WOODBINE WINNERS ON THE WEEKEND…LONGRUN DAY COMING UP!…JUST RUSHING RETIRED    STUNNING STAG, photo by Dave Landry                                     MOVE LAST AND MOVE WIDE You could have sounded like a broken record if you were trying to decipher the […]

SATURDAY MORNING – JEFF BEGG AND JOHN CAREY hit the heights with big weanling sales at Keeneland.. longshots at Woodbine!..Autumn Stakes today means a lot for SOURTHDALE, ‘MIKE’ and we will be thinking of Bob too… NOTE….Friends of THOROUGHBLOG are seeking information on their former horses SILVER AGE (Nick Gonzalez) and RUN A BUCK (Tom […]

BOB ANDERSON REMEMBERED ON FRIDAY AT KEENELAND, SUNDAY – MONDAY in Ontario Keeneland will hold a gathering Friday at 9 a.m. in the paddock to honor the memory of Bob Anderson, who passed away Sunday night. Anderson, who had a consignment of 15 horses at the November sale, was the president of Anderson Farms, and […]

BOB ANDERSON PHOTO OF BOB, AT RIGHT, BY DAVE LANDRY The family will receive friends for visitation on Sunday, November 14, 2010 at the Sifton Funeral Home from 2-4 pm and 7-9 pm, 118 Wellington St, St. Thomas, ON.  Funeral Services will be held Monday, November 15, 2010 at 11 am at Knox Presbyterian Church, […]

  NO HOLLYWOOD ENDING Zenyatta runs out of racetrack (photo by www.horse-races.net,  Cindy Pierson Dulay) Who’s to blame? Or should it be said, who’s to Blame? Surely every single soul watching the stretch run of the Breeders’ Cup Classic last evening at about 7:46 p.m. was screaming with glee as super-mare ZENYATTA finally got rolling, […]

UNRIVALED ACTION Breeders’ Cup has it all, longshots, jockey fights and big-time controversy (“clearly she probably should not have run” – Todd Pletcher) You could not have asked for a more memorable first day of the 27TH BREEDERS’ CUP WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS, really. The very first race, the 1 3/4 mile MARATHON, saw Javiar Castellano make […]

  TERENCE DULAY captured Ladies’ Classic fave BLIND LUCK schooling yesterday at Churchill. She is a headline horse today in day 1 of the BREEDERS’ CUP!                 IT’S CUP DAY! Marathon, fillies, mares kick off 2-day Championships The long winded dudes (there is a filly in the race […]

BREEDERS’ CUP BEGINS TOMORROW! – Scratches include INDIAN GRACEY from Juv. Fillies, DELEGATOR IS DICEY for Mile, Canadians doing well…yatta yatta yatta      Where’s Zenyatta – like Where’s Waldo, can you see her as she is followed by a mob scene? Reed Palmer Photography       SOME CANADIAN NOTES FROM BREEDERS’ CUP yesterday […]

   ZENYATTA ARRIVES IN KENTUCKY – Reed Palmer Photography                AND MIKE SMITH WATCHES AS SHE LANDS… Reed Palmer photography     CANADIAN CONNECTED CONTENT (kinda) Former Windsor, Ont. resident J. Paul Reddam buys MANTOBA The 2yo colt MANTOBA attracted a new co-owner when J. Paul Reddam purchase  the […]

BREEDERS’ CUP POSTS DRAW TODAY! Canadian team offers a mix of hopes    HERE’S THE DISH (see that very cool dish face she has?) – DELIGHTFUL MARY is a contender in the Juvenile Fillies. Jockey Corey Fraser has been replaced by Shaun Bridgmohan by owner John Oxley/trainer Mark Casse. Cindy Pierson Dulay photo     […]

  It’s Breeders’ Cup week…and it’s ZENYATTA FRENZY!!   QUALITY ROAD, yesterday morning, on the outside in his workout for the Breeders’ Cup Classic – Reed Palmer Photography (Aikenite is on inside)     MISS THE ZENYATTA FEATURE ON 60 MINUTES? HELMET CAM IS VERY VERY COOL… http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7009219n&tag=mncol;lst;1 AND MICHELLE BONIFACE helps Producers understand the […]

YOU GOTTA WATCH THIS – preview for sunday’s big 60 minutes show…  http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7000239n     OPEN HOUSE TOMORROW! ADENA SPRINGS CANADA invites everyone to see its 8 stallions at the new stallion complex in Aurora tomorrow at an open house. The state of the art complex will house 12 stallions total, has a lab and […]

  MISS KELLER hugs her best friend in a quiet moment at Saratoga this summer. The Roger Attfield trainee is a contender in the Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mares Turf on Nov. 5 – photo courtesy of TOD MARKS PHOTOGRAPHY OVERFLOW! 184 entries is a record (of course they keep adding races all the time) […]

TUESDAY MORNING – MORE RAIN IN TORONTO, MORE TO COME… 5 WEEKS LEFT IN WOODBINE MEETING…CANADIAN CONTINGENT AT BREEDERS’ CUP DWINDLING…FASIG-TPTON KY, CANADIANS BUYING   PRE-ENTRIES TO BE RELEASED TOMORROW FOR NOV 5 AND 6 BREEDERS’ CUP EXTRAVAGANZA .. WHO HAS THE BEST CHANCE TO TAKE HOME A WIN FOR THE WOODBINE TEAM? SEND IN […]

  RAHY’S ATTORNEY WRAPS IT UP BUNTY-STYLE  Dave Landry photo For the third time, RAHY’S ATTORNEY won the BUNTY LAWLESS STAKES, taking the Saturday event at Woodbine on the engine and beating the ultra tough Sand Cove. The race, named for one of the best Canadian-breds of all time, is 1 mile on the grass […]