HAPPY SATURDAY MORNING – It’s ARLINGTON MILLION DAY, good luck to Canadian bred UP WITH THE BIRDS and Eurico da Silva It’s CANADIAN DERBY day at Northlands, read more below and the BREEDERS’ STAKES is tomorrow with a wide open field, a super betting race..                   […]

 It is BREEDERS’ STAKES WEEK – the Canadian Triple crown will be won by 3 different horses this year (this is the 9th time of this occurrence since Wando in 2003)  as LEXIE LOU, the Plate winner, and COLTIMUS PRIME, the Prince of Wales winner, are not in the probable 9-10 horse field…UP WITH THE […]

here is some jock talk…   CHANTAL SUTHERLAND-KRUSE returns to California   Agent DON PARENTE has confirmed that jockey CHANTAL SUTHERLAND-KRUSE has left Woodbine and returned to her home in California with husband Dan Kruse. “It was surprising,” said Parente, who has helped guide Sutherland-Kruse to $1.6 million in purse earnings at Woodbine and 28 […]

 Happy Tuesday –  KOFFEE GRINDER is 4 for 4 as one of Canada’s top 3yo males…PASO DOBLE, first 3-time winner of SHEPPERTON, STEVE ASMUSSEN trains winner of MANITOBA DERBY and more!       THIRD SHEPPERTON SCORE FOR PASO DOBLE The signs were there: a weird holiday weekend saw horses such as Palace Malice at […]

  Today’s post dedicated to Wizard.     It is SIMCOE DAY, or the CIVIC HOLIDAY or B.C. DAY – well, whatever part of Canada you are in today, this  holiday is called something else but there is a lot of horse racing action from coast to coast. It is B.C. CUP day T Hastings […]

   For more free picks and notes on the history of today’s stakes races, check out http://jmbets.ca!     MORENO upset the Whitney at Saratoga yesterday, leaving heavily favoured Palace Malice well back in 6th. The winner is an improving Ghostzapper colt who is from Danceinthesunlight, an unraced daughter of Dancethruthedawn. The Sam-Son female family […]

        IN HIS PRIME – 93 Beyer Speed Figure for Coltimus Prime                               COLTIMUS PRIME ran to the expectations put on him by his connections on Tuesday evening when he led all the way to win the Prince […]

  Happy Sunday –  just 2 days until the Prince of Wales at Fort Erie – making a road trip?  The field is listed below..     Post Positions for the 79th Prince of Wales Stakes Post positions were drawn this afternoon for the 79th running of the Prince of Wales Stakes.  The race will […]

    COLTIMUS  primes at the Fort Field for ‘Wales at 10     COLTIMUS PRIME worked between races 3 and 4 at Fort yesterday in the late afternoon to get a feel for the cozy track and its surface. The son of Milwaukee Brew, an allowance winner on Polytrack in June but 9th in […]

    Saturday’s Top Woodbine Beyer Speed Figures 98 – UP WITH THE BIRDS – Nijinsky S. 87 BIGSTORMBREWIN (turf) Clmng 84 RUNAWAY PEPPER  starter allowanc 82 FEW WHITE HAIRS MSW   NIJINSKY STAKES – GRADE 2 UP WITH THE BIRDS was happy to be on his home turf and even happier to have a […]

THE SPAAAAA!! –  Frankie Dettori arrives late for opening day, had to borrow riding clothes, but wins 2 in his first visit!       THOROUGHBLOG and JMBETS.CA JMBets. ca, the sister site to THOROUGHBLOG, is a free picks site with occasional notes about racing, stats and historical events. Yesterday’s JMBets column produced 6 winners […]

      4 SCORES FOR NICK AND MARTHA, 3 for TUCCIS Unspurned battles to Bison City bounty     Christine Hayden’s UNSPURNED, a popular pick in the Woodbine Oaks in her previous race, bounced back from that dull effort to win the Bison City Stakes at Woodbine on Sunday. It was the 2nd leg […]

                  TIME TO RE-CHARGE The wild week of Queen’s Plate news and action and racing is over and now it is time to re-charge and get ready for nice grass races, 2yo races and then the PRINCE OF WALES on Tuesday July 29 at Fort Erie. Who […]

  WEDNESDAY JULY 9 UPDATE –   The first reported casualty of the Queen’s Plate has come in: Bear Stables’ ASSERTING BEAR is retired for the year after emerging with bone bruising. The colt was a brilliant 3rd in the 1 1/4 mile Plate after attempting to lead all the way. Trainer Reade Baker said […]

 SUNDAY MORNING UPDATE – Welcome to Queen’s Plate day 2014. There has been more buzz about this year’s Plate than any other year in the 21st it seems – social media has a lot to do with that. Expecting a big crowd at Woodbine today and tons of hats.  As Paul Mott said on the […]