Meet…JENNIFER SHAFER   Montreal-born Jennifer Shafer has arrived in Toronto and is ready  to take on the biggest racing circuit in the country as the newest trainer to land at Woodbine. Shafer has been working with a small stable of horses for Alberta’s Spring Lakes Farm  for the past decade but she has been ready […]

Today – Update on riders from scary spill at Gulfstream yesterday; Thoroughblog gives you 5-1 winner of Risen Star; Bold Ruckus pops up in Venus…   GUNS BLAZIN’ 90 Beyer for Gun Runner in Risen Star                   Winchell Thoroughbreds and Three Chimneys Farm’s Steve Asmussen-trained Gun Runner […]

        RISEN STAR STAKES – Competitive field has 4 colts by Uncle Mo  Kentucky.com feature: BY ALICIA WINCZE HUGHES When evaluating 3-year-olds on the Triple Crown trail, the form of those around them is often analyzed as heartily as each horse’s individual results. A victory can be elevated or diminished by those […]

It’s FOAL FRIDAY – look at this young fellow who arrived at Willow Ridge Farm in Durham, ON – thank you Bonnie Greener Rowntree at Willow Ridge for sharing these moments with Thoroughblog..           RAINBOW 6 – ARE YOU PLAYING? Now you are battling some big, big players as the Gulfstream […]

HORSES RETURN TO WOODBINE BACKSTRETCH It’s back to business and what a great business it is. Ontario horse racing is a strong, resilient industry. We have seen how the Standardbred industry has come together and works as a team this year. Quarter Horse racing members are working hard to build the sport and on Wedmesday, […]

BREAKING – DEVELOPMENT DEAL ANNOUNCED – Woodbine Entertainment Group (WEG) and Trinity Development Group Inc. (Trinity) today announced the companies have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for the purpose of developing an integrated entertainment venue at Woodbine Racetrack. The WEG-Trinity proposal calls for an entertainment venue of approximately 165,000 square feet and seating for […]

      NYQUIST RETURNS TODAY! Holiday racing around the US Champion 2-year-old and undefeated Kentucky Derby contender NYQUIST makes his 3-year-old debut today at Santa Anita. 180,000 230,000 400,000 Those are the reported sale prices for NYQUIST as he went through 3 auctions from Nov. 2013 to March 2015. The plain bay son of […]

We needs hugs here in Ontario; 2nd day of incredibly cold temperatures (car reads -21, not including wind), but by the time the Woodbine training track opens later this week, it will be closer to +3..wild stuff. Some news and notes from Saturday’s racing:   TEPIN TROUNCES at TAMPA BAY Easy to love this fab […]

              Through the blahs of the grey, winter months – although it has been a fairly decent winter here in Ontario  -looking forward to weekend racing around the globe keeps us going. The competition is amazing and the racing super. It’s Kentucky Derby hopeful time and it is World […]

  CUTE FOAL OVERLOAD A series of photos taken by LEILA PINGOL of a brand new colt by OLD FORESTER from the mare SAINT JUDY by Mineshaft, foaled at Northern Dawn.                             THE BIG CHILL Hair-freezing temps in Ontario this weekend, in […]

      HILL ‘N’ DALE FARMS in Aurora had its first 2 foals of 2016 and the they were born at virtually at the exact moment on February 8. This little girl is by first year sire STAY THIRSTY out of the Harlan’s Holiday mare Personally Yours. Photo courtesy of Ericka Rusnak.     […]

$19.9 million bet on Gulfstream racing yesterday from all-sources – great racing, great betting                 ALLEY SCRAPPER Ontario bred Lukes Alley takes down Grade 1 GP Turf The handsome, long striding bay horse LUKES ALLEY was one of a few horses kept by breeder Eugene Melnyk when that […]

PHOTOS OF THE DAY – Canadian champion STRUT THE COURSE gets some kid lovin’ BRODY AND MASON DURR are giving lots of love and mints to Strut the Course at Webb Carroll Training Centre. Champion mare, foaled in Ontario and owned by John Unger, trained by Barb Minshall. Photos courtesy of Barb Minshall.     […]

        STEP UP TO THE QUEEN’S PLATE – TICKETS ON SALE! Tickets for the 157th edition of the Queen’s Plate are now on sale through Ticketmaster. The 2016 edition of Canada’s celebration of horse racing and the first jewel in Canada’s Triple Crown of Racing, is set for Sunday, July 3 at […]

Sunday morning, already the last day of January – temperatures soaring in Ontario to 50 F today – here is a replay for the HOLY BULL STAKES – GRADE 2 from Saturday:         THE DOMINATOR MOHAYMEN struts his stuff,locals find competition tough The Shadwell Farms’ $2.2 million colt MOHAYMEN (old Arabic word […]