Whew, okay, so THOROUGHBLOG has been trying to keep up since the flurry of activity since the SOVEREIGN AWARD evening Friday night, opening weekend of Woodbine and the Florida Derby card of racing on Sunday. And then the computer crashes, more than once. Anyway, the ‘BLOG is back and hopefully ready for the workload ahead […]

                SOVEREIGN AWARDS KICK OFF 53RD WOODBINE MEETING The racing community from Ontario and across Canada will gather tonight to celebrate not only the champions of 2010 racing but also toast the upcoming year for the horses and horsepeople alike. The SOVEREIGN AWARDS have been moved to the […]

THINGS TO NOTE ON OPENING DAY: Jesse Campbell, from Illinois, is the newest member of WOODBINE’S JOCKS COLONY         91 ENTERED FOR OPENING DAY! 86 last year. A super second-half of a 10-race card highlights the first day of racing at Woodbine, 2011, the 53rd season at the Rexdale track. The DEBUT […]

    DAVE LANDRY PHOTO                   Check in later today for news on the first overnight entries for Saturday’s opening day at Woodbine! Overnight should be out around 2-3 o’clock… TODAY’S BITS – Fans want to meet WOODBINE’S TRAINER’S, big names all around…WINSTAR FARM IN KENTUCKY offers […]

       YAY! Ian Black gets a hug from Emma-Jayne Wilson after Rahy’s Attorney won the Pan American – Janet Black               WOODBINE STUFF First day of entries tomorrow! Everyone approaches the first day of a new racing season a different way – depending on what your are […]

RA-RA RAHY   “He’s seven years old and we thought we’d try him in the longer races this season. We thought that horse (Beckham Bend) would be sent out there to set a good pace, so we planned on sitting off of him and then get first run on the others when it came time. Emma […]

BREAKFAST IN DUBAI, well, breakfast, watching Dubai It is one of those bitterly cold mornings in southern Ontario but there is light, in the form of a sun, at the end of this excruciatingly long tunnel. The high temp by Monday should be 2 or 3 Celcius, yippee. For now, we cozy up and watch […]

BIG, BIG SATURDAY OF RACING ACTION as we close in on the SOVEREIGN AWARDS and OPENING DAY AT WOODBINE!  Should be enough to get us out of the funk that is the Ontario winter, which hit hard again yesterday! INGLORIOUS has a huge test in the FAIR GROUNDS OAKS in New Orleans. She is not […]

 GOOD WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH 23! THIS HAS GOT TO BE THE LAST OF THIS STUFF THIS YEAR! CP PHOTO OF THE 401 THIS MORNING IN TORONTO, no one believed it would snow, it did and cars are all over canadian press photo         In the midst of quite the storm up in […]

  TOP OF THE MORNIN’ TO YOU! This little one was born on St. Patrick’s day (let the names game begin!). This filly is by Vibank (who had a winner at Aiken from his first crop of foals) out of Psychedelia  – foaled at Woodlands Farm. Vision of Luck?           CANADIAN […]

  HEAD’S UP – the snow is coming again this week to southern Ontario and it will be cold! Still some winter to go even if Spring is supposed to arrive 2 nite! But….less than 2 weeks until WOODBINE OPENS…    YAY! Sovereign Awards and racing coming up!! this gaffer is by young sire MIDNIGHT […]

  MAJOR QUEEN’S PLATE CONTENDERS IN ACTION TODAY –   ELITE ALED and BOWMAN’S CAUSEWAY, THE 1-2 CHOICES on Thoroughblog’s list: $300,000 Rebel Stakes (gr. II, Race 10, 5:31 p.m.), 3YO, 1 1/16 Miles (Dirt) PP. Horse, Jockey, Weight, Trainer 1. Archarcharch (KY), J K Court, 122, W H Fires 2. Alternation (KY), L S […]

  CONTEST – CONTEST CONTEST – SEND YOUR GUESSES as to who may win the SOVEREIGN AWARDS (horses only) and get a chance to win THE HORSE AND THE TIGER, the new book by Muriel Lennox. Send your picks by using the Comment button, you have 16 days left to take your guess…  CANADIAN-BRED JOYFUL […]

  A LEO IS BORN! Okay, not as in the astrological sign – but one of the first babies by champion LEONNATUS ANTEAS arrived on Feb. 12 at Hill ‘n’ Dale Farms. This little girl is out of Trufflesfromheaven and was greeted by, among others, Ericka Rusnak from Hill ‘n’ Dale, who snapped this cute […]

CONTEST! WIN MURIEL LENNOX’S NEW BOOK! The Sovereign Awards are coming up on April 1, the evening before the 2011 racing season gets underway. THOROUGHBLOG wants to see if you can guess the winner’s of the (racing) horse awards? Whoever gets the most right will a copy of THE HORSE AND THE TIGER, the story […]