The year-end drama had played out well before Sunday’s huge 13-race season-ending card at Woodbine, but many of the magical moments of the meet were no less historic. Mark Casse set records in both major training categories. It was a fifth straight training title and sixth overall for Casse, who won 119 races, shattering the […]
Jockey Luis Contreras, who recently became just the second rider in the history of Woodbine to win 200 races in one meet, recorded another impressive feat, most purse earnings in a Woodbine season, a mark he set on Thursday afternoon. Contreras, who won the 2011 Woodbine Oaks and Queen’s Plate with Inglorious, as well as […]
Eagle Poise, a five-year-old son of Empire Maker, who finished second in the 2009 edition of the $150,000 Grade 3 Valedictory Stakes, looks to go one better in the marathon feature on Sunday, closing day of the 2011 Woodbine thoroughbred meet. Owned by Riverdee Stable and trained by Graham Motion, Eagle Poise won the 1 […]
The 2011 Woodbine thoroughbred racing season will take its spot in the history books after Sunday’s 13-race card, which was drawn Thursday. The 165th and final day of the eight-month meet, which has a first-race post time of 1:00 p.m., will feature a season-high 155 horses, including eight also-eligible runners. For the serious horseplayers, both […]
Jockey Luis Contreras, currently leading the Woodbine standings, won his 200th and 201st races of the campaign, guiding Frank Di Giulio’s undefeated three-year-old filly Anywhere to victory in Friday afternoon’s seventh race and Mr. Monty to a triumph in the eighth. Contreras, who won the 2011 Woodbine Oaks and Queen’s Plate with Inglorious, as well […]
Jenna’s Wabbit, a two-year-old son of Old Forester-In The Buff, will try for his third-consecutive added-money score in Saturday’s $125,000 Kingarvie Stakes, at Woodbine. In fact, but for a neck loss in the Clarendon Stakes on July 3, the wascally ‘Wabbit’ would be working on a five-race win streak. Still, Jenna’s Wabbit has been a […]
Court Vision, the 2010 Grade 1 Woodbine Mile and 2011 Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Mile champion, who will stand at Michael Byrne’s Park Stud in Ontario in 2012, will be paraded in the Woodbine walking ring on Saturday, at noon, as part of a retirement ceremony for the future stallion. Not only will the event […]
Coming off of the success of last year’s awards ceremony, The Jockey Club of Canada is excited to announce that the 37th Annual Sovereign Awards Ceremony will once again kick off the new racing year in April, 2012 at Woodbine Racetrack. Honouring the Canadian Champions of 2011, the 37th Sovereign Awards Ceremony will be held […]
Grade 1-winning millionaire Gayego will enter stud in 2012 at the Hunderup family’s Norse Ridge Farm near King City, Ontario. Gayego comes to Canada through an arrangement brokered by Bernard McCormack’s Cara Bloodstock and will stand for an introductory fee of $6,500 Canadian funds, payable when the foal stands and nurses. A multiple graded stakes […]
Norseman Racing Stables’ Maritimer blew past his rivals in early stretch to take Sunday’s $250,800 Coronation Futurity at Woodbine. The Sid Attard trainee rallied from mid-pack after opening splits of :24.38 and :49.25 in the 108th edition of the race to prevail by 2 ¼ lengths over Menlo Castle. Hampstead Heath was third. The son […]
Charles Fipke’s homebred champion Perfect Soul (IRE), sire of 2011 Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf winner Perfect Shirl, will stand the 2012 breeding season at the Hunderup family’s Norse Ridge Farm near King City, Ontario. Richard Hogan of RGH Bloodstock advises that Perfect Soul (IRE)’s 2012 breeding fee is $7,500 Canadian funds, payable when […]
Opening weekend’s two defending Champions returned to the winner’s circle tonight at the Royal Horse Show, taking the Good Crop Services Indoor Eventing and the Canadian Show Jumping Championships presented by Greenhawk titles in front of an electric, near-capacity crowd at the Ricoh Coliseum. Waylon Roberts of Port Perry, Ontario, took the Good Crop […]
Charles Fipke’s homebred Perfect Shirl, trained by Roger Attfield, surged to the lead in deep stretch to win the $2-million Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf at Churchill Downs. Perfect Shirl, who was a finalist for a Sovereign Award as Turf Female in 2010, had yet to win this year in six starts while racing […]
Woodbine-based Perfect Shirl stormed down the stretch to take the Filly & Mare Turf event at the Breeders’ Cup World Thoroughbred Championships at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky. It is an excellent topper for the Hall of Fame career of Woodbine icon, trainer Roger Attfield, who saddled the horse for owner-breeder Charles Fipke of Kelowna, […]
The National Farm Animal Care Council (NFACC) is conducting a second survey to gain further stakeholder input as it revises Canada’s official Equine Code of Practice which serves as our national understanding of equine care requirements and recommended best practices. NFACC is overseeing a multi-year project to renew the Codes of Practice for several farm […]
