DR. MIKE COLTERJOHN One of our favourite people in the Ontario racing business has left us. Coming back from a short trip and finding out that one of your cohorts, acquaintances, friends, has passed away is always a shock. Dr. Mike Colterjohn was  an ace in our business, managing Gardiner Farms for that family […]

  610 CKTB NEWS REPORT Budget 2012 – Small lifeline thrown to Ontario’s horse racing industry 610 CKTB News 3/27/2012 Ontario’s horse racing industry could reap the benefits of a new advisory council. The budget tabled by the provincial government Tuesday includes the creation of a Jobs and Prosperity Council. The group would give the […]

  BUDGET TOMORROW – Will there be any more news about Ontario horse racing and the slots revenue deal? Waiting game…MARITIMER is in the UAE Derby after all…Contreras has 3 Derby mounts and..Florida 2yo sale!   MARITIMER GETS INTO UAE DERBY Top Canadian 2yo colt from 2011, MARITIMER, has indeed drawn into the UAE DERBY […]

  HORSE RACING ON FRONT PAGE OF NEW YORK TIMES, AND IT’S NOT PRETTY While we await the Ontario Budget on Tuesday and hope that our racing does not incur any more hits, the problem of the sport’s image is the biggest issue, isn’t it? This feature is long, and very tough to read, and […]

HAPPY SATURDAY – Mark Casse is at it again with some possible Kentucky Derby starters..Harold Howe writes about where the horses will go if racetracks start to disappear in Ontario..Melnyk bred a fave in Jamaican Grade 1…MONDAY – be downtown at the horse racing rally at Queen’s Park..READ ON!!   WHAT UP? here’s a newbie […]

have some news, comments, pictures to share? send it along to THOROUGHBLOG at the HORSE-CANADA.COM SITE -the only place for horse news across the world for every discipline! Coming up this weekend, Queen’s Plate contender INCREDICAT makes his 3yo debut at Gulfstream! Race 4 Saturday with JOSE LEZCANO UP!     PERFECT! Recent claim wins […]

  Arch Support (Arch) with Emma-Jayne Wilson up wins Allowance at Gulfstream on Monday. Owner: Lee Pokolk, Trainer: Gary Contessa, 03.17.2012 Gulfstream Park 9th race Photo by Joe Ganley edit         SHOOTING FOR THE STARS! Tu Endie Wei, expected to be named 2011 champion 2yo filly on April 5 at the Sovereign […]

BREAKING NEWS – MONDAY MORNING – Entries for the DUBAI WORLD CUP card of racing have been released and Canadians will notice that MARITIMER is not in the UAE DERBY field. He is on the reserve list.   MARITIMER (outside) snubbed in DUBAI M Burns photo     SUNDAY’S POST:  18 horses hit the Polytrack […]

    A REAL JEWEL – GEMOLOGIST  won his season debut yesterday Gulfstream with a 95 Beyer Figure – he is unbeaten and looking like a serious Kentucky Derby contender for WinStar   RETURN OF GRACE Just be fun to watch her return, but 5 horse field is not much of a betting event… http://www.nola.com/horseracing/index.ssf/2012/03/havre_de_grace_to_face_four_ri.html […]

You know what to do if you see this guy…     Two Paul Buttigieg trained horses zipped past the training track clockers stand on a damp, mild spring morning. It was Thursday March 15 and business was going on as usual on the backstretch of Woodbine racetrack, home to champion racehorses since 1956. The […]

  FORT ERIE STATUS QUO FOR 2012… NOTICE TO ALL FORT ERIE HORSEPEOPLE AND EMPLOYEES RE:   OLG STATEMENT – Wednesday, March 14, 2012   ·         Today, the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Commission announced that the slot operation at Fort Erie Race Track would close at the end of business on Monday, April 30th. ·         […]

 What have you missed on Thoroughblog? Clock on the recent posts and check it out – from breaking news at HASTINGS PARK, to the current lists of Favourite books I have read recently and top Queen’s Plate contenders. TODAY’S NEWS – Equipment changes are so important in racing when you are trying to bet on […]

  Yours truly visited the famed WINDFIELDS FARM a couple of weeks ago on a gorgeous winter morning.     Whew, the April 2012 Canadian Thoroughbred magazine – the 130-page STATISTICAL REVIEW of 2011, is off the presses and in it, you can find tons of neat facts and figures about racing across Canada from […]

  SUPER BABY! The most anticipated birth in thoroughbred racing in years finally occurred! Champion Zenyatta had a baby boy last night just after 10 p.m., with a white star and some white on his feet. The colt is by Bernardini and Ann moss took this photo. Congrats Zenyatta!             […]

  FUTURE STAR? Kingsgate Farm (Krista Kocot) shared this photo of a new arrival a colt from the first crop of multiple champion MARCHFIELD out of Brave Diva (Theatrical). The mare is a full sister to promIsing 2yo ALDOUS SNOW.   WOODBINE 32 DAYS AND COUNTING Wacky winter weather has played havoc with training in […]