About five years ago, Winnipeg's Barry Arnason decided to take a run at spending more money and improving his Thoroughbred business.
Zanetti has been on this earth longer than his young owner and rider, Hunter Trombley. In fact when Trombley, now 15, was a toddler, Zanetti was racing in some major three-year-old stakes races in Kentucky, Illinois, Florida and Ontario.
Once Dorothy and Sean started going to the races to watch their friends' horse run, they soon found a love for the sport.
Bar 17 Stable offers a wide range of services to the Alberta thoroughbred industry including boarding, training, foaling out, rehabilitation, and more.
Spanky is a very lucky horse.
Lou Tucci and his uncle Carlo fulfilled a lifetime dream when their colt Midnight Aria upset the 154th Queen's Plate.
There have not been too many thoroughbreds who have been able to win twice at the Breeders' Cup on two very different surfaces and with virtually no racing action in the year between.
Although today's racehorses surely don't get the foundation of long, slow works they once did, however, they have grown too fragile as a breed.
Susan Y. Foreman shares her expertise on which conformation traits to look for in horses that indicate a successful future performance as a racehorse.
The Landry brothers are currently third on the Northlands Park leading owners list with eight wins from 29 runners with purse earnings of $135,017.
There would be no mistaking Agameone for any of the top Thoroughbreds that have raced at Hastings Park in Vancouver in recent years. It took the Washington-bred 14 starts before she won her first race and in 13 subsequent outings, she never won again.
Trainer Malcolm Pierce has seen his affiliation with one of Canada's most well-known racing stables come full-circle over the course of his 31-year career on the backstretch in thoroughbred horse racing.
It had been 25 years since Elizabeth Hay reluctantly put riding aside to pursue school and her career.
Uncaptured has been a horse on the run since his narrow win first time out on May 13, 2012 at Woodbine.
Champion Two-Year Old Filly, Spring in the Air, brought tremendous joy to owner John Oxley and trainer Mark Casse during her 2012 campaign that saw her win two of her five races, including a grade I victory.