Total wagering was up 6 per cent over opening day 2022, with One More Ring taking the Spring into Summer Cup.
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The Winnipeg track's opening day saw champion jock Jorge Carreno take the first race, large crowds and enthusiastic wagering.
The second installment of Canadian Thoroughbred's look at who is hot on the trail to the King's Plate and Woodbine Oaks.
Some exciting new initiatives offer something for everyone as live racing gets set to kick off May 22nd at the Winnipeg track.
Manitoba, Alberta and British Columbia racetracks will band together to stage the series with $450,000 in purse money and a $100,000 bonus.
The first stakes race of the 2023 Woodbine season is a traditional 3-year-old filly key prep for the Woodbine Oaks.
More than 113 horses shipped into the backstretch over the long weekend, with more coming into the border oval daily.
Canadians wrapped up a super winter season with the arrival of April; Chiefswood Stable's Weyburn won the Sir Shackleton Stakes
Angel of Empire earned 100 points for the win and is now second on the Kentucky Derby leaderboard with 154 points.
Call for candidates to fill Director At Large and horseperson organization positions on the CHRHF Board of Directors.
A new two-year deal commits to $62M in purses for the 2023-2024 thoroughbred racing meets; season set to open on April 22.
Not run in 2022 due to pandemic issues, the 84th International will take place on Sunday, Oct. 8, at a new distance of a mile and a quarter.
Ellen Chaloner was saddling winners in the 1890s, over half a century before women officially won the right to train at the UK track.
In recognition of Canada's great Sovereign Award-winning sprinter, the renamed $100,000 race will be run on Sunday, June 4 at Woodbine.
Canadian horsepeople look forward to spring as the backstretches open; Moon Landing moves to the top of the charts for the King's Plate.