The Courtship of a Farm Girl

Twenty-five years ago, Ron Fawcett bought a farm to impress the woman he was dating and Tod Mountain Thoroughbreds was born near Kamloops, British Columbia.
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Caren Dominant in Princess Elizabeth

Robert Marzilli’s Caren stamped herself an early favourite for the 2016 Woodbine Oaks with an impressive gate-to-wire score in Sunday’s $250,000 Princess Elizabeth Stakes, at Woodbine. Trained by Mike DePaulo, the bay daughter of Society’s Chairman passed her first two-turn test with flying colours while winning her fifth race from six starts in the 1 […]

Investment of Love

Bob and Mark Krembil are applying successful investment strategies and patience learned from the financial world in the hopes of building Chiefswood Stables into a perennial powerhouse with the help of Hall of Fame jockey Robert Landry.
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American Pharoah Makes it a Grand Slam

Triple Crown winner, American Pharoah, added a fourth jewel to his crown when he won the $5 million Breeders’ Cup Classic and racing’s first-ever Grand Slam title, at Keenland in Kentucky, on October 31st. After claiming victory in the Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes and Belmont Stakes, the three-year-old colt, owned by Ahmed Zayat and expertly […]
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Canadian Victories at the Breeders’ Cup

Wavell Avenue, bred in Ontario by Eugene Melnyk; Woodbine’s leading trainer Mark Casse; and J. Paul Reddam’s Nyquist were among the winners in Saturday’s lucrative Breeders’ Cup card at Keeneland Racecourse, in Lexington, Kentucky. Wavell Avenue, a four-year-old daughter of Harlington out of the Silver Deputy mare Lucas Street, upset the Grade 1 $1-million Filly […]