In a thrilling three-horse battle, Jim Dandy Stable’s Smokey Fire, with Jono Jones aboard, caught front-runners Jungle Wave and Fatal Bullet on the wire to win the featured $224,800 Grade 2, Play The King Stakes, Sunday at Woodbine. The turf, seven furlong Play The King attracted an extremely well-matched group of seven older horses, including […]
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Eugene Melnyk’s homebred Barracks Road, confidently handled by jockey Corey Fraser, made every pole a winning one while taking the featured $193,900 Ontario Colleen Stakes Saturday at Woodbine. The one-mile grass event for three-year-old fillies drew a field of 11, including two trained by Mark Casse, the aforementioned Barracks Road, at 9-1 and her more […]
The University of Guelph has received $2 million from the E.P. Taylor Equine Research Fund to support clinical research in the health and performance of racehorses. The announcement was made during the second annual Equi-Challenge, which brings together some of Canada’s most notable equestrians. “This generous gift is an investment in the future of the […]
Woodbine Entertainment Group (WEG) is pleased to announce that free live video streaming of its thoroughbred simulcast is available on the Woodbine website.
For the fifth year, the Vermont Summer Festival proudly offered $10,000 in bonus prize money to its neighbors from the north through the $10,000 Canadian Circuit Awards, presented by Ariat International, Inc. The six-week Vermont Summer Festival was held from July 7 to August 15, 2010, at the Harold Beebe Farm in East Dorset, VT. […]
Harlequin Ranches Jacally defeated Dancing Raven by a neck in a thrilling renewal of Saturday’s $125,000 Eternal Search Stakes at Woodbine. The 1 1/16-mile contest was the second time in a month that the daughter of Bold Executive prevailed by less than a length in an added-money Ontario-Sired event. On July 21, the Roger Attfield […]
Multiple stakes winner Biofuel made her return to Woodbine a winning one, taking Sunday’s $101,000 Belle Mahone Stakes courtesy of a furious stretch rally. The three-year-old bay filly, facing accomplished older runners, won the 1 1/16-mile event by a neck, besting U.S. invader Askbut I Won’ttell and Much Obliged. Biofuel, who was third in the […]
Seven-year-old Marsh Side sprinted away from his rivals through the stretch to take Sunday’s $254,900, Grade 2 Sky Classic Stakes at Woodbine. Last year’s Grade 1 Northern Dancer Stakes winner and the 2008 Pattison Canadian International champion showed his affinity for the E.P. Taylor Turf Course once again, capturing the 1 ¼-mile race by five […]
Jim and Susan Hill’s Miami Deco, at 65-1, became the longest-priced winner of the Breeders’ Stakes taking the 120th edition of the race, Sunday at Woodbine. At the finish of the mile and one-half turf contest, Miami Deco, ridden by Richard Dos Ramos and trained by Brian Lynch had scored a three-quarters of a length […]
The Ontario Quarter Horse Racing Industry Development Program (QHRIDP) is funding the production of a four-episode television pilot, The Full Quarter, to capture the imagination of a potential 3.5 million CTV viewers in the GTA and Golden Horseshoe regions of Ontario. Four episodes of The Full Quarter will air on CTV on Saturday mornings at […]
Sharp Secretary, a daughter of Cactus Ridge, won her second consecutive race and first added-money tilt, in taking Saturday’s $151,200 Duchess Stakes at Woodbine. For the bay Landsdowne Stables filly, the seven-furlong event was her fourth lifetime score from eight starts. The three-year-old stalked the early pace set by Simply Spiteful, who took the field […]
Jockey Alex Lai, Hong Kong’s leading apprentice rider in 2003-04, will make his Canadian riding debut, Sunday at Woodbine. A lifetime winner of 154 races, Lai, who began riding professionally in 2000, will ride Grey Boundary for trainer Tino Attard in Sunday’s seventh race, a 1 ¼-mile race contested on the E.P. Taylor Turf Course. […]
Over 465 yearlings are set to take centre stage in September at the CTHS Canadian-Bred Yearling Sale, a group who will no doubt add to the growing list of money-making Yearling Sales graduates. Long-regarded as the premiere source of Canadian-Breds, the Selected Session will be held on September 7th with 225 yearlings offered and the […]
Melnyk Racing Stables homebred Grazettes Landing captured Wednesday’s $126,200 Shepperton Stakes at Woodbine. The five-year-old son of Paynes Bay is trained by Mark Casse and was ridden to victory by Corey Fraser in the 6 1/2-furlong dash for Ontario-sired runners. Grazettes Landing broke well and took charge through a moderate opening quarter in :23.05. He […]
Equine Canada’s Breeds & Industry Division and Health & Welfare Committee would like to inform all stakeholders that effective immediately the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has lifted their restrictions for horses from Arizona. The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has completed their investigation of the Vesicular Stomatitis outbreak and lifted all quarantines at […]
