MY MY MY MY BOOGIE SHOES….. Back to winter! Thanks for your patience – THOROUGHBLOG is back after a trip to the island of Barbados and a day at the Sandy Lane Gold Cup. The day ended with a wild stage show of magic and cirque de soliel-style acrobatics from cranes at a private party, […]

  SATURDAY MORNING! THE GOLD CUP IS TODAY, check the Barbados Turf Club website (barbadosturfclub.org) for links to how to hear the races live – please note – race is at 4 Toronto time, not 6… IT’S GOLD CUP DAY!! It’s already a sizzler here in Barbados and sure to get even more hot, esepcially […]

12 to race in Gold Cup Al Portador will compete in the Sandy lane Sprint Stakes tomorrow at the Garrison savannah, not the Gold Cup so the Gold Cup field drew Reward Me off the reserve list for owner Sir David Seale. Seale and others are in the midst of a protest regarding the day […]

    Stay tuned to Thoroughblog later tomorrow for an update once we land in Barbados. Track news Friday morning and then the race comes Saturday – check bloodhorse.com and drf. com for news pics of the ST. KITTS HORSES packing up their…kitt n kaboodle, sorry, for the Barbados Gold Cup – thanks to Beaumont […]

 Welcome to MARCH (already??) Gadzooks, exactly 30 days until the SOVEREIGN AWARDS, plus one more until OPENING DAY at Woodbine!! Check in later week and weekend for updates on the goings-on in BARBADOS, the $200,000 (BAR) Gold Cup is on Saturday – it’s one hour later there I believe. Canadian rep SAFETY ZONE meets American […]

    SOLDAT (photo Joe Ganley/Equisport Photos) romps in Fountain of Youth – read about his Canadian breeding!!! Below:       CANADIAN-BREDS IN CANADIAN TURF! CANADIAN TURF S.-GIII, $150,000, 4yo/up, 1mT PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY TRAINER ML 1 Society’s Chairman Not Impossible (Ire) Lezcano Attfield 6-1 2 Zifzaf K War Chant Castellano Toner 4-1 […]

   THOROUGHBLOG is heading off to the Garrison Savannah next week (you can see the track tucked  in an arm of the island in photo at left) – coverage of the Sandy Lane Gold Cup will appear on the Blood-Horse and Daily Racing Form websites   Creative Commons / Garrison Savannah         […]

    Jake says..HO HUM,  is it APRIL YET?? High winds, blowing snow for a Friday so a pot of hot tea is in order. Tons of cool action for Jake and you to watch this weekend, Canadian horses, Fountain of Youth more and more and more… THOROUGHBLOG (and Jake) say thanks for everyone who […]

WE’RE BAAAACK, TROUBLE IN CYBER SPACE led to the entire HORSE-CANADA FAMILY BEING DOWN FOR A BIT BUT LET’S GET GOING AGAIN!   A morning at Payson Park, looks different than here today. We have more snow and will get a ton more over next 2 days! Janet Black photo           […]

UPDATE – MONDAY FEB. 21 8:30 P.M. American trainer WESLEY WARD is shipping 2 horses to BARBADOS for events on BARBADOS GOLD CUP DAY. ward has GRAND TIMES scheduled for the Spa Stakes and late entrant GRAND CASH headed to the $200,000 BAR SANDY LANE GOLD CUP where he will meet the other North American […]

  GOOD AND BAD NEWS FOR WOODBINE THOROUGHBREDS.. LOTS OF CANADIAN HORSES TO WATCH TODAY IN FLORIDA AND NEW ORLEANS…   DAIJIN’S LAST FOAL… a colt by Zensational. DAIJIN has been a blue-hen mare for HIll ‘n’ Dale Farms, in Kentucky and Canada. She produced many good foals but then had much trouble producing one […]

IT’S A BABY BEAR!  The first foal from Ontario sire KENTUCKY BEAR arrived at Curraghmore Farm recently. The little one is out of BEAR DIXIE CAT and both sire, dam and baby are owned by Danny Dion’s Bear Stable.                     LETTERS AND BLOG COMMENTS My name […]

 SUNDAY FEB. 13 – HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO JANIS! Enter our survey (see the homepage, make sure you click on the Canadian Thoroughbred survey button), send in your foal pictures! send in any pictures!   *Good effort yesterday at Gulfstream from Stronach Stables’ HUNTERS BAY (Ghostzapper) who posted a whopping 103 BEYER FIGURE when 2nd in […]

  SATURDAY! Derby preps, more Canadian-bred bits, and lots of pics from the south!   SOUTHDALE, a Sovereign Award finalist, works out at Payson Park in 26 2/5, his first breeze of the year for trainer Ian Black Janet Black photo         Champion RAHY’S ATTORNEY testing the grass at Payson Park last […]

FRIDAY, FRIDAY, always a good feeling day no matter whether you work or not! It’s -25 with the wind, sunny and bright again, should get a bit more tolerable on weekend when rain/snow mix comes. Don’t forget to enter the survey on the home page – there is one for all magazines so check out […]