Eugene Melnyk’s Glenville Gardens broke his maiden in fine style with a front-running score in Saturday’s $132,250 Display Stakes, at Woodbine. Trained by Josie Carroll, the dark bay son of Street Cry-Navy Gardens arrived at the 1 1/16-miles ‘Poly’ stake for juveniles from a pair of runner-up performances. Glenville Gardens was second on debut to […]
John Unger’s Strut the Course uncorked a tremendous turn of foot to capture Saturday’s co-featured Grade 3 $150,000 Maple Leaf Stakes, at Woodbine. Trained by Barb Minshall, the four-year-old daughter of Strut the Stage-Bold Course settled well off the early pace of defending Maple Leaf champ Moonlit Beauty before unleashing an explosive stretch kick to […]
Judy the Beauty, bred in Ontario by Adena Springs, captured the $1-million Filly and Mare Sprint on Saturday’s 31st Breeders’ Cup World Championships, at Santa Anita Park, in Arcadia, California. Owned and trained by Wes Ward, the five-year-old Ghostzapper-Holy Blitz chestnut held off the late rally of Better Lucky for a head score. Leigh Court, […]
Brooklynsway enjoyed a ground-saving trip under Emma-Jayne Wilson, before splitting rivals in deep stretch to capture the 69th running of the $250,000 Princess Elizabeth Stakes on Sunday, at Woodbine. Owned and trained by John Ross, the dark bay daughter of Giant Gizmo-Explosive Story arrived at the 1 1/16-miles ‘Poly’ stake for Canadian-foaled juvenile fillies from […]
Elections for the provincial boards of the Canadian Thoroughbred Horse Society were scheduled for December 3, 2014, but no province received enough nominations to trigger an election. All directors who agreed to run again have been acclaimed and any candidate whose nomination met the criteria to run has been acclaimed to their respective provincial board […]
Savvy Hester set a contested pace and stayed on gamely down the lane to capture Saturday’s $111,200 River Memories Stakes, at Woodbine. Trained by Ricky Griffith for Debmar Stables, the graded stakes placed Heatseeker-Changeable filly, piloted by Justin Stein, picked up her first stakes victory after winning a photo over Dance Again in the one-mile […]
River Seven rallied off the sharp pace of Excaper and Best Bard to capture Sunday’s $113,200 Labeeb Stakes, giving Jesse Campbell a sweep of the Sunday stakes at Woodbine. Last year, the Tucci Stables charge, trained by Nick Gonzalez, romped the one-mile event by 10 lengths over a ‘yielding’ turf course with a front-running effort. […]
Paul Mouttet’s Green Doctor set a sharp pace and kept on going to capture Sunday’s co-featured $150,000 Fanfreluche Stakes, at Woodbine. Trained by John LeBlanc and aggressively ridden by Jesse Campbell, the bay daughter of The Green Monkey-Junior Prom Queen broke sharply and never looked back in the six furlong ‘Poly’ sprint for Ontario-bred juvenile […]
Woodbine Entertainment Group (WEG) is pleased to announce the successful completion of the Horses Offering People Encouragement (HOPE) pilot project. “We are thrilled to see the inspiring outcomes of this program,” says Nick Eaves, WEG President and CEO. “WEG is committed to supporting racehorse adoption and placement programs to ensure the welfare, safety and dignity […]
A quiet Wednesday evening at home playing the races turned into a celebration for 82-year-old Claude Isaacs after taking down Woodbine’s Jackpot Hi-5 for a bumper $235,983.30 score. A native of Sri Lanka, Isaacs emigrated to Canada in 1973 with his wife Maureen and their children Ron and Christine. “The very first Queen’s Plate winner […]
