The wild finish to the Mile – COURT VISION (9) surges, TURALLURE (grey) was one jump from winning and GOLDIKOKA ran bravely (far right), but wiped out horses in the stretch. Renee Kierans photo     EMMA-JAYNE, IAN BLACK, BIG RUN AT BREEDERS’ CUP and a HUGE weekend for Ontario sires!! **”He’s going to Canada […]

JUST PERFECT – PERFECT SHIRL wins for Canadians Charles Fipke and Roger Attfield – www.horse-races.net photo     Canadian Hall of Fame trainer ROGER ATTFIELD, 71, got his first Breeders’ Cup win after 14 attempts yesterday when PERFECT SHIRL stormed down the Churchill grass course and won the $2 million Filly & Mare Turf over […]

  ROCKET TWENTYONE, a Canadian-bred from Josham Farms and Yvonne Schwabe, competes in the Juvenile Fillies today. www.horse-races.net photo       IT’S BREEDERS’ CUP DAY 1! Scratches – Gung Ho, Medaglia d’Amour…track conditions in question Well, if you saw Churchill yesterday you know it was s ea of soupy slop and the grass course […]

 BREEDERS’ CUP 28 – STARTS TOMORROW!! LOVE THOSE EARS! Spring contender EUROEARS is by Canadian-bred sire LANGFUHR, photo by Cindy Pierson Dulay       NORTHERN PASSION – well named She may be American owned by NORTHERN PASSION is all Canadian. The sleek chestnut filly is from the successful breeding operation of Mel Lawdon, who […]

  Gorgeous colt FLAT OUT worked like a monster at Churchill this week and will be tough in Saturday’s Breeders’ Cup Classic….if you get a chance and can find it (!), the workout is something to watch. Breeders’ Cup website photo   BREEDERS’ CUP WEEK Friday at around 4 p.m. the 28th BREEDERS’ CUP gets […]

American owned and bred EXCAPER is a starter in the Breeders’ Cup for Woodbine based Ian Black and jockey Emma-Jayne Wilson – Norm Files photo   6 WOODBINE BASED HORSES, BIG ODDS at BREEDERS’ CUP 28 Canadian interest in the BREEDERS’ CUP 2-day extravaganza begins Friday in the 2nd event, the Juvenile Fillies Turf (4:50 […]

from Maryland Jockey Club – the scene in the ‘circle’     STILL GOING! RAPID REDUX 19 STRAIGHT AND TIES RECORD Zenyatta is in a world of her own and boy, do we miss her. But the accomplishment of winning 19 consecutive races is something that cannot be overstated. I have watched RAPID REDUX (Pleasantly […]

(Above, TURRALURE gobbles up ground in his workout at Keeneland. He is a son of Canadian champ WANDO, and the WOODBINE MILE winner)   OKAY, THE PRE-ENTRIES ARE OUT, NOW WHAT? The scrambling for past performances has begun and soon, the blogs, websites and trade papers will be full of an opinion from just about […]

  The entries are out, LOTS of horses, a few locals….let’s handicap! (I have listed some fields but the 2 day event can be found on any website by now) PRE-ENTRIES! CANADIAN BASED OR BRED: EXCAPER  1ST ae PROSPECTIVE  in SPIRITED MISS ae NORTHERN PASSION in GRAND ADVENTURE in HARD NOT TO LIKE in PERFECT […]

    STALLION AT ATTENTION – Top Canadian sire MILWAUKEE BREW shows off for the owners and breeders in Ontario at the Adena Springs 2nd annual Stallion Show – Janis Maine photo   COOL DUDES – Celebrating Canadian at Adena Breeders, owners and SOME trainers were at the 2nd ANNUAL ADENA SPRINGS STALLION SHOW yesterday […]

Have you sent in your photos of Canadian racing to be considered for a Sovereign award? contact the Jockey Club of Canada and submit your photo! Norm Files – “Flowers for a Plate winner”   HEAVY RAIN TOO MUCH FOR POLY For the first time since it was installed 5 years ago, Woodbine’s Polytrack could […]

  This post dedicated to a keen racing fan, horse lover, and all ’round super person, Lynne Kehlbrier   **THOROUGHBLOG has cleaned up some loose ends – check out the LISTS on the main page of THOROUGHBLOG ..www.canadianthoroughbred.com/thoroughblog – the top 10 Canadian breds, Canadian owned, or trained horses for the BREEDERS’ CUP (16 days! […]

SARAH LYNX runs one of the fastest races on turf at Woodbine….35 days left of the Woodbine meeting following the biggest day of the season – lots of upsets and longshots and a local gal wins for the Hall of Famer Roger Attfield…. See ya boys!! SARAH LYNX kicked the grass of 15 boys…Cindy Pierson […]

  IT’S AN INTERNATIONAL CELEBRATION AT WOODBINE! The last big day of the local racing season is here and while the weather is not great, cold, grey and wet, the racing card is jam packed full of some cool horses from all over the world. The grass course was used once yesterday, for the important […]

BREAKING NEWS – Frankel IS 9 FOR 9 AFTER STUNNING, HARD WORKING SCORE IN QUEEN ELIZABETH  at Ascot – could have been caught but he powered ahead…hope we see this superstar at the Breeders’ Cup!…notes for today’s Woodbine races, the big races tomorrow….keep reading!   CUP AND SAUCER KICKS OF SUPER WEEKEND The turf will […]