The 2015 live Thoroughbred racing season kicks off this weekend at Woodbine, the first two of 133 programs scheduled for the year. Saturday’s Opening Day 10-race card, highlighted by the six furlong, $125,000 Woodstock Stakes on Polytrack for three-year-olds, was drawn on Wednesday. First race post time is 1:00 p.m. Sunday’s card, to be drawn […]
The Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame is pleased to announce its 2015 inductees. A total of 10 horses and people have been elected to the Hall of Fame. Standardbred inductees include horses Artsplace, J Cs Nathalie and people H. Charles (Charlie) Armstrong, William (Bill) Gale and Harry Eisen. The Thoroughbred inductees are Mine That […]
Two new stakes races have been added to BC Cup Day on Monday, August 3 while two established BC Cup stakes are moving to a huge Friday Night Live program August 21 on the eve of the 2015 PNE Fair. Darren MacDonald, Hastings General Manager and Director, BC Racing, announced the addition of a new […]
Photographer Allan De La Plante: from Gilles Villeneuve to thoroughbreds.
Chat with Robbie King, Executive Director, Jockeys’ Benefit Association of Canada.
Chrysanthi is the perfect playmate.
In less than 100 days, the Caledon Pan Am Equestrian Park and the Pan Am Cross-Country Centre will play host to nearly 150 Pan Am equestrian athletes and horses, and at least 3,000 spectators per day in the Pan Am Games, one of the world’s largest sporting events. Town of Caledon Mayor Allan Thompson, Town […]
Hastings General Manager, Darren MacDonald sends along late yesterday that he walked the entire barn on Thursday afternoon and states the horse count now appears to be around 530 horses. Although we don’t have an official count for the same time last year it would appear we are up over the total count. The number […]
For the stats lover, thoroughbred racing is awash with great numbers.
On Saturday, March 14, John (Jack) H. Kenney, a longtime executive of Woodbine Entertainment Group (formerly Ontario Jockey Club), builder and innovator in the sport of horse racing passed away peacefully at the age of 79 at St. Michael’s Hospital, in Toronto. “Jack leaves behind a tremendous legacy, having urged horse racing into the modern […]
