TODAY’S SUNDAY NEWS – QUALITY ROAD bounces back to win Woodward in workmanlike fashion , he got a 106 Beyer Figure, HOOH WHY upsets, TWISTED WIT is retired! guess who is having fun?? TWISTED WIT! Finally, thanks to a super group of folks out there, this guy has been retired from racing after winning […]

 CAN TRIBAL BELLE GET BACK ON TRACK? May have only 3 to beat tomorrow in the Seaway…Dave Landry photo   TOP CANADIAN BREDS FOR 2010 1 – EL BRUJO (106) 2 – STERWINS (103) 3- ESSENCE HIT MAN (100) 4. Society’s Chairman (95) 5 Grand Adventure (105) 6 Smokey Fire (103) 7. Rahy’s Attorney (95) […]

SEPT 1 NEWS – GOSH, the fall is here, although it does not feel like in currently in southern Ontario, it’s a heatwaaaave….LONG WEEKEND comin up, yearling sales stakes day on Monday and the sale on TUESDAY!   SEE YOU IN SEPTEMBER 1st of the month and the fun is just beginning YEARLING SALES, LONG […]

  NEW, EMPIRE STABLE OPEN HOUSE TOMORROW!! 12-30 – 4:30 Come out to NICOLE UMIKER`S new boarding stable, EMPIRE STABLE, just 5 min north of highway 9 on Highway 50, (just across and up from T and T Stud) near Loretto, Ontario. A former jockey Umiker is looking for clients for her new business which […]

In Memory of WAKE AT NOON   BRUNO SCHICKEDANZ DENIED INTERIM RELIEF   The hearing requested by Bruno Schickedanz has wrapped up as far as testimony is concerned and while final written arguments are composed and then submitted and the ORC comes to a final ruling, Schickedanz still cannot stable or race his horses at […]

  SUNDAY MORNING – it’s grey and rainy today…expect a very soft course for the Sky Classic Stakes at Woodbine today… NO HESITATION – none at all, he’s the best but Canadian Derby marred by accident The grey streak NO HESITATION fought off a very game KARA’S ORIENTATION, the Woodbine invader, to win the CANADIAN […]

  AROUND THE WORLD (okay North America) with ROGER ATTFIELD Woodbine, Arlington, Del Mar, Saratoga. That’s where you will find stakes horses trained by Roger Attfield toay. It will be a whirlwind for the conditioner. Attfield will be at Arlington for the big stakes day there – AVE is in the Beverly D and Canadian […]

  BRUNO SCHICKEDANZ HEARING BEGINS   Tuesday was a full day of testimony in the hearing requested by BRUNO SCHICKEDANZ to fight WOODBINE ENTERTAINMENT over his ban of horses stabling and racing at Woodbine. It was a lengthy day that only saw the Schickedanz side present its case and witnesses. The hearing will continue on […]

HAPPY BREEDERS’ DAY It’s an old race, its been a lot of places    (SMART SKY, RELATED TO BIG RED MIKE, goes for Breeders’ today for C. Scott Abbott, Dave Landry photo) There are 13 entered in the 119th Breeders’ Stakes today and the horses will compete under grey skies and in very sticky conditions. […]

FRIDAY THE 13TH – FEELIN’ LUCKY?   COGNASHENE, horse to beat in Breeders? DAVE LANDRY PHOTO BREEDERS’ STAKES WEEK $500,000, 3RD JEWEL CANADIAN TRIPLE CROWN Entries for the Breeders’ Stakes, first run in 1889 (!!) were taken today and the field is a wild one – not necessarily in a good way, but hey, the […]

 TODAY’S NEWS – FOR A TUESDAY – ROAN INISH OUT FOR YEAR, NICE WINNERS, GOOD STORIES AND BAD STORIES.. BORN TO BOOGIE DANCED HIS WAY TO THE WINNER’S CIRCLE IN HIS VERY FIRST START ON SATURDAY AT WOODBINE. The colt is by Strut the Stage, the first year sire who was getting his first winner. […]

 FRIDAY! – Wraps of Wednesday night and Thursday – bits here and there…enjoy the weekend of racing MELNYK SON OF PAYNES BAY WINS STAKES Grazettes Landing game in Shepperton TORONTO, August 4 – Melnyk Racing Stables homebred Grazettes Landing captured Wednesday’s $126,200 Shepperton Stakes at Woodbine. The five-year-old son of Paynes Bay is trained by […]

It’s WEDNESDAY AUG 4- in 1963, on Aug. 1…..Northern Dancer debuted as a 6 3/4-length winner at Fort Erie… Monday, a big run from ESSENCE HIT MAN at the Spa…SARATOGA sales drop in average, UNZIP ME romps at Woodbine for Martin Jones..Manitoba Derby and lots of other stuff…   LUCKY DUCK – LOOKIN AT LUCKY […]

 SUNDAY NEWS – in the midst of a long weekend here – lots of chalk won yesterday at Woodbine following some weird results on Friday (will follow up on Friday’s races in the coming days) – lots of Canadian action elsewhere too SLAM DUNK Colt stays unbeaten but it wasn’t pretty The impressive looking Grand […]

 Thursday – no racing today at Woodbine as a long weekend is coming up…from Bruno to Gill trainers…horsefolks are banding together…Tiller 1-2 in stakes race   PERFCT SHIRL – shown at Woodbine, is the latest Stakes winner for Charles Fipke and trainer Roger Attfield – Norm Files photo         WOODBINE TRIACTOR AT […]