Grade 1 winners Smart Strike and Wilderness Song, both of whom were bred and raced by Sam-Son Farms, and four humans will be inducted into the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame.

Smart Strike’s progeny earned a North American record $14,475,153 last year. The Mr. Prospector horse out of 1984 Canadian champion three-year-old filly Classy ‘n Smart, by Smarten, became the first stallion to sire three Grade 1 winners at the same track on the same day when 2007 Horse of the Year Curlin, English Channel, and Fabulous Strike all posted victories at Belmont Park on September 30, 2007.

Smart Strike stands for $150,000 at Lane’s End in Versailles, Kentucky.

A career earner of $337,376, Smart Strike won six of eight starts for Mark Frostad, who trained the bay horse for the late Ernest Samuel. Smart Strike earned back-to-back victories in the 1996 Philip H. Iselin (G1) and Salvator Mile (G3) Handicaps. He is a half brother to ’91 Canadian Horse of the Year Dance Smartly.

Wilderness Song was named Canada’s champion older mare in 1992 after winning four of ten starts, including victories in the Churchill Downs Budweiser Breeders’ Cup Handicap (G2) and Pimlico Distaff Handicap. A career earner of $1,482,033, the Wild Again mare out of stakes winner Nalee’s Rhythm, by Nalees Man, became Sam-Son Farms’ first Grade 1 winner when she captured the 1991 Spinster Stakes (G1) at Keeneland Race Course.

Wilderness Song concluded her racing career in 1993 with 15 wins in 37 starts for trainer Jim Day.

Robert Tiller, a three-time Sovereign Award winner as Canada’s outstanding trainer, will be inducted in the trainers/jockeys category. A native of Amsterdam, Holland, Tiller began his training career in 1972, and regularly ranked among the top trainers by wins at Woodbine.

Sovereign Award winners trained by Tiller included 2001 Canadian Horse of the Year and champion three-year-old male Win City, ’01 champion two-year-old male Rare Friends, and ’04 champion two-year-old filly Simply Lovely.

Louis Cauz, managing director of the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame and Woodbine’s archivist and historian, also will be inducted. Cauz, 75, is the author of The Plate: A Royal Tradition, a Sovereign Award-winning book.

Other inductees include Quebec-based breeder Pierre Levesque, the founder, owner, and operator of Angus Farm, and the late Cliff Chapman, the former publisher of The Canadian Sportsman who also served as racing secretary at numerous Ontario tracks.

The inductees will be honored on August 28 during a ceremony at the Mississauga Convention Centre.