PAYDAY! Ontario bred FASTESTWHOGETSPAID rushes up the rail to win Gazebo Stakes at Oaklawn yesterday – Oaklawn Park photo (read more below)       FORMER WOODBINE HORSE DANCIN DAVID TAKES GOLD CUP draws in from also eligible because of vet scratch Sir David Seale’s DANCIN DAVID (Omega Code – Miss Madeleine, by Woodman) and […]

Barbados essentially shuts down for Gold Cup day! Fingers crossed for better weather as rain has made turf course soft…local horses are the main players..read more below      Patrick Husbands with Dennis Rodman and Emile Ramsammy, Terence Dulay/horse-races.net     PATRICK HUSBANDS RIDES FAVOURITE IN BARBADOS but… HEAVY RAINS THREATEN RACE Champion Canadian rider […]

TOMORROW – BIG RACES FOR CASSE in New York/Kentucky, STEALCASE in the Gotham takes on HANSEN and DYNAMICAL in tiny field in Battaglia in Kentucky… TODAY..off to Woodbine! oh and HAPPY 50TH JON BON JOVI!!   The industry is banding together and crossing their fingers that, come the budget announcement in a couple of weeks, […]

**Thoroughbred owners and breeders are re-thinking being involved in the Ontario industry already. Big farms are hearing the rumblings and meanwhile, there has not been any communication to the industry from Dwight Duncan, Finance Minister, Dalton McGuinty, Premier, with regards to plans, if any, for the racetrack/slots revenue sharing program. read more below **Awful accident […]

Leap. Leap of Faith? Take a flying leap? LEAP YEAR! Welcome to Feb. 29, does it feel any different? Hey, it’s been 4 years since we had one? Toronto and parts around are getting a snowstorm right now – but then by Friday : 10 degrees??? (Celcius, that is almost 60F!).   Today news – […]

BILL WERNER leads in his horse SIMMARD after the McDiarmida yesterday – Werner owns the 7-year-old with Roger Attfield – EQUISPORT/JOE GANLEY photo     MONDAY NEWS – ATTFIELD/WERNER win Grade 2 race with 7yo Simmard! *UNION RAGS wow’s ’em,   *LIBERAL PARTY in Ontario airing dreadful, cheap-shot ads…   UNION RAGS dominates The early […]

 Taylor is the REAL DEAL!!! Canadian-bred heading to Santa Anita…his race is at 2:00 of the video below, read about his win at bottom of post There was good news for Canadians yesterday in horse racing land…TAYLOR’S DEAL won another stake at Turf Paradise  and is headed to Santa Anita, Avie’s Sense, Canadian-owned and trainer […]

 I was lucky enough to visit one of this year’s newest thoroughbred babies – this leggy, handsome fellow by Canada’s leading sire Old Forester. He was just a day old and enjoying some snooze time. His mum, Creekside Cafe, was very attentive, it’s her first foal, and this colt was in loving hands all around. […]

 THOROUGHBLOG has confirmed that the top 2-year-old Canadian-bred colt of last year, MARITIMER, has arrived in Dubai, according to reports in The National paper. The colt is owned by Ramzan Kadryov who has 2 horses competing in Dubai today including Moon Spun (Saf) in the UAE Oaks. Herman Brown trains for Kadryov in Dubai. MARITIMER […]

  Trainer Lorne Richards and True North may have a nice one in PERFECT TAY, maybe a Queen’s Plate horse,  read below…some Canadian winners, the Derby hero is back and other stuff….     Sparkling – A shiny morning at Payson Park in Stuart, Florida – photo by Janet Black     MY KINGDOM FOR […]

  OLD FORESTER, read more bottom of post, he’s in DRF news! Dave Landry photo       THANK YOU to comment-ers on Thoroughblog who have shared their letters and opinions, I have also received a lot of copies of letters sent to the government by horse breeders, owners and racing fans. Some passionate horsepeople […]

“Please Government of Ontario, don’t touch our horse racing industry, it’s important for thousands of people. I want there to be lots of good racing when I get older so I can make my family proud” A colt from the first crop of Marchfield, a double champion stallion, out of Hot Toy, owned by Barb […]

MINISTER OF FINANCE – DWIGHT DUNCAN (top), DON DRUMMOND, 302 cash-saving RECOMMENDATIONS COMING TOMORROW   BREAKING NEWS…**Newstalk 1010’s GERRY AGAR this morning will discuss horse racing and its future in Ontario…listen on line at www.newstalk1010.com, between 9 -12 **The Twitter-world, Facebook world are alive with comments and worries…let the Ontario government know!! See link below […]

  Fair Grounds photo   O JOY! IT’S A VICTORY! JOYFUL VICTORY runs CAREER BEST Beyer Figure Ontario bred JOYFUL VICTORY got back on the winning track with a win in the Tiffany Lass Stakes yesterday at Fair Grounds. The grey 4yo by Tapit – Wild Lucky Blac, Wild Again won by half a length […]

Winter is back at least for a couple of days, too bad it arrived on the weekend when the Woodbine backstretch opened…blowing, frigid wind, lots of snow, the good stuff! Meanwhile, BLACK CAVIAR is hotter than ever, winning last night in a common gallop, yes, I stayed up to watch. Hot action at Gulfstream today, […]