Field Crop News: Buying Horse Hay When Supplies Are Tight Many horse owners are finding it especially challenging this year to find and purchase suitable hay at a price they can afford. Hopefully, the low hay yields due to dry weather in 2012 will be short term in nature. However, there are also long […]

  NEWS – Woodbine Entertainment Group Negotiations Ongoing Deloitte Touche LLP is still in the process of conducting their audit of Woodbine Entertainment Group’s finances. In the interim, the Woodbine Entertainment Group (WEG) and the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation (OLG) continue to negotiate a lease agreement for floor space for the slots at Woodbine Racetrack. […]

  Tampa Bay photo     EXPLOSIVE – Dynamic Sky wins Pasco Stakes with 88 Beyer Figure It was deja vu all over again for John Oxley, Mark Casse and Luis Contreras on the 2nd Saturday in January as they combined to win the 14th Pasco Stakes at Tammpa Bay Downs. They won the race […]

          DAVE LANDRY visited the horses at WINDHAVEN in Caledon recently and some were really interested in the goings on!         CANADIAN BRED DYNAMIC SKY is in the Pasco today Tampa Bay Downs. The Sky Mesa – Murani 3yo has Luis Contreras board for the 7 furlong race. […]

 The big purchase by Canadian NAT REA in the ring – she’s a very calm young lady that’s for sure! Canadian NAT REA, owner of the new REGIS FARMS in King City, paid $1.45 million for this Kentucky bred gal, a short yearling,  by Street Sense yesterday at Keeneland…on the first day of the sale, […]

UPDATE – Ottawa Citizen’s Louisa Taylor, on slots, racing and saving horses http://www.ottawacitizen.com/sports/Part+BETTING+FUTURE/7781745/story.html   Canadian-bred HARD NOT TO LIKE win big at Gulfstream! Coglianese photo from Gulfstream     WE LIKE   WE LIKE!!! 94 Beyer for HARD NOT TO LIKE off year layoff in graded stake She was a favourite for the Queen’s Plate […]

PUBLIC ENEMIES –  THOROUGHBLOG’S trip to beautiful WINDHAVEN in Caledon was a great experience. Cold, mind you, but fun to see some of the stars at Bill Graham’s lavish spot. **CLARIFICATION – One news item about my trip to WINDHAVEN (not any other farm) was that instead of them foalin40-50 mares this year, the farm […]

  HAPPY NEW YEAR! HAPPY BIRTHDAY HORSES!! and all the best for 2013! It’s the CHINESE YEAR OF THE SNAKE – yours truly’s year!!           WHAT WAS YOUR FAVOURITE MOMENT OF 2012? From FRANKEL to BLACK CAVIAR to CAMELOT to  I’LL HAVE ANOTHER to WISE DAN – these were the big […]

  Come out of the holiday slumber yet? Or still nursing that head cold, cough, flu, or all of the above? Or are you right back at work? THOROUGHBLOG will dot the posts this week with some fun memories from 2012 but lets get some current issues and news items out of the way   […]

          JAKE IS UNDER THE CHRISTMAS TREE, wishing everyone a wonderful holiday season, a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. May you be happy and healthy!   PRESS EXCLUSIVE UPDATE.. from Transition Thoroughbreds from Transition Thoroughbreds (for more on Press Exclusive’s plight, see the latest blog posting called ACCOUNT) My […]

 “I’ve been running, always running…. Now I ain’t running anymore” – Jon Bon Jovi     Just thought about the new song from the movie Stand Up Guys when I think of a great horse racing year, the excitement to come as well as the hard times ahead for people and horses. It is business […]

HEATHCOTE (90 Beyer) won the Valedictory by 12 lengths under Emma-Jayne Wilson for Chiefswood Stabel ans trainer Paul Attard. Norm Files photo     WOODBINE WRAPS UP 2012,  LAYOFFS BEGIN The disastrous results of Dalton McGuinty’s  absurb move to go ahead with a plan to curtail the Slots at Racetracks Program have been felt all […]

The day has finally come, the last day of the 2012 Woodbine meeting. This is the latest the season has ever ended but it is expected to be ( degrees Celcius today (about 50 Fahrenheit). Go out and enjoy great racing, give your friends and co-workers hugs and wish them all the best for the […]

  for Matt TORONTO STAR FEATURE ON WOODBINE CLOSING DAY    The racetrack saved Jay Mazzuca’s life. It is not an exaggeration to say that about many of the 2,000 men and women who groom, ride and walk thoroughbreds on the Woodbine backstretch from February to December every year. For Mazzuca, he says his troubled […]

Norm Files caught AUNT ELS winning the Ontario Lassie Stakes on Sunday at Woodbine     The final week of racing is here, with 8 races on Wed. and Thurs.  The season ends with bigger cards on Friday, Sat. and Sunday. Not a lot of horses and people are left but there is still some […]