Champion jockey Emma-Jayne Wilson, who suffered a lacerated liver after a spill at Woodbine in late August, is set to make her return to racing on Wednesday, November 17. The two-time Sovereign Award winner and 2007 Queen’s Plate-winning jockey (aboard Mike Fox) was thrown to the Polytrack after her mount, Flo’s Henny, fell heading into […]
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Riding a wave of interest powered by the story of almost perfect mare Zenyatta and her near victory in the $5 million Breeders’ Cup Classic, Breeders’ Cup officials are reporting record levels of business results and across the board increases from the 2009 Championships for their two-day World Championships held this past weekend at Churchill […]
“It is with profound sadness and sense of loss that I inform you of the passing of Robert (Bob) M. Anderson, on Sunday, November 7, 2010,” advised David S. Willmot, Chair of Woodbine Entertainment Group. “Bob succumbed to the effects of a serious heart attack suffered last Wednesday.” Anderson has been involved with breeding, racing […]
John Oxley’s Strike Oil broke his maiden in stakes style by taking Sunday’s $250,000 Coronation Futurity at Woodbine. The Mark Casse trainee rallied wide from well off the pace to prevail by three-quarters of a length over Charlie’s the Man in the event for two-year-olds, foaled in Canada. Enduring Star was third. The son of […]
Champion trainer Mark Frostad will look to double his pleasure at the upcoming Breeders’ Cup, when he sends out New Normal (10-1 morning line) in Friday’s Juvenile Fillies Turf and Grand Adventure (12-1) in Saturday’s Turf Sprint. The man who directed Sam-Son Farm’s Chief Bearhart to his 1997 Breeders’ Cup Turf win and consecutive Canadian […]
The Ontario CTHS has catalogued 188 offerings for its 2010 Winter Mixed Sale, with several supplemental entries yet to come! The Sale will be held on Saturday, November 27th at 1 p.m. at the Woodbine Sales Pavilion, Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto. This year’s catalogue includes a diversified group of broodmares, yearlings, weanlings, stallions, stallion shares […]
Posts were drawn and morning lines announced for all 14 Breeders’ Cup races this afternoon at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky. The $26 million extravaganza, Thoroughbred racing’s World Championships, is set for this Friday, November 5, and Saturday, November 6 at the historic racetrack. Among the entries are seven Woodbine-based runners, plus several horses with […]
Racing fans can catch all of the Breeders’ Cup TV coverage on TSN and TSN2, plus HPItv, this coming Friday and Saturday, November 5 and 6 when the world’s best Thoroughbreds converge on Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky. The Breeders’ Cup World Championships, Thoroughbred racing*s year-end Championships, offers 14 championship races for purses worth $26 […]
“Everything is possible with a soft, balanced seat.” Dr. Gerd Heuschmann, head veterinarian of the German National Riding School, reiterated this mantra many times during the annual “Balance in Motion” Equine Symposium held at the University of Guelph Kemptville Campus on October 22-24, 2010. This symposium was hosted by the students in the first year […]
A determined effort from favoured Fantasia, 7-5 on the board, landed the daughter of Sadler?s Wells in the winner’s circle in the $101,200 River Memories, on Saturday at Woodbine. Fantasia, a bay four-year-old owned by Augustin Stable, rallied from last in the eight-horse field after opening quarters of :25.76 and :50.45, to prevail by a […]
Grand Style, a dark bay daughter of Giant’s Causeway, took Saturday’s $250,000 Princess Elizabeth Stakes. Ridden by Eurico Rosa da Silva, Grand Style, who was supplemented into the Princess Elizabeth, watched from mid-pack as Isabella Bay, who came into the 1 1/16 mile fresh off her first win, took the 10-horse field through opening splits […]
Zenyatta, the Thoroughbred racing superstar, will be featured on CBS’s “60 Minutes” news program on Sunday, October 31. The show will feature taped footage of Zenyatta’s workouts with exercise rider Steve Willard and jockey Mike Smith in preparation for the Breeders’ Cup, which will take place at Churchill Downs in Louisville, KY, on November 5 […]
A trio of two-year-old fillies, Wyomia, Delightful Mary and New Normal, head a list of 10 runners with Canadian connections pre-entered to the 27th Breeders’ Cup World Thoroughbred Championships, set for Churchill Downs, in Louisville, Kentucky on Friday, November 5, and Saturday, November 6. Dan Vella trainee Wyomia and Delightful Mary, conditioned by Woodbine’s leading […]
Rahy’s Attorney, the 2008 Woodbine Mile champion, defended his Bunty Lawless Stakes crown in style, taking Saturday’s $125,000 added-money feature for the third time. The Ontario-bred, who is trained by Ian Black and was ridden by Slade Callaghan, entered the Ontario-sired event off a second-place finish to recent Grade 3 Knickerbocker winner Violon Sacre, in […]
Woodbine Entertainment Group has been crowned an environmental champion, receiving the prestigious 2010 Ontario Waste Minimization Platinum Award by the Recycling Council of Ontario in partnership with the Ministry of the Environment at a Gala Celebration held last night at the Atlantis Pavilion at Ontario Place. This award recognizes leadership, innovation and excellence in waste […]
