You got it! Gary Stevens and Oxbow. Cindy Pierson Dulay photo     All aboard! Tomorrow is the day, a day to push a casino at Woodbine,  push your councillors, push your city that there is no other place for expanded casino and entertainment – beside the airport! What else will all those people […]

  You ready for today? WILL TAKE CHARGE IS..Cindy Pierson Dulay photo     EMMA-JAYNE WILSON, one of the continent’s best riders, shows then how its done winning the Battle of Sexes Jockeys Challenge at Pimlico. The website www.horse-races.net got the scoop: The $34,000 Xpressbet “Battle of the Sexes” Jockey Challenge, has a team of […]

WYNNE-FIELDS NORTHERN DANCER PAVILLION:  landmark building at CFC will house multi-discipline programs WOODBINE ENTERTAINMENT GROUP’S leader NICK EAVES talks with PREMIER KATHLEEN WYNNE at the old Windfields.CFC on Wednesday. Tom Sandler photos     Walking through the property of the Canadian Film Centre on Bayview Avenue in Toronto one can almost feel the presence of […]

Okay, well, now the focus of yours truly does not stray to the Leafs anymore (NEXT YEAR?  that division they will be in is much much tougher)   STARTING OVER….ASKING FOR A LONGTERM PLAN FOR RACING Postmedia News By Matthew Pearson, OTTAWA CITIZEN OTTAWA — Premier Kathleen Wynne has asked a panel of former MPPs […]

You gotta Be-Leaf! –Game 7 tonight! Norm Files photo of Consolidator Joe last fall     OH, IT’S SO JOE!!  CONSOLIDATOR JOE ….SETS TRACK RECORD!! Woodbine is on a break until Friday and the chillin weather really made things faster on the weekend – yesterday the previous 6 1/2 furlong track record set by HORSE […]

*Thoroughblog is looking for advertiser’s – 1 year for $600.00 for a button on the right, please join the Thoroughblog team and advertise today!   WHAT’S THE BUZZ? QUEENSTON STAKES is a longshot festival     BLACK HORNET rebounded from a drab run in the Woodstock Stakes to lead all the way and win the […]

HAVE YOUR COPY of CANADIAN THOROUGHBRED May 2013 yet? Most bookstores sell it or get a subscription now! Thank you to readers/commenters who corrected me on ARTIC TUNDRA’S big effort in his debut last weekend – he is indeed trained by Franz Crean! Check out Thoroughblog’s LISTS on the home page – such as this […]

  almost as popular as ORB’S Kentucky Derby win was the furious rally of PYRITE MOUNTAIN to win the Wando Stakes at Woodbine and surge up the list of Queen’s Plate contenders….   STREAKIN! Pyrite Mountain  strips Horse of the Year Uncaptured in the stretch Some may have been surprised but the few who picked […]

 The mud has settled, it’s Derby hangover day – but racing at Woodbine and we will see which colt John Oxley will race in the WANDO STAKES today – UNCAPTURED or DYNAMIC SKY. The Queenston is next Saturday, 7 furlongs suiting Dynamic Sky better than Uncaptured. Meanwhile, both have been working hard all year and […]

DERBY DAY UPDATE: The first Saturday in May. For those of us who live and breathe horse racing, it is the most special day. We remember life events by using the Derby as a monument. I remember watching the Derby on an old transistor mini-TV when I snuck away from a family member’s wedding (who […]

Horse racing and hockey – if you are one of these, it does not get better than this week – NHL playoffs and the Kentucky Oaks and Derby!   REMEMBER 30 YEARS AGO THIS WEEKEND…..       TOOT TOOT  HAAA BEEP BEEP – BAD GIRL! ACTING NAUGHTY won a simply bizarre renewal of the […]

NORM FILES caught ESSENCE HIT MAN and Jesse Campbell at the wire of the Jacques Cartier.     DEADLY ESSENCE HIT MAN loves the spring. So much that he won the JACQUES CARTIER STAKES at Woodbine for the THIRD YEAR in succession. On a bright, sunny and simply super day at Woodbine yesterday, the Hit […]

  It’s a new dawn, a new day – day 4 of Woodbine 2013! And it should be a BEAR of a Jacques Cartier Stakes today!  This image, entitled New Dawn, was taken by Renee Kierans.     CLASSICAL HUMOUR (8)  rallied up the rail and then battled Samantha Royale to the wire and won […]

MICHAEL VAN EVERY (photo of Mark Samuel (left) and Michael Van Every)     A friend of racing was lost to us two nights ago. Michael Van Every loved horse racing, was an owner and a breeder and a champion of the health of the industry.         His big horse was CHARLIE’S […]

How was your opening weekend at Woodbine?  So much to look forward to and lots of fun things to do as far as handicapping and learning about horse racing. Don’t forget to visit www.hbpa.on.ca to check out latest racing news, horsepeople news etc. And of course, IN THE WINNER’S CIRCLE, the new weekly podcast on […]