Owner/breeder Charles E. Fipke, a Canadian geologist and diamond prospector who has made an impact on the sport on both sides of the border, will be inducted as part of the 2022 class in the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame. The other Thoroughbred inductees include jockey Eurico Rosa Da Silva, as well as horses Court Vision (Gulch) and Alydeed (Shadeed).
Fipke has been involved in Thoroughbreds for over 40 years. His Sovereign Award winners are all homebreds: Not Bourbon (Not Impossible {Ire}), Impossible Time (Not Impossible {Ire}), Perfect Soul (Ire) (Sadler's Wells), and Lady Speightspeare (Speightstown). He has also campaigned homebred Eclipse Award winner Forever Unbridled (Unbridled's Song) and a number of other Grade I winners. In 2020, Fipke was awarded the E.P. Taylor Award of Merit by the Stewards of the Jockey Club of Canada for his contributions to the Canadian Thoroughbred industry.
Da Silva, who has been honored with the Sovereign Award as Canada's Champion jockey seven times, moved to Canada after a successful riding career in Brazil. From 11,630 starts, Da Silva has 2,286 wins, earnings of $102,764,264, and has been partner to a number of top horses, including Canadian Horse of the Year and eight-time Sovereign winner Pink Lloyd (Old Forester).
Court Vision, winner of five Grade I races including the 2011 Breeders' Cup Mile, was bred in Kentucky by W. S. Farish and Kilroy Thoroughbred Partnership. Although his ownership and trainers changed a number of times, he won the final start of his career–the Breeders' Cup–for Spendthrift Farm and trainer Dale Romans.
Bred in Ontario by 2015 Canadian Hall of Fame inductee Anderson Farms, Alydeed was campaigned by David Willmot's Kinghaven Farms and trained by Roger Attfield. His biggest scores included the Queen's Plate and the GI Carter H. Alydeed was Canada's leading sire in 2001.
The Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame was founded in 1976 and landed on a permanent site at Woodbine in Toronto in 1997. Induction ceremonies for the Class of 2022 will be held during the summer of 2023, along with those inducted as part of the Class of 2023, which will be announced in April.
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