Thoroughbred trainer Reade Baker discusses the steps horse owners and trainers should take once they’ve purchased a yearling racehorse prospect.
Despite a constant clamour for a horse racing commissioner to cure all of the sport’s ills, experts weigh in on why it’s not feasible.
Ole Nielsen’s life-long obsession with horse racing began when we was 12, and has culminated in a victory in the Canadian Derby.
Ontario-bred Tone Broke asserted himself as the country’s top 3-year-old with convincing wins in two-thirds of the Canadian Triple Crown series.
Just before his retirement, Woodbine jockey Eurico Rosa Da Silva scored his first win in the Woodbine Mile when he rode Ontario-bred El Tormenta to victory.
Eight-time champion jockey Rico Walcott has returned to the irons with a new outlook on life after having a tumour removed from the front of his brain.
The battle between Chief Know It All and Double Bear, over the 2017 Canadian Derby result, continues to rage on off the track two years later.
In 2019, Woodbine unveiled a pristine new inner turf course that received rave reviews and added plenty more exciting grass races for fans to enjoy.
Century Mile’s plan is to bring back the past while at the same time heading into the future of Thoroughbred racing in Edmonton.
The newly built Century Mile marks a turnaround in Alberta’s horse racing industry. General manager, Paul Ryneveld, shares some secrets to the success.
Woodbine’s senior manager of racing operations, Karl Lagerborg, has seen, and loved, it all in 41 years working numerous jobs in the industry.
There was no one quite like Assiniboia Downs’ 12-time leading trainer, Ardell Sayler, who died of heart failure in May at the age of 66.
Owner George Gilbert and leading BC trainer Phil Hall are on fire at Hastings Racecourse thanks mostly to stellar three-year-old filly Summerland.
One Bad Boy made the long trek from California to Toronto and coasted to victory in the 160th Queen’s Plate on a stakes card dominated by Americans.
The CTHS Manitoba Yearling Sale is coming up and the province’s leading Thoroughbred breeder Cam Ziprick is eager to showcase Manitoba-breds to new owners.
