CHRISTMAS MORNING        

      RIVER SEVEN – 102 BEYER FIGURE in Gulfstream stakes score – KENNY MARTIN PHOTO, GULFSTREAM PARK   SEVENTH HEAVEN! Fairytale season for the Tucci family continues RIVER SEVEN powered past a decent field of older horses at Gulfstream Park yesterday and won the $100,000 Harlan’s Holiday Handicap for his 3rd straight stakes […]

  SAY NO MORE, RIVER SEVEN, among Canadian horses in action this weekend   Saturday, Fair Grounds, post time: 4:54 p.m. EDT BONAPAW S., $75,000, 3yo/up, 5 1/2fT PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY TRAINER ML 1 Expecting Cash Littleexpectations Albarado Gibson 8-1 2 Sum of the Parts Speightstown Napravnik Amoss 4-1 3 Decisive Move Awesome Again […]

 **MEMORIES made, memories that fade. Horse racing ends at Hollywood Park during the Christmas season. ..THOROUGHBLOG invites all comments and thoughts on racing in 2013 or coming up this winter..have a racing report for me? a result?  a photo? Send it to THOROUGHBLOG. Also, if you have not seen it yet, the last issue of […]

  and so this is the end of 2013…what have we done? Well, a lot of betting and cheering, a lot of work and a lot of sweat, some tears for sure. The year had it all, the highs and the lows and where would we be without these incredible and beautiful animals born to […]

Hi there! THOROUGHBLOG will be on hold for a few days. Best of luck for the end of the 2013 season and what may follow!     photos by WILL WONG FOR WOODBINE – Display Stakes won by Jose Sea View      WOODBINE ON THE WEEKEND Just 4 racing cards left for 2013 and […]

 SATURDAY MORNING UPDATE! December 7 2013 – KINGARVIE, you remember him right? Kingarvie, an implacable individual who certainly would not have won an equine beauty contest, was a stringy chestnut gelding with a long, skinny neck and a heart as big as a cannon ball. He toiled for ten years, competing in stakes races from […]

Congratulations to my new buddy APPRENTICE HANOVER (owned by Brad Grant) who won the 2nd race at Woodbine last evening. I won’t go so far as to say it was my caressing of his forehead  that relaxed him and gave him the energy he needed to win, but… Congratulations to everyone connected with that cool […]

          IN CHARGE OF THE DUDE What a finish in the Grade 1 Clark, 101 Beyer for 3yo Will Take Charge   from Churchill Downs Willis D. Horton’s Will Take Charge, beaten a nose by Mucho Macho Man in the $5 million Breeders’ Cup Classic (Grade I) on Nov. 2, launched […]

HAPPY THANKSGIVING to all my wonderful friends and associates in the United States – enjoy your day, may you be healthy and happy.     CTHS ONLINE MIXED SALE   KARA’S ORIENTATION, Grade 2 winner of over $459,000 and a stallion prospect and Appealing Forum, the dam of champion MILWAUKEE APPEAL are among 97 horses […]

    TABLES TURNED – LEXIE LOU (a la ‘Bunny’ on Saturday) steals Woodbine stake Champion 2yo filly down to 2 daughters of SLIGO BAY     This time, LEXIE LOU got the jump and had enough left to win. The dream season for owner/trainer JOHN ROSS continued as he won 2 races on Sunday […]

  GENTILDONNA wins her 2nd JAPAN CUP but JOSHUA TREE is eased up and last of 17.   Three-time Canadian International winner JOSHUA TREE was eased in the Japan Cup and a decision is to be made soon on whether he will race again in 2014:   http://japanracing.jp/_news2013/131124-02.html Before a crowd of nearly 90,000 fans […]

        THE BEAR CIRCLE In 2005, BEAR’S KID won the Grade 2 Summer Stakes at Woodbine on the grass and became the first stakes winner ever trained by Reade Baker for Danny Dio’s Bear Stables. Dio, who hails from Alberta, grew his stable up from there, adding high priced yearlings and 2yos, […]

HAPPY SUNDAY – it will be warm and windy in Toronto today, the big race is the CORONATION FUTURITY, the top 2yo race of the year worth $250,000. AMI’S HOLIDAY is the unbeaten favourite, let’s hope we get the races in, there is a wind warning currently.   RIVER ROLLS!       Canadian invader […]

      Yes, the Super High 5 Jackpot was won yesterday, somehow! When Renee Kierans’ and partners’ WHO DAT AMBUSH literally ambushed the field in the last half a furlong and won at 17 to 1, he set off a parade of longshots that someone had, in order, on their ticket. The bet has […]