Favoured Red Rifle and jockey Alan Garcia held Florida Won safe in a late stretch duel, then had to withstand a steward’s inquiry before officially being declared the winner of the featured $150,000, Grade 3 Dominion Day Stakes on Canada Day at Woodbine. Placed in sixth for most of the mile and one-quarter contest, while […]
The start of his career was a little spooky, but after three consecutive wins, this Queen’s Plate starter is the ‘Ghost’ with the most. His first three races didn’t produce the desired results, but Shaman Ghost, owned by Stronach Stables and trained by Brian Lynch, has reeled off a trio of victories, including a gutsy […]
Trainer Mark Casse, a seven-time Sovereign Award winner as Canada’s top conditioner, will try for a second consecutive Queen’s Plate win on Sunday. The last trainer to win back-to-back Plates was Mark Frostad (Scatter The Gold, 2000; Dancethruthedawn, 2001). Last year, Casse celebrated his first win in Canada’s most famous horse race when filly Lexie […]
Hastings Racecourse has put together without question the best racing card of the 2015 season for tomorrow’s Canada Day live program. The day features 4 stakes races all with good size fields, three heats in the Championship series and first six furlong race for two year old allowance horses. Lots of features for the whole […]
A group of researchers, including veterinarians and riders, affiliated with the University of Bern in Switzerland, are studying collapse and sudden death in horses. Their goal is to learn more about what causes these episodes in horses who have died during exercise, in order to develop preventative measures. They are currently collecting data through online […]
Jim Lawson grew up relishing any chance to tag along with his Hall of Fame father on trips to the Woodbine backstretch. Now Lawson is hoping to bring some of that backstretch passion to his new position as chief executive officer of Woodbine Entertainment Group (WEG).
For many years, reports differed about who rode or owned the winner of the 12th Plate held at Kingston’s Cataraqui Course. There wasn’t even consensus about how to spell the winning mare’s name.
Now a champion in the show ring.
A pair of added-money features, the Grade 3 $150,000 Dominion Day Stakes, and the $100,000 Sweet Briar Too takes, highlight a special Wednesday afternoon Canada Day card of racing at Woodbine. A field of 10 fillies, including Canada’s 2014 filly sprint champion Hillaby and graded stakes winner Unspurned will contest the seven furlong Sweet Briar […]
Yvonne Schwabe’s homebred Surtsey, with Omar Moreno aboard, outduelled the defending champion Silent Treat through the stretch to win the featured $100,000 Zadracarta Stakes, Saturday at Woodbine. Contested over seven furlongs of yielding turf, eight fillies and mares lined up for the challenge, with the Chad Brown-trained Wavell Avenue, a ship-in from New York, the […]
