Trainer Josie Carroll will seek a third victory in Canada’s most famous horse race when saddling Ivan Dalos’s homebred Ami’s Flatter next Sunday in the $1 million classic for Canadian-foaled three-year-olds. Carroll won the 2006 edition of the ‘Gallop for the Guineas’ with longshot Edenwold, then returned to the winner’s circle in 2011 with filly […]
Come to Mischief couldn’t have been more impressive in her racing debut, easily taking the featured $125,000 My Dear Stakes Sunday at Woodbine. Ridden by Tyler Pizarro, Come to Mischief, a Kentucky-bred daughter of Into Mischief-One Act Play, blasted from the gate in the five furlong open stake for two-year-old fillies and was never threatened, […]
Tower of Texas, patiently ridden by Eurico Rosa da Silva, powered up the rail to win Sunday’s $233,200 Grade 2 King Edward Stakes, at Woodbine. Trained by Roger Attfield for owners Thomas Van Meter II and Scott Dilworth, Tower of Texas made his grass debut a successful one while earning his first added-money score in […]
Trainer Roger Attfield could be on the verge of winning a record-breaking ninth Queen’s Plate after Charles Fipke’s homebred Danish Dynaformer proved a deserving winner of the $150,000 Plate Trial Stakes, Sunday at Woodbine. On a rainy, misty afternoon at Toronto, Danish Dynaformer and jockey Luis Contreras swung three wide turning for home and pulled […]
Bear Stables’ Academic, with Justin Stein, pulled off a shocker in the featured $500,000 Woodbine Oaks, presented by Budweiser, wiring her nine rivals and winning comfortably by one and three-quarter lengths in the mile and one-eighth classic for Canadian-foaled three-year-old fillies , Sunday at Woodbine Sent postward a 66-1 outsider, the longest shot on the […]
Never dismiss a defending champion. Saturday at Woodbine, Sam-Son Farm’s homebred Checkered Past came into the co-featured $116,400 Trillium Stakes on a two-race losing streak, well beaten in both outings. And even though she was listed at only 3-1 in the morning line, she went postward at 9-1. With jockey Eurico Rosa da Silva biding […]
Seffeara stalked a hot early pace en route to capturing Saturday’s $125,000 off-the-turf Bold Ruckus Stakes, at Woodbine. Owned and bred by Empress Stables, nom de course for the outfit headed by trainer Steve Owens, his wife Beverly and their young daughter, Emma, Seffeara tempered his trademark early speed under a patient ride by Gary […]
Trainer Mark Casse, who won his first Queen’s Plate last year with filly Lexie Lou, holds a strong hand for Sunday’$150,000 Plate Trial Stakes at Woodbine, a traditional prep for Canada’s most famous race, the $1-million Queen’s Plate, scheduled for July 5. Casse sends out five runners, including the two favourites Danzig Moon and Conquest […]
London Tower, Leading Edge and Brooklynsway head an extremely competitive 60th edition of the $500,000 Woodbine Oaks, presented by Budweiser, Sunday at Woodbine. The filly classic, which attracted 10 Canadian-foaled three-year-old fillies carrying 121 pounds over one mile and one-eighth on the Polytrack, will go postward at 5:45 p.m. and will be televised live on […]
Whether he’s speaking of the long journey to realize his career dream, or the approach he takes to his role, Robert Geller, Woodbine’s newly-anointed thoroughbred announcer, has come to appreciate the benefits of patience. His affinity for the sport of kings is well documented. Born in Birmingham, England, Geller, at the age of three and […]
