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 […]
Horse Racing News
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 […]
Rexdale, ON – The CTHS (Ontario Division) honoured the Ontario-bred champions of 2007 at their Annual Awards dinner held on June 13th at Glencairn Golf Club, in Milton, Ontario. The event recognized partners Mike Carroll and John C. Harvey, Jr. as Breeder of the Year and the late Tammy Samuel-Balaz as this year’s recipient of […]
Toronto, ON – Jockey Jack Lauzon, one of the most respected riders to ever compete in Canadian racing circles, was today named the 2008 recipient of the Avelino Gomez Memorial Award. Born December 5, 1961 in Welland, Ontario, Lauzon embarked on his riding career in 1981, before hanging up his tack in 2007 to take on […]
Montreal, QC – Canada’s most modern animal teaching hospital and university research centre, the cornerstone of the Université de Montréal’s Faculty of Veterinary Medicine campus, will be inaugurated in St-Hyacinthe following some $70 million in upgrades and renovations. University leaders, dignitaries, provincial and federal government representatives will be on-site to celebrate the University Veterinary Hospital […]
Winnipeg – MB – Unfortunately live racing has been cancelled for Saturday, May 10, 2008 due to a lack of entries. Although the horse population is up around 800 horses, the poor weather leading up to the 50th anniversary season and harsh training conditions are being sighted as the major contributing factor to the lack […]
Toronto, ON – The ORC’s industry-funded Equine Medication Control and Drug Task Force, made up of ORC investigators and seconded members of the OPP Illegal Gambling Unit, has succeeded in taking a supplier of drugs to the horse racing industry out of business. The Peel Regional Police Service also participated in this initiative to target […]
Toronto, ON – A total of 22 nominees have been put forward by the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame’s Thoroughbred and Standardbred Nominating Committees including six thoroughbred horses, four standardbreds and twelve people. Smart Strike, who set a single-season world record for earnings by his progeny in 2007, heads a list of three thoroughbred […]
Louisville, Ky. – Will diamonds be forever? The world will find out when Canadian diamond magnate Charles Fipke, the most prominent Canadian involved in the 134th running of the Kentucky Derby, sends out Tale of Ekati to compete in the 1 1/4-mile race this Saturday at Churchill Downs. The post-position ceremony for the famed race […]
Rexdale, ON – The Canadian Thoroughbred Horse Society (Ontario) is pleased to announce that the CTHS Annual Awards Dinner, honouring the Ontario-Bred champions of 2007, will take place on Friday, June 13th at the Glencairn Golf Club in Milton, Ontario. The event will honour partners Mike Carroll and John C Harvey, Jr. as Breeder of […]
