CHANNEL MAKER SURGES TO TOP THREE ON THE QUEEN’S PLATE LIST                   Joey Gee Thoroughbreds, Gary Barber and Adam Wachtel’s Wachtel Stable’s CHANNEL MAKER, fresh off a 91 Beyer Figure effort in the Marine Stakes when second, has now zoomed up to the top rung of the […]

RACE 1 – POST TIME – 1:00 PM Woodbine CLAIMING $10,000 – $9,500 Purse $20,000. (Plus $4,000 – State Bred) (Plus $4,000 – Other Sources) (Plus $810 – Other Sources). For Fillies Three Years Old Or Fillies And Mares Four Years Old And Upward Which Have Never Won Three Races. Three Year Olds, 118 Lbs.; […]

      Get a GLIMPSE of the Champions   The grass season and all it’s wonderful stakes events begins in earnest today with the Grade 2 Nassau Stakes, always a good event and this year is no different. While the turf has been saturated with rain for a couple of days, the turf was […]

Northern Dancer was born on this day in 1961   (**10th race Handicapped for “off’ Turf’)   RACE 1 – POST TIME 1 P.M. Rolling Double / Exacta / 0.20 Trifecta / 0.20 Superfecta 0.20 Pick 3 (Races 1-2-3) Purse $61,000. (Plus $18,300 – Other Sources) (Plus $12,000 – State Bred) (Plus $8,925 – Other […]

RACE 1 – POST TIME – 1:00 PM Rolling Double / Exacta / 0.20 Trifecta / 0.20 Superfecta 0.20 Pick 3 (Races 1-2-3) Purse $16,600. (Plus $3,300 – Other Sources) (Plus $3,300 – State Bred) (Plus $540 – Other Sources). For Maidens, Fillies And Mares Three Years Old And Upward. Three Year Olds, 118 Lbs.; […]

INFLEXIBILITY HEADED TO WOODBINE FOR Preakness Winner’s connections   The Chad Brown – trained Ontario bred filly INFLEXIBILITY, owned by Klaravich Stables and William Lawrence is headed to Woodbine soon to contest the June 11 Woodbine Oaks. Chad Brown told Thoroughblog today that the 3-year-old daughter of Scat Daddy – Halo’s verse by Unbridled’s Song […]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY QUEEN VICTORIA! All things Queen today, a Monday racing card, fourth straight racing day at Woodbine. The Sport of Queens syndicate will be out in full force as it’s filly QUEENS HONOR competes in race 9, a maiden race scheduled for the grass but rains were heavy yesterday.   IRISH EYES SMILING Grizzel […]

Happy Victoria Day!   RACE 1 – POST TIME – 1:00 PM Rolling Double / Exacta / 0.20 Trifecta / 0.20 Superfecta 0.20 Pick 3 (Races 1-2-3) Purse $16,600. (Plus $3,300 – Other Sources) (Plus $3,300 – State Bred) (Plus $540 – Other Sources). For Maidens, Three Years Old And Upward. Three Year Olds, 118 […]

                          A game of cat and mouse turned out to be the cat and mouse getting pounced on by a much bigger preadtor. CLOUD COMPUTING, fresh and ready for the Preakness Stakes, jumped all over Classic Empire in deep stretch of the $1.5 […]

RACE 1 – POST TIME – 1:00 PM Rolling Double / Exacta / 0.20 Trifecta / 0.20 Superfecta 0.20 Pick 3 (Races 1-2-3) Purse $32,600. (Plus $6,500 – Other Sources) (Plus $6,500 – State Bred) (Plus $4,725 – Other Sources). For Fillies And Mares Three Years Old And Upward. Three Year Olds, 118 Lbs.; Older, […]

              PREAKNESS PICKS by THOROUGHBLOG Mo Money to dictate race, Empire will strike back   The key to the Preakness Stakes today, 1 3/16 miles at Pimlico, is what CONQUEST MO MONEY will do. Here is a colt, who cost $8,500, who was given a chance to pass up […]

RACE 1 – POST TIME – 1:00 PM Rolling Double / Exacta / 0.20 Trifecta / 0.20 Superfecta 0.20 Pick 3 (Races 1-2-3) Purse $19,500. (Plus $3,900 – Other Sources) (Plus $3,900 – State Bred) (Plus $1,890 – Other Sources). For Maidens, Fillies And Mares Three Years Old And Upward. Three Year Olds, 118 Lbs.; […]

        PREAKNESS STAKES SATURDAY – 6:48 P.M.   Can the Dream continue? The hours of scrutinizing the Kentucky Derby entries a couple of weeks ago are over. The Preakness is up and we already know, essentially, who the big name 3-year-olds are. The chatter is a little less come Preakness time but […]

RACE 1 – POST TIME – 1:00 PM Rolling Double / Exacta / 0.20 Trifecta / 0.20 Superfecta 0.20 Pick 3 (Races 1-2-3) Purse $61,000. (Plus $18,300 – Other Sources) (Plus $12,000 – State Bred) (Plus $8,925 – Other Sources). For Maidens, Two Years Old. Weight, 120 Lbs. Four And One Half Furlongs. (All Weather […]

  RACE 1 – POST TIME – 6:45 PM Rolling Double / Exacta / 0.20 Trifecta / 0.20 Superfecta 0.20 Pick 3 (Races 1-2-3) Purse $39,800. (Plus $8,000 – State Bred) (Plus $8,000 – Other Sources) (Plus $6,300 – Other Sources). For Fillies Three Years Old Which Have Never Won Two Races Or Ontario Sired […]