Sam-Son Farm’s well-bred Speightsong, with Patrick Husbands aboard, made every pole a winning one, taking the featured $150,000, seven furlong Queenston Stakes for Canadian-bred three-year-olds, Saturday at Woodbine. Sent postward a prohibitive 3-5 choice in the six-horse field, Speightsong, a homebred product of Speightstown-Song of the Lark, clicked off fractions of 23.21 and 45.89. Turning […]
The three Stewards at Belmont Park unanimously agreed, On May 19th, to allow the use of equine nasal strips for all horses running at racetracks of The New York Racing Association, Inc (NYRA), effective immediately. California Chrome will be permitted to use nasal strips when he competes at the 146th Belmont Stakes on June 7, […]
Phil’s Dream, last year’s Sovereign Award winner as Canada’s outstanding male sprinter, sprinted up the rail to win Monday’s Victoria Day feature, the $125,000 New Providence Stakes, at Woodbine. Trained by Paul Buttigieg for his Buttigieg Training Centre, Phil’s Dream was bet down to 3-5 in the field of seven Ontario-sired runners and ran to […]
Alex Atamanenko, MP (BC Southern Interior) issued the following statement in Ottawa regarding parliament’s defeat last night of his Bill C-571 through which he hoped to overhaul the horsemeat industry in the interests of food safety: “I am very dismayed that my Bill C-571 did not get quite enough support in Parliament to pass on […]
Private member’s bill C-571, which sought to amend the Meat Inspection Act and the Safe Food for Canadians Act, was defeated in the House of Commons May 14th, with 102 votes in favour and 155 against. Introduced by NDP MP Alex Atamanenko of British Columbia Southern Interior, the bill was intended to place restrictions on […]
The Board of Directors of the Meydan Group have decided that the synthetic racing surface, installed for the opening of the racecourse in 2010, will be replaced with a traditional dirt track. The track will be ready for the opening of the 2014-15 racing season. Saeed H. Al Tayer, Chairman and CEO of the Meydan […]
Hastings Racecourse, General Manager, Darren MacDonald called two meetings yesterday to show a open door policy to horsemen with the racing office to discuss relevant issues pertaining to the 2014 Live Season at Hastings. The race office official met with the Jockey Agents during the first meeting and it was a very fruitful meeting with […]
Wild Catomine outdueled Hot and Spicy and the favoured Lexie Lou in a spirited three-pronged stretch run to capture Saturday’s $150,400 Fury Stakes, at Woodbine. Trained by Mark Casse for owner John Oxley, Wild Catomine arrived at the seven furlong ‘Poly’ stake for three-year-old Ontario-bred fillies off of a winning debut on April 19 in […]
Richard and Nancy Kaster’s homebred Really Sharp lived up to his name with a brave stretch run to hold off favoured Occasional View in Sunday’s $153,400 Grade 3 Vigil Stakes, at Woodbine. Trained by Ian Black and expertly ridden by Steve Bahen, the four-year-old chestnut son of Sharp Humor made his first added-money score a […]
Horseracing is leading the field when it comes to integrity and fighting corruption in almost all sports world-wide, but there is no room for complacency and, in an ever-changing technological landscape, international co-operation must be the way forward. That was the message from the 35th Asian Racing Conference on May 8th, when a panel of […]
