TORONTO YEARLING SALE HAS LARGE DECLINES $155K sale topper is by Medaglia D’Oro In an unsettled economy that has hurt many sales throughout North America in 2009, the CANADIAN THOROUGHBRED HORSE SOCIETY (Ontario division) was not immune. A drop in average price of just over 29% was the biggest in at least 10 years […]

WOODBINE SUNDAY WRAP FIRST STAKE WIN FOR DELMAS Trainer ANALISA DELMAS scored her first win as a trainer – she conditions her father’s FIELDSTONE fARMS runners when GUIPAGO posted a mild upset in the ONTARIO SIRED VICE REGENT STAKES yesterday at Woodbine. The $1,200 YEARLING PURCHASE (!) is by MY WAY ONLY out of CHEROKEE […]

Vanessa Ng photo If you didn’t get goosebumps (again) from watching the freak horse that is RACHEL ALEXANDRA stave off tough older horses in the final yards of yesterday’s Grade 1 Woodward Stakes at Saratoga, well… We’re running out of superlatives for one of the greatest racing fillies and horse of any sex, we have […]

  WHIP MISTAKE COSTLY The owner and trainer lost, the jock lost and the fans lost too. When favoured SANS SOUSI  was disqualified from her win on Wednesday night yesterday afternoonaround 2:30 p.m., it set off a buzz throughout the track. Eaton Hall Farm and trainer Mike Doyle will appeal the ruling set down yesterday […]

  Need some extra cash – how about trying the $600,000 plus PICK 6 carryover at SARATOGA today? Happy Labour Day weekend ! LADIES AND GENTLEMEN… START YOUR YEARLINGS! Aaaah summer,we hardly knew ya. But it’s yearling sale time in Toronto – the sales stakes day will be drawn today and the sale begins Tuesday. […]

JOCKEY GETS CAUGHT WITH WRONG WHIP TORONTO STAR REPORT On the first night of the new whip rules at Woodbine racetrack, implemented by the Ontario Racing Commission, jockey Chantal Sutherland inadvertently carried the wrong whip to victory in the second race.    Under the new “urging rules”, each rider must carry the kinder ‘cushion crop’, […]

EMMA-JAYNE WILSON was one of the first jockeys at Woodbine to use the new cushion crop… Dave Landry photo     URGING RULES TAKE EFFECT TODAY AT FORT ERIE tomorrow at Woodbine TORONTO STAR reports on the new crops, urging rules… A gentler, kinder horse whip … but it still hurts We’ve all seen the […]

BABIES RULE Hotshots at Woodbine Friday readying for big 2yo stakes Okay, there figures to be about a zillion horses in the upcoming Summer Stakes, a Win and You’re In race that could lure some Amerians – but this corner says …don’t bother, we have some dandies here. The Summer prep was yesterday and while […]

THIRSTY THURSDAY The temperature has dropped and the rains and storms are headin to T.O. for the weekend. Nice. Thursday was overcast for the most part, the track had been abuzz all morning with the news that someone in the barn area, reportedly in the barn of trainer Malcolm Pierce barn 39, had been stabbed […]

  YEARLING SHOW AT RICHARD HOGAN’S BALLYLYNCH Food, drink and the Fiddlestix were the highlights at a super yearling show put on once again by Richard Hogan at his Ballylynch Farm in Kleinburg. The consignor previewed more than a dozen of his yearling prospects for the upcoming September sale at Woodbine put on by the […]

CARELESS JEWEL owned by Canadians Donna and Vern Dubinsky (Donna – blue gress, Vern, yellow tie), ridden by a Canadian, Rob  Landry, and trained by a Canadian, Josie Carroll (left, white pant suit) wins the Grade 1 Alabama! Sweet! Photo courtesy EQUIDAILY. COM   JEWEL THIEF 106 Beyer Figure  for Canadian-owned filly First it was […]

  If you didn’t get blown away by the tornados that touched down throughout southern Ontario and in the Toronto area – check out some new links on THOROUGHBLOG. The new TODO numbers are quickly becoming a craze – it’s not a speed figure, it’s a compilation of a horse’s ability and performance and the […]

WOODBINE WEDNESDAY NIGHT What started out as a formful night with favourites winning the DAILY DOUBLE, turned into a longshot-fest over an outside biased Polytrack last evening at Woodbine. Almost every race looked the same as speed horses along the isnide were getting inhaled in the late stages. Robert Tiller saddled THREE HOUR TOUR to […]

      CANADIAN DERBY DRAW! Stylish Citizen 8 to 5 (!!)   WOODBINE SHIPPER STYLISH CITIZEN is 8 to 5 for the Canadian Derby at Northlands Park on Saturday. The Proud Citizen fellow, winner of the Charlie Barley Stakes on the Polytrack, will be ridden by Jim McAleney for owners Max Berketa and Joe […]

  WOODBINE WRAP The stretch of racing of Friday-Sat. and Sunday was very good to folks like trainers DAN VELLA, BRIAN LYNCH, EARL BARNETT and jockeys JIM MCALENEY ROB LANDRY and EMMA-JAYNE WILSON. Sunday highlights include a litany of longshot winners that helped a $15,000 Pick 4 payoff to end the day. The VICTORIANA STAKES […]