George Strawbridge Jr. has a long and successful history of racing Thoroughbreds in Canada. An owner and breeder of steeplechasers in the 1970s, Strawbridge’s Augustin Stables had international racing stars on the Thoroughbred side in short order, horses such as champion Waya, Treizieme, Tikkanen and Selkirk.
A sportsman, historian, teacher and businessman, Strawbridge had a stable of horses at Woodbine with Mac Benson for several decades. He won the Coronation Futurity with Classic Result, graded stakes with Ice Bear, Sugar Bay and stakes with Allende, My Pal Lana and Nashinda, to name a few.
Now 86, Strawbridge, who is a cousin of Charlotte Weber, owner of the similarly successful Live Oak Stud, continues to race horses with the majority of them trained by Jonathan Thomas in Kentucky. And Thomas has raced these horses at Woodbine every year.