Equine Infectious Anemia (EIA) is a persistent and incurable viral disease of equines (i.e. horses, donkeys, mules, zebras) which has nearly worldwide distribution. There is no available vaccine or treatment for EIA. It is a World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) listed disease and has been on Canada’s list of reportable animal diseases since 1971. Subsequent to the […]

We were all grateful for a Thanksgiving Day as gorgeous as the one we were gifted with. It was a beautiful day at one of the world’s most spectacularly set racetracks, that being Historic Old Hastings Racecourse, aka, the Track of the Water and Mountains. There was a free Thanksgiving Lunch in the backstretch kitchen […]

Dragon’s Cry took charge entering the far turn and never looked back while giving jockey Sheena Ryan her first stakes win in Monday’s $125,000 Bull Page Stakes. The six furlong Bull Page attracted a field of five Ontario-sired 2-year-olds and Waubaushene, breaking from the outside, showed briefly in front before Dragon’s Cry moved up to […]

Live Oak Plantation’s Golden Hawk remained undefeated in two starts and completed a sweep of the weekend 2-year-old stakes for the Mark Casse stable with a handy score in Sunday’s Grade 3 Grey Stakes. Breaking from post 4 in the compact field of five, Golden Hawk was away alertly but was pressed by Han Sense […]

Horses based in England, France and Germany are making their way to Woodbine for the $1-million Pattison Canadian International, but the aptly-named World Approval will have a much shorter journey to Canada from his Saratoga home in upstate New York. Conditioned by Woodbine’s leading trainer Mark Casse, World Approval is one of five Grade/Group 1 […]

Woodbine Entertainment Group (WEG) announced that a mandatory payout for the Thoroughbred Jackpot Hi-5 is slated for Sunday, October 16, Pattison Canadian International day. The final opportunity to wager on the Jackpot Hi-5 before the mandatory payout date will be Sunday, October 9. The carryover will continue to build through that date, provided there is […]

Students interested in pursuing equine studies now have an Associate Diploma in Equine Care and Management to consider at the University of Guelph..

Cindervella, under leading rider Eurico Rosa da Silva, was full of run late as she swept by her rivals in the last jumps to break her maiden in style in the $125,000 South Ocean Stakes, Saturday at Woodbine. Trained by Mike DePaulo for owners Frank Annecchini and Rocco D’Alimonte, Cindervella came into the 1 1/16-mile […]

Exercise rider makes big fashion statement.

A few years after putting her own training stable on hold, Rachel Halden won the Breeders’ Stakes with Garland Williamson’s 26-1 longshot Camp Creek.