Casson won his second stakes race with a steady score in the King Corrie Stakes at Woodbine but don't look for him on the King's Plate trail.
Woodbine 2026
Just three months to the King's Plate and Coronation Futurity winner Fire and Wine kicks off his journey on Sunday.
Bedazzle Me ends long winless streak with gritty win; Tharrenos, Alderson, Carey have doubles on Sunday at Woodbine.
Reagan's Flame invades Woodbine and wins the Grade 3 Whimsical, while Plate winners' showdown goes to Paramount Prince.
King's Plate winner Mansetti meets 2023 Plate winner Paramount Prince on Saturday at Woodbine; Whimsical Stakes also on card.
A new face to Woodbine is the stakes-winning G T Five Hundred, recently purchased by Dominic Delillo's Centennial Farms Niagara.
American invader was strong on the pace on a rainy Saturday at Woodbine and gave jockey Sofia Vives a third win in the Star Shoot.
Arbiter shipped into Woodbine to win the Woodstock Stakes over three rivals as Woodbine's second weekend is in the books.
Champion Woodbine jockey Sahin Civaci, now based in New York, returns to ride one of the main contenders in the first stakes of the season.
Fourteen races over the first weekend marked the beginning of a new season at Woodbine, with horsepeople happy to be back.
There will be a few new faces in the riders' room when Woodbine gets underway on April 18 and many familiar ones.
Paul Ryder's Fire and Wine posted an upset in the Coronation Futurity and has landed at the top of the first King's Plate contenders list.
The cost of training a large stable of racehorses is one of the reasons the top trainer will step away – for now.
The weather in southern Ontario has been a challenge, but timed workouts returned to Woodbine once the main track opened.
The 14-race program of stakes races to be held later in 2026 are restricted to horses foaled in New York or Canada.
