The red carpet rolls out at 6 p.m. this evening for the 41st  SOVEREIGN AWARDS, the lavish celebration of all things 2015: the best horses, the top horsepeople and media. The event will be LIVE STREAMED at http://www.woodbineentertainment.com/Woodbine/News/Pages/2015-Sovereign-Awards.aspx The event begins with a Red Carpet and Colio Estate Winery Sparkling Wine Reception at 6pm followed […]

        SHOULD BE A HOOT! 83 entries for opening day   The surprise supplement of Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf winner (2014) of HOOTENANNY will spice up the Jacques Cartier Stakes on opening day at Woodbine. Ten races drew 83 entries and certainly the last 3 races on the card will be the […]

THOROUGHBREDS are back.. entries will be drawn today for Saturday, the first of 133-days of racing at Woodbine in 2016. The stories are out there in the media as opening day nears and here is a cool magazine cover for Portico (University of Guelph alumni magazine), featuring our popular jock Emma-Jayne Wilson. You can read […]

  ‘Sprinter’ , or winter in spring, has arrived. Ontario got away with a mild winter and maybe a handful of days of snow…well, Mother Nature is not done with that season just yet….         But the Blue Jays flew back into action yesterday (in Tampa), Keeenland racing begins Friday and opening […]

                                      (PHOTO above – Snowy and very, very cold at Woodbine on Sunday April 3 – thank you to JEFF BOWEN for posting)       DERBY DREAMS So NYQUIST (named after a Detroit Red Wings) hockey […]

  FLORIDA DERBY STRICTLY TWO-HORSE RACE Longshots lured to make match-race a field of 10   We will have to wait until 6:48 p.m. this evening to find out which of the top 2 Kentucky Derby contenders at this point will suffer his first loss. Yes, there are 10 horses in the 1 1/8 mile […]

                          JOEY G JUMPS IN   While uncertainty continues to hang over the Ontario Thoroughbred breeding industry, one Toronto man has jumped into the industry with verve in the last four months. Joe Guerrieri, owner of Joey G Thoroughbreds, is realizing a lifelong […]

Coming up this week – ORC dissolves, FLORIDA DERBY SHOWDOWN and just a week until the first entry draw at Woodbine for 2016!  Watch out though, bitterly cold temperatures and snow showers and more for early next week! *SOVEREIGN AWARDS FRIDAY APRIL 8 *OPENING DAY AT WOODBINE, SATURDAY APRIL 9   **BREAKING NEWS – QUEEN’S PLATE […]

TRULY A GOOSEBUMPS kind of day in horse racing on Saturday from the great CALIFORNIA CHROME, to the huge betting day at Gulfstream and the wild charge to the Kentucky Derby…             HOLY CHROME! Contested pace, wide trip and almost no saddle but no matter, CALIFORNIA CHROME proved once again […]

                  Running out of his saddle.         HE DID IT!  CHRO-MAGNAFIQUE! DRC PHOTO   CANADIAN HORSES AND HUMANS PLAY BIG PARTS IN RAINBOW 6 Are you a homie? If you are, and the home horses come in, you might share in the Rainbow 6 […]

  One last blast of winter in southern Ontario today with heavy rain in the ice form falling and playing havoc with trees..STEVE OWENS captured this image from training this morning at Woodbine…                         Meanwhile, on the other side of the world, some of […]

                          **A THOROUGHBLOG tradition is LIVE-BLOGGING during the DUBAI WORLD CUP racing night – join me Saturday morning, Eastern time, at this site for news and notes as the races go along. Paddock looks, pedigree notes and race results right through all the […]

                    RECENT ONTARIO-BRED WINNERS courtesy SIRE POWERED RESULTS FROM DRF.COM   03/19/2016 Line of Best Fit 6/M (ON), Trajectory – Dan’s Duchess, by Domasca Dan Breeder: Frank Di Giulio Jr. | Trainer: Wayne Potts | Owner: Sheffield Stable Allowance Optional Claiming – LAUREL PARK (USA), Race […]

  The first day of spring. We have made it to the other side again, whew!. An easy winter in Ontario but it sure is cold these days – bitter temps this weekend will end and turn into heavy, heavy rain next week. Showers, flowers and horses. The AIKEN TRIALS are a sure sign that […]

    TAPETA ERA BEGINS at Woodbine 3rd track in North America to have surface   A light and bright main track greeted Woodbine horses and humans on Friday morning when the track opened for training for the first time in 2016. A brand new, fluffy, silent surface was underfoot and after one day, so […]