After winning the Natalma with an 8-1 shot Catch a Glimpse an hour earlier, trainer Mark Casse came back two races later to take the $226,400, Grade 2 Summer Stakes, another Breeders’ Cup Win and You’re In event, with an even bigger longshot, 15-1 Conquest Daddyo, Saturday at Woodbine. Ridden for the first time by […]
Grade 1 winners Lea and Obviously, along with recent Grade 2 winner Grand Arch headline what promises to be a hotly-contested renewal of the Grade 1, $1 million Ricoh Woodbine Mile Sunday at Woodbine. The 19th edition of one of the premier grass races in North America, which has attracted 11 hopefuls, will be televised […]
The 2015 Spruce Meadows ‘Masters’ Tournament CSIO 5* hosted its second day of competition with the world’s best horses and riders Thursday. Belgium’s Gregory Wathelet celebrated his 35th birthday as well as his first trip ever to Spruce Meadows with a win in the $126,000 CANA Cup 1.60m riding Algorhythem. Earlier in the afternoon, Canada’s […]
The stakes festivities kicked off in the fourth with the CTHS Sales Stake for two-year-old colts and geldings. Fear of the Cat ($3.50) won it as the heavy favorite over the closing We Found Gold who finished a length back in second. Timber King did some closing of his own to be third. The 6 […]
Wise Dan, who earned U.S. Horse of the Year honours in 2012 and 2013, has been retired from racing. The Morton Fink homebred, trained by Charles LoPresti, had been slated to make his return from an ankle injury in the Grade 1 $1-million Ricoh Woodbine Mile set for Sunday, September 13, at Woodbine. “He’d been […]
Tucci Stables’ Riker had no trouble winning the featured $125,750 Swynford Stakes for two-year-olds Saturday at Woodbine. With Jesse Campbell at the controls, odds-on Riker, a Kentucky-bred son of Include-Desviacion, led every step of the way in the seven furlong contest, eventually winning by a comfortable two and one-half lengths over Tizzarunner, with Majestic Slew […]
Ivan Dalos’ homebred Elusive Collection, ridden by Luis Contreras, followed up on her sensational debut by winning the featured $105,800 Etobicoke Stakes, Sunday at Woodbine. The victory was a hard-fought one, though, as the heavy favourite was only able to get by a very game pacesetter Pohdi Pohdi in the closing jumps to prevail by […]
Harp N Halo, with Luis Contreras up, won a three-way stretch battle with Silent Treat and favoured Stellar Path to emerge the winner of the featured $104,000 Avowal Stakes, Monday at Woodbine. The Labour Day stake, at seven furlongs on the grass for fillies and mares, had only five starters, but three of them were […]
Justin Stein picked up his 1000th career win when he guided Battle Castle to a 1 ¾-length victory in Saturday’s opening race at Woodbine. Battle Castle, a two-year-old daughter of Marcavelly trained and part-owned by Denyse McClachrie in a partnership that includes Shale Wagman and Gayle Bosscher, made her first career start a special one […]
Rexton, the second longest shot in the six-horse field, made every pole a winning one while pulling off a 15-1 upset in the OLG Kenora Stakes, Wednesday at Woodbine. The six furlong Kenora, presented by the H.B.P.A. of Ontario, appeared on paper to be a three-horse contest among Spadina Road (8-5), Bear No Joke (2-1) […]
Brooklynsway, expertly piloted by Emma-Jayne Wilson, held off a rallying Galina Point to capture Wednesday night’s $125,000 OLG Algoma Stakes, presented by Adena Springs Canada, at Woodbine. Owned and trained by John Ross, Brooklynsway arrived at the 1 1/16-mile ‘Poly’ route for filly and mare graduates of the CTHS Sale, from a strong showing in […]
Shake Down Baby and jockey Gerry Olguin made it look easy in the $200,000 OLG Muskoka Stakes for two-year-old fillies, drawing off by five and one-quarter lengths over favoured Crumlin Spirit in the six and one-half furlong event Wednesday at Woodbine. Shake Down Baby, trained by Bill Tharrenos, broke her maiden in style in her […]
The $125,000 Elgin Stakes, presented by Bear Stables, was a test of endurance, as Stephen Chesney and Corey Hoffman’s Melmich outlasted the Sovereign Award-winning Pender Harbour in the 1 1/16 mile Polytrack event. Breaking clean from the gate, Melmich and Pender Harbour were never challenged by Millioninthemaking and Urban Forester, in a compact four-horse field. […]
The $125,000 OLG Halton Stakes presented by Tipperary Equestrian, was contested at a flat mile over a firm E.P. Taylor Turf Course and drew a field of 10, including the defending champion Hampstead Heath, who scored as the 2-1 choice a year ago. This time he was let go at 6-1. Spin the King set […]
Wednesday night’s Yearling Sales Stakes program at Woodbine was highlighted by a stylish winning debut for Ivan Dalos’ homebred Amis Gizmo on an evening showcasing Canadian-breds purchased at previous Canadian Premier Yearling Sales. Trained by Josie Carroll, Amis Gizmo, a chestnut son of Giant Gizmo-Galloping Ami, arrived at the 6 ½-furlong $200,000 OLG Simcoe Stakes […]
