Toronto, ON – The ultra-consistent Careless Jewel, Canada’s 2008 Horse of the Year Fatal Bullet, recent stakes winner Biofuel and emerging star Bridgetown head a list of 10 runners with Canadian connections that have been pre-entered to the 26th Breeders’ Cup World Thoroughbred Championships, set for Santa Anita Park, in Arcadia, California on Friday, November 6, and […]
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The newly elected Board of Directors of the HBPA of Ontario is pleased to announce election of the new executive. President, Mrs. Sue Leslie Vice President – Owners, Mr. Bill Diamant Vice President – Trainers, Mr. Nick Gonzalez Secretary/Treasurer, Mr. Danny Vella “I am honoured to be re-elected as President by my colleagues. We will do our best to […]
Toronto, ON – Juddmonte Farms’ homebred Champs Elysees charged down the middle of the E.P. Taylor Turf Course stretch to nail Jukebox Jury near the wire and win a thrilling renewal of the Grade 1, $2 million Pattison Canadian International, Saturday at Woodbine. With jockey Garrett Gomez riding furiously on the six-year-old son of Danehill-Hasili, Champs Elysees, […]
Toronto, On – The richest day of the year in Canadian thoroughbred racing unfolds Saturday at Woodbine, when three Breeders’ Cup ‘Win and You’re In’ turf stakes races will be contested. The marquee event is the $2 million Pattison Canadian International, at one and one-half miles on the E.P. Taylor Turf Course. A field of eight will […]
The Ontario Racing Commission (ORC) announced that the grace period on the safety vest requirement has been extended to November 15, 2009. At that time, and for a period of 15 days, Judges will begin to issue written warnings to those who are not wearing the safety vests as required. As of December 1, 2009 […]
Toronto, ON – A select field of eight turf specialists will contest the $2 million, Grade 1 Pattison Canadian International, Saturday at Woodbine. In addition to the mile and one-half Pattison, which is Canada’s richest horse race, two other turf stakes will highlight the undercard – the $1 million E.P. Taylor, at one mile and one-quarter, […]
The Ontario Quarter Horse Racing Industry Development Program is inviting applications for two rider scholarships being offered in the first quarter of 2010. The Quarter Horse Program will provide scholarship funding for one or two riders to attend the Olds College Exercise Rider/Jockey Training Certificate Program in Alberta to be trained for the unique needs […]
The Board of the Ontario Racing Commission (ORC) has ordered a moratorium on all race date reductions. The effect of the moratorium is that racetracks will conduct no fewer race dates in 2010 than they did in 2009. Applications from racetracks for the 2010 racing season amounted to reductions of 150 days from those approved […]
Frank Stronach plans to close his Adena Springs South stallion operation near Williston, Fla., and relocate some of the stallions to either Adena Springs near Paris, Ky., or Gardiner Farms (Dr. Michael Colterjohn, president) near Caledon East, Ontario, Canada. “The decision to move the Adena South stallions to Canada and Kentucky was not an easy […]
Toronto, ON – Patrick Husbands tallied his 2,000th career win in Sunday’s 10th race at Woodbine. A six-time Sovereign Award winner and five-time leading rider at Woodbine, Husbands partnered with trainer Mark Casse, owner Eugene Melnyk and four-year-old gelding Grazettes Landing to reach the milestone. “This is a pretty nice horse,” said Husbands, who currently has […]
Starting today, Paddock Judges will be checking participants for safety vests. ORC rules require that as of October 1, 2009, anyone jogging, training or warming up a horse at a licensed racetrack is required to wear a safety vest. This requirement does not apply to shuttling a horse back and forth from the paddock to […]
Toronto, ON – Donver Stables’ Careless Jewel, a three-year-old daughter of Tapit, seeks her fifth consecutive score in Saturday’s Grade 2, $750,000 Fitz Dixon Cotillion, at Philadelphia Park. The Kentucky-bred, trained by Josie Carroll and ridden by fellow Woodbine-based Robert Landry, is the morning line 8-5 favourite in the 1 1/16-mile feature. Careless Jewel, who finished […]
The switch by Assiniboia Downs from Sunday racing to Wednesday racing has proven to be an unqualified success. The track showed a huge 29.2 per race increase in handle despite five fewer race days. The 63-day meet ended Sunday. The mutuel handle increased $2 million. This year’s handle was $8.8 million compared to last year’s $6.8 […]
Toronto, ON – Beginning Wednesday, September 23, Woodbine Entertainment Group will be offering its Pick 6 wager during every Thoroughbred racing card. The Pick 6, which asks fans to pick the winners of six consecutive races, had been offered only during Sunday programs. The bet, offered on the final six races of the card, is a […]
Rexdale, ON – Juddmonte Farms’ homebred five-year-old mare Ventura became the first female to win the Grade 1, $1 million Woodbine Mile in its 13 editions, rallying from ninth at the head of the lane to outbattle Ferneley in the final sixteenth of a mile, Sunday at Woodbine. At the finish of the turf classic, Ventura […]
