Today’s news – DAVID WILLMOT STEPS DOWN AS CEO, WOODBINE RE-CAPS and DISPLAY STAKES!       David Willmot and the Honourable David Onley, Lieutenant Governor of Ontario. Cindy Pierson Dulay photo            WILLMOT TO STEP DOWN AS CEO stays on as Chairman A 15-year-old run by David Willmot guiding […]

  TODAY’S NEWS – WHO IS THE CANADIAN HORSE OF THE YEAR? SHOULD IT BE RAHY’S ATTORNEY? CHAMPS ELYSEES? MILWAUKEE APPEAL? Send in your comment! AND HERE’S A PLUG FOR A NEW BOARDING STABLE! Former jockey NICOLE UMIKER has stalls for layups and boarders at a very reasonable rate not far  from Woodbine racetrack. Call […]

  Today’s news – Kentucky Bear tops local sale, will stand at stud here…Joey is best in Kingarvie….Serenading retired   THE LATEST- SERENADING, winner of the Grade 2 FALLS CITY HANDICAP at Churchill Downs on Thursday and the favourite to win the Sovereign Award for champion older mare, is expected to be retired to the […]

    SERENADE THIS! Canadian owned, trained gal wins Falls City, “unretired” now? SERENADING picked her best effort of 2009 for one of her last – romping to a 3 length score in Churchill Downs’ FALLS CITY HANDICAP yesterday and stamping herself as the top contender for champion OLDER MARE in Canada for the Jan […]

  Today’s news JAPAN CUP comin up,  winners at Woodbine as it winds down, and other Bicks and bites BELLE OF THE BALL Tribal Belle wins again TRIBAL BELLE, with a 92 Beyer Figure on Sunday in the Bessarabian Stakes, is the leading candidate to win champion female sprinter honours at the Sovereigns in late […]

  DETOUR IN THE ROAD 103 Beyer for Smokey What was supposed to be a showdown between Jungle Wave, Field Commission and El Brujo – fighting for sprinter of the year in Canada – turned out to be nothing of the sort yesterday when SMOKEY FIRE and new rider EMMA-JAYNE WILSON won the $150,000 grade […]

KENNEDY ROAD – GREAT HORSE, GREAT RACE Sovereign Awards may be on line…. A lot is at stake for some of the entrants in Saturday’s blockbuster Grade 3 stake the KENNEDY ROAD,named for Art Stollery’s white faced fleetster who was one of the best racehorses this country has ever seen. Sprinters line up for a […]

The sun is setting on another thoroughbred season at Woodbine… 4 months without work, eeks, but 4 months of rest for the horses. Norm Files photo             FINAL WORDS – BOBBY FRANKEL from www.horse-races.net” By Cindy Pierson Dulay, About.com Guide The End: Trainer Bobby Frankel passed away on November 16, […]

    BOBBY FRANKEL   The news hit THOROUGHBRED CHAMPIONS forum, site first this morning and by 9:10, the news was everywhere..Hall of Famer Bobby Frankel has passed away   BLOOD-HORSE REPORT: Hall of Fame trainer Bobby Frankel, who had been battling leukemia for most of the year, died peacefully at his home in Pacific […]

TODAY’S  NEWS – PALLADIO win Autumn, track record by HELICOPTER, Fipke buys $1 million mare     Palladio holds the 3yo Awesome Rhythm safe in the Autumn Norm Files photo         ANY PALL A DIO IS PAL OF MINE 90 Beyer for champ PALLADIO has never been the easiest horse to figure […]

 todays news – the forgotten Canadian that won at the Breeders’ Cup…..    CANADIAN OWNED AND PURCHASED DANCING IN SILKS (green silks and cap) wins in the Breeders’ Cup Sprint.                 A CANADIAN DID WIN AT BREEDERS’ CUP! (and the horse was bought at B.C mixed sale!) DANCING […]

  YEE HAW – LIFE IS SWEET!! Terence Dulay photo                   UPSET Careless Jewel uncontrollable and bombs in Ladie’s Classic It was a foreshadowing of things to come. Rob Landry told the TORONTO STAR on Wednesday there is just “no slowing down” Careless jewel, the favourite and […]

IT’S CUP DAY!! Welcome to Breeders’ Cup 2009 -the 26th edition. It’s a big day for a lot of Canadians: READE BAKER and owner DANNY DION, EURICO ROSA DA SILVA, ROB LANDRY, JOSIE CARROLL and VERNE AND DONNA DUBINSKY and BREEDER ROBERT HARVEY. That group have 2 horses in the Breeders’ Cup races today – […]

    From the rail in Friday’s LADIES CLASSIC, CARELESS JEWEL should say see ya bye bye for Canadians Donna and Verne Dubinsky, Josie Carroll and Rob Landry. Photo by www.horse-races.net                       Highlighted by an intriguing BREEDERS’ CUP CLASSIC on Saturday that features the unbeaten […]

TODAY’S NEWS (Tuesday afternoon) – ZENYATTA in Classic 4 sure – RIP VAN WINKLE BATTLES DE-FEET…BIOFUEL ARRIVES    Zenyatta to run in Breeders’ Cup Classic By BETH HARRIS (AP) – 25 minutes ago ARCADIA, Calif. — Zenyatta will put her 13-0 record on the line running against the boys in the $5 million Breeders’ Cup […]