TODAY IS SATURDAY JULY 9…8 DAYS UNTIL THE PRINCE OF WALES….SEE LIST OF PROBABLES IN THIS POST..STEAMY HOT TURF RACING AT WOODBINE THIS WEEKEND!   FRIDAY WRAP A July lull and shades of the ‘ugly season’ (a term coined by members of the local media years ago when racing was on the pages of the […]

  WALE WATCHING   NINE SET FOR 2ND JEWEL OF TRIPLE CROWN… Post draw next Wednesday, race July 17 at FORT ERIE BOWMAN’S CAUSEWAY ch.c.3 by Giant’s Causeway(Storm Cat) – Victory Encounter(Victory Speech) Martin S. Schwartz Chad C. Brown (S)CHARLIE’S THE MAN B.c  Indian Charlie – Social Woman, by Woodman. Jim and Susan HIll Brian […]

 thursday – FORT ERIE IN 1929, it’s a national gem   Collection  Francis J. Petrie Collection Date  1929.     THURSDAY NEWS….PRINCE OF WALES STAKES – 7 may start, who was the last QUEEN’S PLATE winner not to participate in the Prince of Wales???  Can you guess???   Huge Beyer Figure horse wins at Woodbine and […]

RECORD $10k RAISED IN SADDLE TOWELS!  The 2011 version of the Queen’s Plate saddlecloth auction to benefit LongRun Thoroughbred Retirement Society was by far the best and busiest ever, netting over $10,000 to help provide Ontario’s thoroughbreds with a dignified retirement. This most successful fundraiser, initiated four years ago by Woodbine Entertainment’s Jane Holmes and […]

TODAY’S NEWS – MONDAY – INDEPENDENCE DAY IN THE U.S. 0  horses that cost $6,500 and $14,000 and $5,200 win nice races Sunday at Woodbine…!!…FORT ERIE packed with good races all weekend and again today!    BEAR IT’S TIME, last jump, gets 2nd leg of Triple Tiara over NIIGON’S TOUCH and SPOOKY KITTEN, Terence Dulay […]

   DON CAVALLO gallops in Grade 3 Dominion Day – Terence Dulay photo       WEEKEND AT WOODBINE, SO FAR Don’s day and Eternal, rules Owner/breeder DON MYERS celebrated a stakes win yesterday at Woodbine with his homebred colt ETERNAL RULE, a son of Tribal Rule (California stallion) out of the unraced mare Eternal […]

  CELEBRATE today – our country, our freedom, our family – and lots of cool racing at WOODBINE!     hey, if you missed yesterday’s THOROUGBLOG – did you know CHAMPION MILWAUKEE aPPEAL WAS SOLD…….             THURSDAY WRAP WEEKEND ROMANCE ROMPS Frank Annechini and Rocco D’Alimonte’s WEEKEND ROMANCE was 3 […]

  BREAKING NEWS – R. Glenn Sikura (Hill ‘N’ Dale Canada), has sold MILWAUKEE APPEAL on behalf of CEC Farms to Ben Glass acting as the agent for Mr and Mrs Gary West. She leaves for Saratoga tomorrow and will later spend her breeding career at Dell Ridge farm in Kentucky. No stallion is confirmed […]

  Black and white negative of a photograph of a print of the running of the Queen’s Plate that appeared in the Canadian Illustrated News on 18 June 1870. Horses are racing around a track while people watch from the centre of the track. There is a large covered grandstand on the right side of […]

                                    JOHNNY V. – THE KENTUCKY DERBY, and the QUEEN’S PLATE?? Who was the last jockey to win both the Derby and the Plate in the same year…hmmm..think Todd Pletcher! KENT DESORMEAUX rode REAL QUIET to Derby glory […]

 POST POSITIONS WERE CHOSEN YESTERDAY in a very entertaining, somewhat warm, trackside tent at Woodbine. Big turnout (better than the Barbecue, nice to see some jockeys come this time) and a light, breezy and fast moving post position draw. Would probably cut down the length of the interview of the special guest – Alex Anthopoulos […]

  update – THURSDAY MORNING – POST POSITION DRAW 9:30 THIS MORNING, COULD BE HELD IN TENT, NOT WALKING RING (WEATHER), it will be live streamed on the Woodbine website…. probable field listed below with all kinds of news and notes..      Dramatic photos from Churchill Downs after barns flattened from tornado…Brooke Vitek posted […]

 IMHOTEP added to Plate field…..2 for Pletcher in 17 strong field..EMMA-JAYNE WILSON to ride OH CANADA….- PLATE BAR B Q SHOWCASES PLATE ENTRANTS!                 PHOTO 1 – GETTING GOOD SIGNALS…Trainer David Bell owns half of OJIBWAY SIGNAL, a son of Niigon, who will love the Plate distance. Gus […]

QUEEN’S PLATE ACTION KICKS IN TOMORROW WITH THE BARBEQUE and HORSE PARADE…Woodbine reports that CHANTAL SUTHERLAND will return to the track to ride longshot PENDER HARBOUR in the Plate…15 scheduled to line-up for the Plate… POOL PLAY needs a jump in a..pool! Matt Wooley/EquiSport photos       POOL PLAY MAKES A SPLASH IN THE […]

ONE WEEK and A DAY OF BIG EVENTS The NORTH AMERICA CUP, worth $1.5 million is tonight at Mohawk, starting up 8 days of fun and intrigue for racing fans in Ontario. Monday is the Queen’s Plate barbecue, Thursday the draw for the posts for the Plate and Sunday the race. Whew. The Plate is […]