky Classic won the 1991 Rothmans International and the Turf Classic at Belmont Park. In 1992, Sky was named the United States’ turf champion. He was inducted into the Hall of Fame in Saratoga in 2003. Sam- Son won three consecutive Canadian Horse of the Year awards from 1984 to 1986. It also won a Sovereign Award for champion older male and turf runner in 1991. In 1991, it campaigned the Sovereign award recipient for Champion Older Male and Turfing Runner.

There are nine Canadian Horse of the Year awards, ten Sovereign Awards for outstanding owner, nine Sovereign Award for outstanding breeder and nine awards for the outstanding broodmare.

Sam-Son Farm is Canada's Gold Standard. Sam-son's Smart Strike is the sire of two-time Horse of the Year Curlin and turf champion English Channel. Dance Smartly was the first Canadian-bred to win a Breeders’ Cup race. Ernie Samuel and his daughter Tammy Samuel-Balaz are enshrined in the Canadian Racing Hall of Fame.