FRIDAY NEWS – WAGERING UP AT WOODBINE, FIELD SIZE DOWN, BIG WEEKEND WRAPS UP THE MEETING AND CASSE CHASES RECORD..     THE SIRE BOOK IS OUT almost 200 pages of news, views, stats and the stallion directory that beats all.. https://canadianthoroughbred.com/?page_id=71         THREE TO GO, 35 RACES AND OVER 350 HORSES […]

    HAPPY DECEMBER 1 – Coming up in the next issue of Canadian Thbrd – here’s our COVER BOY – OLD FORESTER, the hot young sire with 8 debut winning 2yos this season. DAVE LANDRY PHOTO                                 THIS HOLIDAY […]

SUNDAY MORNING – JAPAN CUP, Canadian International horses drubbed, winner is DQ’d!, Pender Harbour, Muskoka stuff and the MIXED SALE….                 DQ IN JAPAN CUP!!  hey, but SAME OWNER WINS ANYWAY Buena Vista relegated to second after Japan Cup win, Fifty Proof 18th (AFP) – associated foreign press… […]

TODAY’S NEWS – WOODBINE IN THE HOME STRETCH, ICE ON THE SIDEWALKS THIS MORNING, CANADIAN GELDING FIFTY PROOF IN JAPAN  Photo from JRA, Tyler Gaskin aboard Fifty Proof on the other side of the world           INTERVIEW WITH IAN BLACK AND JUSTIN STEIN – JAPAN RACING ASSOCIATION Fifty Proof draws post […]

IAN BLACK checks out his trainee FIFTY PROOF in Japan, they are headed to the Japan Cup on Sunday – Janet Black photo                         THE PROOF IS IN….JAPAN! Local gelding tries tough nuts in Japan Cup FIFTY PROOF has arrived in Japan for Sunday’s […]

RAVALO UPSETS KENNEDY ROAD…CANADIANS IN A MESS IN THE U.S…LONGRUN DAY WAS BUSY! WOODBINE SATURDAY – A cold, crisp day and greeting folks as they came into the track was none other than TINE ALERT, a son of Secretariat, who at 21 showed he’s a feisty as can be. The white faced chestnut, out of […]

 BIG WEEKEND FOR CANADIAN HORSES LIKE GOLDEN MOKA, BLUE LASER…BIG WIN FOR CAPPUCCITTI AND JONES AT WOODBINE…   HEY! THIS MAY BE CORNY BUT… JAKE SAYS WATCH SOME COOL RACES ON SATURDAY – THEY MAY MEAN A LOT TO SOME LOCAL HORSES!                   EURO TRASHES BARRACKS well, […]

 WOODBINE WINNERS ON THE WEEKEND…LONGRUN DAY COMING UP!…JUST RUSHING RETIRED    STUNNING STAG, photo by Dave Landry                                     MOVE LAST AND MOVE WIDE You could have sounded like a broken record if you were trying to decipher the […]

SATURDAY MORNING – JEFF BEGG AND JOHN CAREY hit the heights with big weanling sales at Keeneland.. longshots at Woodbine!..Autumn Stakes today means a lot for SOURTHDALE, ‘MIKE’ and we will be thinking of Bob too… NOTE….Friends of THOROUGHBLOG are seeking information on their former horses SILVER AGE (Nick Gonzalez) and RUN A BUCK (Tom […]

BOB ANDERSON REMEMBERED ON FRIDAY AT KEENELAND, SUNDAY – MONDAY in Ontario Keeneland will hold a gathering Friday at 9 a.m. in the paddock to honor the memory of Bob Anderson, who passed away Sunday night. Anderson, who had a consignment of 15 horses at the November sale, was the president of Anderson Farms, and […]

BOB ANDERSON PHOTO OF BOB, AT RIGHT, BY DAVE LANDRY The family will receive friends for visitation on Sunday, November 14, 2010 at the Sifton Funeral Home from 2-4 pm and 7-9 pm, 118 Wellington St, St. Thomas, ON.  Funeral Services will be held Monday, November 15, 2010 at 11 am at Knox Presbyterian Church, […]

  NO HOLLYWOOD ENDING Zenyatta runs out of racetrack (photo by www.horse-races.net,  Cindy Pierson Dulay) Who’s to blame? Or should it be said, who’s to Blame? Surely every single soul watching the stretch run of the Breeders’ Cup Classic last evening at about 7:46 p.m. was screaming with glee as super-mare ZENYATTA finally got rolling, […]

UNRIVALED ACTION Breeders’ Cup has it all, longshots, jockey fights and big-time controversy (“clearly she probably should not have run” – Todd Pletcher) You could not have asked for a more memorable first day of the 27TH BREEDERS’ CUP WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS, really. The very first race, the 1 3/4 mile MARATHON, saw Javiar Castellano make […]

  TERENCE DULAY captured Ladies’ Classic fave BLIND LUCK schooling yesterday at Churchill. She is a headline horse today in day 1 of the BREEDERS’ CUP!                 IT’S CUP DAY! Marathon, fillies, mares kick off 2-day Championships The long winded dudes (there is a filly in the race […]

BREEDERS’ CUP BEGINS TOMORROW! – Scratches include INDIAN GRACEY from Juv. Fillies, DELEGATOR IS DICEY for Mile, Canadians doing well…yatta yatta yatta      Where’s Zenyatta – like Where’s Waldo, can you see her as she is followed by a mob scene? Reed Palmer Photography       SOME CANADIAN NOTES FROM BREEDERS’ CUP yesterday […]