SUNDAY MORNING UPDATE…Canadian-breds sweep 3 stakes races over open company! (Woodbine Mile picks over at JMbets.ca)   ERNIE AND DORY CONQUER WOODBINE (so does Husbands and Casse) The Conquest Stables of Ernie Semerky and Dory Newell  won both Win and You’re In Stakes races for 2yos on the grass yesterday at Woodbine while Patrick […]

      MILES OF SMILES Horse racing fans in Canada are pumped up for a big weekend of racing from coast to coast: Win and You’re In races at Woodbine and a huge BC Derby and BC Oaks card at Hastings Park on Sunday. Horsepeople are pumped with big fields and lots of chances […]

posts update at 3:50 p.m. –     WOODBINE MILE POST POSITION DRAW AT NOON Check in with THOROUGHBLOG for news from the post position draw for the WOODBINE MILE and the blockbuster racing card at Woodbine on Sunday! Nice story on jockey David Moran in the Toronto Sun today, Moran rides Jim and Susan […]

                            HAIR RAISING MILE COMING UP Gary Barber has 2 major contenders in super Mile line-up   Gary Barber is the latest Mark Casse owner to celebrate big wins at Woodbine, having won the Queen’s Plate with Lexie Lou this summer. On […]

    THE POT OF GOLD Many breeders and consignors got a taste of some riches on Tuesday and Wednesday when our Canadian-bred yearling sale got back some of its losses it experienced in the last 2 years. A select yearling average price hike of 50% was bettered by a 70% rise in open yearling […]

                    $325,000 PHILANTHROPIST COLT blows away Canadian Premier Yearling Sale Average up 50%, Tiller, Bear Stables and Mark Casse busy…  Gross     $4,466,000 Sold     135 Not Sold     52 Average     $33,081 Median     $15,000   2013 Gross     $3,003,000 Sold     137 Not Sold […]

    Photo from sales grounds yesterday by BERNARD MCCORMACK   IT’S CANADIAN PREMIER SALE DAY! You have the sales book, you have a bit of cash, pick out your trainer and select a nice year-old Thoroughbred today or tomorrow at Woodbine! There is a pumped up nature to the track these days as the […]

    TIME TO BUY A YEARLING! Breeders sell tomorrow – a labour of love   After  a tumultuous few years, breeders of Thoroughbreds in Ontario have fingers crossed that the industry is on the upward swing and that those precious horses they have raised will sell well tomorrow and Wednesday at Woodbine. The Canadian […]

♥  In both Thoroughbred and Standardbred racing on Saturday  fans saw some remarkable performances from WISE DAN at Saratoga to the 2yo pacers JKshealady and Artspeak, undefeated after big wins in the She’s A Great Lady and Metro Pace last night with the former equaling a world record time.   THIS POST IS DEDICATED TO […]

  ONTARIO SALES GRADUATES STRUT THEIR STUFF What a night at Woodbine with 6 sales stakes races on CANADIAN MILLIONS DAY at the track – a celebration of yearling/weanling graduates from the local sale and a VIP party to encourage new faces into the horse ownership game. Capping the night of excitement was a special […]

  Coming up tomorrow night at Woodbine – it is SALE STAKES night – the 2nd annual Canadian Millions sales Stakes day and hundreds of prospective new horse owners will attend the 3RD FLOOR VIP party and watch 6 stakes races Preview tomorrow morning – picks are up at JMBETS.CA   WOODBINE – SATURDAY AND […]

  After 71 racing day at WOODBINE, we are past the halfway mark of what has been a super intriguing season. There is more fun and excitement on the way. This site’s sister page – JMBETS.ca – has had almost 70,000 page views since it launched on the 1st of the 71 racing days. JMBETS […]

  THREE THINGS FOR ONTARIO RACING – coming up! OLG, CTV AND CTHS… “We’re all in this together” In the news this week is the much anticipated, long overdue planning meetings between OLG chair Philip Olsson and the Ontario Horse Racing Industry. There have been hundreds of weekly meetings between John Snobelen and others representing […]

                        GOT ONE! Ami’s Holiday was here and there in the Triple Crown before taking the Breeders’     “I think it speaks a lot for this horse. We talk a lot about horses not having the constitution that they used to, but this […]

      E.P.TAYLOR TURF TOUR – the 123rd BREEDERS’ STAKES BREEDERS’ S., $500,000, 3yo, (S), 1 1/2mT PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY TRAINER ML 1 Keen Gizmo Giant Gizmo Moreno Carroll 12-1 *The ‘other’ Ivan Dalos runner had a good turf debut, swapped leads a bunch of times in the stretch 2 Niigon Express Niigon […]