Cindervella, under leading rider Eurico Rosa da Silva, was full of run late as she swept by her rivals in the last jumps to break her maiden in style in the $125,000 South Ocean Stakes, Saturday at Woodbine. Trained by Mike DePaulo for owners Frank Annecchini and Rocco D’Alimonte, Cindervella came into the 1 1/16-mile […]

Highland Reel, Dartmouth and The Pizza Man are among 26 nominated to the 79th running of the Grade 1, $1-million Pattison Canadian International, to be held Sunday, October 16, at Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto. In addition to the mile and one-half Pattison, one of Canada’s richest thoroughbred races (the other $1 million races are the […]

Good Samaritan, invading from New York for trainer Bill Mott, trailed early but swept to the front in midstretch en route to a going-away victory here in Sunday’s Grade 2, $204,600 Summer Stakes. In winning the Summer, Good Samaritan earned a fees-paid berth in the Grade 1, $1 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf, which will […]

Victory to Victory kept a Natalma Stakes streak alive for the Mark Casse stable here Sunday, rallying to capture the one-mile turf stakes for 3-year-old fillies by a convincing 2 ¼ lengths. The $253,400 Natalma, a Grade 1 race for the first time this year, also was a ‘Win and You’re In’ for the Grade […]

Robert Masterson’s Tepin, currently based at Saratoga in New York, put in her final work for Saturday’s Woodbine Mile this morning covering four furlongs in :49.71 on the turf training track. “Today was an easy half-mile. All her big works have been completed and this was just a maintenance type work. We didn’t put her […]

Arod, a five-year-old son of Teofilo, will take a swing at notching his first Grade 1 win in Sunday’s $1 million Woodbine Mile. Owned by Qatar Racing Limited and trained by Peter Chapple-Hyam, the Irish-bred heads into the Mile off a solid third-place outing in the Group 2 Doom Bar Celebration Mile at Goodwood on […]

Just Be Kind, under a heads-up ride by Jim McAleney, wore down 7-5 favorite Let It Ride Mom to register a mild upset in Saturday’s $128,500 Ontario Debutante Stakes at Woodbine. Just Be Kind was trained to her second career victory by Reade Baker, who also owns a piece of the undefeated filly with Richard […]

Tower of Texas, seventh in last year’s edition of the Woodbine Mile, will be looking to significantly better that placing when he returns for the September 17th renewal. “We sort of semi-blamed the turf, which was a little soft,” said Roger Attfield, who trains the 5-year-old Tower of Texas for Thomas Van Meter II and […]

Robert Masterson’s Tepin headlines a probable field of nine for the Grade 1 $1-million Ricoh Woodbine Mile, to be held Saturday, September 17, at Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto. Tepin, a five-time Grade 1 winner and the Eclipse Award champion grass mare of 2015 known as the ‘Queen of the Turf’, brings a seven-race win streak […]

Robert Harvey’s Calling Rhy Rhy, expertly handled by Alan Garcia, answered the call with a powerful front-running performance in Sunday’s $150,000 Jammed Lovely Stakes, at Woodbine. Calling Rhy Rhy, trained by Roger Attfield, avenged her Duchess Stakes loss to Jammed Lovely rival Tiz Imaginary with a prominent effort in Sunday’s seven furlong sprint for Ontario-bred […]