The Canadian racing world mourns the loss of the respected trainer and Hall of Fame inductee who trained greats such as Bessarabian and Wild Gale.
Mike Doyle
Inductees include Mike Doyle, Ivan Dalos, Perry Winters, Wilma Kennedy, and great horses Ghostzapper, Marketing Mix and Storm Bird.
Dalos, owner of the very successful Tall Oaks Stable, joins the Builder inductees; Doyle joins trainers and Perry Winters, jockeys.
A pair of Ontario sired stakes races highlighted an interesting day of Woodbine racing on August 12 as Plate week nears.
Lots of Canadian- and Ontario-breds went under the hammer and more than a dozen Canadian-based horsepeople made purchases.
The Irish connection had a big day on Sunday, April 24 over a Tapeta surface that was much quicker than the meet's first three days.
Adena Springs North stallion Silent Name (Jpn) has two new juvenile stakes winners on Nov. 21 with Silent Runner and Ya Mar.
Holy Helena stalked the pace after breaking from the inside post and finished strongly to take down Saturday’s Dance Smartly Stakes by 1 ¼ lengths.
Tiz Breathtaking will be stretching out to 1 1/16 miles while looking to double up in Saturday’s Mazarine Stakes at Woodbine.
Glamanation broke her maiden in style, taking Sunday’s co-featured $125,000 Shady Well Stakes, at Woodbine. Owned and trained by Mike Doyle, the daughter of Point of Entry-Golden Scarf came into the 5 ½-furlong Tapeta sprint for Ontario-bred juvenile fillies off a fourth-place effort to Dream It Is in the My Dear Stakes on June 24. […]
Holy Helena, an impressive winner of the 1 1/8 mile Woodbine Oaks, in just her third career start, was even better when facing males in the Queen’s Plate.
Holy Helena heads a competitive 62nd competitive edition of the $500,000 Woodbine Oaks, Sunday at Woodbine.
Well-traveled Grizzel, confidently piloted by David Moran, wore down favoured Enstone to take Sunday’s Grade 3 $131,300 Selene Stakes, at Woodbine.
Gamble’s Ghost heads an extremely competitive 61st edition of the $500,000 Woodbine Oaks, presented by Budweiser, Sunday at Woodbine. The filly classic, which attracted 10 Canadian-foaled three-year-old fillies carrying 121 pounds over one mile and one-eighth on the Tapeta, will go postward at 6:12 p.m. and will be televised live on TSN, as part of […]
Mike Doyle, a 63-year-old native of Dublin, Ireland with a career in racing spanning forty years secured his 1000th win when Evangeline’s Hope captured Saturday’s 10th race, at Woodbine. Doyle has enjoyed much success since the early 1970s, in a variety of challenges in his four decades in racing as a trainer, farm and racing […]
