Here’s hoping RILEY RIPASSO runs well tomorrow at Woodbine in race 3, a turf allowance, Riley’s trainer DEBBIE ENGLAND was hurt this week at Woodbine and she has a lot of nice horses racing all weekend Get better Deb!!!   Riley Ripasso image by NORM FILES         RACING RETURNS TO […]

too hot to write too much…sweatin at the desk here…. Hope you are inside with air conditioning, or that you stay cool with water and a breeze while looking after our cherished horses. 1 – Tough to imagine our horses in stalls today, with the temp going up to 49Celcius with the humidity, but at […]

  FEELIN HOT HOT HOT   Humans and animals alike are having to hunker down in air conditioning OR behind fans just to get through the next week or so of swletering and very humid weather. It is dense heat, with a burning sun and sticky sticky air. The reading will be 41 celcius with […]

  *****11:30 A.M. UPDATE – DID YOU KNOW THAT j. Paul Reddam and Doug O’Neil have returned SQUARE EDDIE TO THE RACES AGAIN!! Retired twice, just bred 40 mares and is working at Del Mar – this is incredibly shocking…   TODAY IS MONDAY JULY 18 – PRINCE OF WALES was a great race, and […]

   FORT ERIE, trying to get the betting up, one year left on the lease..expect to see everyone who loves the game there tomorrow…..it’s Wales day and you should be there!   **THOROUGHBLOG is on the road this morning and shall return MONDAY                WOODBINE – WHAT IS THIS………27.18, […]

76th Running of the Prince of Wales Stakes POST POSITIONS… To Be Run Sunday, July 17th Post Time 5:45 p.m.   Post        Horse                     Jockey               Trainer            M/L         1      Oh Canada                 Krista Carignan         Robert Tiller     12/1         2      Pender Harbour         Luis Contreras          Mike DePaulo    3/1         3      Hippolytus                  Tyler Pizarro            Mark Casse        2/1         […]

NEWS ALERT FOR TODAY – MOBY DIP , 3 TO 1 IN RACE 5 AT FORT ERIE TODAY, could be trainer Martin Drexler’s record-equalling consecutive win at the meeting. Alex Bankuti set the record almost 30 years ago…stay tuned.   The PRINCE OF WALES, the 2nd jewel of the Canadian Triple Crown, puts FORT ERIE […]

TODAY IS SATURDAY JULY 9…8 DAYS UNTIL THE PRINCE OF WALES….SEE LIST OF PROBABLES IN THIS POST..STEAMY HOT TURF RACING AT WOODBINE THIS WEEKEND!   FRIDAY WRAP A July lull and shades of the ‘ugly season’ (a term coined by members of the local media years ago when racing was on the pages of the […]

  WALE WATCHING   NINE SET FOR 2ND JEWEL OF TRIPLE CROWN… Post draw next Wednesday, race July 17 at FORT ERIE BOWMAN’S CAUSEWAY ch.c.3 by Giant’s Causeway(Storm Cat) – Victory Encounter(Victory Speech) Martin S. Schwartz Chad C. Brown (S)CHARLIE’S THE MAN B.c  Indian Charlie – Social Woman, by Woodman. Jim and Susan HIll Brian […]

 thursday – FORT ERIE IN 1929, it’s a national gem   Collection  Francis J. Petrie Collection Date  1929.     THURSDAY NEWS….PRINCE OF WALES STAKES – 7 may start, who was the last QUEEN’S PLATE winner not to participate in the Prince of Wales???  Can you guess???   Huge Beyer Figure horse wins at Woodbine and […]

RECORD $10k RAISED IN SADDLE TOWELS!  The 2011 version of the Queen’s Plate saddlecloth auction to benefit LongRun Thoroughbred Retirement Society was by far the best and busiest ever, netting over $10,000 to help provide Ontario’s thoroughbreds with a dignified retirement. This most successful fundraiser, initiated four years ago by Woodbine Entertainment’s Jane Holmes and […]

TODAY’S NEWS – MONDAY – INDEPENDENCE DAY IN THE U.S. 0  horses that cost $6,500 and $14,000 and $5,200 win nice races Sunday at Woodbine…!!…FORT ERIE packed with good races all weekend and again today!    BEAR IT’S TIME, last jump, gets 2nd leg of Triple Tiara over NIIGON’S TOUCH and SPOOKY KITTEN, Terence Dulay […]

   DON CAVALLO gallops in Grade 3 Dominion Day – Terence Dulay photo       WEEKEND AT WOODBINE, SO FAR Don’s day and Eternal, rules Owner/breeder DON MYERS celebrated a stakes win yesterday at Woodbine with his homebred colt ETERNAL RULE, a son of Tribal Rule (California stallion) out of the unraced mare Eternal […]

  CELEBRATE today – our country, our freedom, our family – and lots of cool racing at WOODBINE!     hey, if you missed yesterday’s THOROUGBLOG – did you know CHAMPION MILWAUKEE aPPEAL WAS SOLD…….             THURSDAY WRAP WEEKEND ROMANCE ROMPS Frank Annechini and Rocco D’Alimonte’s WEEKEND ROMANCE was 3 […]

  BREAKING NEWS – R. Glenn Sikura (Hill ‘N’ Dale Canada), has sold MILWAUKEE APPEAL on behalf of CEC Farms to Ben Glass acting as the agent for Mr and Mrs Gary West. She leaves for Saratoga tomorrow and will later spend her breeding career at Dell Ridge farm in Kentucky. No stallion is confirmed […]