BRUNO SCHICKEDANZ HEARING BEGINS   Tuesday was a full day of testimony in the hearing requested by BRUNO SCHICKEDANZ to fight WOODBINE ENTERTAINMENT over his ban of horses stabling and racing at Woodbine. It was a lengthy day that only saw the Schickedanz side present its case and witnesses. The hearing will continue on […]

HAPPY BREEDERS’ DAY It’s an old race, its been a lot of places    (SMART SKY, RELATED TO BIG RED MIKE, goes for Breeders’ today for C. Scott Abbott, Dave Landry photo) There are 13 entered in the 119th Breeders’ Stakes today and the horses will compete under grey skies and in very sticky conditions. […]

FRIDAY THE 13TH – FEELIN’ LUCKY?   COGNASHENE, horse to beat in Breeders? DAVE LANDRY PHOTO BREEDERS’ STAKES WEEK $500,000, 3RD JEWEL CANADIAN TRIPLE CROWN Entries for the Breeders’ Stakes, first run in 1889 (!!) were taken today and the field is a wild one – not necessarily in a good way, but hey, the […]

 TODAY’S NEWS – FOR A TUESDAY – ROAN INISH OUT FOR YEAR, NICE WINNERS, GOOD STORIES AND BAD STORIES.. BORN TO BOOGIE DANCED HIS WAY TO THE WINNER’S CIRCLE IN HIS VERY FIRST START ON SATURDAY AT WOODBINE. The colt is by Strut the Stage, the first year sire who was getting his first winner. […]

 FRIDAY! – Wraps of Wednesday night and Thursday – bits here and there…enjoy the weekend of racing MELNYK SON OF PAYNES BAY WINS STAKES Grazettes Landing game in Shepperton TORONTO, August 4 – Melnyk Racing Stables homebred Grazettes Landing captured Wednesday’s $126,200 Shepperton Stakes at Woodbine. The five-year-old son of Paynes Bay is trained by […]

It’s WEDNESDAY AUG 4- in 1963, on Aug. 1…..Northern Dancer debuted as a 6 3/4-length winner at Fort Erie… Monday, a big run from ESSENCE HIT MAN at the Spa…SARATOGA sales drop in average, UNZIP ME romps at Woodbine for Martin Jones..Manitoba Derby and lots of other stuff…   LUCKY DUCK – LOOKIN AT LUCKY […]

 SUNDAY NEWS – in the midst of a long weekend here – lots of chalk won yesterday at Woodbine following some weird results on Friday (will follow up on Friday’s races in the coming days) – lots of Canadian action elsewhere too SLAM DUNK Colt stays unbeaten but it wasn’t pretty The impressive looking Grand […]

 Thursday – no racing today at Woodbine as a long weekend is coming up…from Bruno to Gill trainers…horsefolks are banding together…Tiller 1-2 in stakes race   PERFCT SHIRL – shown at Woodbine, is the latest Stakes winner for Charles Fipke and trainer Roger Attfield – Norm Files photo         WOODBINE TRIACTOR AT […]

   Shrowded in secrecy heading into the race, GOLDEN MOKA run a 93 Beyer Figure and wins Prince of Wales. Terence Dulay photo         GOLDEN MOMENT jaw dropping result in Prince of Wales, Fort Erie swallows up another fave Move over Seabiscuit – there is another fairy-tale story that could be made […]

SUNDAY MORNING – It’s Prince of Wales day at Fort Erie – let’s hit the highway! GOLDEN MOKA goes for paralyzed jockey and hockey players…news from Woodbine and stories in the papers…   PRINCE OF WALES, 5 P.M. The weather has been wild, the phones were zapped but Fort Erie will have its best dress […]

  FRIDAY NEWS – TGIF!! EURICO HITS THE HEIGHTS OF POPULARITY, PRINCE OF WALES ON SUNDAY, SARATOGA OPENS! HOW OLD IS THAT HORSE???   MIKE AND HOTEP are at it again on Sunday… DAVE LANDRY PHOTO       BIG RED MIKE GOES WALES HUNTING Panamanian invader intrigues It has been seven years since the […]

UPDATE – 11 A.M.- CHOREOGRAPHY (see below) has been euthanized.. All eyes are on FORT ERIE this weekend as BIG RED MIKE heads down the QEW HIGHWAY to race in the second leg of Canada’s Triple Crown, the Prince of Wales Stakes. Thanks for everyone’s notes and comments – thank you to BARB MINSHALL who […]

                      WHAT DOES THE HIT HAVE FOR US TODAY? It’s hot, the track is fast, will he beat Fatal BUllet in record time??? Dave Landry photo SATURDAY MORNING///THOROUGHBLOG is back, the AUGUST/SEPT. ISSUE of CANADIAN THOROUGBRED is almost to press and its got some cool, […]

  FREE FEE LADY (Victory Gallop) romps by 4 in Bison City Stakes- Norm Files photo         WOODBINE WEEKEND WRAP It was an anti-climatic weekend to be sure – after the Queen’s Plate fun, the sun, the Queen and a whole lot of good memories from days of old. This past weekend […]

TODAY`S FRIDAY BITS – $19,000 carryover in Woodbine pick 6 today… 26, 30, 54, 26 Woodbine Wednesday night Those numbers there, nice ones if you boxed ‘e, up in the superfecta, triactor, exactor for the 3rd race, an Ontario sired allowance race on the grass. JUNIOR ATTORNEY, a son of turf star Crown Attorney, made […]