Seen It All Before angled off the rail in the stretch run and powered home a length and a half winner of the $125,000 Vice Regent Stakes over the E.P Taylor Turf Course, Sunday at Woodbine. The Colebrook Farms homebred, a chestnut son of Niigon-A Familiar Face, entered the 1 1/16-mile Vice Regent off a […]
Tu Endie Wei took the lead at the top of the lane and held on strong to win the $168,500 Grade 3 Seaway Stakes, Saturday at Woodbine. The three-year-old bay daughter of Johar-Ms. Cornstalk, trained by Reade Baker and ridden by Jim McAleney, made her return to the Polytrack a successful one following losses on […]
The Ontario Equestrian Federation has issued a thank you letter to MPP Lisa MacLeod, on behalf of Ontario’s equine community, for calling on the Auditor General to review the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation’s plans and its impact on the horse racing industry. Read the letter here.
Supporters of the Ontario horse racing industry are encouraged to attend a rally on August 30th led by Conservative MPP Lisa MacLeod at Queen’s Park in Toronto. MPP MacLeod has strongly opposed the elimination of the slots at racetracks program and has spoken out passionately in support of the horse racing industry and rural Ontario, […]
Kendel Standlee’s Big Band Sound, with Tyler Pizarro aboard, took over in mid-stretch and drew off to a two and one-half length tally in the featured $202,400 Play the King Stakes, Sunday at Woodbine. It was only the second win in seven starts this year for the five-year-old Kentucky-bred son of Bernstein, but he’d been […]
In an electrifying finish, favored Alpha came back to hit the wire alongside 33-1 shot Golden Ticket Saturday afternoon at Saratoga Race Course, resulting in the first dead heat in the Grade 1, $1 million Travers since 1874. The 2-1 favorite off his victory in the Grade 2 Jim Dandy earlier in the meet, Alpha […]
Colonial Flag, trained by Michael Matz and ridden by Joe Rocco Jr., came flying in mid-stretch to haul down Evil Kitten and win Saturday’s featured $161,300 Ontario Colleen Stakes at Woodbine. Mid-pack for most of the one-mile turf stake for three-year-old fillies, Colonial Flag, sent postward a lukewarm 5-2 choice, unfurled her late charge to […]
Frankel has confirmed his status as the best horse in the world in no uncertain terms by becoming the first horse in history to run to an official rating of 140 twice in his career thanks to his seven-length victory in yesterday’s Juddmonte International Stakes at York. Just as remarkably, he has achieved that rating over […]
With the demise of the slots at racetracks program, the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp. (OLG) announced their “Modernization Strategy” for gaming in the province. Their goal is to bring gaming and entertainment together on a larger scale at multiple locations to boost revenue. As such, they have begun a Request For Proposal process to […]
The awesome Frankel made a seamless transition from Mile to Middle Distance, crushing his rivals over the extended mile and a quarter in the Juddmonte International Stakes to win by an easy seven lengths from Farhh and St Nicholas Abbey. The world’s best racehorse extended his unbeaten career record to 13 races and whether his […]
