EMILE RAMSAMMY HURT IN TRINIDAD Woodbine rider EMILE RAMSAMMY fell from Princess She’s Not before the 7th race at Arima racecourse on Monday during a special day of racing and hurt his finger and had whiplash. He was sent to hospital. Early reports from Trinidadian newspapers say Ramsammy may have broke his finger. […]

    98 BEYER SPEED FIGURE FOR PUNTROOSKIE at WOODBINE Touchdown for latest Tucci claim in Woodstock Stakes FROM CLEMSONWIKI: “Puntrooskie” is the name given to the play that FSU ran against Clemson during their match in 1988. With 1:30 left in the fourth quarter and the game tied, Florida State faced a fourth-and-four at […]

                              TOP MARKS Casse wins stakes at Woodbine and Hawthorne, Sam-Son breeding On Easter weekend, trainer Mark Casse had a basketful of colourful eggs and some had surprises in them. Of  course, ZENSATIONAL BUNNY won the Star Shoot Stakes at Woodbine. […]

                          CONFIDENCE WIN FOR PENDER HARBOUR Champion Pender Harbour (Philanthropist – Uproar by Hail the Ruckus) looked strong and smooth as he returned to the races as a 6-year-old on Good Friday at Woodbine. The big chestnut gelding won for the first since […]

    PENDER HARBOUR in his first allowance race since he was a 2yo Canadian champion PENDER HARBOUR starts off his 6yo campaign today in the featured 7th race at Woodbine on the Good Friday card. The chestnut gelding, a millionaire owned by Denny Andrews, Sandra Lazaruk and Bob and Roberta Giffin, has been in […]

 Congratulations to everyone for Woodbine’s first weekend – David Garcia wins Woodbine stake, Juan Crawford has 2 wins, and the Polytrack has played fairly     SHOWING HIS METTLE – 85 Beyer Speed Figure for Dan This tin man is all heart. DAN THE TIN MAN is at his best in a Polytrack sprint race, […]

  WOODBINE RACING IS BACK – even bigger news yesterday was the triple stakes scores by CANADIAN-BREDS AT KEENELAND:  GRADE 1 WINS by Ontario bred and owned HARD NOT TO LIKE and Ontario bred JUDY THE BEAUTY and a Grade 2 win by OCCASIONAL VIEW..- Kentucky Derby hopes for locals fizzle but we still have […]

            HIGH FLYING – UP WITH THE BIRDS is CANADA’S HORSE OF THE YEAR Sam-Son Farms’  brilliant colt UP WITH THE BIRDS, a Grade 1 winner in 2013, was named Canada’s Horse of the Year at Friday night’s Sovereign Awards ceremony at Woodbine racetrack. The colt was named the champion […]

  IT’S TIME FOR RACING – WOODBINE’S FIRST CARD IS DRAWN       HIGH TEE will be the first Thoroughbred on the track at about 12:45 p.m. on Saturday, beginning the new Woodbine season and igniting  a fire of  hopes of horsepeople, racing fans and all of us who work in the industry for […]

  Woodbine entries tomorrow, Canadian horses and people at Keeneland, Oaklawn for big 3yo races this weekend, WISE DAN on Friday at Keeneland, big party at Woodbine Friday night at the Sovereign Awards..Get your tickets, everyone is welcome!   **BREAKING NEWS!…WOODBINE SELECTIONS, ENTRIES and HANDICAPPING NOTES are the content on the new site – WWW.JMBETS.CA […]

  what a day of racing on Saturday – CALIFORNIA CHROME is a fun story, will get all the hype heading to the Derby, but what did he beat? WICKED STRONG made CONSTITUTION look really good winning the Wood Memorial with ease..Woodbine rider LUIS CONTRERAS wins his first Grade 1 race (but his Derby horse […]

                              Okay, it’s bitterly cold with flurries in southern Ontario – not yet spring. Better weather to come and WOODBINE opens next Saturday, the day after the SOVEREIGN AWARDS GALA (have your ticket yet?) We are going to keep warm today […]

  BIRD WATCHING KEENELAND ALLOWANCE ON SATURDAY READS LIKE A GRADED STAKE   Next week, UP WITH THE BIRDS and FORTE DEI MARMI are up for Sovereign Awards for champion 3yo colt and older male respectively, as well Horse of the Year. On Saturday, the 4yo Sam-Son colt and the 8yo Roger Attfield trained old […]

            BREAKING NEWS – TORONTO STAR REPORT Wynne antes up another $100 million for Ontario horse-racing Unlike her predecessor, Dalton McGuinty, Wynne is increasing support to the horse-racing industry to $500 million over five years — up from the $400 million she pledged in October. Premier Kathleen Wynne is sweetening […]

  Recapping the results and notes from racing yesterday – 10 hours of action.. below is also the live blogging section from yesterday morning..       LOUISIANA DERBY – 97 BEYER FOR VICAR’S IN TROUBLE Little itty bitty VICAR’S IN TROUBLE, owned by Ken and Sarah Ramsey’s , so impressive winning the Grade III […]