It was a full house for opening day and the start of the 120th season of racing at Fort Erie Race Track. “We had a huge turnout and a beautiful day.
Horse Racing News
Gary Boulanger, one of thoroughbred racing’s most respected and resilient riders, has been named the 2017 recipient of the Avelino Gomez Memorial Award.
The 120th season of live racing is only days away at Fort Erie Race Track. The horses will break from the starting gate on Tuesday, May 30 at 4:20 p.m.
The largest touring tent in the world was raised last week next to Hershey Centre in Mississauga in preparation for Odysseo’s
It was a day a lot like yesterday, but even more so; the sky was blue, the sun loomed large, the fields were small. Nine scratches, mostly due to a cough that is moving through the barns, did not help. The crowd was mid-range but, amazingly, the investors found $533,647 worth of propositions they were […]
Silver Princess, with Rafael Hernandez aboard, assumed control in mid-stretch and fended off all challengers to take Saturday’s Lady Angela Stakes
Live Oak Plantation’s Souper Tapit seized control as the field headed for home and widened his advantage down the lane to take Sunday’s Grade 3, $134,250 Marine Stakes, at Woodbine. Trained by Mark Casse, Souper Tapit was the 9-5 favourite in the 1 1/16-mile race for three-year-olds over Tapeta. A son of Tapit, Souper Tapit […]
The series, Talkin’ Horses, will pick up from the HBPA’s award-winning television show of the same name which ran for three years on CTV Television
Well-traveled Grizzel, confidently piloted by David Moran, wore down favoured Enstone to take Sunday’s Grade 3 $131,300 Selene Stakes, at Woodbine.
Keen Gizmo, made his third Steady Growth Stakes appearance his most memorable one, winning impressively in Holiday Monday’s $125,000 feature, at Woodbine.
KlaravichStables and William H. Lawrence’s Cloud Computing tracked a hotly contested pace duel between Kentucky Derby (G1) winner Always Dreaming and Classic Empire into the far turn before launching a determined stretch run and pulling off a 12-1 upset in Saturday’s 142nd Preakness Stakes (G1) at Pimlico Race Course. The lightly raced colt, who had […]
Dragon Bay, under Gary Boulanger, denied Sovereign Award champion Are You Kidding Me a third straight Eclipse Stakes crown, eking out a neck triumph in Saturday’s $180,250 Grade 2 feature at Woodbine on May 20th. Trained by Stuart Simon, who also co-owns with Brett and Russell McLellan, the Parading gelding held on gamely against a […]
The CHRHF Legends Committee named a mare called Modesty who won the first advertised and reported horse race on Canadian soil, as the 2017 Legend Honouree.
Galloping Ami was bred to be a racehorse. But she was born to be a mother.The 11-year-old unraced mare, is Canada’s 2016 Broodmare of the Year
Yorkton made the fourth start of his season the most memorable of his career, notching his first added-money score in taking Queenston Stakes, at Woodbine.
