THOROUGHBLOG is ready to be on top of the WOODBINE MILE this week, however, it’s also press week for CANADIAN THOROUGHBRED MAGAZINE… plus our resident handicapper JAKE has been sick and has needed some care…we hope for Jake’s  speedy recovery (he picked Rise and Shine to win the Muskoka stakes on Labour day!)   WOODBINE […]

      TGIF – Things to remember – GET YOUR TICKETS TO THE LONGRUN GALA!  You race them, breed them ride them, bet on them, now support them and go to www.longrunretirement.com and get your tickets to the party  of the year!   POSSIBLITIES FOR THE SEPT 18 WOODBINE MILE Runners such as GIO […]

  Topping the CTHS select yearling sale was a colt from the 3rd crop of WAR FRONT (sire of The Factor etc.) Sold by Richard Hogan for Hope Stock Farm to William and Anne Scott. DAVE LANDRY PHOTO   TWO DAY CTHS SELECT SALE COMPLETE Scotts make rare purchase, pick up topper William and Anne […]

Back to school, back to work and back to the racing news and sales! Wild stuff at the races yesterday (congrats to JAKE, whose pick ROSE AND SHINE was a winner!… MEDIDOCIHOSPISURG (a medical term), was one of several head-scratching winners of stakes on Yearling graduate day at Woodbine – he beat champion Sand Cove, […]

 GET HIP!! – Last evening at Woodbine,a reception for the CTHS Ontario yearling sale was held, sponsored by BFL Canada Insurance, was packed with the who’s who if the local game plus lots of news faces ready to buy horses at the sales. Tonight, tomorrow and Saturday, some 450 youngsters bred in Canadian are up […]

HAVRE DE GRACE – Mighty filly, 111 Beyer Figure Jessie Holmes/Equisport       HAVRE DE GRACE , the name of a famous Maryland town (Harbor of Grace), became only the 2nd filly to win the famed WOODWARD STAKES yesterday when she plowed past Rule and Flatt Out to win the 9 furlong race in […]

    Cat Scratch Fever – COURAGEOUS CAT and his white face are coming north!       WOODBINE MILE NOMS GIO PONTI flirting once again, but will he come this time?? The WOODBINE MILE has its marquee horse – COURAGEOUS CAT is considered one of the top milers on the continent and this pretty […]

LOOK OUT FOR THE CAT!     COURAGEOUS CAT – works at the Spa and is headed to Woodbine.  Trainer BILL MOTT confirmed to Daily Racing Form yesterday that  the Cat is coming to the Woodbine Mile and that makes the race  already a sparkling event for its 2011 renewal on Sept. 18. This is […]

    BREAKING NEWS – WOODBINE MILE GAINS ANOTHER ….from PA.. Ed Vaughan’s stable star Dance And Dance is to travel to Canada for his next run in the Woodbine Mile on September 18. The Royal Hunt Cup runner-up was last seen chasing home Andrew Balding’s Side Glance in the Group Three Sovereign Stakes at […]

                        HAVELOCK, the horse wins battle while town is battled Some may still be saying, ‘who the hay is Havelock’ but the gritty fellow won a wild finish in the GRADE 2 Play the King Stakes yesterday, a race that proved that fresh and […]

    Stay Thirsty (far right) went to an early lead and fought off the chargers to win the Travers – RULER ON ICE (2nd from right) had a poor trip while RATTLE SNAKE BRIDGE (red cap) ran well – Cindy Pierson Dulay0horse-races.net   DRINK UP! Stay Thirsty is now the star of 2011 “The […]

  The Travers canoe – a fixture since 1926 and painted with winning silks since 1961 – cool.     TRAVERS ANALYSIS Pick 4’s galore, including a $1 million all-stakes pick 4, crack open those DRF’s and get studyin! Here are my thoughts on the TRAVERS (BY POST POSITION) BOWMAN’S CAUSEWAY Canadian-bred from Adena Springs […]

  what the…?? Not a great few days for racing, perception -wise, its taking a beating right now in the news….. but the hopes of a cool weekend of lots of stakes action keeps things bright… Woodbine had to cancel last night when thunder and lightning was on going for hours…they got 4 races in…Newspaper […]

          Keeneland catalogues arrived at the door, the ‘caws’ of crows are now heard more than chirps of robins…it’s getting time for September, whoa nelly! Tonight – Wednesday night racing at Woodbine as we have gone past the halfway point of the season, lots of rain today at points and extreme […]

  INGLORIOUS, climbing a bit from the dirt in the Alabama, was part of a ho-hum weekend of racing for Ontario fans – but what a warm and fuzzy Canadian Derby! Vanessa Ng photo         Well, a big test for a Canadian-bred went awry this weekend, the stakes at Woodbine were on […]