Winners from Woodbine during the past week with notes and quotes; July is just around the corner, things are heating up!
Horse Racing News
Modern Games will face 11 rivals as he bids for a sixth Group One win in Tuesday's Queen Anne Stakes, the opening event of Royal Ascot 2023.
Trainer Amanda Cameron, Outstanding Groom at the 2018 Sovereign Awards, gets her first win as a trainer with Polly.
Ontario owner and breeder had a nice homebred winner in Lady Urus last weekend and spent some of that money at Florida sale.
There are 4,800 slot machines and 145 table games in the expanded Woodbine Casino that opens next week; the hotel opens Aug. 1.
The latest installment of Canadian Thoroughbred's top King's Plate and Woodbine Oaks contenders, and there are new faces.
Two three-year-olds by young sire Counterforce were stakes winners at Hastings racecourse in Vancouver on June 10.
The $10,000 purchase is owned by the Culpepper Island syndicate which includes small-scale owners from all over the world.
The Fury win followed the powerhouse trios' scores with Our Flash Drive, Souper Hoity Toity and Ryder Ryder Ryder.
Lightly-raced ridgling Arcangelo, owned by Jon Ebbert's Blue Rose Stable, took the 155th Belmont Stakes on June 10.
Thirteen three-year-olds foaled in Canada have been entered in Sunday's Queenston Stakes at Woodbine and nine fillies go in the Fury on June 10.
Smoke from fires in Alberta, Ontario and Quebec has led to poor air quality in southern Ontario and northeastern United States.
Scratched the morning of the Kentucky Derby (G1) as the favourite, Forte is back to try the 1 1/2 mile Belmont.
Copeland takes the reins from Jim Lawson, who has been named Executive Chair of the Board of Directors and will step down as CEO this fall.
Kalik, Mission of Joy and Simcoe have had big wins recently to move up the contender's lists for the big races for Canadian-breds.
