PHIL’S DREAM YET ANOTHER SW FOR BUTTIGIEG Big and beautiful PHIL’S DREAM (Philanthropist – Dream a Dream (GB) by Emperor Jones won the Overskate Stakes on Sunday at Woodbine to become the first 5-time winner at Woodbine for 2013. The homebred for Paul Buttigieg was brazen on the rail on the pace and favoured ULTIMATE […]

    NO HOLDING COURT 91 Beyer for speedy Grand Slam filly LEIGH COURT settled on the pace and then took off to win the LA LORGNETTE STAKES for owner/breeder Eugene Melnyk and trainer Josie Carroll yesterday at Woodbine. The fast gal did not mind the torrential rain that was happening during her race (and […]

  Peace and love and the disco dream were alive and well at the LongRun Friday Night Fever party last night at Woodbine. There were tons of great costumes for a party than began with complimentary Melnyk Martinis…blueberry!..continued with a great meal that only Woodbine could make, fun hosts in Jeff Bratt and Dawn Lupul and […]

Celebrating the win, the Finks (holding trophy with John Velazquez) Dave Landry photo EVERYONE LOVES A WISE GUY Now that the turf has settled and we are well into championship seasons in racing across the globe, it is nice to remember some of the good feelings about WOODBINE MILE day. The betting was booming and […]

  DAN IS IN DA HOUSE!!  Michael Burns photos     It is all WISE DAN, all the time here in Toronto, Ontario as we welcome back the winner of last year’s WOODBINE MILE and last year’s HORSE OF THE YEAR in North America. He’s currently on an 8 race winning streak, all graded stakes, […]

  KEENELAND DAY 1 – REGIS RACING BUYS $1.1 MILLION COLT BY UNBRIDLED’S SONG.. hip 100 at Keeneland, son of SW IRISH SMOKE by Smoke Glacken   Nat Rea’s REGIS RACING(3 starters 1-1-1, not including Regal Farm stats)  bought 4 yearlings at the first session of Keeneland yesterday including the above UNBRIDLED’S SONG colt. The […]

I apologize to TB owner Bruno Schickedanz for an error in two Toronto Star articles I wrote. Schickedanz did not violate the Woodbine rule I wrote about by having Wake at Noon on the training track at Woodbine. There was no such rule preventing Wake from training at the track. The ORC administration later accepted […]

    Still have to have hope for the future…Woodbine racetrack this morning..photo by Renee Kierans         Is the ONTARIO SIRED PROGRAM PAST ITS PRIME? does it need a change? Comments have come alive on THOROUGHBLOG since the select yearling sale had a 13% drop in average price on Tuesday. The open […]

  Dave Landry photo of the sale topping Perfect Soul (Ire) Tapatina colt yesterday at Woodbine.   It was not the results we were all looking for. The select yearling sale for Canadian-breds, held Tuesday by the CTHS (Ont) was supposed to make a little gain back to 2011, erasing somewhat the crash of 2012 […]

Let’s try and find another one of these!  (RNS, $25,000, you know who it is) Photo courtesy of Canadian Horse racing Hall of Fame Start the buzz! The sales grounds at Woodbine racetrack are busy with prospective buyers requesting long looks at some 300 yearlings, all Canadian-bred, selling this week. Interesting to see the young […]

  Dave Landry caught  owner Dennis Windsor (left) getting a sponge bath from Jim McAleney after Dennis and Christine’s WELLOILEDMACHINE won the Halton Stakes Wed. night.     Welcome to the middle day of the long weekend, the Labour day weekend that definitely has that feel to it..the backyard dinners and rinks soon to come […]

LIVE BLOGGING!!! **UPDATE….THE CANADIAN MILLIONS SALES STAKES NIGHT RESULTS GO GREELEY, Canada’s top 2yp colt, wins the Simcoe by inches! great night of racing at Woodbine,, all the best to owners, breeders , and horsepeople, consignors as we head into important week for this business… 10:03 p.m. LOGAN’S PEAK bought back for $6,500 at the […]

 Regis Racing roars! Woodbine Mile, waiting for the wise one and more!   NYRA PHOTO – ZINZAY all the way, first win for REGIS RACING   100 BEYER FOR DIMENSION Could come back in Woodbine Mile As we wait to find out what happens as far as WISE DAN coming or not coming to Woodbine […]

 REMEMBERING THE KING…. The Play the King Stakes is a favourite race of this site, I have presented the trophy to the winner in the past. Play the King was a champion and Horse of the Year in Canada. He was an incredible sprinter, a blocky, laid back gelding with obscure breeding. His race is […]

UP WITH THE BIRDS shakes clear of River Seven (3rd from left) and Global Express (2nd from left) to win the Breeders. Cindy Pierson Dulay/www.horse-races.net photo        IT’S GETTING CLOSE TO YEARLING TIME! Who is in the mood to buy a horse?  Everyone is at this time of year and on Monday, locals […]