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, […]
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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 […]
Toronto, – Overcoming a terrible start, Deputiformer, ridden patiently by red-hot Jono Jones, surged to the front in the closing yards to defeat favoured Cryptonite Kid in the $253,200 Cup and Saucer Stakes October 14th at Woodbine. At the finish of one of the classic stakes for Canadian-foaled two-year-olds, over one and one-sixteenth miles on […]
Vancouver, B.C. – As farewells go, Monashee did it up right. With jockey Dave Wilson enjoying the trip – again – the 5-year-old gray mare won her 11th consecutive stakes race to capture the $125,000 Ballerina Breeders’ Cup before a throng of appreciative fans at Hastings Racecourse on October 13th. “I just had to sit […]
The last remaining horse slaughter plant in the country was effectively shut down September 21 when a three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit ruled an Illinois law banning horse slaughter for human consumption is constitutional. The ruling comes four months after Gov. Rod Blagojevich signed the law, overwhelmingly passed […]
VisionTV is getting on its high horse Oct. 1st, launching a week of programming that celebrates the noble equine spirit. In addition to the previously announced Canadian premiere of the BBC drama series Rough Diamond and a broadcast of the feature films The Black Stallion and The Black Stallion Returns (see below), the network has […]
Toronto, Ontario – Favoured Shakespeare, ridden by Garrett Gomez, saved all the drama for the final sixteenth of a mile, as he powered his way along the rail to win the Grade 1, $1 million Woodbine Mile on Sunday. When the curtain came down at the finish of the turf classic, Shakespeare, trained by Kiaran […]
Rexdale, ON – September 9, 2007 – The 2007 Canadian-Bred Yearling Sale concluded its two-day session with the Preferred Session selling a total of 151 yearlings for $1,247,000, up 2.6% from last year’s total of 138 sold for $1,215,800. As well, the number of yearlings not sold declined significantly with a 48.6% decrease, from 72 […]
Rexdale, ON – September 5, 2007 – Brilliant sunshine and a bustling crowd set the tone for the Selected Session of the 2007 Canadian-Bred Yearling Sale held at the Woodbine Sales Pavilion in Toronto. A total of 159 yearlings were sold for a total of $6,374,000, at an average of $40,088 and a median of […]
MILTON, August 20 – It is with great sadness that Sam-Son Farm announces the death of Canadian and U.S. champion and Hall of Fame member, Dance Smartly. Dance Smartly was euthanized on the weekend after suffering an irreparable injury in her paddock, related to an arthritic stifle. Dance Smartly was not in foal and her […]
Rexdale, ON – With the end of summer approaching, preparations for the 2007 Canadian-Bred Yearling Sale are well underway. Taking place at the Sales Pavilion at Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto, Ontario, the sale’s Selected session will be held on September 4th at 3 p.m. while the Preferred session will be on September 8th at 4:30 […]
