For more free picks and notes on the history of today’s stakes races, check out http://jmbets.ca!     MORENO upset the Whitney at Saratoga yesterday, leaving heavily favoured Palace Malice well back in 6th. The winner is an improving Ghostzapper colt who is from Danceinthesunlight, an unraced daughter of Dancethruthedawn. The Sam-Son female family […]

        IN HIS PRIME – 93 Beyer Speed Figure for Coltimus Prime                               COLTIMUS PRIME ran to the expectations put on him by his connections on Tuesday evening when he led all the way to win the Prince […]

  Happy Sunday –  just 2 days until the Prince of Wales at Fort Erie – making a road trip?  The field is listed below..     Post Positions for the 79th Prince of Wales Stakes Post positions were drawn this afternoon for the 79th running of the Prince of Wales Stakes.  The race will […]

    COLTIMUS  primes at the Fort Field for ‘Wales at 10     COLTIMUS PRIME worked between races 3 and 4 at Fort yesterday in the late afternoon to get a feel for the cozy track and its surface. The son of Milwaukee Brew, an allowance winner on Polytrack in June but 9th in […]

    Saturday’s Top Woodbine Beyer Speed Figures 98 – UP WITH THE BIRDS – Nijinsky S. 87 BIGSTORMBREWIN (turf) Clmng 84 RUNAWAY PEPPER  starter allowanc 82 FEW WHITE HAIRS MSW   NIJINSKY STAKES – GRADE 2 UP WITH THE BIRDS was happy to be on his home turf and even happier to have a […]

THE SPAAAAA!! –  Frankie Dettori arrives late for opening day, had to borrow riding clothes, but wins 2 in his first visit!       THOROUGHBLOG and JMBETS.CA JMBets. ca, the sister site to THOROUGHBLOG, is a free picks site with occasional notes about racing, stats and historical events. Yesterday’s JMBets column produced 6 winners […]

      4 SCORES FOR NICK AND MARTHA, 3 for TUCCIS Unspurned battles to Bison City bounty     Christine Hayden’s UNSPURNED, a popular pick in the Woodbine Oaks in her previous race, bounced back from that dull effort to win the Bison City Stakes at Woodbine on Sunday. It was the 2nd leg […]

                  TIME TO RE-CHARGE The wild week of Queen’s Plate news and action and racing is over and now it is time to re-charge and get ready for nice grass races, 2yo races and then the PRINCE OF WALES on Tuesday July 29 at Fort Erie. Who […]

  WEDNESDAY JULY 9 UPDATE –   The first reported casualty of the Queen’s Plate has come in: Bear Stables’ ASSERTING BEAR is retired for the year after emerging with bone bruising. The colt was a brilliant 3rd in the 1 1/4 mile Plate after attempting to lead all the way. Trainer Reade Baker said […]

 SUNDAY MORNING UPDATE – Welcome to Queen’s Plate day 2014. There has been more buzz about this year’s Plate than any other year in the 21st it seems – social media has a lot to do with that. Expecting a big crowd at Woodbine today and tons of hats.  As Paul Mott said on the […]

      THE FIELD FOR THE 155TH QUEEN’S PLATE  by Post Position Horse     Owner       Trainer           Jockey                   last 3 Beyers (from most recent)  Birth Month      Comment 1 Cap in Hand – Tucci Stables, Sid Attard  66 82, 73 MARCH  Hmm, a Midnight Lite, owned by Tucci’s, claimed for Plate? 2 Coltimus Prime – Cabarnet Racing […]

     QUEEN’S PLATE  – 4 DAYS! The top Canadian-bred 3-year-olds representing owners from California, Kentucky, Alberta and Ontario  will be entered tomorrow morning for the 155th QUEEN’S PLATE, to be run Sunday as part of an 11-race card. post time on Sunday for race 1 is 12 Noon – the Plate will likely be […]

ONE DESTINY SIZZLES IN FINAL PLATE PREP Alec Fehr and Winston Penny’s ONE DESTINY worked a bullet 5 furlongs in 59 yesterday at Woodbine matching the time of his older brother, multiple SW Ultimate Destiny, and is getting a chance to run for glory on Sunday. The son of Dance to Destiny, who no longer […]

                      JACQUES DUMAS –  1939-2014 From the Montreal Gazette, OCT. 1 1968 …[Blue Bonnets] track president Jean Louis Levesque recognizes the knowledge and ability of the young Montreal horseman and has signed [Jacques] Dumas as contract trainer of the thoroughbreds on his beautiful farm at […]

     Daily Racing Form has its Kentucky Derby Watch, Thoroughblog will do the same for the possible entrants in the 155th Queen’s Plate coming up on July 6. The field is far from set but here are 14 possible starters, 13 that have to somehow get past We Miss artie:    QUEEN’S PLATE PROBABLES  […]