Magic Broomstick flew home late, under jockey Emma-Jayne Wilson, to take Saturday’s Grade 3, $153,400 Bessarabian Stakes, at Woodbine. The dark bay daughter of More Than Ready, trained by Malcolm Pierce for owner Sam-Son Farms, made the final start of her career a memorable one, completing her 2012 campaign with a third stakes score in […]
Audre Cappuccitti, one of Woodbine’s most popular and successful trainers, who had been around horses her entire life, has passed away. Cappuccitti, who won 537 career races, including 35 stakes scores, celebrated a Sovereign Award in 2011 when Essence Hit Man was named Canada’s champion male sprinter. She had horses with Vito Armata and Glen […]
Luis Contreras picked up his fifth win on the card, piloting Blue Heart to a narrow score in Saturday’s $150,000 Jammed Lovely Stakes, at Woodbine. Contreras won with five of his eight mounts on the afternoon, having his pictured snapped with Inclusa (Race 1), Run in Aruba (Race 3), Consolidator Joe (Race 4) and Mount […]
Nipissing, an impressive two-year-old daughter of the recently deceased Niigon, kept her perfect record intact with a smart stalking trip to take Sunday’s $125,000 South Ocean Stakes. The Chiefswood Stable homebred, trained by Rachel Halden and ridden by Steve Bahen, settled in third-position in the 1 1/16-mile ‘Poly’ stake before swooping to the lead en […]
When the ambulance doors shut and Sheena Ryan heard the siren blare, it was the first time the aspiring jockey had ever thought to herself, ‘Am I really cut out to do this?’ She never believed anything could derail her long-held dream of becoming a jockey. But when the horse she was on flipped and […]
James Street, under a patient and confident ride from decorated Canadian champion jockey Patrick Husbands, arrived in the nick of time to defeat Patrioticandproud in Saturday’s Grade 2, $150,000 Autumn Stakes, at Woodbine. The Eugene Melnyk homebred, trained by Josie Carroll, found running room with a sixteenth of a mile to run to take the […]
Up With the Birds rallied from the back of the pack to take Saturday’s $250,000 Coronation Futurity at Woodbine. The Sam-Son Farms homebred, trained by Malcolm Pierce and ridden by Eurico Rosa da Silva, was steered with great confidence from sixth, and last, position, prevailing under a hand ride in the 1 1/8-mile event. Bookies […]
Leinan sat off the swift early pace of favoured Mechaya, before launching a smart rally to take Sunday’s $155,500 Glorious Song Stakes, at Woodbine. Leinan, trained by Josie Carroll and ridden by Luis Contreras, relaxed in the early running as Mechaya opened up a six-length lead down the backstretch. Following splits of :22.12 and :45 […]
Atlantic Hurricane, a chestnut daughter of Halo’s Image, took her second consecutive Ontario Fashion Stakes crown, nosing out a gutsy Youcan’tcatchme in Sunday’s Grade 3, $155,500 feature at Woodbine. The five-year-old mare, under Luis Contreras, came into the six-furlong event off a fifth-place finish, as the favourite, in the Avowal Stakes (seven furlongs on the […]
He’s Had Enough, second in the Juvenile, and Delegation, third in the Dirt Mile, led the way for Canadian-connected horses at the Breeders’ Cup, on Saturday, at Santa Anita. He’s Had Enough, owned by J. Paul Reddam of Windsor, Ontario, endured a difficult trip in the Grade 1, $2-million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile, but was courageous […]
