Horseperson extraordinaire – SUE LESLIE co-owns and trains Oaks starter MOMENT OF MAJESTY but also works a zillion other important jobs. Her friend, Curtis Joseph, sold part of the Oaks starter recently to Leslie and hockey agent Don Meehan because of the team’s previous ‘good karma’… IT’S THE OAKS, FOLKS Four women […]
HAY! IT’S THE OAKS and I could win! RESENTLESS hams it up for DAVE LANDRY. WOODBINE OAKS E’s Have It, post position draw on ice today THOROUGHBLOG will update later when the post positions have been drawn for the WOODBINE OAKS and PLATE TRIAL today. The draw occurs at the WEGZ STADIUM BAR […]
LATEST NEWS – Wednesday….. PICK 6 goes at Belmont, $552,000 for 6 of 6…A reader sent in this link today – re: the betting on Woodbine races in Vegas…great news for our industry! The news was leaked yesterday it appears … http://www.torontosun.com/sports/othersports/2010/06/08/14315266.html WOODBINE OAKS NEWS ERNFOLD (a town in Saskatchewan) is a strong second […]
PLETCHER: “EVERYTHING ON SCHEDULE” EMBUR’S SONG BULLETS 4 FURLONGS FOR OAKS Trainer Todd Pletcher, who sent out SUPER SAVER to win this year’s KENTUCKY DERBY – told THOROUGHBLOG yesterday that likely WOODBINE OAKS favourite EMBUR’S SONG’S “worked well and is on shcedule” for a trip back to Woodbine for Sunday’s $500,000 race. The Ontario […]
Fun, wow! Trainer BILL MOTT and Winstar folks hoist the Belmont Stakes trophy yesterday while jockey Mike Smith grins. Cindy Pierson Dulay/horse-races.net photo BILL MOTT WINS FIRST CLASSIC But did you know that Mott saddled a Belmont Stakes […]
Off the races for a super card at Woodbine and lots of stuff to watch south of the border. Picks for the big races are on today’s news along with a wrap of yesterday’s events. Rain in the Woodbine area for 2 days has made things soggy… BELMONT STAKES/NASSAU/ECLIPSE action packed for Woodbine fans $1 […]
TODAY’S NEWS – THURSDAY – WOODBINE OAKS PREVIEW, BET NIGHT LIVE, BELMONT, EPSOM AND MORE!! Grade 1 winner RAINBOW VIEW is entered in Woodbine’s Nassau Stakes on Saturday. Sarah K Andrews photo BET BET BET! On a miserableWednesday night where the rain was hard and heavy, Woodbine introduced […]
QUEEN’S PLATE PREVIEW MAGAZINE OUT NOW! Buy yourself a copy and get in the ROYAL MOOD FOR CANADA’S BIG RACE! This issue will NOT be handed out at Woodbine this year so saddle up and find yourself one… TONIGHT….NEW PAGE FOR WOODBINE T.V. DEPARTMENT Bet Night Live […]
RAHY’S ATTORNEY – image by Dave Landry WHO WILL GET BACK ON TRACK? Connaught Cup – Grade 3 today There figures to be some scratches but today’s CONNAUGHT CUP, shortened to just 7 furlongs this year on turf, figures to be a good starting point for the older turf set to see what’s […]
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CHECK OUT THE UPDATES LISTS ON THIS PAGE AT BOTTOM! TODAY’S TUESDAY NEWS – STANDINGS AND WILD JOCKET SNARE… NO JOKE, JESTERS JAZZ BEATS JORDAN FILLY Gail Cox (formerly Casselman) has had a super spring. From just 10 runners, the trainer has scored 4 races and when her starters are boxcar numbers on […]
WWW.HORSE-RACES.NET PHOTO, BRERETON JONES and his filly BIOFUEL. Jones had never seen the filly run and he lured a crowd when he lunched at Woodbine. POWER UNLIMITED Biofuel charges to victory It looked a bit grim for champion BIOFUEL as the LA LORGNETTE […]
EMBUR’S SONG, 2 for 2 for Fares Farm. Woodbine Oaks bound… IT’S TIME! Impossible Time sizzles in Ballade, Embur’s Song Oaks-bound The girls were on their game on Saturday at Woodbine. IMPOSSIBLE TIME won her first stakes race for owner/breeder Charles Fipke, who has had […]
THE QUEEN IS COMING TO WOODBINE, according to a story today in the Globe & Mail. Here is Her Royal Highness at the 2007 Kentucky Derby. Lydia Williams photo QUEEN VISIT TO WOODBINE JULY 4 CONFIRMED according to GLOBE & MAIL’S PATRICK WHITE […]
Mel Lawson (right) with his star Jiggs Coz. Cindy PiersonDulay/www.horse-races.net photo MEL LAWSON INDUCTED INTO HALL OF FAME News comes down quietly on Monday about inductees Mel Lawson of Hamilton, the 87-year-old owner of Jim Dandy Stables, will be inducted in the builders’ category of the Canadian Horse racing Hall […]
