what a day of racing on Saturday – CALIFORNIA CHROME is a fun story, will get all the hype heading to the Derby, but what did he beat? WICKED STRONG made CONSTITUTION look really good winning the Wood Memorial with ease..Woodbine rider LUIS CONTRERAS wins his first Grade 1 race (but his Derby horse […]

                              Okay, it’s bitterly cold with flurries in southern Ontario – not yet spring. Better weather to come and WOODBINE opens next Saturday, the day after the SOVEREIGN AWARDS GALA (have your ticket yet?) We are going to keep warm today […]

  BIRD WATCHING KEENELAND ALLOWANCE ON SATURDAY READS LIKE A GRADED STAKE   Next week, UP WITH THE BIRDS and FORTE DEI MARMI are up for Sovereign Awards for champion 3yo colt and older male respectively, as well Horse of the Year. On Saturday, the 4yo Sam-Son colt and the 8yo Roger Attfield trained old […]

            BREAKING NEWS – TORONTO STAR REPORT Wynne antes up another $100 million for Ontario horse-racing Unlike her predecessor, Dalton McGuinty, Wynne is increasing support to the horse-racing industry to $500 million over five years — up from the $400 million she pledged in October. Premier Kathleen Wynne is sweetening […]

  Recapping the results and notes from racing yesterday – 10 hours of action.. below is also the live blogging section from yesterday morning..       LOUISIANA DERBY – 97 BEYER FOR VICAR’S IN TROUBLE Little itty bitty VICAR’S IN TROUBLE, owned by Ken and Sarah Ramsey’s , so impressive winning the Grade III […]

 Friday stuff on Thoroughblog – DUBAI WORLD CUP live blogging here tomorrow morning..FLORIDA DERBY and LOUISIANA DERBY are big races on the road to the Kentucky Derby, Fort Erie hanging in the balance..and more…       DUBAI WORLD CUP – TOMORROW MORNING watch and wager through Horseplayer Interactive (HPI)   Thoroughblog will have ‘live […]

POSTS FOR FLORIDA DERBY ON SATURDAY: 1-Wildcat Red 2-Matador(Canadian-bred owned by John Oxley, won Cup & Saucer) 3-Cairo Prince 4-Constitution 5-East Hall 6-General A Rod 7-Allstar 8-Spot   DUBAI WORLD CUP DRAW:      POST POSITION DRAWS FOR WORLD CUP RACES and FLORIDA DERBY today – RAINBOW PICK 6 carryover IS OVER $4 MILLION and […]

  NEWS UPDATE – MONDAY 6:30 P.M. – WE MISS ARTIE TO GO STRAIGHT TO KENTUCKY DERBY after returning to Palm Meadows training centre and trainer Todd Pletcher. ASSERTING BEAR will head to the TOYOTA BLUE GRASS at Keeneland. Trainer READE BAKER was pleased with ‘Bear’s Spiral run, “He was going along well, was pinched […]

  WE MISS ARTIE on to the Kentucky Derby, posts 85 Beyer Speed Figure in Spiral (G2) win)…read on..   WE LOVE ARTIE! Canadian-bred headed to Derby during 50th anniversary of the Dancer Canadian-bred 3-year-old colt WE MISS ARTIE, by Artie Schiller – Athena’s Gift by Fusaichi Pegasus got up in the last jump to […]

    Good luck to Canadians in big races today – ASSERTING BEAR for the Bear Stable, Reade Baker, WE MISS ARTIE and special hug to my buddy APPRENTICE HANOVER, at Yonkers tonight riding a 9 race winning streak…   SPIRAL AND SUNLAND, Derby preps this weekend The Sunland Derby is worth a whopping $800,000 […]

Welcoming a new soul into the horse racing world at Hill ‘n’ Dale. GLENN SIKURA helps out EXPECT THE END, who won over $200,000 and was a stakes winner by Precise End, as she delivers a Silent Name (JPn) colt. Thanks to Lorie Sikura for these awesome images of this special moment.  Good luck to […]

            CANADIAN WINNERS AND OTHER COOL CANADIAN NEWS   WHY KATHERINE is as tough as nails in the female grass category at Woodbine and the daughter of Whywhywhy, owned by Ontario’s TERRA RACING of Dom Romeo, won an allowance race at Gulfstream yesterday by an easy 5 lengths. She sizzled […]

      Congratulations to Queen’s Plate winner BIG RED MIKE, who has a new home:   Happy Friday – the snowbanks are super high again after another big snowfall in southern Ontario, here are some hot topics in racing to warm you up:   FULL SLATE OF STAKES FOR WOODBINE 2014 The release of […]

      MARCH OCALA 2YO SALE – BIG MONEY Led by a pair of colts that sold for $1.6 million, the Ocala March 2yo sale broke records on Tuesday with an increase in average of over 22% (up to over $190,000) per horse. An Ontario bred colt by DISTORTED HUMOR  ENDLESS JOURNEY by Storm […]

          PATRICK HUSBANDS COLLECTS 4TH BARBADOS GOLD CUP wins all 3 stakes on card, 1st jockey to do so   He may have lost most of 2013 due to a bad injury and he may not be nominated for a Sovereign Award for 2013 for the first time in many years, […]