The last three days of live racing at Assiniboia Downs for 2010 are filled with suspense as the Downs could become the first race track ever to have two female jockeys finish one-two in the standings. In fact, the Downs has never in its 52 years had a woman finish first in the standings. With […]
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Court Vision, ridden by Robby Albarado, mowed down The Usual Q.T. inside the sixteenth pole to win Sunday’s Grade 1, $1 million Woodbine Mile by one and one-quarter lengths. In a frenetic charge to the wire over a firm E.P. Taylor Turf Course, Court Vision, a Kentucky-bred five-year-old son of Gulch, was steered outside of […]
Multiple Grade 1 winners The Usual Q.T. and Court Vision headline a highly-competitive field of 13 for Sunday’s $1 million Woodbine Mile. The 14th edition of one of the premier grass races in North America will be televised live across Canada on The Score, in a special two-hour presentation from 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm […]
Charlie Barley, Canada’s champion turf horse of 1989 and multiple stakes winner, died the morning of Thursday, September 9th, he was 24 years-old. A bay son of Affirmed, Charlie Barley, who won 10 races and recorded 20 top-three finishes from 24 career starts, passed away at thoroughbred trainer-owner Gail Woods’ farm in Ontario. “He died of […]
It was all business, as 166 horses sold for over $1.2 million in the Open Session of the Canadian-Bred Yearling Sale held on September 11th at the Woodbine Sales Pavilion, Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto. Topping the Sale was a Whiskey Wisdom colt out of the Tale of the Cat mare Matching Sox, which sold for […]
Dancing Raven, owned by Windhaven, notched her first added-money win in Saturday’s $126,200 La Prevoyante Stakes, an Ontario Sires event for three-year-old fillies, at Woodbine. With Chantal Sutherland at the controls, Dancing Raven, who was third in the Passing Mood Stakes on July 21 and second in the Eternal Search Stakes on August 21, both […]
Bear’s Future made his second strong impression in as many starts, taking Sunday’s $153,300 Swynford Stakes at Woodbine. For the Bear Stable charge, the seven-furlong event was his first career stakes score in just his second career start. Winning jockey Gerry Olguin settled the gray son of Rockport Harbor in third, just off the early […]
A Stormy Atlantic filly who sold for $130,000 topped the Selected Session of the Canadian-Bred Yearling Sale on Tuesday, September 7th held at the Woodbine Sales Pavilion in Toronto. By day’s end, 128 horses sold for $3,686,700, for an average price of $28,802. The sleek, dark bay filly, who was purchased by Anthony Goswell, Agent […]
Monday’s Yearling Sales Stakes program at Woodbine will go into the Woodbine record books as a memorable day for the underdog. Through six races, not one favorite prevailed and the average mutual payout was $20.80. The early Pick4, composed of all stakes, rewarded four clever 20-cent ticketholders with payouts of over $14,000. Trainer names normally […]
Florida-bred Hooh Why held off a late charge from Indian Apple Is to capture Saturday’s Grade 3, $161,500 Seaway Stakes at Woodbine. For the four-year-old daughter of Cloud Hopping, the seven-furlong event was her first added-money score since the La Lorgnette Stakes, at Woodbine last May. Jockey Emile Ramsammy, who also guided her in the […]
Jim Lawson, Chief Steward of The Jockey Club of Canada, is pleased to announce that Stacie Roberts has been named its new Executive Director effective September 7, 2010. The former publisher of The Game Thoroughbred Newspaper, Stacie Roberts has been involved in the thoroughbred industry in Ontario with her family for more than 25 years. […]
Toronto resident Michael Cavalaris captured the $19,575 first prize in the 2010 Woodbine Thoroughbred Handicapping Challenge, held at Woodbine Saturday through Sunday. “It feels fabulous,” said Cavalaris. “You sort of dream about this kind of thing happening to you, but you never believe it’s ever going to happen. It’s a wonderful feeling to win. I’ve […]
In a thrilling three-horse battle, Jim Dandy Stable’s Smokey Fire, with Jono Jones aboard, caught front-runners Jungle Wave and Fatal Bullet on the wire to win the featured $224,800 Grade 2, Play The King Stakes, Sunday at Woodbine. The turf, seven furlong Play The King attracted an extremely well-matched group of seven older horses, including […]
Eugene Melnyk’s homebred Barracks Road, confidently handled by jockey Corey Fraser, made every pole a winning one while taking the featured $193,900 Ontario Colleen Stakes Saturday at Woodbine. The one-mile grass event for three-year-old fillies drew a field of 11, including two trained by Mark Casse, the aforementioned Barracks Road, at 9-1 and her more […]
The University of Guelph has received $2 million from the E.P. Taylor Equine Research Fund to support clinical research in the health and performance of racehorses. The announcement was made during the second annual Equi-Challenge, which brings together some of Canada’s most notable equestrians. “This generous gift is an investment in the future of the […]
