Ron Clarkson’s Phil’s Cocktail swept to the lead at the top of the lane and never looked back to capture Saturday’s $125,000 Frost King Stakes, at Woodbine. Trained by John LeBlanc Jr., the bay son of Philanthropist-Sunset Cocktail arrived at the seven furlong ‘Poly’ stake for Ontario-sired juveniles from a fourth-place finish behind Frost King […]
William Sorokolit’s Executive Allure went gate to wire to capture Saturday’s co-featured $150,000 Jammed Lovely Stakes, at Woodbine. Trained by Darwin Banach, the Bold Executive dark bay lacked running room last time out when turning for home behind a wall of horses in the Ruling Angel Stakes, eventually finishing fourth behind Cactus Kris and Jammed […]
Eugene Melnyk’s Lukes Alley rallied from last to capture Sunday’s $224,800 Grade 2 Autumn Stakes, at Woodbine. Trained by Josie Carroll and ridden by Luis Contreras, the four-year-old Flower Alley bay was shuffled to last of six in the final turn before angling off the rail to run down shipper War Correspondent and 2013 Queen’s […]
The Catalogue for the CTHS Winter Mixed Sale is now available online! Pedigree pages for the upcoming CTHS Winter Mixed Sale taking place Saturday, November 29th are now online and will be available for pickup at the CTHS office the week of the sale. The Sale starts at 5:00 p.m. and will be held at […]
Three Florida-based companies have found themselves in hot water with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) over claims that some of their products being marketed as supplements are actually drugs, as defined by the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. Warning letters were sent to HorsePreRace.com, Horse Gold, Inc. and Tri-Star Equine on October […]
This memo is further to our notice industry on February 14, 214 on the subject of ractopamine in feedstuffs wherein we reminded race horse owners and trainers that it remains their responsibility to obtain horse feed and supplements that are free from substances that may trigger a positive test. Since we issued that memo, there […]
Goldencents, an American-bred horse out of the Manitoba-bred dam Golden Works, defended his title in the $1-million Dirt Mile on the opening day of the 31st Breeders’ Cup World Championships, at Santa Anita Park, in Arcadia, California. The four-year-old son of Into Mischief, bred in Kentucky by Rosecrest Farm and Karyn Pirrello, set a lively […]
Eugene Melnyk’s Glenville Gardens broke his maiden in fine style with a front-running score in Saturday’s $132,250 Display Stakes, at Woodbine. Trained by Josie Carroll, the dark bay son of Street Cry-Navy Gardens arrived at the 1 1/16-miles ‘Poly’ stake for juveniles from a pair of runner-up performances. Glenville Gardens was second on debut to […]
John Unger’s Strut the Course uncorked a tremendous turn of foot to capture Saturday’s co-featured Grade 3 $150,000 Maple Leaf Stakes, at Woodbine. Trained by Barb Minshall, the four-year-old daughter of Strut the Stage-Bold Course settled well off the early pace of defending Maple Leaf champ Moonlit Beauty before unleashing an explosive stretch kick to […]
Judy the Beauty, bred in Ontario by Adena Springs, captured the $1-million Filly and Mare Sprint on Saturday’s 31st Breeders’ Cup World Championships, at Santa Anita Park, in Arcadia, California. Owned and trained by Wes Ward, the five-year-old Ghostzapper-Holy Blitz chestnut held off the late rally of Better Lucky for a head score. Leigh Court, […]
Brooklynsway enjoyed a ground-saving trip under Emma-Jayne Wilson, before splitting rivals in deep stretch to capture the 69th running of the $250,000 Princess Elizabeth Stakes on Sunday, at Woodbine. Owned and trained by John Ross, the dark bay daughter of Giant Gizmo-Explosive Story arrived at the 1 1/16-miles ‘Poly’ stake for Canadian-foaled juvenile fillies from […]
Elections for the provincial boards of the Canadian Thoroughbred Horse Society were scheduled for December 3, 2014, but no province received enough nominations to trigger an election. All directors who agreed to run again have been acclaimed and any candidate whose nomination met the criteria to run has been acclaimed to their respective provincial board […]
Mike Doyle, a 63-year-old native of Dublin, Ireland with a career in racing spanning forty years secured his 1000th win when Evangeline’s Hope captured Saturday’s 10th race, at Woodbine. Doyle has enjoyed much success since the early 1970s, in a variety of challenges in his four decades in racing as a trainer, farm and racing […]
Savvy Hester set a contested pace and stayed on gamely down the lane to capture Saturday’s $111,200 River Memories Stakes, at Woodbine. Trained by Ricky Griffith for Debmar Stables, the graded stakes placed Heatseeker-Changeable filly, piloted by Justin Stein, picked up her first stakes victory after winning a photo over Dance Again in the one-mile […]
River Seven rallied off the sharp pace of Excaper and Best Bard to capture Sunday’s $113,200 Labeeb Stakes, giving Jesse Campbell a sweep of the Sunday stakes at Woodbine. Last year, the Tucci Stables charge, trained by Nick Gonzalez, romped the one-mile event by 10 lengths over a ‘yielding’ turf course with a front-running effort. […]
