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New Stride Thoroughbred Adoption Society 100-Day Trainer Challenge

The New Stride Thoroughbred Adoption Society is pleased to announce the finalists for the 100-Day Trainer Challenge. Four trainers and four horses have been selected. New Stride’s 100-Day Trainer Challenge will showcase four Thoroughbred ex-racehorses as they transition into new careers. New Stride will promote their journey throughout the 100-days and educate the public on […]
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Phil’s Dream Defends Ontario Jockey Club Title

Phil’s Dream, Canada’s reigning champion sprinter, outdueled Go Blue Or Go Home to defend his title in Saturday’s $143,800 Ontario Jockey Club Stakes, at Woodbine. The six-year-old Philanthropist gelding, owned and trained by Paul Buttigieg, settled off the early pace of Massive Explosion and moved in tandem with Go Blue Or Go Home through the […]
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Conquest Tsunami Romps in Victoria

Conquest Tsunami blew away the competition with a scintillating 7 3/4-length score in Saturday’s $154,500 Victoria Stakes, at Woodbine. Trained by Mark Casse for the Conquest Stables of Ernie Semersky and Dory Newell, Conquest Tsunami broke sharply and never looked back winning the five furlong ‘Poly’ stake for two-year-olds in hand under Patrick Husbands. The […]
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Conquest Top Gun Cruises to Victoria Park Score

Conquest Top Gun made every pole a winning one under a confident ride by Eurico Rosa da Silva in Sunday’s $148,250 Victoria Park Stakes for three-year-olds, at Woodbine. Trained by Mark Casse for the Conquest Stables of Ernie Semersky and Dory Newell, Conquest Top Gun repelled a challenge at the top of the lane from […]
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Grand Arch up in time in King Edward

Jim and Susan Hill’s Grand Arch closed with authority to capture Sunday’s $202,000 Grade 2 King Edward Stakes, at Woodbine. Grand Arch, a five-year-old bay son of Arch-Bacinella, arrived at the one-mile turf stake off a narrow half-length defeat when third in a Churchill Downs turf allowance on May 9. Trained by Brian Lynch and […]
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Checkered Past Topples Trillium Field

Sam-Son Farms’ homebred Checkered Past swept past Royal Fury with a swift move to capture Saturday’s $112,600 Trillium Stakes for fillies and mares, at Woodbine. Trained by Malcolm Pierce and patiently ridden by Eurico Rosa da Silva, Checkered Past earned her first stakes win while maintaining a perfect record in four starts travelling 1 1/16-miles […]
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Flashy Margaritta Wires Bold Ruckus Field

Flashy Margaritta, with Patrick Husbands, made every pole a winning one to just outlast Spin the King and take the co-featured Bold Ruckus Stakes for three-year-olds, Saturday at Woodbine. The Bold Ruckus, an Ontario Sires event, was contested at six furlongs over a ‘good’ turf, presenting a handicapping dilemma for many, since only two of […]
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We Miss Artie Tops Plate Trial Sunday at Woodbine

Ken and Sarah Ramsey’s We Miss Artie, the 4-1 favourite when the Queen’s Plate Winterbook odds were released in March, heads a field of seven for Sunday’s $150,000 Plate Trial Stakes at Woodbine. The Plate Trial, at one mile and one-eighth on Polytrack for Canadian foaled three-year-olds, will be televised live on TSN2 as part […]
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Paladin Bay, Wild Catomine and Hot and Spicy head Ultra-Competitive Oaks

Paladin Bay, Wild Catomine and Hot and Spicy top a select but ultra-competitive field of nine Canadian-foaled three-year-old fillies for the $500,000 Woodbine Oaks, presented by Budweiser, Sunday at Woodbine. The filly classic, at one mile and one-eighth, will go postward at 5:45 p.m. and will be televised live on TSN2, as part of a […]
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2014 FEI World Equestrian Games™ Test Events

From June 23-26, the Normandy 2014 Organising Committee will conduct a series of international dressage and show jumping events, which will serve as preliminary events in the Ornano stadium enclosure, the transformation of which will soon be complete. These events are not a rehearsal for the main event at the FEI World Equestrian Games™, but […]