SOMETHING SO STRONG WOODBINE MILE IS TODAY, HOW ABOUT CROWDED HOUSE?..WHO WILL RIDE COURT VISION FOR IEAH AND DUTROW?      will we see this today? GRAND ADVENTURE, Patrick Husbands and owner Rick Balaz?? Many people think so… Terence Dulay photo                           SUMMER […]

 FRIDAY, TGIF – WOODBINE MILE STUFF, BIG RAIN FOLKS…WHAT WILL TURF BE LIKE?                     NICK EAVES said it succinctly at the post position draw for the Woodbine Mile yesterday – “We have 2 distinct meets at Woodbine – our 3-year-olds and the Triple Crown and out […]

  THURSDAY MORNING – HEAVY HEAVY RAIN TODAY FOLKS….draw for the WOODBINE MILE, NORTHERN DANCER ETC…FIELDS LOOK GOOD FOR THE BIG ONES…ANDERSON SELLS BIG ONE AT KEENELAND     WOODBINE MILE ENTRIES – tune in later for the posts Auteur/Bruce Lunsford/Barbara Minshall/Mike Smith    Court Vision/IEAH Stables & Resolute Group/Rick Dutrow/Robby Albarado Crowded House/Burrell, Harvey […]

WEDNESDAY’S NEWS – WHEW, THE NEXT ISSUE OF CANADIAN THOROUGHBRED is almost set to print (Woodbine Mile goes in Sunday)…speaking of the Mile – wow, pretty good field aye?? Uh oh, Alberta racing loses it big, big trainer…. CHIEFSWOOD BUYING BIG AT KEENELAND THE USUAL Q.T. – a favourite for the Woodbine Mile – Vanessa […]

WOODBINE MILE POSSIBLE ENTRIES STRAIGHT STORY GIO PONTI SMOKEY FIRE VICTOR’S CRY VIOLON SACRE THE USUAL Q T FAMOUS NAME COURT VISION WOODBOURNE AUTEUR GRAND ADVENTURE ZIFZAF RIVIERA COCKTAIL   SUNDAY MORNING – LOCAL BUYERS busy at sale yesterday…week wrap up   RAVEN`S REVENGE It was murder for DANCING RAVEN to get past that pesky […]

    ZIFZAF, third in the Fourstardave Stakes is headed to Woodbine Mile – he’s the one on the far left.   JUDDMONTE INVADES AGAIN – FAMOUS NAME TO WOODBINE MILE GROUP 3 WINNER FAMOUS NAME (Dansili) passed up on the Arlington Million and will come for the Woodbine Mile next week for Juddmonte, which […]

  FRIDAY’S NEWS YEARLING SALE DOWN, SALES STAKES WILD..WOODBINE MILE COMING UP NEXT WEEK, COULD SMOKEY FIRE BE FAVOURITE??   DID YOU KNOW …. That lost in the shuffle of YEARLING SALES STAKES DAY was the wild SUPERFECTA FINISH of 4 juveneile by OLD FORESTER?  CALIUS, CITIUS, URBAN FORESTER AND NEAR EXPECTATIONS combined for an […]

SALES STAKES DAY, YEARLING SALES TOMORROW – but we’ve lost a great guy THOROUGHBLOG will miss our very good friend BOB SUMMERS, the HAPPY HANDICAPPER… He loved the racing, he covered the Canadian Triple Crown in depth and enthusiastically every year for the BUFFALO NEWS, and for sure he was getting ready for the Woodbine […]

  TODAY’S SUNDAY NEWS – QUALITY ROAD bounces back to win Woodward in workmanlike fashion , he got a 106 Beyer Figure, HOOH WHY upsets, TWISTED WIT is retired! guess who is having fun?? TWISTED WIT! Finally, thanks to a super group of folks out there, this guy has been retired from racing after winning […]

 CAN TRIBAL BELLE GET BACK ON TRACK? May have only 3 to beat tomorrow in the Seaway…Dave Landry photo   TOP CANADIAN BREDS FOR 2010 1 – EL BRUJO (106) 2 – STERWINS (103) 3- ESSENCE HIT MAN (100) 4. Society’s Chairman (95) 5 Grand Adventure (105) 6 Smokey Fire (103) 7. Rahy’s Attorney (95) […]

SEPT 1 NEWS – GOSH, the fall is here, although it does not feel like in currently in southern Ontario, it’s a heatwaaaave….LONG WEEKEND comin up, yearling sales stakes day on Monday and the sale on TUESDAY!   SEE YOU IN SEPTEMBER 1st of the month and the fun is just beginning YEARLING SALES, LONG […]

  NEW, EMPIRE STABLE OPEN HOUSE TOMORROW!! 12-30 – 4:30 Come out to NICOLE UMIKER`S new boarding stable, EMPIRE STABLE, just 5 min north of highway 9 on Highway 50, (just across and up from T and T Stud) near Loretto, Ontario. A former jockey Umiker is looking for clients for her new business which […]

In Memory of WAKE AT NOON   BRUNO SCHICKEDANZ DENIED INTERIM RELIEF   The hearing requested by Bruno Schickedanz has wrapped up as far as testimony is concerned and while final written arguments are composed and then submitted and the ORC comes to a final ruling, Schickedanz still cannot stable or race his horses at […]

  SUNDAY MORNING – it’s grey and rainy today…expect a very soft course for the Sky Classic Stakes at Woodbine today… NO HESITATION – none at all, he’s the best but Canadian Derby marred by accident The grey streak NO HESITATION fought off a very game KARA’S ORIENTATION, the Woodbine invader, to win the CANADIAN […]

  AROUND THE WORLD (okay North America) with ROGER ATTFIELD Woodbine, Arlington, Del Mar, Saratoga. That’s where you will find stakes horses trained by Roger Attfield toay. It will be a whirlwind for the conditioner. Attfield will be at Arlington for the big stakes day there – AVE is in the Beverly D and Canadian […]