SHADE

  Some awesome races this weekend at Woodbine as we head into WOODBINE OAKS week! (race is June 3)…older horses on the sked this weekend but there is a 3yo race for Queen’s Plate hopefuls on Sunday… WOODBINE WEEKEND PREVIEW PENDER HARBOUR, by Dave Landry     Just over a week to the WOODBINE OAKS, […]

IDOL

WHO WANTS TO RUN AGAINST DIXIE STRIKE IN THE OAKS? not many! Read more below   Norm Files photo       80 TO 1 WINNER AT WOODBINE Longshot players rejoice! Public handicappers…ouch! Okay, so as a public handicapper, I have to be happy that a) I had one winner on top on the card […]

CLEAR

    BELMONT STAKES MADNESS BEGINS (let us know what you think, a Triple Crown winner or no?? Be prepared for a lot of wacky media coverage, especially from those who don’t know much about the game…see CNN STORY BELOW The first long weekend for the summer is complete, the weather was hot and bright. […]

BUILD

  Horse racing men, women and fans rejoice, it will be a fun 3 weeks! I’ll Have Another is the real deal, clocks a 109 Beyer Speed Figure   In an incredible show of determination and ability, I’LL HAVE ANOTHER is one win away from greatness. Cindy Pierson Dulay       AND ANOTHER!! Racing […]

MIDDLE

in memory of WOODBOURNE…                             does speed ball Bodemeister hang on this time? just 2 weeks later? Cindy Pierson Dulay photo     and without further delay, THOROUGHBLOG’S PREAKNESS ANALYSIS..!   PREAKNESS ANALYSIS   Saturday, Pimlico Racetrack, post time: 6:18 p.m. EDT […]

HILL

Thursday news – PREAKNESS set to go Saturday…long weekend in Canada with 3 racing days this weekend…go Emma!!     ABSOLUTELY go and see CAVALIA: ODYSSEO, forget what you know about Cavalia, this is stunning, live music gorgeous horses, incredible sets. It’s in Toronto right now.       PREAKNESS (Contreras mount I’ll Be Clever […]

SECOND

How about Dixie Strike returning to Woodbine and scoring big! Now to the Oaks…Eugene Melnyk has Plate contender, colt won yesterday and goes straight to Plate now….Contreras gets re-hired for Preakness Dixie Strike romps in the Selene, onto the Oaks! Norm Files photo HOMER Dixie strikes back at home With a quick turn of foot […]

MUM

  Happy Mother’s Day!  Kiss your mom and your broodmares today! Ace photographer NORM FILES captures JUSTIN STEIN giving a pat to the super 3yo colt STRAIT OF DOVER. Mp BC bred horse has ever won the Queen’s Plate.     STRAIT AND STRONG B.C. bred colt sails in Marine Sailing and waterway puns aside, […]

REV

  A short hiatus for Thoroughblog as the exciting QUEEN’S PLATE PREVIEW issue is sent to the printers,yes, there is a bit of space to wait for the results of races this weekend (Marine etc.). With horses like INCREDICAT, STRAIT OF DOVER (enough with the water, sailing puns!), PRINCE RAPHAEL, DIXIE STRIKE, SHAKESPEARE’S BREW and […]

GLORY

‘ANOTHER’ GREAT DERBY – tho’ 101 Beyer Speed Figure below par     I’LL HAVE ANOTHER (second from right) ON HIS WAY to Derby glory Cindy Pierson Dulay at www.horse-races.net   I’LL HAVE ANOTHER (the name is in reference to an after-dinner cookie) won the Kentucky Derby in the final strides of what was a […]

BRIGHT

KENTUCKY OAKS DAY! who is your pick, we have some picks for you below, comments and little stories on all the action…FORT ERIE cards 1st day on SUNDAY..let’s go!   **Notice to the Ontario Horse Racing Industry Please be advised that MPP Monte McNaughton’s private members’ bill C76 passed with a vote of 57/19 (Thursday) […]

SPIKE

  The BUZZ horse at the Derby is TAKE CHARGE INDY…here he is yesterday with Calvin Borel, looking pumped and primed. Cindy Pierson Dulay photo   THE FIELD IS SET FOR THE KENTUCKY DERBY! D. Wayne Lukas calls this field of horses one of the best he has ever seen and certainly there are a […]

ROSE

 WOODBINE WEDNESDAY NIGHT RACING IS BACK, Toronto Thoroughbred Racing Club meets tonight at the track…Kentucky Derby week in full force, Canadians in action in Oaks and Derby..let’s go! Below is yesterday’s Backstretch Buzz at Churchill with Jill Byrne and a funny interview with NFL commentator/player TERRY BRADSHAW:     BODEMEISTER, could be the favourite Did […]

ZING

Prospective galloped under Juan Bernardini last Tuesday morning. Credit: Churchill Downs/Reed Palmer Photography           OOOO, AWESOME RUSH A series of runners posted Beyer Figures in the 80s yesterday at Woodbine but it was the manner of victory of some of them that made any racing fan and handicapper go, ooooo. NORTHERN […]

RODEO

  And that’s why they call it freaky Friday in the racing world (at least we do at Woodbine)…no shortage of story lines yesterday with some old fashion wild West stuff at Woodbine, 3 wins for BEAR STABLES, Kabel back in the winner’s circle and a stunning 2yo debut by a Canadian owned and trained […]