Top of the Morning to you! Lots of Comments on yesterday post about some popular Canadian horses…Aiken Trials are fun for Canadians…Joyful Victory! CANADIAN JOY JOYFUL VICTORY has her Grade 1 win. The Canadian-bred Tapit mare, bred in Caledon by Bill Graham, powered her way to a strong win in the Santa Margarita at Santa […]

    Norm Files photo   NICE CASE has died. The grey speedster who was bred by Minshall Farms and he won 10 of 25 races and $193,573. He had been racing for Fred Nixon and was trained by Justin Nixon during his stay in Canada. The son of Gold Case was a winner at […]

Good luck to STORMY LORD, millionaire was claimed last weekend – Cindy Pierson Dulay photo     TWO CANADIAN-BREDS STAY IN THE U.S. – STORMY LORD CLAIMED! Both originally went unsold at auction   STORMY LORD and HAVERHILL had mixed results last week in Florida. However, both Canadian-owned and Canadian-bred geldings are in the care […]

  GOT YER NOSE!  Hall of Fame trainer ROBERT TILLER is now a breeder! Tiller and Rolph Davis are the proud owners of this guy by OLD FORESTER out of VICTORIA’S DESTINY, born on FEB. 13 . ROBERT TILLER photo   WHAT A WILD DAY IN RACING From the riderless FORT LARNED “winning” the Gulfstream […]

  “There is room in Ontario for horse racing, health care and education. The money for it is going to change” – Kathleen Wynne, Premier of Ontario The mini press conference at Grand River Raceway in Elora, ON at lunch time brought together media and government sorts to announce that 4 other tracks, all small […]

CANADIANS HAVE BIG DAY AT THE RACES…116 BEYER FIGURE FOR GAME ON DUDE and a giant takes the Gold Cup   Clearly, the Birds are Gold…Canadians have big day “A simple plot But I know one day Good things are coming our way” – Coldplay, “Up With the Birds”   UP WITH THE BIRDS needed […]

    photos nominated for a SOVEREIGN AWARD include RACING ON THE WEB, by assistant trainer Jeff Bowen. The photo first appeared on THOROUGHBLOG. Mike Burns Jr. is also nominated for UNDER THE FENCE..                             AND TREVOR REYNOLDS‘ cool shot of a […]

Emma-Jayne Wilson captured this intriguing image of RIVER RUSH at rest at Palm Meadows. The Plate Trial winner is owned by Stronach Stables.     WHO WILL WIN 2013 BARBADOS GOLD CUP? several past winners square off Saturday afternoon Who will win the 2013 Gold Cup? 2/28/2013 ON Saturday the Barbados Turf Club will stage […]

Greg de Gannes (far right) and the Stritzl family at a Queen’s Plate barbecue with CURGONE – Cindy Pierson Dulay photo     REMEMBERING GREG DE GANNES: From the DeGannes family – “We have decided to direct donations to the Longrun Thoroughbred Society as well as the Crohn’s and Colitis Society of Canada. There is […]

ONTARIO HORSE HAS LOST ANOTHER FRIEND: GREG DE GANNES  1963-2013 It is with great sadness that I write this after learning about this today. It appeared on social media early this morning and T-Blog has had confirmation from friends.family.   Born in Trinidad & Tobago in 1963, Greg De Gannes came to Canada in 1973 […]

  (Yours truly drank from it years ago, not sure it helped! Plus it was weird tasting water.)   FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH/RISEN STAR Derby preps mean big points to successful horses The Grade 2 RISEN STAR STAKES at Fair Grounds and the Grade 2 FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH at Gulfstream Park go off later tomorrow afternoon […]

  QUEEN’S PLATE 154 TO BE RUN ON JULY 7 9 days and counting! WOODBINE’s backstretch opens on March 1 and what a relief it will be to have some normalcy return to an industry that has rocked from its foundation over the last 12 months and harshly in the last 2 months. However, racing […]

  This coming weekend is going to be super exciting for horse racing fans with Kentucky Derby preps in Florida and at Fair Grounds..this will be serious time for a lot of runners and their future plans. Meanwhile, keep those foals pics coming and enjoy this special (and tiring) time of year!)   A colt […]

in memory of ALBERT TRUDELL…   SUNDAY MORNING WALK in Ontario – yes, looks gorgeous…but it’s -25 Celcius!!                 MUSIC TO THEIR EARS Midnight Aria wins for Tucci/Gonzalez Ontario bred 3yo MIDNIGHT ARIA won a 1 1/8 mile maiden allowance on the dirt at GUlfstream Park on Saturday […]

The news  for Ontario racing is all bad these days, hopefully better days to come?  How about some betting today – and here’s the hunch bet for VALENTINE’S DAY … I KISSED YOU  at Gulfstream, trained by Mark Casse, whose birthday is today!     NOT FEELIN THE LOVE, WOODBINE has to cut jobs BET […]