Today’s news: the Horse Lover’s Masquerade Ball, tonight at Woodbine, held by LongRun Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation, DA SILVA to receive an award…Selene can mean Horse of the Year?   GOOD LUCK TO EVERYBODY!  EURICO ROSA DA SILVA will be honoured tonight at the LongRun Gala at Woodbine. www.horse-races.net photo.         EURICO ROSA […]

  Whoosh – VENTURA blows by the boys.   Cindy Pierson Dulay photo.         FLIGHT OF VENTURA Betting on the up and up The grass clippings have settled and Sunday’s day of racing at Woodbine, which ended with Sunday’s 11-race card attracting a total all-sources handle of $5,027,002, up 8 percent from […]

 SEEING BLUE & GOLD – BRIDGETOWN won the SUMMER STAKES at Woodbine yesterday for Eugene Melnyk. Will we see more today with MARCHFIELD in the Northern Dancer and STERWINS in the WOODBINE MILE? Cindy Pierson Dulay photo.         WOODBINE MILE PICKS 5 BRIBON (Garcia) 5-2 3 FERNELEY (Bejarano) 8-1 8 RAHY’S ATTORNEY […]

  TODAY’S NEWS – WOODBINE MILE POSTS, TURF IS FIRM!, 2YO’S TOMORROW, LONGRUN GALA and 2 handicapping seminars this weekend!! WOODBINE MILE POST POSITION DRAW The trophies for the Northern Dancer (left) and Woodbine Mile – photo by Terence Dulay.           Purse $1,000,000. 1 Mile. Stakes. FOR THREE-YEAR-OLDS AND UPWARD. 1 […]

 WOODBINE MILE – GRADE 1 SUNDAY   BRIBON, 5 TO 2 fave. VENTURA, 7 TO 2, RAHY’S ATTORNEY 9 TO 2 AND JUNGLE WAVE,  6 TO 1. Purse $1,000,000. 1 Mile. Stakes. FOR THREE-YEAR-OLDS AND UPWARD. 1 Sand Cove Dos Ramos, R Attfield, R L 117 2 Sterwins Husbands, P Pierce, M L 119 3 […]

For Chris David Martyn This is day number 17 with no rain: one more day and a record in Toronto is set. There is no rain projected through the weekend so expect the WOODBINE TURF COURSE, at least the inside paths that have been protected in the last week to be firm, firm firm. The […]

WOODBINE MILE NEWS Ventura sizzles on Poly SHE’S BAAAAACK… Tough mare VENTURA, shown here after her Breeders’ Cup score last fall, will try to come off a layoff and win the Woodbine Mile on Sunday. Cindy Pierson Dulay photo.             PROBABLE FIELD FOR SUNDAY’S WOODBINE MILE (11) Bribon/Marc Keller/Robert Ribaudo/Alan […]

STEVEN CRIST AT WOODBINE ON SATURDAY Ace handicapper, author and chairman and publisher of DAILY RACING FORM is at Woodbine on Saturday at 11-12 a.m. for a handicapping seminar and discussion of his book Bet With The Best 2- Longshots. The seminar kicks off an exciting week at Woodbine when turf stars will be getting […]

  TORONTO YEARLING SALE HAS LARGE DECLINES $155K sale topper is by Medaglia D’Oro In an unsettled economy that has hurt many sales throughout North America in 2009, the CANADIAN THOROUGHBRED HORSE SOCIETY (Ontario division) was not immune. A drop in average price of just over 29% was the biggest in at least 10 years […]

WOODBINE SUNDAY WRAP FIRST STAKE WIN FOR DELMAS Trainer ANALISA DELMAS scored her first win as a trainer – she conditions her father’s FIELDSTONE fARMS runners when GUIPAGO posted a mild upset in the ONTARIO SIRED VICE REGENT STAKES yesterday at Woodbine. The $1,200 YEARLING PURCHASE (!) is by MY WAY ONLY out of CHEROKEE […]

Vanessa Ng photo If you didn’t get goosebumps (again) from watching the freak horse that is RACHEL ALEXANDRA stave off tough older horses in the final yards of yesterday’s Grade 1 Woodward Stakes at Saratoga, well… We’re running out of superlatives for one of the greatest racing fillies and horse of any sex, we have […]

  WHIP MISTAKE COSTLY The owner and trainer lost, the jock lost and the fans lost too. When favoured SANS SOUSI  was disqualified from her win on Wednesday night yesterday afternoonaround 2:30 p.m., it set off a buzz throughout the track. Eaton Hall Farm and trainer Mike Doyle will appeal the ruling set down yesterday […]

  Need some extra cash – how about trying the $600,000 plus PICK 6 carryover at SARATOGA today? Happy Labour Day weekend ! LADIES AND GENTLEMEN… START YOUR YEARLINGS! Aaaah summer,we hardly knew ya. But it’s yearling sale time in Toronto – the sales stakes day will be drawn today and the sale begins Tuesday. […]

JOCKEY GETS CAUGHT WITH WRONG WHIP TORONTO STAR REPORT On the first night of the new whip rules at Woodbine racetrack, implemented by the Ontario Racing Commission, jockey Chantal Sutherland inadvertently carried the wrong whip to victory in the second race.    Under the new “urging rules”, each rider must carry the kinder ‘cushion crop’, […]

EMMA-JAYNE WILSON was one of the first jockeys at Woodbine to use the new cushion crop… Dave Landry photo     URGING RULES TAKE EFFECT TODAY AT FORT ERIE tomorrow at Woodbine TORONTO STAR reports on the new crops, urging rules… A gentler, kinder horse whip … but it still hurts We’ve all seen the […]