RAHY’S ATTORNEY – image by Dave Landry    WHO WILL GET BACK ON TRACK? Connaught Cup – Grade 3 today There figures to be some scratches but today’s CONNAUGHT CUP, shortened to just 7 furlongs this year on turf, figures to be a good starting point for the older turf set to see what’s […]

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CHECK OUT THE UPDATES LISTS ON THIS PAGE AT BOTTOM! TODAY’S TUESDAY NEWS – STANDINGS AND WILD JOCKET SNARE…     NO JOKE, JESTERS JAZZ BEATS JORDAN FILLY Gail Cox (formerly Casselman) has had a super spring. From just 10 runners, the trainer has scored 4 races and when her starters are boxcar numbers on […]

  WWW.HORSE-RACES.NET PHOTO, BRERETON JONES and his filly BIOFUEL. Jones had never seen the filly run and he lured a crowd when he lunched at Woodbine.                       POWER UNLIMITED Biofuel charges to victory It looked a bit grim for champion BIOFUEL as the LA LORGNETTE […]

EMBUR’S SONG, 2 for 2 for Fares Farm. Woodbine Oaks bound…                     IT’S TIME! Impossible Time sizzles in Ballade, Embur’s Song Oaks-bound The girls were on their game on Saturday at Woodbine. IMPOSSIBLE TIME won her first stakes race for owner/breeder Charles Fipke, who has had […]

  THE QUEEN IS COMING TO WOODBINE, according to a story today in the Globe & Mail. Here is Her Royal Highness at the 2007 Kentucky Derby. Lydia Williams photo                       QUEEN VISIT TO WOODBINE JULY 4 CONFIRMED according to GLOBE & MAIL’S PATRICK WHITE […]

  Mel Lawson (right) with his star Jiggs Coz. Cindy PiersonDulay/www.horse-races.net photo         MEL LAWSON INDUCTED INTO HALL OF FAME News comes down quietly on Monday about inductees Mel Lawson of Hamilton, the 87-year-old owner of Jim Dandy Stables, will be inducted in the builders’  category of the Canadian Horse racing Hall […]

 CHANTAL SUTHERLAND, a little smile as Essence Hit man cruises in Queenston – will he be tested at 2 turns next?? Norm Files photo               QUEENSTON MUDDLES PLATE PICTURE Hit Man strikes again Audre Cappuccitti was so nervous yesterday, she watched her horse ESSENCE HIT MAN in the Queenston […]

       GOTCHA! Pimlico outrider grabs Canadian owned SEEKING THE TITLE as she runs past fans after falling in the Black Eyed Susan. An accident occured when Diva Delite clipped heel. Cindy Pierson Dulay grabbed this shot of Charle’s Fipke’s loose filly and here is Cindy’s recap :   (FROM HORSE-RACES.NET…The #2 horse in […]

 HOLLINGER, the champion 2yo who has never lost a race, starts his 3yo campaign tomorrow in the Queenston Stakes. Norm Files photo               TOAST TO BOURBON NOT BOURBON reached out his white legs and short neck as he came to another flashy chesnut in deep stretch. It was looking […]

NUMBER ONE (WITH A BULLET) Hollywood Hit – 114 BEYER FIGURE! Don’t blame FATAL BULLET, champion and Horse of the Year if he couldn’t win his 2010 season debut yesterday at Woodbine. He ran a 107 Beyer Figure in the Grade 3 Vigil Stakes – a typical number for him. But Canadian owned HOLLYWOOD HIT […]

  TODAY’S NEWS – Wind plays havoc with key races, Ajax Downs starts, Queen’s Plate nominees and supplements. Lawn chairs blowing around neighborhoods, power lines down, traffic lights out and tumbleweed flying through the air. Just a spring day in southern Ontario that made things awfully interesting for Saturday racing at Woodbine – at least […]

EXCITED THOROUGHBLOG READERS? Not exactly, it’s Diane Ladd and John Malkovich in the movie SECRETARIAT. see trailer below.               FEEL THE LOVE WEDNESDAY NIGHT AT WOODBINE -Ken and Sarah Ramsey, prominent American owners, won their first race at Woodbine for 2010 when RULES OF HONOR won his maiden in […]

Thoroughblog will return to news and Woodbine recaps following today’s important post.       VERNE’S BABY 2002-2010 SHAME RUNS DEEP IN GELDING’S DEATH Sometimes the heart can’t go on. VERNE’S BABY, a stakes winner, track record setter and popular old guy, dropped dead of an apparent heart attack yesterday morning on the Woodbine sand […]

SUPER SAVER, from the great family of Numbered Account, wins the Derby. Cindy Pierson Dulay photo                             GREAT SAVE! Pletcher gets one anyway after losing the big horse No matter ESKENDEREYA had to miss the Derby. No matter trainer Todd Pletcher was […]