The $150,000 Victoria Park Stakes for three-year-olds Sunday at Woodbine was to be a battle amongst highly-regarded imports Twinspired, Newsdad and Burj Alzain. Instead, the mile and one-eighth feature turned into a rousing stretch battle between two locals who fought the length of the stretch before Moonshine Mullin prevailed by a nose over Alpha Bettor. […]
Woodbine Entertainment Group (WEG) is pleased to announce a five year extension to their contract with Teletheatre BC (TBC), Flamboro Downs and Georgian Downs for HorsePlayer Interactive (HPI), Canada’s online account wagering services for horse racing. The new deal offers customers in these markets the expanded opportunity to watch and wager on more tracks than […]
It was a night filled with fun, friendship and celebration as the CTHS honoured its 2010 Ontario-Bred champions at its 29th Annual CTHS Awards held at Copper Creek Golf Club on June 4th. The event recognized Dom Romeo’s Terra Farms Ltd. as 2010 Breeder of the Year and Macdonald Benson, noted Canadian Horse Racing Hall […]
Equine Canada’s Health and Welfare Committee is sharing the following status update on Neurotropic Equine Herpes Virus-1 (nEHV-1) received today from Alberta and Western Canada. This information comes as a result of consultations among the Chief Provincial Veterinarian for Alberta, members of the Alberta Veterinary Medical Association, faculty members, University of Calgary Veterinary Medicine, local […]
The Ontario Quarter Horse Racing Industry Development Program (QHRIDP) is pleased to announce its Skills Development Tuition Scholarship. This scholarship program provides an opportunity for subsidized skills training and upgrading to individuals enrolled in equine-related academic programs or other programs that advance and improve the horse racing industry in Ontario. Eligible to apply, are full-time […]
Charles Fipke’s lightly-raced Check Your Soul will get the acid test on Sunday at Woodbine when he goes postward as one of the choices in a field of nine Canadian-bred three-year-olds for the $150,000 Plate Trial Stakes. It’ll be his biggest challenge to date, when he’ll be facing, amongst others, Bear’s Chill, winner of the […]
Early Look at Sunday’s Woodbine Oaks (8) Horse – Owner – Trainer – Jockey Abrianna – Stronach Stables – Roger Attfield – Javier Castellano Bear It’s Time – Bear Stables Ltd. – Reade Baker Indefinite Grand Style – G. W. Humphrey Jr. – Mike Doyle – Eurico Rosa da Silva Inglorious – Donver Stable – […]
It was a winning weekend for conditioner Ian Black and Kinghaven Farms, who recorded their second added-money win in as many days, this time with Stormy Lord in Sunday’s Grade 2, $168,900 Connaught Cup. After watching Fifty Proof and jockey Justin Stein take the Grade 3 Eclipse Stakes on Saturday, Black and Kinghaven teamed with […]
Longshot Fifty Proof, confidently handled by Justin Stein, took over from odds-on Exhi around the far turn, then powered away to a half-length score over Don Cavallo in the featured $171,900, Grade 3 Eclipse Stakes, Saturday at Woodbine. The imposing five-year-old gelded son of Whiskey Wisdom shadowed the Todd Pletcher-trained, Javier Castellano-ridden Exhi throughout the […]
Sam-Son Farm has announced the passing of Wilderness Song (1988–2011), the bay mare that gave the legendary Canadian owner-breeder its’ first Grade 1 winner in the United States. Wilderness Song, a homebred daughter of Wild Again-Nalee’s Rhythm, captured the Grade 1 Spinster Stakes at Keeneland in 1991. She would carve out a magnificent career on […]
Favoured Paso Doble, ridden by Patrick Husbands, took over from pacesetter Daniel Be Good turning for home, then fended off a late challenge from Dancingall Theway by a length to win the featured $125,000 New Providence Stakes, Sunday at Woodbine. Now trained by Mark Casse for Centennial Farms, Paso Doble, a five-year-old gelded son of […]
Queen’splatekitten, trained by Todd Pletcher, made his return to Woodbine an impressive one, taking Saturday’s $171,600 Marine Stakes, and solidifying his status as a major contender for next month’s Queen’s Plate. Eurico Rosa da Silva rode the dark bay son of Kitten’s Joy, who broke his maiden with a 5 ¼-length score at the Toronto […]
Bear Stables’ filly Bear It’s Time took Holiday Monday’s $125,000 Lady Angela Stakes at Woodbine, perhaps setting her up for a date in next month’s Woodbine Oaks. Under jockey Luis Contreras, the daughter of Philanthropist sat comfortably off the early pace before blowing past the leaders en route to a 5 ¼-length score. Sinister Quill, […]
Woodbine’s own Emma-Jayne Wilson won the inaugural $30,000 Pimlico Female Jockey Challenge at Pimlico Race Course in Maryland on Friday. The challenge, in which six of the world’s top female riders competed, was part of The People’s Pink Party at Pimlico. The efforts of Pimlico and Susan G. Komen for the Cure, the world’s largest […]
Equine Canada’s Health and Welfare Committee is notifying horse owners that Neurotropic Equine Herpes Virus-1 (nEHV-1) has been reported in horses in the United States, with confirmed cases in Alberta (1) and suspected cases British Columbia (3). This is the neurological strain of Equine Herpes Virus 1 (EHV 1). Outbreaks of nEHV-1 are contagious and […]
