The Canadian Thoroughbred Horse Society is proud to announce that Amanda Marsella of Pickering, Ontario, has been selected as the winner of this year’s Gillian Luxton MD Scholarship. A second year student at the Ontario Veterinary College at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Ms. Marsella has earned a $5,000 scholarship towards her Veterinary Medicine […]
Horse Racing News
William Thompson Jr.’s Ariana D upset Sunday’s $152,800 Bessarabian Stakes at Woodbine. In her first ever attempt at the Toronto oval, the 18-1 shot closed strongly on the outside to best favorite Sugar Again in the final few yards of the seven-furlong event for fillies and mares. Hooh Why, who seized command at the top […]
Well-traveled Ravalo, at 7-1, captured the Grade 3 Kennedy Road Stakes, taking Saturday’s $153,500 feature by a hard-fought head. For the Donald Barr-trained gelded son of Mutakddim, the six-furlong event was his second victory of the 2010 campaign, his first appearance at Woodbine and his first win since March 15. Ravalo broke sharply from post […]
Jerry and Ann Moss’ great champion ZENYATTA, who recently retired from racing, will be boarded at Mr. and Mrs. William S. Farish’s Lane’s End Farm near Versailles, Kentucky. She is expected to arrive in early December. ZENYATTA won 19 of 20 starts with her only loss coming in this year’s Breeders’ Cup Classic when she […]
Janice Attard’s Stunning Stag was full of run in the stretch to win his ninth career race, taking Saturday’s $171,000 Autumn Stakes at Woodbine. The Grade 2 event was the third win of the season for the six-year-old son of Running Stag, who came into the race off an impressive 1 ¼-length score in the […]
Robert Smithen’s Anne’s Beauty prevailed over a game Nina Fever to take an exciting edition of the $150,000 Glorious Song Stakes at Woodbine. Under winning rider David Clark, the bay filly closed strongly in upper stretch to draw even with the 4-5 favorite from the Wesley Ward barn, who had been softened up by a […]
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 […]
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 […]
