*Arlington Million day in Chicago – a large card of grass stakes races and Canadian bred DANISH DYNAFORMER will take a shot in the Million for Charles Fipke and trainer Roger Attfield. Locally, the Shady Well Stakes has been moved to the grass for the first time – 6 1/2 furlongs on the turf today […]

  RACE 1 – POST TIME – 1:00 PM Rolling Double / Exactor /.20 Triactor /.20 Superfecta .20 Pick 3 (Races 1-2-3) Woodbine MAIDEN SPECIAL WEIGHT Purse $45,000. (Plus $6,300 – Other Sources). For Ontario Sired Maidens, Two Years Old. Weight, 120 Lbs. Five Furlongs. (All Weather Track) 8 Where’s the Gold (ON) 2/G L1 […]

RACE 1 – POST TIME – 1:00 PM Rolling Double / Exactor /.20 Triactor / .20 Pick 3 (Races 1-2-3) Woodbine MAIDEN CLAIMING $25,000 Purse $25,400. (Plus $5,100 – Other Sources) (Plus $5,100 – State Bred) (Plus $4,725 – Other Sources). For Maidens, Fillies Two Years Old. Weight, 119 Lbs. Claiming Price $25,000. Five Furlongs. […]

      MID SEASON AT WOODBINE                   and next week, Sir Dudley Digges is back for the Breeders’!   The summer sizzle continues with temperatures over 35 degrees Celcius and a blazing sun. The news of the week is grass-racing themed as TEPIN will indeed make […]

                            A Feel Good Story about the Three Bears   It took Danny Dion less than a hour before post time of Woodbine’s fourth race on Saturday August 6 to decide that he wanted to do something for one of his former […]

RACE 1 – POST TIME – 6:45 PM Rolling Double / Exactor /.20 Triactor /.20 Superfecta .20 Pick 3 (Races 1-2-3) Woodbine CLAIMING $8,000 – $7,500 Purse $17,000. (Plus $3,400 – Other Sources) (Plus $3,400 – State Bred) (Plus $540 – Other Sources). For Three Year Olds And Upward. Three Year Olds, 119 Lbs.; Older, […]

  JOE STRITZL, 83     When Joe Stritzel had a horse in a race at Woodbine you knew it. Not just because his runners were often prominent in their races but because Joe would bet his charges with great enthusiasm, and early. Joe loved to watch his races race and he loved to place […]

                  Amidst confusion and the remnants of a scary accident early in the race, CAREN asserted herself as the top 3-year-old filly in Canada with a front running tour of the grass course in the $250,000 Wonder Where Stakes. That was the second jewel of the Triple […]

          KINGSPORT rules the day David Sepiashville’s KINGSPORT, who carries his owner’s red and gold colours of Goldmart Farm, fended off a pack of challengers late in the 6 1/2 furlong Shepperton Stakes on Saturday at Woodbine to take down the $125,000 race. The son of Milwaukee Brew – Green Jewel […]

RACE 1 – POST TIME – 1:00 PM Rolling Double / Exactor / .20 Triactor / .20 Pick 3 (Races 1-2-3) Woodbine MAIDEN SPECIAL WEIGHT Purse $55,900. (Plus $16,800 – Other Sources) (Plus $11,200 – State Bred) (Plus $8,925 – Other Sources). For Maidens, Two Years Old. Weight, 120 Lbs. Five Furlongs. (All Weather Track) […]

RACE 1 – POST TIME – 1:00 PM Rolling Double / Exactor /.20 Triactor /.20 Superfecta .20 Pick 3 (Races 1-2-3) Woodbine MAIDEN SPECIAL WEIGHT Purse $55,900. (Plus $16,800 – Other Sources) (Plus $11,200 – State Bred) (Plus $8,925 – Other Sources). For Maidens, Fillies Two Years Old. Weight, 119 Lbs. Five Furlongs. (All Weather […]

TODAY’S NEWS does FOLLOW THE LIVE-BLOGGING OF THE SHERGAR CUP…     EMMA-JAYNE WILSON, captain of the Ladies Team at the Shergar Cup today, is on NINJAGO in race 1 at 8:15 this morning…stay tuned to THOROUGHBLOG for live results as he watch and report…   REST OF THE WORLD wins by 3 points, team […]

It’s Hall of Fame week, how important to you is knowing about/remembering the history of horse racing? IMAGES FROM CANADIAN HORSE RACING HALL OF FAME INDUCTION NIGHT                                 TIME TO START HANDICAPPING THE CTHS YEARLING SALE CATALOGUE! In today at […]

RACE 1 – POST TIME – 1:00 PM Rolling Double / Exactor /.20 Triactor /.20 Superfecta .20 Pick 3 (Races 1-2-3) Woodbine MAIDEN SPECIAL WEIGHT Purse $45,000. (Plus $6,300 – Other Sources). For Ontario Sired Maidens, Fillies Two Years Old. Weight, 119 Lbs. Seven Furlongs. (All Weather Track) 8 Forest Lass (ON) 2/F L A […]

40TH CANADIAN HORSE RACING HALL OF FAME                 There were plenty of highlights from the Hall of Fame induction ceremony Wednesday evening in Mississauga, ON as 11 horses and humans were presented with honours during the dinner and auction. BETSY HUNT CURNES, daughter of Nelson Bunker Hunt, was […]