Looking ahead to some great racing at Woodbine still to come – pivotal races like the CORONATION FUTURITY, KENNEDY ROAD STAKES..and how about all the stallion movements in Canada?  Exciting prospects like SOUPER SPEEDY:     Read more stallion news below other news… THE BIRD LANDS! from JapanRacing.jp   Two of the three foreign-based […]

  HORSES, HUMANS and MACHINES – Saturday in Racing   DYNAMIC! 102 Beyer for Dynamic Sky’s big win Labelled a bridesmaid for more than year, since he won the Plate Trial last spring, DYNAMIC SKY finally won a race and it was a good one. The Ontario bred moved late to win the Red Smith […]

  WEEKEND WATCH – SOUTH OCEAN stakes at Woodbine today – 2-year-old fillies and guess who won the race last year? LEXIE LOU! Tomorrow is the Grade 2 Bessarabian Stakes and, before scratches, it is a loaded field of local and American fillies and mares                 LEXIE LOU […]

    LUKES ALLEY BOWLS THEM OVER IN GRADE 3 AUTUMN     Winning his second consecutive graded stakes race, LUKES ALLEY went to the top of the list for Canada’s champion older horse with his Autumn (grade 3) win on Sunday at Woodbine. The 4yo colt by Flower Alley – Vaulcluse by A.P. Indy […]

    RAISE A TOAST – PHIL wins for Clarkson, ALLURING and Lovely  Saturday re-cap at Woodbine   PHIL’S COCKTAIL won his 2nd stakes race as a 2yo when he stalked and charged wide to take the 7 furlong FROST KING Stakes on Saturday under David Moran. Trainers by John LeBlanc, Phi’s Cocktail won with […]

  dedicated to Marilyn Hillier, horse racing lover, skier, dog lover, friend                         Marilyn passed away peacefully on Saturday November 1, 2014 at Campbell House in Collingwood in her 72nd year. Marilyn, beloved wife of John Hillier of Wasaga Beach. Loving sister of Ian […]

Happy Sunday!  The Breeders’ Cup was action packed with the 2nd day, Saturday, being a seemingly endless string of longshot winners. Canadians celebrated JUDY THE BEAUTY’S win, she is only the 5th Canadian-bred to win a Breeders’ Cup race, but our locals did not fare well.. How about HALF BROTHERS..CITY ZIP and GHOSTZAPPER? They had […]

LET’S GET READY TO RUMBLE!!       OH BABY – UNTAPABLE is UNBELIEVABLE Jockey Napravnik takes over winner’s circle with retirement/baby announcement     WINNING BEYER SPEED FIGURES FROM 4 BREEDERS’ CUP RACES –   GOLDENCENTS – 107 UNTAPABLE – 103 LADY ELI – 96 HOOTENNANY – 81   DISTAFF- Well, the performance by […]

  CANADIAN BREEDERS’ CUP STUFF – BREEDERS’ CUP ON TSN 2, 5 P.M. FRIDAY, SATURDAY From champion LEIGH COURT in the Filly and Mare Sprint, through the quarter for Mark Casse (3 Canadian-breds) to locals SOMETHING EXTRA and GRAND ARCH, there are some Canadian horses to cheer for at the Breeders’ Cup. This could be […]

 Two turf stakes this weekend and the Fanfreluche tomorrow for speedy 2yo fillies..just a week until Breeders’ Cup 31!   **Don’t forget TALKIN HORSES is on at 10:30 this morning on CTV and 11:30 on CTV2 Visit the YOUTUBE PAGE for TALKIN’ HORSES TV for all the shows..here is Episode 7..     IT’S FUN […]

    BREEDERS’ CUP PRE-ENTRY NEWS PRESS RELEASE WITH LINK TO ENTRIES http://www.breederscup.com/article/california-chrome-shared-belief-close-hatches-and-magician-ire-lead-201-horses-pre-entered   http://www.breederscup.com/sites/default/files/bc14-preentries.pdf   LEIGH COURT, trained by JOSIE CARROLL for Eugene Melnyk, is one of just 11 entered in the Filly and Mare Sprint and one of those has a first preference in the Mile:   2014 DraftKings Breeders’ Cup Filly & […]

                      STAR OF THE INTERNATIONAL   A Grade 1 race, $1 million on the line. And a prestigious race luring a huge crowd that bet almost $6 million on the day’s 11 race card. Hey the Canadian International victory by Hillstar, EP Taylor win by […]

            FROM EUROPE, THE U.S. AND CANADA – IT’S INTERNATIONAL DAY! Canadian breds DYNAMIC SKY and PYRITE MOUNTAIN, both American owned, will try to win the 77th Canadian International and become the first locally bred horse to win this 1 1/2 mile classic since Thornfield in 1999. The former has […]

Three jockeys have died in a couple of days – yesterday JUAN SAEZ, a popular, promising apprentice and just 17-years-old, was in a bad accident at Indiana Grand and he passed away late last night. Safe travels everyone.     PROBABLE FIELDS FOR GRADED RACES ON WOODBINE’S BIG DAY – OCTOBER 19   ENGLAND VS. […]

in today’s THOROUGHBLOG..BROWN PANTHER likely favourite for International, JUST THE JUDGE a major filly coming for EP Taylor, Ontario bred CALGARY CAT tough to beat in Nearctic…         Thank you to Michael Owen and Samantha Reilly for the photo of Mr. Owen and his star horse BROWN PANTHER         […]