Make the time to tune in to CTV’s Canada AM on Monday, February 25, 2013, at 8:10 a.m. ET to watch Catherine E. Willson, managing partner of Willson Lewis LLP and Horse Sport and Horse-Canada contributor. Catherine will be kicking off Canada AM’s new series: Ask a Lawyer on Monday, February 25, 2013. She will be […]
Woodbine Entertainment Group (WEG) has announced Woodbine’s full 2013 live Thoroughbred racing schedule, including the date for the 154th edition of the Queen’s Plate. The Queen’s Plate, fist jewel in Canada’s Triple Crown of Racing, will be run on Sunday, July 7th this year. Live Thoroughbred racing at the Toronto oval will offer over 133 […]
Mark your calendars! On April 6th, 2013 Equine Guelph presents an exciting seminar at the University of Guelph, featuring Ontario Veterinary College researchers who have starred in the popular “Report on Research” video series. By attending this event, which commemorates Equine Guelph’s ten years of service to the equine industry, you will be the first […]
Three men were arrested on Thursday, under the Fraud Act, at two meat processing plants in the UK in relation to the European horsemeat scandal. The plants – Farmbox Meats and Peter Boddy Slaughterhouse – were toured by British Food Safety Standards inspectors last Tuesday, and have had their permits suspended. Meanwhile, in France, investigators […]
NDP Labour Critic and Essex MPP Taras Natyshak says looming layoffs at Woodbine and Mohawk racetracks demonstrate how inadequate government transition plans were following the end of the Slots At Racetracks Program. “Once again, we’re reminded just how short sighted the SARP cancellation really was,” said Natyshak. “By pulling the rug out from under the […]
Stonestreet Farm’s Rachel Alexandra, the 2009 Horse of the Year, suffered complications after foaling a Bernardini filly on Tuesday. The champion mare underwent surgery yesterday to repair a bruised section of her small colon, which was damaged during delivery, at the Rood and Riddle Equine Clinic in Lexington, Kentucky. Stonestreet Farm issued a release late […]
Woodbine Entertainment Group (WEG) has announced a significant restructuring of its operating model. While the company recently announced new transitional agreements with the Ontario government and the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation (OLG), the revenue from those agreements will be significantly less than WEG earned through the Slots-at-Racetracks partnership. As a result, WEG has had […]
European Union officials will meet tomorrow in Brussels, Belgium to discuss the horsemeat scandal that is sweeping the continent. Since the news broke in January that horse DNA had been found in frozen “beef” burgers from the retailer Tesco, in Ireland and Britain, numerous products from several suppliers, have been pulled from store shelves in […]
Rod Seiling, Chair of the Ontario Racing Commission (ORC) announced today that planning and implementation of the 2013 Horse Improvement Program (HIP) is moving forward. Funding of up to $30 million will be used to develop the Standardbred and Thoroughbred components of HIP, through work that will take place in the near future consulting with […]
The world is producing 959 million tons of feed and has increased its production by at least four percent in the last year, according to the 2013 Global Feed Tonnage Survey released by Alltech. Alltech assessed the compound feed production of 134 countries in Dec. 2012 through information obtained in partnership with local feed associations […]
