Woodbine has unveiled its stakes schedule for the 2019 Thoroughbred racing season highlighted by the Queen’s Plate and the Ricoh Woodbine Mile.
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The Ontario horse racing community is mourning the loss of Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame, Thoroughbred builder, William (Bill) Graham.
The 2018 season was a very busy and exciting year on and off the track for Woodbine Entertainment. Here are some of the highlights.
Eurico Rosa da Silva and Norm McKnight took the jockey and trainer 2018 meet titles during the closing weekend at Woodbine Racetrack.
Jockey Luis Contreras celebrated his 2,000th career win competing in Canadian and U.S. races, as he piloted He’s a Macho Man on Sunday at Woodbine.
A. A. Azula’s Arch, Melmich and Pumpkin Rumble give trainer Kevin Attard a top-notch trio in Grade 3 Valedictory Stakes at Woodbine this weekend.
Woodbine has announced that the 160th running of the $1 million Queen’s Plate, first jewel of the Canadian Triple Crown, will be held June 29, 2019.
My Silencer goes after his second straight stakes score in his second start when he takes on five rivals in the Kingarvie Stakes at Woodbine.
Moonlit Promise successfully defended her title in the $175,000 Bessarabian Stakes (Grade 2) defeating a field of 13 distaffers on Sunday at Woodbine.
Wet weather has forced Woodbine to move scheduled turf races to the Tapeta surface for the time being. They will monitor conditions for future races.
Bob Brooks has won the $100,000 Capture the Classic Challenge – an interactive promotion which asks fans to predict the winners of select races.
A two-year-old daughter of Court Vision, Notice Me, sets her sights on her first added-money triumph in the $100,000 South Ocean Stakes at Woodbine.
Dancing Doll, an Ontario-bred two-year-old daughter of Artie Schiller, makes her stakes debut in Sunday’s $100,000 Glorious Song, at Woodbine.
Trainer Andrew Smith and owner Joey Gee Thoroughbreds will send out a one-two punch of Line of Vision and Stormy Summer for La Prevoyante Stakes.
The final sections of sod were laid last week completing the new seven-furlong Kentucky Bluegrass turf course at Woodbine Racetrack.
