It’s Thursday, Dec. 23, the sun is up and the windchill is about -14 Celcius, very windy in southern Ontario. The roads and stores are already busy. There is Christmas cheer to be done today, some more little purchases, lots of wrapping and, well, just lots of fun! Thoroughblog hopes your holidays are happy […]

    ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS…. Those 43 horses at LongRun that are waiting for a home to find a home! Step up to the Plate folks!!  www.longrunretirement.com                **Thoroughblog also wishes for… lots more fun stuff to write about this winter, go Canadian horses and horsepeople!…plus, […]

  It’s not just in southern Ontario where the deep freeze has already set in. Parx Racing (Philly) had to cancel its card Tuesday because of sub-zero temps. That card was to mark the first day of riding for top Canadian rider Emma-Jayne Wilson. The next Parx card is today. Wilson is scheduled to ride […]

  WINTER HAS ARRIVED IN THE THOROUGHBLOG SURROUNDINGS – brrrr…the hustle and bustle of the holidays getting close, race-watching limited but some good things to report in recent days…   (above – the folks at horse-races.net saw a wild rally from virtually last place by the 3yo filly SNOW FAIRY (by the Red Ransom stallion […]

  FRIDAY NEWS – Tis the season to watch Canadians in the south, check out stallions for your mares, reflect on the year that was 2010..           OPEN HOUSE AT NORSE RIDGE FARM THIS SATURDAY! Noon to 3 p.m. In King City –  Norse Ridge is one of the biggest stallion […]

THE  WEDNESDAY AFTER – WOODBINE SET TO RELEASE NUMBERS FOR SOLID 2010 SEASON…SOVEREIGN AWARD POSSIBLE WINNERS LongRun Graduate Cocoria (Yankee Victor), who was kindly donated to our programme by owner Doug Reddington, and her loving adopter, Georgia Ormerod, get into the festive spirit. Our horses were the recipients of a very generous donation from Georgia […]

  Man, it was cold! Last day of 167 day Woodbine  season…Norm Files photo                 CASSE, DA SILVA, SAM-SON TOP STANDINGS AT WOODBINE Final racing squeaks by despite high winds Fittingly, Dec. 5 was crips, cold, and windy. Very windy. At some points of the afternoon in Etobicoke, […]

  The sun will set on another Woodbine  season today – well, tonight, 13 races, sharpen those pencils!     CROWNING DAY Who is the valedictorian of 2010? It is a unique race and one of the most fun to watch of the entire Woodbine season. While races continually get shorter and shorter (even Woodbine’s […]

FRIDAY NEWS – WAGERING UP AT WOODBINE, FIELD SIZE DOWN, BIG WEEKEND WRAPS UP THE MEETING AND CASSE CHASES RECORD..     THE SIRE BOOK IS OUT almost 200 pages of news, views, stats and the stallion directory that beats all.. https://canadianthoroughbred.com/?page_id=71         THREE TO GO, 35 RACES AND OVER 350 HORSES […]

    HAPPY DECEMBER 1 – Coming up in the next issue of Canadian Thbrd – here’s our COVER BOY – OLD FORESTER, the hot young sire with 8 debut winning 2yos this season. DAVE LANDRY PHOTO                                 THIS HOLIDAY […]

SUNDAY MORNING – JAPAN CUP, Canadian International horses drubbed, winner is DQ’d!, Pender Harbour, Muskoka stuff and the MIXED SALE….                 DQ IN JAPAN CUP!!  hey, but SAME OWNER WINS ANYWAY Buena Vista relegated to second after Japan Cup win, Fifty Proof 18th (AFP) – associated foreign press… […]

TODAY’S NEWS – WOODBINE IN THE HOME STRETCH, ICE ON THE SIDEWALKS THIS MORNING, CANADIAN GELDING FIFTY PROOF IN JAPAN  Photo from JRA, Tyler Gaskin aboard Fifty Proof on the other side of the world           INTERVIEW WITH IAN BLACK AND JUSTIN STEIN – JAPAN RACING ASSOCIATION Fifty Proof draws post […]

IAN BLACK checks out his trainee FIFTY PROOF in Japan, they are headed to the Japan Cup on Sunday – Janet Black photo                         THE PROOF IS IN….JAPAN! Local gelding tries tough nuts in Japan Cup FIFTY PROOF has arrived in Japan for Sunday’s […]

RAVALO UPSETS KENNEDY ROAD…CANADIANS IN A MESS IN THE U.S…LONGRUN DAY WAS BUSY! WOODBINE SATURDAY – A cold, crisp day and greeting folks as they came into the track was none other than TINE ALERT, a son of Secretariat, who at 21 showed he’s a feisty as can be. The white faced chestnut, out of […]

 BIG WEEKEND FOR CANADIAN HORSES LIKE GOLDEN MOKA, BLUE LASER…BIG WIN FOR CAPPUCCITTI AND JONES AT WOODBINE…   HEY! THIS MAY BE CORNY BUT… JAKE SAYS WATCH SOME COOL RACES ON SATURDAY – THEY MAY MEAN A LOT TO SOME LOCAL HORSES!                   EURO TRASHES BARRACKS well, […]