The day after the first Triple Crown in all those years could have been something of an anti-climax, but Sunday at the Track of the Water and Mountains produced some outstanding performances, both equine and human. Jockey Keishan Balgobin won three and Richard Hamel won both stakes on the card. In fact, Hamel won three […]
The Roger Attfield-trained Are You Kidding Me, ridden by Alan Garcia, charged through the stretch to overtake pacesetting Midnight Aria and win the featured $201,200 Grade 2 Eclipse Stakes, Sunday at Woodbine. Sitting a patient third in a tightly-compacted five-horse field for most of the mile and one-sixteenth Polytrack contest, Are You Kidding Me was […]
Pender Harbour cements himself as one of the best horses of his generation with an earnest 3/4-length win in Saturday’s $125,800 Steady Growth Stakes at Woodbine. Luis Contreras, who won three races on the card, rode the seven-year-old to his 12th lifetime win for trainer Mike DePaulo and owners Denny Andrews, Sandra Lazaruk, Bob and […]
Triple Crown hopeful American Pharoah arrived in New York safe and sound on Tuesday afternoon, landing at Long Island’s MacArthur Airport before traveling 40 miles west to take up residence in Barn 1 on the Belmont Park backstretch at approximately 3:40 p.m. Just a short walk from where he is stabled, the Zayat Stables homebred […]
Track announcer Dan Loiselle, the voice of Canadian horse racing, brought his 29-year career as thoroughbred race caller to a close with a stirring stretch call as Galina Point stormed home victorious in Sunday’s $125,400 Lady Angela Stakes, at Woodbine. Trained by Mark Casse for owner Gary Barber, Galina Point arrived at the seven furlong […]
Sunday saw better horses and larger fields than the day before and the result was a larger crowd and a handle that pushed past $830,000, nearly $370,000 more than Saturday. Jockeys and trainers had big clumps of success with Pedro Alvarado and Richard Hamel each riding three winners while Mike Anderson trained two, as did […]
John C. Oxley’s Lockout rallied wide down the lane to capture Saturday’s $212,800 Grade 2 Connaught Cup, at Woodbine. Trained by Mark Casse and patiently ridden by Gary Boulanger, Lockout overcame a six-month layoff to win the seven furlong sprint over an E.P. Taylor Turf Course rated as ‘good.’ Dimension missed the break and Conquest […]
How this gritty bay filly became a Sovereign Award winner.
Track announcer Dan Loiselle, the voice of Canadian horse racing, will call his last race at Woodbine Racetrack on May 31 bringing a 29-year career as thoroughbred race caller to a close. “Woodbine Entertainment Group has been blessed with the distinctive tones of Dan Loiselle, truly the voice of Canadian racing, for nearly three decades,” […]
Ten race days and five weekends into the 2015 season at Hastings Racecourse has shown a clear resurgence locally in the popularity of the legendary Sport of Kings. Case in point: wagering was up nearly 30 per cent this past weekend compared to the same time last year. Overall, the daily handle for live racing […]
