27 days until 1st card at Woodbine! 2YO SALE IN FLORIDA TODAY, BLACK ONYX STRAIGHT TO DERBY, UNCAPTURED TO BLUE GRASS..BIG WEEKEND COMING UP! Thoroughblog wants to thank Woodlands for a lovely visit on Sunday. Great to see PENDER HARBOUR looking sleek and happy, and what a gentleman he is! Coming up this week, the […]
Happy Saturday morning..bright sunshine in southern Ontario, still colt and icy but for sure, better days ahead…big day for Canadian boys today! Picks are below! Dave Landry photo KENTUCKY DERBY DREAM 50 points for winning the HORSESHOE It is a big afternoon for some Kentucky Derby hopefuls at Turfway Park in Florence, Ky. and […]
Happy Friday ! Did you watch the great mare BLACK CAVIAR this morning? Gorgeous photo of a newborn colt by STRUT THE STAGE out of CHEROKEE LYNN, by CHEROKEE RUN, foaled at Kingsgate Stud in the Niagara Region. Kingsgate (http://www.kingsgatestud.com) is home to one of Ontario’s most underrated stallions, LEGAL JOUSTING, who crosses […]
Fear the Kitten, photo by Steve Queen, one of 11 to be feared by UNCAPTURED on Saturday UPCAPTURED LEFT OCALA FOR TURFWAY PARK TODAY John Oxley’s Canadian-bred Uncaptured, the probable champion 2yo in Canada come the April 19 Sovereign Awards, is leaving Ocala today for Turfway Park and a start in Saturday’s Spiral […]
BREAKING NEWS – It took him almost a year to go through some 350 complaints from people like yours truly and others and then Ontario Ombudsman ANDRE MARIN will not investigate the cancellation of SARP http://www.northumberlandview.ca/index.php?module=news&type=user&func=display&sid=21153 Happy Tuesday – WISE DAN worked 6 fur. in 1:13 this morning at Keeneland, can’t wait to see […]
Top of the Morning to you! Lots of Comments on yesterday post about some popular Canadian horses…Aiken Trials are fun for Canadians…Joyful Victory! CANADIAN JOY JOYFUL VICTORY has her Grade 1 win. The Canadian-bred Tapit mare, bred in Caledon by Bill Graham, powered her way to a strong win in the Santa Margarita at Santa […]
Norm Files photo NICE CASE has died. The grey speedster who was bred by Minshall Farms and he won 10 of 25 races and $193,573. He had been racing for Fred Nixon and was trained by Justin Nixon during his stay in Canada. The son of Gold Case was a winner at […]
Good luck to STORMY LORD, millionaire was claimed last weekend – Cindy Pierson Dulay photo TWO CANADIAN-BREDS STAY IN THE U.S. – STORMY LORD CLAIMED! Both originally went unsold at auction STORMY LORD and HAVERHILL had mixed results last week in Florida. However, both Canadian-owned and Canadian-bred geldings are in the care […]
GOT YER NOSE! Hall of Fame trainer ROBERT TILLER is now a breeder! Tiller and Rolph Davis are the proud owners of this guy by OLD FORESTER out of VICTORIA’S DESTINY, born on FEB. 13 . ROBERT TILLER photo WHAT A WILD DAY IN RACING From the riderless FORT LARNED “winning” the Gulfstream […]
“There is room in Ontario for horse racing, health care and education. The money for it is going to change” – Kathleen Wynne, Premier of Ontario The mini press conference at Grand River Raceway in Elora, ON at lunch time brought together media and government sorts to announce that 4 other tracks, all small […]
CANADIANS HAVE BIG DAY AT THE RACES…116 BEYER FIGURE FOR GAME ON DUDE and a giant takes the Gold Cup Clearly, the Birds are Gold…Canadians have big day “A simple plot But I know one day Good things are coming our way” – Coldplay, “Up With the Birds” UP WITH THE BIRDS needed […]
photos nominated for a SOVEREIGN AWARD include RACING ON THE WEB, by assistant trainer Jeff Bowen. The photo first appeared on THOROUGHBLOG. Mike Burns Jr. is also nominated for UNDER THE FENCE.. AND TREVOR REYNOLDS‘ cool shot of a […]
Emma-Jayne Wilson captured this intriguing image of RIVER RUSH at rest at Palm Meadows. The Plate Trial winner is owned by Stronach Stables. WHO WILL WIN 2013 BARBADOS GOLD CUP? several past winners square off Saturday afternoon Who will win the 2013 Gold Cup? 2/28/2013 ON Saturday the Barbados Turf Club will stage […]
Greg de Gannes (far right) and the Stritzl family at a Queen’s Plate barbecue with CURGONE – Cindy Pierson Dulay photo REMEMBERING GREG DE GANNES: From the DeGannes family – “We have decided to direct donations to the Longrun Thoroughbred Society as well as the Crohn’s and Colitis Society of Canada. There is […]
ONTARIO HORSE HAS LOST ANOTHER FRIEND: GREG DE GANNES 1963-2013 It is with great sadness that I write this after learning about this today. It appeared on social media early this morning and T-Blog has had confirmation from friends.family. Born in Trinidad & Tobago in 1963, Greg De Gannes came to Canada in 1973 […]
