UPDATE UPDATE – THE ONTARIO RACING COMMISSION HAS DISMISSED BRUNO SCHICKEDANZ`S APPEAL TO HAVE THE BAN ON HIS HORSES RACING AND STABLING AT WOODBINE. the 15 page ruling was issued today to general public and media, yesterday to others. It can be found on the oORC website.  THURSDAY MORNING – TIME IS IMPOSSIBLE TO […]

  MONDAY MORNING NEWS – ARCTIC COSMOS COMING TO WOODBINE.. . SECRETARIAT MOVIE OPENS IN 4 DAYS AND REPORTS HAVE WOODBINE HAVING SECRETARIAT DAY! (http://www.bizjournals.com/louisville/stories/2010/10/04/daily1.html) and more, more more.  HE’S SPECIAL – HAYNESFIELD, out of Josham Farms-bred mare NOTHING SPECIAL, wins the Grade 1 Jockey Club Gold Cup. Cindy Pierson Dulay www.horse-races.net         […]

HAPPY SATURDAY, OCT 2 –  ALL STAKES PICK 4 AT BELMONT, old timer wins claimer at Woodbine,  noms for Can. international… ZENYATTA goes for 19 straight at 7:15!   SUPER SATURDAY FOR BREEDERS’ CUP PREVIEW RACES Don’t Blame me if I have a Zen for sitting in front of TV all day The best in […]

  LATEST – THURSDAY EVENING..SOVEREIGN AWARDS on Apirl 1 AT WOODBINE.. MORE CHANGES RUMOURED TO COME  NEWSPAPER STORIES HAVE TO BE IN DAILY NEWSPAPERS PERHAPS?      THE GIRL WITH THE HORSE TATTOO…Reade Baker employee Tanya shows off her tattoo of stakes winner KENTUCKY BEAR, now at stud at Curraghmore…            HE’S […]

  HAPPY TUESDAY – From Woodbine, to France, to British Columbia, Fort Erie and Manitoba, THOROUGHBLOG  has got all the news bits to keep you up to date! BIOFUEL will pass on Breeders’ Cup, Alberta rider coming to Woodbine…get in the game with THOROUGHBLOG – advertise today!!   (PHOTO FROM A PREVIOUS WIN, WWW.HORSE-RACES.NET)   […]

LATER SATURDAY UPDATES…VICTOR IS THE VICTOR, the American breds trounced our Canadian boys in the Ontario Derby as Grade 1 WINNER STATELY VICTOR, easily the class of the Ontario Derby field, rallied 4 wide off the turn to romp in the 9 furlong race under jockey Lebron. The son of Ghostzapper (those offspring are winning […]

HAPPY MONDAY – LONGRUN HOEDOWN TONIGHT – BE THERE!!! PRESENTED BY THE KREMBIL FOUNDATION…COURT VISION AND REDWOOD AND SOME GOOD CANADIAN GUYS TOO.                       COURT VISION surges to a WOODBINE MILE WIN over THE USUAL Q.T. and Ontario bred longshot WOODBOURNE (he’s in yellow cap). […]

 SOMETHING SO STRONG WOODBINE MILE IS TODAY, HOW ABOUT CROWDED HOUSE?..WHO WILL RIDE COURT VISION FOR IEAH AND DUTROW?      will we see this today? GRAND ADVENTURE, Patrick Husbands and owner Rick Balaz?? Many people think so… Terence Dulay photo                           SUMMER […]

 FRIDAY, TGIF – WOODBINE MILE STUFF, BIG RAIN FOLKS…WHAT WILL TURF BE LIKE?                     NICK EAVES said it succinctly at the post position draw for the Woodbine Mile yesterday – “We have 2 distinct meets at Woodbine – our 3-year-olds and the Triple Crown and out […]

  THURSDAY MORNING – HEAVY HEAVY RAIN TODAY FOLKS….draw for the WOODBINE MILE, NORTHERN DANCER ETC…FIELDS LOOK GOOD FOR THE BIG ONES…ANDERSON SELLS BIG ONE AT KEENELAND     WOODBINE MILE ENTRIES – tune in later for the posts Auteur/Bruce Lunsford/Barbara Minshall/Mike Smith    Court Vision/IEAH Stables & Resolute Group/Rick Dutrow/Robby Albarado Crowded House/Burrell, Harvey […]

WEDNESDAY’S NEWS – WHEW, THE NEXT ISSUE OF CANADIAN THOROUGHBRED is almost set to print (Woodbine Mile goes in Sunday)…speaking of the Mile – wow, pretty good field aye?? Uh oh, Alberta racing loses it big, big trainer…. CHIEFSWOOD BUYING BIG AT KEENELAND THE USUAL Q.T. – a favourite for the Woodbine Mile – Vanessa […]

WOODBINE MILE POSSIBLE ENTRIES STRAIGHT STORY GIO PONTI SMOKEY FIRE VICTOR’S CRY VIOLON SACRE THE USUAL Q T FAMOUS NAME COURT VISION WOODBOURNE AUTEUR GRAND ADVENTURE ZIFZAF RIVIERA COCKTAIL   SUNDAY MORNING – LOCAL BUYERS busy at sale yesterday…week wrap up   RAVEN`S REVENGE It was murder for DANCING RAVEN to get past that pesky […]

    ZIFZAF, third in the Fourstardave Stakes is headed to Woodbine Mile – he’s the one on the far left.   JUDDMONTE INVADES AGAIN – FAMOUS NAME TO WOODBINE MILE GROUP 3 WINNER FAMOUS NAME (Dansili) passed up on the Arlington Million and will come for the Woodbine Mile next week for Juddmonte, which […]

  FRIDAY’S NEWS YEARLING SALE DOWN, SALES STAKES WILD..WOODBINE MILE COMING UP NEXT WEEK, COULD SMOKEY FIRE BE FAVOURITE??   DID YOU KNOW …. That lost in the shuffle of YEARLING SALES STAKES DAY was the wild SUPERFECTA FINISH of 4 juveneile by OLD FORESTER?  CALIUS, CITIUS, URBAN FORESTER AND NEAR EXPECTATIONS combined for an […]

SALES STAKES DAY, YEARLING SALES TOMORROW – but we’ve lost a great guy THOROUGHBLOG will miss our very good friend BOB SUMMERS, the HAPPY HANDICAPPER… He loved the racing, he covered the Canadian Triple Crown in depth and enthusiastically every year for the BUFFALO NEWS, and for sure he was getting ready for the Woodbine […]