Jake says..HO HUM,  is it APRIL YET?? High winds, blowing snow for a Friday so a pot of hot tea is in order. Tons of cool action for Jake and you to watch this weekend, Canadian horses, Fountain of Youth more and more and more… THOROUGHBLOG (and Jake) say thanks for everyone who […]

WE’RE BAAAACK, TROUBLE IN CYBER SPACE led to the entire HORSE-CANADA FAMILY BEING DOWN FOR A BIT BUT LET’S GET GOING AGAIN!   A morning at Payson Park, looks different than here today. We have more snow and will get a ton more over next 2 days! Janet Black photo           […]

UPDATE – MONDAY FEB. 21 8:30 P.M. American trainer WESLEY WARD is shipping 2 horses to BARBADOS for events on BARBADOS GOLD CUP DAY. ward has GRAND TIMES scheduled for the Spa Stakes and late entrant GRAND CASH headed to the $200,000 BAR SANDY LANE GOLD CUP where he will meet the other North American […]

  GOOD AND BAD NEWS FOR WOODBINE THOROUGHBREDS.. LOTS OF CANADIAN HORSES TO WATCH TODAY IN FLORIDA AND NEW ORLEANS…   DAIJIN’S LAST FOAL… a colt by Zensational. DAIJIN has been a blue-hen mare for HIll ‘n’ Dale Farms, in Kentucky and Canada. She produced many good foals but then had much trouble producing one […]

IT’S A BABY BEAR!  The first foal from Ontario sire KENTUCKY BEAR arrived at Curraghmore Farm recently. The little one is out of BEAR DIXIE CAT and both sire, dam and baby are owned by Danny Dion’s Bear Stable.                     LETTERS AND BLOG COMMENTS My name […]

 SUNDAY FEB. 13 – HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO JANIS! Enter our survey (see the homepage, make sure you click on the Canadian Thoroughbred survey button), send in your foal pictures! send in any pictures!   *Good effort yesterday at Gulfstream from Stronach Stables’ HUNTERS BAY (Ghostzapper) who posted a whopping 103 BEYER FIGURE when 2nd in […]

  SATURDAY! Derby preps, more Canadian-bred bits, and lots of pics from the south!   SOUTHDALE, a Sovereign Award finalist, works out at Payson Park in 26 2/5, his first breeze of the year for trainer Ian Black Janet Black photo         Champion RAHY’S ATTORNEY testing the grass at Payson Park last […]

FRIDAY, FRIDAY, always a good feeling day no matter whether you work or not! It’s -25 with the wind, sunny and bright again, should get a bit more tolerable on weekend when rain/snow mix comes. Don’t forget to enter the survey on the home page – there is one for all magazines so check out […]

In memory of Daijin….   WIN $500 – TAKE PART IN OUR SURVEY! Go to the home page of HORSE-CANADA, find the button for CANADIAN THOROUGHBRED/survey AND HELP US PLAN WHAT WE WILL FILL THE PAGES OF OUR MAGAZINE with in the future… it won’t take but 5 minutes…give us some feedback! thanks!   LETTER/COMMENT […]

FROM WOODBINE – WELCOME BACK!! it’s sunny, bright, but -20 with the wind, very windy and folks are shipping back to Woodbine and the track is open! Please be advised the Training Track/Sand Ring is scheduled to open Wednesday…February 9th, 2011. Weather Permitting Training Hours will be from 7:00 – 11:00 AM (no ‘break’). HOTHERSAL […]

 Yes indeed, another couple of inches of snow in the GTA ole T.O. getting its share for sure…up here in Brampton it’s heavier most time.   Just got back from putting the MARCH ISSUE of CANADIAN THOROUGHBRED TO BED – the 50th anniversary issue! It was March 1961 when CANADIAN HORSE was launched – so […]

 COSTIGAN TO TRAIN STRING OF STRAWBRIDGE HORSES CAROLYN COSTIGAN, the young trainer who won the Woodbine Oaks with Roan Inish in her first ever start as a trainer, will take over a strong of horses for George Strawbridge in 2011. Strawbridge’s AUGUSTIN STABLE had Mac Benson as its private Canadian trainer for many eyars but […]

  MAC BENSON RETIRES FROM TRAINING  MAC BENSON (far right) with his fave, ARRAVALE               Macdonald (Mac) Benson told THOROUGHBLOG yesterday that he has retired from training horses and he will seek some sort of racing managment job in the future. “Everything had just come to an end,” said […]

            HAPPY FRIDAY, and it is for FORT ERIE RACETRACK! SUE LESLIE, the president of the Horsemen’s Benevolent and Protective Association, Ontario division would like to assure all FORT ERIE HORSEMEN, employees and racing fans that RACING IS GOING FORWARD AT FORT ERIE in 2011 despite rumours landing in some […]

BREAKING NEWS – THE KITTEN IS SOLD! BARBADOS GOLD CUP NOMINEES! QUEEN’SPLATEKITTEN SOLD, TRAINED BY TODD PLETCHER Canadian-bred QUEEN’SPLATEKITTEN, a 3-year-old Queen’s Plate contender (could you guess by his name) may perhaps be headed to the Kentucky Derby trail instead as he was recently sold by owners and breeders Ken and Sarah Ramsey for a […]