The incredible rise of another Frank DiGuilio and Robert Tiller-trained sprinter continues with Patches O'Houlihan.
Nearctic Stakes
The final graded stakes weekend of the Woodbine 2024 season includes four stakes on Saturday and the prestigious Cup & Saucer Sunday.
Grade 2 winner of over $500,000 was coming off a layoff of more than a year and competing for $4,000 claiming at West Virginia track.
A successful weekend once again at Woodbine ended with a wild finish in the Grade 2 Nearctic Stakes: 3/4 of a length separated the top eight.
Inducted into the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame this year, Keogh is the last Triple Crown-winning trainer.
Ontario-bred Grade 1 winner Silent Poet will meet Highlander Stakes winner Bound for Nowhere in Oct. 8 turf dash.
Ivan Dalos' versatile stallion wins his second graded stakes race of '21 with a strong victory, pushing career earnings past seven figures.
Through stakes scores, winless streaks, good luck and bad fortune, the six-year-old looks good heading into the Nearctic Stakes.
Brandon and Terry Greer's plucky 6-year-old gelding will turn back to six furlongs for the Grade 2 on October 17.
Sunday’s card will include the $600,000 E.P. Taylor Stakes, $300,000 Northern Dancer Turf Stakes, $250,000 Nearctic and $100,000 Display Stakes.
Trainer Mike Keogh prepared City Boy to a 't' and watched the gelding win his first race in two years in the Nearctic (Grade 1)
After coming second in the Grade 2 Nearctic Stakes last year, Yorkton is ready to best his rivals and win the $250,000 purse in this year’s edition.
Hembree, finishing strongly under jockey Irad Ortiz Jr., was up in time to score by a neck in Saturday’s Grade 2 Nearctic Stakes at Woodbine Racetrack.
The $250,000 Nearctic Stakes, the final leg of Woodbine’s inaugural three-race Turf Sprint Stakes series, takes place Saturday.
Twenty-seven horses have been nominated to the 81st running of the $800,000 Pattison Canadian International on Saturday, Oct. 13 at Woodbine.
