Ajax Downs – Toronto, ON – A celebration will take place on Sunday, September 21st at Ajax Downs to mark the end of an era and celebrate a bright new future for Quarter Horse racing in Ontario. Ajax Downs, Canada’s only dedicated Quarter Horse racetrack, runs its final card of the season this Sunday on […]
Horse Racing News
The 50th season of live racing at Assiniboia Downs comes to a dramatic close Sunday with a lucky fan being awarded $50,000 and the oldest jockey in North America winning his third consecutive riding title. The final weekend of live racing also features some of the biggest stakes races since Derby Day. The $75,000 Matron […]
Toronto, ON – Ontario-bred Rahy’s Attorney, ridden by Slade Callaghan, scored a shocking upset in the Grade 1, $1 million Woodbine Mile on September 7th at Woodbine. Rahy’s Attorney is a son of Crown Attorney, who finished third in the inaugural Woodbine Mile back in 1997. Trained by Ian Black, Rahy’s Attorney, unbeaten in three […]
Toronto, ON – IEAH Stables and Partners’ Kip Deville, the top-ranked turf miler in North America, is the 6-5 morning line favourite and will break from post four in a field of eight for Sunday’s Grade 1, $1 million Woodbine Mile. The 12th edition of one of the premier grass races in North America will be […]
Toronto, ON – There’s a million reasons to pay attention to the Breeders’ Cup Challenge Series races at Woodbine over the next several weeks. A free-to-enter, lottery-style contest called the Woodbine $1,000,000 Megapick asks fans to choose the exact order of finish for the entire field from three of Woodbine’s six Breeders’ Cup Challenge Series races, […]
Rexdale, ON – LongRun Thoroughbred Retirement Society is very pleased to announce that it has entered into what is hoped to be the first of many partnerships with a First Nation. Members of Saugeen First Nation have adopted two thoroughbreds, Refuse to Bend and Explosive Lad, and moved them to Ron and Janet Root’s Creek Side Farm […]
Rexdale, ON – The countdown is on for the 2008 Canadian-Bred Yearling Sale, taking place at the Woodbine Racetrack Sales Pavilion in Toronto, with the Selected Session set for Tuesday, September 2nd and the Preferred Session on September 6th. Long regarded as Canada’s premier Thoroughbred yearling sale, an exceptional lineup of over 470 yearlings has […]
Toronto, ON – Multiple Sovereign Award-winning jockey Todd Kabel has decided to sit out the rest of the 2008 racing season due to weight issues. Kabel, who has six Top Rider Sovereigns and one Top Apprentice honour, rode in 53 races this year, winning four and posting 15 top-three finishes. “He’s hung it up for […]
In response to calls from the horse racing community, an industry initiative to explore the use of the whip in Ontario horse racing was announced today by John Blakney, Executive Director of the Ontario Racing Commission (ORC). Representatives of the industry will be brought together to a special working session in early September to assess […]
For the first time in Assiniboia Downs’ 50-year history, fans will be given the opportunity to invade the highly restricted racetrack after the races Sunday, Aug. 3. The public will be able to walk, jump, hop and run on the surface and just get the feel of a place that has generated countless thrills […]
Toronto, ON – The excellent, well-researched analysis of Thoroughbred and Standardbred racing offered on TV by Woodbine Entertainment Group’s stable of on-air talent is being extended to the company’s website at www.woodbineentertainment.com/woodbinecolumn. Eight of Woodbine’s on-air commentators, four Standardbred, four Thoroughbred, will write weekly columns and give opinions about local racing and anything else that […]
Jennifer Morrison – Special to the Star – For more than half a century, Windfields Farm has been the birthplace of dozens of champion racehorses. E.P. Taylor’s hallowed paddocks in Oshawa were the early stomping ground for the great Northern Dancer, one of the most influential stallions in thoroughbred history, Nijinsky II, The Minstrel and […]
Toronto, ON – Charles Fipke’s homebred Not Bourbon, trained by Hall of Famer Roger Attfield, gamely held off a determined bid from Ginger Brew to capture the 149th running of the Queen’s Plate, Canada’s most famous horse race, Sunday at Woodbine. At the wire of the mile and one-quarter classic for Canadian foaled three-year-olds over the […]
D. FLUTIE wins the Queen’s Plate: a) It would be the third Plate win for owner-breeder Gus Schickedanz, trainer Mike Keogh and jockey Emile Ramsammy. Schickedanz and Keogh teamed to win the 1999 Plate with Woodcarver and the 2003 edition with eventual Triple Crown champion Wando. Ramsammy won the 1996 Plate aboard Victor Cooley and […]
Toronto, ON – Charles Fipke’s Not Bourbon, winner of the Plate Trial Stakes on June 1, has been installed as the 3-1 morning line choice in a large 15 horse field of Canadian-bred three-year-olds for Sunday’s historic Queen’s Plate at Woodbine. The 149th edition of the Plate, the oldest continuously run stakes race in North […]
