$325,000 PHILANTHROPIST COLT blows away Canadian Premier Yearling Sale Average up 50%, Tiller, Bear Stables and Mark Casse busy…  Gross     $4,466,000 Sold     135 Not Sold     52 Average     $33,081 Median     $15,000   2013 Gross     $3,003,000 Sold     137 Not Sold […]

    Photo from sales grounds yesterday by BERNARD MCCORMACK   IT’S CANADIAN PREMIER SALE DAY! You have the sales book, you have a bit of cash, pick out your trainer and select a nice year-old Thoroughbred today or tomorrow at Woodbine! There is a pumped up nature to the track these days as the […]

    TIME TO BUY A YEARLING! Breeders sell tomorrow – a labour of love   After  a tumultuous few years, breeders of Thoroughbreds in Ontario have fingers crossed that the industry is on the upward swing and that those precious horses they have raised will sell well tomorrow and Wednesday at Woodbine. The Canadian […]

♥  In both Thoroughbred and Standardbred racing on Saturday  fans saw some remarkable performances from WISE DAN at Saratoga to the 2yo pacers JKshealady and Artspeak, undefeated after big wins in the She’s A Great Lady and Metro Pace last night with the former equaling a world record time.   THIS POST IS DEDICATED TO […]

  ONTARIO SALES GRADUATES STRUT THEIR STUFF What a night at Woodbine with 6 sales stakes races on CANADIAN MILLIONS DAY at the track – a celebration of yearling/weanling graduates from the local sale and a VIP party to encourage new faces into the horse ownership game. Capping the night of excitement was a special […]

  Coming up tomorrow night at Woodbine – it is SALE STAKES night – the 2nd annual Canadian Millions sales Stakes day and hundreds of prospective new horse owners will attend the 3RD FLOOR VIP party and watch 6 stakes races Preview tomorrow morning – picks are up at JMBETS.CA   WOODBINE – SATURDAY AND […]

  After 71 racing day at WOODBINE, we are past the halfway mark of what has been a super intriguing season. There is more fun and excitement on the way. This site’s sister page – JMBETS.ca – has had almost 70,000 page views since it launched on the 1st of the 71 racing days. JMBETS […]

  THREE THINGS FOR ONTARIO RACING – coming up! OLG, CTV AND CTHS… “We’re all in this together” In the news this week is the much anticipated, long overdue planning meetings between OLG chair Philip Olsson and the Ontario Horse Racing Industry. There have been hundreds of weekly meetings between John Snobelen and others representing […]

                        GOT ONE! Ami’s Holiday was here and there in the Triple Crown before taking the Breeders’     “I think it speaks a lot for this horse. We talk a lot about horses not having the constitution that they used to, but this […]

      E.P.TAYLOR TURF TOUR – the 123rd BREEDERS’ STAKES BREEDERS’ S., $500,000, 3yo, (S), 1 1/2mT PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY TRAINER ML 1 Keen Gizmo Giant Gizmo Moreno Carroll 12-1 *The ‘other’ Ivan Dalos runner had a good turf debut, swapped leads a bunch of times in the stretch 2 Niigon Express Niigon […]

  HAPPY SATURDAY MORNING – It’s ARLINGTON MILLION DAY, good luck to Canadian bred UP WITH THE BIRDS and Eurico da Silva It’s CANADIAN DERBY day at Northlands, read more below and the BREEDERS’ STAKES is tomorrow with a wide open field, a super betting race..                   […]

 It is BREEDERS’ STAKES WEEK – the Canadian Triple crown will be won by 3 different horses this year (this is the 9th time of this occurrence since Wando in 2003)  as LEXIE LOU, the Plate winner, and COLTIMUS PRIME, the Prince of Wales winner, are not in the probable 9-10 horse field…UP WITH THE […]

here is some jock talk…   CHANTAL SUTHERLAND-KRUSE returns to California   Agent DON PARENTE has confirmed that jockey CHANTAL SUTHERLAND-KRUSE has left Woodbine and returned to her home in California with husband Dan Kruse. “It was surprising,” said Parente, who has helped guide Sutherland-Kruse to $1.6 million in purse earnings at Woodbine and 28 […]

 Happy Tuesday –  KOFFEE GRINDER is 4 for 4 as one of Canada’s top 3yo males…PASO DOBLE, first 3-time winner of SHEPPERTON, STEVE ASMUSSEN trains winner of MANITOBA DERBY and more!       THIRD SHEPPERTON SCORE FOR PASO DOBLE The signs were there: a weird holiday weekend saw horses such as Palace Malice at […]

  Today’s post dedicated to Wizard.     It is SIMCOE DAY, or the CIVIC HOLIDAY or B.C. DAY – well, whatever part of Canada you are in today, this  holiday is called something else but there is a lot of horse racing action from coast to coast. It is B.C. CUP day T Hastings […]