Toronto, ON – The Sovereign Awards were announced Friday night at the Westin Harbour Castle. OUTSTANDING JOCKEY – Patrick Husbands Canadian victories: 149 Canadian stakes: 21 Graded Canadian stakes wins: 4 – Patrick Husbands won races in bunches in 2007, leading all Canadian riders in total wins (149), total stakes (21) and total purse earnings […]
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Toronto – Woodbine Entertainment Group today announced that total handle on Woodbine’s 2007 live Thoroughbred meet, which concluded December 9, increased 2.87 per cent over last year. The “all-sources” total of $343,059,524 was wagered during the 169-day meet, which began March 31, compared to the $333,489,560 recorded in 2006. Average field size at Woodbine was […]
Toronto, ON – They didn’t combine for any wins at Woodbine on the final card of the season, but it was clear Patrick Husbands and Mark Casse were the jockey and trainer stories of the 169-day Woodbine Thoroughbred meet, which came to a close on Sunday. The duo connected for a staggering 76 wins this […]
Toronto, ON – The Jockey Club of Canada is pleased to announce the finalists for the 2007 Sovereign Awards. Winners will be announced at the 33rd Annual Sovereign Awards ceremonies at the Westin Harbour Castle in Toronto on Friday, December 14. The Jockey Club of Canada was founded in 1973 by E.P. Taylor to serve […]
TORONTO – A prohibitive favorite to collect his second consecutive Sovereign Award as Canada’s Outstanding Trainer later this month, Mark Casse has a longshot chance to tie the record for most wins (by a conditioner) during a Woodbine season. The Indianapolis native has scored on 83 occasions at the Toronto oval. The record is 89, […]
Rexdale, ON – The 2007 CTHS Winter Mixed Sale concluded Saturday night resulting in 115 head selling for a gross total of $568,300, down slightly (4.1%) from the 125 that sold for $592,300 in 2006, with gross totals for weanlings, yearlings, and horses of racing age showing increases across the board. “While severe weather warnings […]
Rexdale, ON –Several sires with Ontario connections have recently found themselves at the top of the North American Earnings List, according to The Blood-Horse sire list compiled through equineline.com this past week. Smart Strike, bred in Ontario by Sam-Son Farm, leads the pack with over $13,777,385 in progeny race earnings incurred in 2007. A son […]
Toronto, ON – Champion mare Financingavailable has been retired to the breeding shed. The 16-time winner, who has been a fan favorite at Woodbine for a couple of years, was being pointed to the Bessarabian Stakes, November 25, until an ultrasound revealed a small ligament tear, said trainer Lorne Richards, in a telephone interview Thursday […]
Baazy Boy, a Thoroughbred gelding that calls Australian home, hosts his own blog and attracted plenty of attention via his website www.bazzyboy.net in the highly regarded 2007 Weblog Awards. The Weblog Awards are the world’s largest blog competition, with over 525,000 votes cast for the finalists in the 2006 edition. This year there were over […]
The first jewel in Canada’s Triple Crown returns to CBC for the first time since 1998. CBC Sports today announced a four-year broadcast agreement with Woodbine Entertainment Group for the rights to the legendary Queen’s Plate – the oldest continuously run horse race in North America. Beginning in June 2008, and continuing through to 2011, […]
The generosity of western Canadian horse owners has helped the Western College of Veterinary Medicine raise an additional $200,000 for equine health research during the first year of a unique matching gift incentive program. Half of the funding — $100,000 — came from more than 100 individuals, organizations and companies whose contributions “triggered†a successful […]
Over 172 horses have been catalogued for the CTHS Winter Mixed Sale, which takes place on Saturday, December 1st at 3:30 p.m. at the Sales Pavilion, Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto. This year’s catalogue includes 92 broodmares, 26 yearlings, 45 weanlings, and nine horses of racing age, and are represented by sires such as Ascot Knight, […]
Woodbine Entertainment Group has begun to provide racing fans detailed maintenance information of Woodbine’s Polytrack on its website at www.woodbineentertainment.com/thoroughbred/Track-Conditions.asp. Woodbine’s Director of Thoroughbred Racing Surfaces, Irwin Driedger, will log his intended maintenance of the Polytrack each morning for website visitors. “We understand that racing fans want to know how the Polytrack is prepared every […]
Toronto, ON – S J Stables’ homebred Cloudy’s Knight showed what a game, gutsy competitor he is by winning the $2 million Pattison Canadian International, Canada richest horse race, Sunday at Woodbine. Ridden brilliantly by Ramsey Zimmerman, Cloudy’s Knight, sent postward an 18-1 outsider, took over around the eighth-pole from Sunriver, opened a length on […]
Vancouver, B.C. – Sir Gallovic played the role of giant killer with a dramatic at-the-wire victory over True Metropolitan in the $100,000 BC Premiers at Hastings Racecourse Sunday afternoon. Winning by a neck, Sir Gallovic took advantage of a 13-pound weight difference and timed his move perfectly under jockey Mario Gutierrez in a winning time […]
