BIG, BIG SATURDAY OF RACING ACTION as we close in on the SOVEREIGN AWARDS and OPENING DAY AT WOODBINE!  Should be enough to get us out of the funk that is the Ontario winter, which hit hard again yesterday! INGLORIOUS has a huge test in the FAIR GROUNDS OAKS in New Orleans. She is not […]

 GOOD WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH 23! THIS HAS GOT TO BE THE LAST OF THIS STUFF THIS YEAR! CP PHOTO OF THE 401 THIS MORNING IN TORONTO, no one believed it would snow, it did and cars are all over canadian press photo         In the midst of quite the storm up in […]

  TOP OF THE MORNIN’ TO YOU! This little one was born on St. Patrick’s day (let the names game begin!). This filly is by Vibank (who had a winner at Aiken from his first crop of foals) out of Psychedelia  – foaled at Woodlands Farm. Vision of Luck?           CANADIAN […]

  HEAD’S UP – the snow is coming again this week to southern Ontario and it will be cold! Still some winter to go even if Spring is supposed to arrive 2 nite! But….less than 2 weeks until WOODBINE OPENS…    YAY! Sovereign Awards and racing coming up!! this gaffer is by young sire MIDNIGHT […]

  MAJOR QUEEN’S PLATE CONTENDERS IN ACTION TODAY –   ELITE ALED and BOWMAN’S CAUSEWAY, THE 1-2 CHOICES on Thoroughblog’s list: $300,000 Rebel Stakes (gr. II, Race 10, 5:31 p.m.), 3YO, 1 1/16 Miles (Dirt) PP. Horse, Jockey, Weight, Trainer 1. Archarcharch (KY), J K Court, 122, W H Fires 2. Alternation (KY), L S […]

  CONTEST – CONTEST CONTEST – SEND YOUR GUESSES as to who may win the SOVEREIGN AWARDS (horses only) and get a chance to win THE HORSE AND THE TIGER, the new book by Muriel Lennox. Send your picks by using the Comment button, you have 16 days left to take your guess…  CANADIAN-BRED JOYFUL […]

  A LEO IS BORN! Okay, not as in the astrological sign – but one of the first babies by champion LEONNATUS ANTEAS arrived on Feb. 12 at Hill ‘n’ Dale Farms. This little girl is out of Trufflesfromheaven and was greeted by, among others, Ericka Rusnak from Hill ‘n’ Dale, who snapped this cute […]

CONTEST! WIN MURIEL LENNOX’S NEW BOOK! The Sovereign Awards are coming up on April 1, the evening before the 2011 racing season gets underway. THOROUGHBLOG wants to see if you can guess the winner’s of the (racing) horse awards? Whoever gets the most right will a copy of THE HORSE AND THE TIGER, the story […]

 MY MY MY MY BOOGIE SHOES….. Back to winter! Thanks for your patience – THOROUGHBLOG is back after a trip to the island of Barbados and a day at the Sandy Lane Gold Cup. The day ended with a wild stage show of magic and cirque de soliel-style acrobatics from cranes at a private party, […]

  SATURDAY MORNING! THE GOLD CUP IS TODAY, check the Barbados Turf Club website (barbadosturfclub.org) for links to how to hear the races live – please note – race is at 4 Toronto time, not 6… IT’S GOLD CUP DAY!! It’s already a sizzler here in Barbados and sure to get even more hot, esepcially […]

12 to race in Gold Cup Al Portador will compete in the Sandy lane Sprint Stakes tomorrow at the Garrison savannah, not the Gold Cup so the Gold Cup field drew Reward Me off the reserve list for owner Sir David Seale. Seale and others are in the midst of a protest regarding the day […]

    Stay tuned to Thoroughblog later tomorrow for an update once we land in Barbados. Track news Friday morning and then the race comes Saturday – check bloodhorse.com and drf. com for news pics of the ST. KITTS HORSES packing up their…kitt n kaboodle, sorry, for the Barbados Gold Cup – thanks to Beaumont […]

 Welcome to MARCH (already??) Gadzooks, exactly 30 days until the SOVEREIGN AWARDS, plus one more until OPENING DAY at Woodbine!! Check in later week and weekend for updates on the goings-on in BARBADOS, the $200,000 (BAR) Gold Cup is on Saturday – it’s one hour later there I believe. Canadian rep SAFETY ZONE meets American […]

    SOLDAT (photo Joe Ganley/Equisport Photos) romps in Fountain of Youth – read about his Canadian breeding!!! Below:       CANADIAN-BREDS IN CANADIAN TURF! CANADIAN TURF S.-GIII, $150,000, 4yo/up, 1mT PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY TRAINER ML 1 Society’s Chairman Not Impossible (Ire) Lezcano Attfield 6-1 2 Zifzaf K War Chant Castellano Toner 4-1 […]

   THOROUGHBLOG is heading off to the Garrison Savannah next week (you can see the track tucked  in an arm of the island in photo at left) – coverage of the Sandy Lane Gold Cup will appear on the Blood-Horse and Daily Racing Form websites   Creative Commons / Garrison Savannah         […]