CANADIAN-BRED HORSES looking strong in big races in the U.S. today SHAMAN GHOST, Queen’s Plate winner of 2015, has a big chance to win the prestigious Santa Anita Handicap today out in California for […]

TIZ TIME TO GET GOING ON THE PLATE TRIAL!                               The turf at Tampa awaits Tiz a Slam, a top 2-year-old of 2016. Chiefswood Stables’ homebred colt, the early favourite for the Queen’s Plate this July, will start in the Columbia […]

                    QUEEN’S PLATE NEWS Canadian horsepeople: If you have a Canadian bred 3-year-old, get to work on preparing them for the Queen’s Plate as there are very few major contenders at this point. It was a rocky weekend for Canadian bred 3-year-olds looking to get things […]

                      BIG GUN – 97 Beyer Speed Figure for Fountain of Youth Kentucky Derby fever erupts in Venezuela, colt named for Spanish town to see Gunnevera’s pedigree.. http://www.thoroughbreddailynews.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/GunneveraPed.pdf                         After trailing his nine rivals […]

It’s a SUPER SATURDAY! Bitterly cold in Toronto at -14 Celcius but hot action in racing: DUBAI this morning with LANI returning to the races in a World Cup prep race; GULFSTREAM has a big card with the Kentucky Derby prep – FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH and at 4 p.m. Toronto time – the Sandy Lane […]

  KEN AND SARAH RAMSEY HORSES ARRIVE IN BARBADOS – Patrick Husbands and Rafael Hernandez to ride in Saturday’s race   Ken and Sarah Ramsey has 2 horses in Barbados for Saturday’s race – about 1 1/8 miles on the turf, the biggest race in the Caribbean. Ramsey has won 2 of the last 3 […]

LET THE SHIPPING BEGIN! Ontario trainers will begin setting up the barn area and their stalls early this week to ready the area of the arrival of the horses for the 2017 Woodbine season. Training begins Wednesday, March 1 and the season starts April 15. The stall list is out and the names are virtually […]

    By mid-week coming, the Woodbine backstretch will begin to slowly come alive again as it opens for the 2017 season. Horses and horsepeople have enjoyed a winter of lots of snow, ice and currently a whole lot of mud. Lower temperatures to come may mean some difficult footing when the training track opens […]

        TIZ THE EARLY QUEEN’S PLATE FAVOURITE and his girl cousin is also in the top 10   Chiefswood Stable, owned by Mark and Robert Krembil, won its first and only Queen’s Plate in 2004 with its wonderful NIIGON, who started a super stallion career before his sudden death a few years […]

  WOODBINE JOCKEYS ON THE MOVE – Husbands, Garcia and Hernandez SANDY LANE GOLD CUP – MARCH 4 Ken and Sarah Ramsay employ Woodbine jockeys PATRICK HUSBANDS and RAFAEL HERNANDEZ, both finalists for the Sovereign Award for Outstanding Jockey in Canada in 2016, will be riding the pair of starters in the Barbados Gold Cup […]

          QUEEN’S PLATE CONTENDERS GETTING BUSY Less than 5 months before the Queen’s Plate at Woodbine, some of the top 2-year-olds of 2016 have been getting back to work. The Plate nominations are expected to be released in the next couple of weeks and a one of the early favourites, TIZ A […]

    MOVING AHEAD… ALCOHOL AND GAMING COMMISSION OF ONTARIO RELEASES FINDINGS REPORT In the spring of 2016, the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario (AGCO) launched its ‘Moving Ahead: Horse Racing Regulation in Ontario’ project, in order to modernize regulatory rules that govern horse racing in Ontario. The AGCO is committed to ensuring integrity, […]

HE’S ALL HE’S CRAKED UP TO BE     McCraken lived up to all the hype. And then some. The unbeaten 3-year-old colt extended his record to 4-for-4 with a one-and-a-half length victory from Tapwrit in the 37th edition of the Grade III, $250,000 Sam F. Davis Stakes at Tampa Bay Downs in stakes and […]

  ROAD TO QUEEN’S PLATE REVS UP TODAY KING AND HIS COURT, the early Queen’s Plate favourite based on his win in the Coronation Futurity and Display Stakes, will start his trek to the Queen’s Plate today at Tampa Bay Downs. The Ontario bred by Court Vision, now owned by Gary barber, is making his […]

            HBPA-CTHS MARE PURCHASE PROGRAM ONTARIO WRAPS UP The Fasig Tipton Winter Mixed sale in Lexington wrapped up on Tuesday with gains in average. There were some Ontario and other Canadian horsepeople attending the sale and some made purchases that qualified for the new Ontario Mare Purchase Program, inaugurated this […]