A dozen Canadian horseplayers are part of a field of 305 contestants competing in this weekend’s $1-million Daily Racing Form/NTRA National Handicapping Challenge (N.H.C.) at the Red Rock Casino, Resort and Spa in Las Vegas. With a grand prize of $500,000 on the line, the exclusive tournament, which is in its 12th year, asks contestants […]
Horse Racing News
The CTHS (Ontario Division) is pleased to announce the leading recipients of the TIP Stallion Awards program, representing the 44 stallions who received a total of $400,000 in awards based on the successes of their Ontario-sired progeny during the 2010 racing season. The 2010 top Ontario Sires Awards recipients by North American earnings are as […]
The year 1961 was a truly significant one. The year marked the birth of two icons, Northern Dancer and Canadian Thoroughbred magazine.
The Jockey Club of Canada will host their 36th Annual Sovereign Awards Ceremony to honour the Canadian Champions of 2010, on Friday, April 1, 2011, on the third floor of Woodbine Race Track in Toronto. Woodbine Entertainment Group will join in the celebration as they get ready to kick-off their 2011 Live Thoroughbred meet on […]
Assiniboia Downs is launching something new, quirky and historic this Saturday morning – walking on the race track for fun, fitness and celebrating spectacular races that happened on the very ground they are walking. “Everyone these days is talking about declining fitness,” said Downs’ track announcer and recently-appointed CEO Darren Dunn. “We thought we’d do […]
Omar Moreno, the 2009 Sovereign Award recipient for outstanding apprentice jockey in Canada, was given another well-deserved honour on Monday evening in Miami, an Eclipse Award, for his riding efforts in 2010. Moreno, who won his first race with his first mount, Fortress Mountain, on August 10, 2008, at Grand Prairie, Alberta, becomes the fourth […]
The 2011 Equine Canada Annual Convention has been moved up a week this year, and the Breeds & Industry (B&I) Division Assembly, which will be held on the afternoon of Friday, January 28 and all day Saturday, January 29, includes an exciting lineup of seminars offered as part of the Equine Canada Export Marketing Development […]
Woodbine jockey Omar Moreno had plenty of wins in 2010, 146, to be exact. But the biggest victory of his young career might come away from the Toronto oval, Monday evening at the Eclipse Awards in Miami. He rode into last year’s thoroughbred campaign with a full head of steam, armed with a 2009 Sovereign […]
Horse Sport magazine has been nominated for an Equestrian Social Media Award by a marketing company in the UK called Abbeyview Equine. The award recognizes Horse Sport’s Facebook page in the category Best Use of Social Media by a Magazine. “This is a bit of an unexpected honour, as our Facebook campaign has only been […]
The Ontario CTHS is pleased to announce the winning recipients of the Ontario Sired Racing Rewards Program, representing racing excellence of Ontario-Sired performers in Ontario Black Type races for 2010. Sand Cove, a multiple Stakes winner and CTHS Yearling Sale Graduate, has been named the Overall Champion of the Ontario Sired Racing Rewards Program. The […]
The annual Horse Breeders & Owners Conference taking place in Red Deer, Alberta, this weekend, and sponsored in part by the Horse Publications Group, boasts a stellar line-up of internationally known speakers on topics such as health, management, behaviour, training and competition. Just to name a few, regular Horse-Canada contributor, trainer Josh Nichol, will conduct a presentation […]
Jockey Robert Landry, who won the 2004 Queen’s Plate with Niigon and recorded 2,045 wins over his 29-year career, has announced his retirement. Landry, who scored his first career win aboard Hammy Hubert, June 21, 1981 at Fort Erie and won his initial added-money race in 1982 aboard La Salle Park in the Fair Play […]
Equine Canada is pleased to announce the Equine Code Development Committee of 18 stakeholder representatives from eight provinces has been finalized and the next stage of revising the Code of Practice for Horses, last developed in 1998, can begin. Following the nationally recognized and supported National Farm Animal Care Council (NFACC) Code Development Guidelines, the […]
The Canadian Horse Defence Coalition (CHDC) has learned that Bouvry Exports horse slaughter plant in Fort MacLeod, Alberta closed operations on December 3rd to complete renovations related to sanitation. This news is not surpising. It is well documented that horse slaughter operations in Canada and the U.S. have a long history of pollution troubles and […]
The Horse Welfare Alliance of Canada (HWAC) and the Alberta Equestrian Federation (AEF) are pleased to introduce the Recommended Handling Guidelines and Animal Welfare Assessment Tool for Horses. This comprehensive industry developed guideline and animal welfare assessment tool will provide consistent standards for the handling of horses at processing. This project enabled a joining of […]
