EXCITING RACES TODAY – CANADIAN BREDS FIGURE PROMINENTLY   Gulfstream Park today – the card begins at noon with an allowance race featuring two decent Ontario-bred gals and that race is followed by a maiden race with a half-sister to the mighty BEHOLDER (Leslie’s Harmony) in race 2. From there is gets even better! KENTUCKY […]

  Introducing….SPORT OF QUEENS RACING! Always wanted to own a racehorse on a small scale?     Francine Villeneuve and Amanda Roxborough are well known names in Canadian racing circles and beyond. The former jockeys who have trained and been involved in the industry with unwavering passion for years have put together an initiative for […]

  ALPHA BETTOR WINS PORTLAND MILE 8-year-old champion reportedly headed to stud         Canadian champion ALPHA BETTOR, the top older horse in Canada in 2013, roared from far off the place in the slop to win the $25,000 Portland Mile at Portland Meadows on Tuesday. The 8-year-old son of Alphabet Soup – […]

PART 1 – LETTER FROM STEVE LYM (WEG) TO HORSEPEOPLE   Starting in 2014, WEG has made substantial changes to its racing program. An Ontario Sire (OS) purse bonus of 40% in all open races was introduced (except for horses that have been claimed and racing below $20,000). The bonus projection was expected to be […]

  WHAT DOESN’T KILL YOU… Ryan Deyotte taking on Woodbine in 2016 as Sheena Ryan’s agent             Horse racing has a way of making its people tougher than they ever thought they could be. Ryan Deyotte has dedicated his life to working with Thoroughbreds from the days when he was […]

ON THE BLOCK A couple of weeks ago, this corner had an interview with Lou Tucci about his Queen’s Plate winner MIDNIGHT ARIA entered in the upcoming Fasig-Tipton Mixed Sale in early February. The Midnight Lute horse is a stallion prospect (although he is also selling as a racing prospect). The catalogue for the 2016 […]

                    CLEAR THE TRACK, SHAK IS BACK! Queen’s Plate favourite back to work…   ROGER ATTFIELD, Hall of Fame tainer and coming off a big season (he is nominated for a Sovereign award as is stable stars Are You Kidding Me, Shakhimat etc.). worked a bunch […]

          SOVEREIGN FINALISTS ANNOUNCED Who is your favourite? The Jockey Club of Canada will host the 41st Annual Sovereign Awards Ceremony to honour the Canadian Champions of 2015 and to celebrate Thoroughbred racing in Canada on Friday, April 8, 2016 at Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto, Ontario. The cocktail-attire celebration awards party […]

  Send your foal pictures to Thoroughblog, let us welcome your little ones into the world!   CURRAGHMORE FARM, owned by Vera Simpson and Mike Dube, have brought 2 young ones into the world at their Waterdown, ON farm. On Jan. 10 a filly by Silent Name (Jpn) out of the Wando mare Hathaway arrived […]

  ALL AMERICAN..PHAROAH! One of the greatest racehorses we will see in our lifetime was honoured at the Eclipse Awards Saturday night in Florida. AMERICAN PHAROAH and his human team swept the awards (jockey Victor Espinoza was 2nd to Javier Castellano) at the glittery event. The Pharoah was a unanimous HORSE OF THE YEAR through […]

  Happy Saturday  – ECLIPSE AWARDS handed out tonight in Florida, should be a big night for our hero, AMERICAN PHAROAH; SUNSHINE MILLIONS today in Florida, hope it is not a sea of slop as it was on Friday – but hey, trainer MARK FROSTAD is not complaining, he had an 11 to 1 winner […]

Happy Thursday! – Jan 14 and the temperature still chilling in Ontario, plenty of snow but rain and plus 3 to come this weekend.. Ontario-bred AMI’S FLATTER has posted the highest Beyer Speed Figure on dirt of 2016 in North America thanks to his sizzling win on Wednesday..wow!               […]

In today’s news – Lexie Lou set to return to racing; Costigans begin dispersal; Keeneland news; Canadian winners…             LEXIE LOU ENTERED AT TAMPA BAY DOWNS Gary Barber’s 5-year-old Ontario-bred mare Lexie Lou, winner of both the Queen’s Plate Stakes against males and the Woodbine Oaks Presented by Budweiser as […]

ONTARIO-BREDS – 1ST AND 2ND IN 63RD FT. LAUDERDALE HANDICAP – GRADE 2 by Thoroughblog and Gulfstream media                       Terry Hamilton’s Heart to Heart led from gate to wire on his way to victory in the $200,000 Fort Lauderdale Stakes (G2) Saturday at Gulfstream Park. […]

**Thoughts and prayers continue to roll in for the horses who lost their lives in a barn fire on Monday night at Classy Lane Training Centre. Thorughblog has received a number of comments and emails, some comments have been gathering on this post: https://canadianthoroughbred.com/thoroughblog/hearts/#comments     SHE’S BAAAAACK – LEXIE LOU ENTERED AT TAMPA BAY […]