From romance novels to racehorses, Dick Bonnycastle was successful and just last year, a horse he bred produced a Kentucky Derby winner.
Horse Racing News
The return of the Canadian International (G1) and the upgrade of the listed Belle Mahone Stakes to Grade 3 among changes.
Expensive Tapit colt continues his development and earns 50 points for the Kentucky Derby while Mission of Joy wins big.
The Barbados-born rider has a 24% win rate in his career and over 1,500 winners in western Canada where he has dominated.
Tampa Bay Downs' biggest day of racing has a ton of stakes action with the Tampa Bay Derby headlining the March 11 card.
A "Vegas style" casino, hotel and entertainment theatre are nearing completion on the Woodbine racetrack property.
Ellen Chaloner was saddling winners in the 1890s, over half a century before women officially won the right to train at the UK track.
In recognition of Canada's great Sovereign Award-winning sprinter, the renamed $100,000 race will be run on Sunday, June 4 at Woodbine.
The 164th King's Plate will be run on August 20th and the iconic Grade 1 Canadian International returns, shortened to 10 furlongs.
Canadian horsepeople look forward to spring as the backstretches open; Moon Landing moves to the top of the charts for the King's Plate.
The biggest race in the Caribbean returned for the first time since 2020 and featured a fascinating field of nine.
From coast to coast, 3-year-olds are showing what they have in rich races leading up to the first Saturday in May
Ontario-bred colt by Nyquist is trained by Kevin Attard and is in post 11 in a large field in the $150,000 race that offers KY Derby points.
The Caribbean classic could have a record crowd and plenty of Canadians are part of the nine-horse field racing for $200,000 (Bar).
Gulfstream Park stakes race offers 100 Kentucky Derby points and has drawn a field of nine on a stakes-laden Saturday card.
