Good Luck Dixie!   DOWN WITH DIXIE, a hard knocking claiming gelding, was recently re-acquired by Renee Kierans and retired from the racetrack. The gelding had raced this year for Kierans, was claimed by Alan Bird and raced at Fort Erie where he has been doing well, but instead of continuing on, these wonderful horsepeople […]

        BREEDERS’ CUP COUNTDOWN – 8 DAYS!! The release of the 180 pre entries yesterday for Breeders’ Cup 29, in California at Santa Anita this year, is always an exciting time for racing lovers worldwide. Races are scrutinized, pedigrees examined, trips and speed figures compared. It’s a giant smorgasbord of racing fun […]

  WEDNESDAY MORNING UPDATE – Canadian breds POOL PLAY, DYNAMIC SKY, SPRING IN THE AIR, MARKETING MIX are entered in Breeders Cup races, PAUL REDDAM has a bunch, MARK CASSE  a few, and BRITISH COLUMBIA could be in Command?   BREEDERS’ CUP PRE ENTRIES – 188 HORSES, 23 CROSS-ENTERED! HERE AR THE CANADIAN CONNECTED HORSES: […]

SATURDAY MORNING – Tune into HPI for races from ASCOT this morning – the mighty FRANKEL is in the Champion Stakes, his final hurrah, meets 5 rivals and the course may be a bit soft.   Fabulous Frankel – from Wikipedia       NIIGON REMEMBERED   A Thoroughblog commenter (on the post GUARD) SENT […]

  In Memory of Niigon – tragically put down Sunday Dave Landry photo   SO LONG MCGUINTY, BUT… WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN? It’s too early to know if anything good will come of the sudden resignation of Ontario Premier DALTON MCGUINTY yesterday but one thing is for certain,  the members of the horse racing […]

  Get your running shoes on (and bring an umbrella!) It’s CANADIAN INTERNATIONAL DAY at Woodbine Well, it’s warm out there, a nice change from the sharp cold this past week. But it is wet. Rain began early last evening and is still ongoing. Not sure if has been enough to make the grass soft […]

  It’s CANADIAN INTERNATIONAL TIME AT WOODBINE!  Horse racing at its best, come out to Woodbine to celebrate 75 years of this famous race – remember this one?:   IT’S AN INTERNATIONAL CORNUCOPIA Canadian International highlights big weekend at Woodbine A field of 11 truly International racehorses will line up in front of the grandstand […]

    Dave Landry photo of 2010 International         What ya doin tonight? – LADIES NIGHT at the Toronto Thoroughbred Racing Club in Champions – starts at 7:30 at Woodbine – meets some cool gals in the game, preview the Canadian International this weekend…come on out!   In International news – DANDINO […]

HOT OFF THE PRESS: Trainer Mark Casse told THOROUGHBLOG this morning that.. ” SPRING VENTURE will go to the   Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Filly Turf… Spring In The Air will more than likely run in Breeders Cup Filly Juvenile, and Dynamic Sky is going to the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile dirt. Pool Play is going to probably […]

GIVE THANKS!!! UPDATED SATURDAY MORNING AT 10:57 – Cold and crisp at Woodbine…IMPERIAL MONARCH to be joined by RELIABLE MAN who seeks his first win all year in CANADIAN INTERNATIONAL next weekend…. MATT WOOLEY PHOTO (EquiSport)   It may be fall but there is SPRING IN THE AIR! (in yellow) In an exciting run from […]

Monarch may fly in for International! Photo from Aidan O’Brien FanBlog       IMPERIAL MONARCH COMING TO WOODBINE The Aidan o’Brien trainee IMPERIAL MONARCH has been taken out of consideration for the Prix de ‘lArc de Triomphe this Sunday and will likely head to Woodbine for the Oct. 14 Canadian International. The Tabor, Smith […]

Royal Delta (Empire Maker) is eased up in the Beldame…just crushed them Vanessa Ng photo     STARS OF THE WEEKEND – NORTH AND SOUTH WOODBINE had a 4 pack of mini-stakes races this weekend, 2 ‘overnight’ grass events and 2 Polytrack races. Since the addition of about one-fifth of the FIBRE that is going […]

  I can see…CLEARLY NOW! Here is this 2yo beginner winning Wednesday night over the new Polytrack, fibre was added and more to come! Norm Files photo             WOODBINE POLYTRACK GETS NEW FIBRE and WAX! If you have been following Woodbine racing in the last week, you know that 19,000 […]

 Bathing Bear’s Peak – by Janis Maine     SEA MOON headed to WOODBINE!! Will join JOSHUA TREE and others for OCT 14 CANADIAN INTERNATIONAL… Wild win by invader LA TIA at Woodbine…some nice performances at the track Sunday on cold, sunny day…Kabel wins at Ajax Downs..Windfields Farm getting vandalized…and more..   *We welcome comments […]

 Sunday morning news – Dixie Strike, Todd Kabel, no contest race at Woodbine..it’s Emmy night, hoping for Jon Hamm to get first Emmy for Man Men!     DIXIE STRIKE Grade 1 placed in Cotillion becomes a millionaire! It was only a four horse field and she may have only beat one rival, but John […]