PATRICK HUSBANDS RIDE BEING INVESTIGATED Husbands blamed for Blackstone Street flop EXCERPT FROM NEWSDAY By MIDAS Saturday, January 9 2010 WOODBINE champion jockey Patrick Husbands is being blamed for the poor performance of Blackstone Street in the 16th running of the First Citizens Gold Cup at Santa Rosa Park, Arima, on Boxing Day last. […]
CANADIAN OWNED DANCING IN SILKS A FINALIST FOR CHAMPION SPRINTER in U.S. The Eclipse award nominees were announced yesterday at Ken Kinakin’s DANCING IN SILKS is a finalist for the nation’s champion sprinter. The gelding won the Breeders’ Cup Sprint for Kinakin, from Vancouver, and the owner was recently featured in a large […]
TODAY’S NEWS…Gulfstream is back and so is the QUALITY… SNOWBIRDS Happy New Year to Thoroughblog readers who said hello during the holidays. Back from being buried in snow in La Belle Province and Thoroughblog is ready to begin its 4th year and first full one with Horse-Canada, which publishes the top magazines in the […]
TUESDAY’S NEWS – BRIBON headed to Barbados…Eclipse Award voting is underway..locals in action and keep your comments coming! Don’t forget to get your copy of the Canadian Thoroughbred SIRE BOOK 2010 with in depth stallion pages and stories and features (including a feature of Canadian owned KEN KINAKIN! (THOROUGHBLOG’s moderation system […]
TODAY’S NEWS – Hope everyone had a wonderful week, BOXING DAY IN CANADA is for bettors and shoppers. Canadians are in action today and THOROUGHBLOG also looks at contenders for SOVEREIGN AWARDS.. Saturday, Calder Race Course, post time: 4:17 p.m. EST W. L. MCKNIGHT H.-GII, $150,000, 3yo/up, 1 1/2mT PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY TRAINER […]
TODAY’S NEWS – BICKERSONS IN GRADE 1, ‘LUCKY’ WINS, FAIR GROUNDS CANADIANS TODAY…watch for SOVEREIGN AWARD discussion this week (ballots go out JANUARY 7)…who will be voted our champions? Most folks (but not all) are immersed in giving, sharing, commending, toasting and celebrating these days as a special time of year […]
TODAY’S NEWS – STRONACH WINS GRADE 1 AT HOLLYWOOD…HONG KONG RESULTS FROM THIS MORNING. CANADIAN CHAMPION EDENWOLD BABIES! VANESSA NG is in Hong Kong and sent www.horse-races.net this training shot of VISION D’ETAT before his big win. IN HONG KONG EARLY THIS MORNING…A VISION About one day […]
CLOUDY’S KNIGHT, at age 9, wins the Valedictory Stakes on the last day of racing at Woodbine. Thanks to NORM FILES for all his photos all season long – visit Norm at Flckr.com: http://www.flickr.com/photos/normf/ DECEMBER KNIGHT It was very fitting that a 9-year-old hero of racing, one who had been to Woodbine before […]
Today’s news – DAVID WILLMOT STEPS DOWN AS CEO, WOODBINE RE-CAPS and DISPLAY STAKES! David Willmot and the Honourable David Onley, Lieutenant Governor of Ontario. Cindy Pierson Dulay photo WILLMOT TO STEP DOWN AS CEO stays on as Chairman A 15-year-old run by David Willmot guiding […]
TODAY’S NEWS – WHO IS THE CANADIAN HORSE OF THE YEAR? SHOULD IT BE RAHY’S ATTORNEY? CHAMPS ELYSEES? MILWAUKEE APPEAL? Send in your comment! AND HERE’S A PLUG FOR A NEW BOARDING STABLE! Former jockey NICOLE UMIKER has stalls for layups and boarders at a very reasonable rate not far from Woodbine racetrack. Call […]
Today’s news – Kentucky Bear tops local sale, will stand at stud here…Joey is best in Kingarvie….Serenading retired THE LATEST- SERENADING, winner of the Grade 2 FALLS CITY HANDICAP at Churchill Downs on Thursday and the favourite to win the Sovereign Award for champion older mare, is expected to be retired to the […]
SERENADE THIS! Canadian owned, trained gal wins Falls City, “unretired” now? SERENADING picked her best effort of 2009 for one of her last – romping to a 3 length score in Churchill Downs’ FALLS CITY HANDICAP yesterday and stamping herself as the top contender for champion OLDER MARE in Canada for the Jan […]
Today’s news JAPAN CUP comin up, winners at Woodbine as it winds down, and other Bicks and bites BELLE OF THE BALL Tribal Belle wins again TRIBAL BELLE, with a 92 Beyer Figure on Sunday in the Bessarabian Stakes, is the leading candidate to win champion female sprinter honours at the Sovereigns in late […]
DETOUR IN THE ROAD 103 Beyer for Smokey What was supposed to be a showdown between Jungle Wave, Field Commission and El Brujo – fighting for sprinter of the year in Canada – turned out to be nothing of the sort yesterday when SMOKEY FIRE and new rider EMMA-JAYNE WILSON won the $150,000 grade […]
KENNEDY ROAD – GREAT HORSE, GREAT RACE Sovereign Awards may be on line…. A lot is at stake for some of the entrants in Saturday’s blockbuster Grade 3 stake the KENNEDY ROAD,named for Art Stollery’s white faced fleetster who was one of the best racehorses this country has ever seen. Sprinters line up for a […]
