Logan’s Peak and jockey Eurico Rosa da Silva took over from Rose and Shine heading into the far turn and galloped away from her rivals to win the $125,000 Algoma Stakes for fillies and mares, Wednesday evening at Woodbine Racetrack. At the finish of the mile and one-sixteenth contest, Logan’s Peak, sent off at 6-1 […]
Go Greeley continued his impressive juvenile campaign winning Wednesday’s $200,000 Simcoe Stakes in a dramatic photo finish over Spin the King, at Woodbine. Owned and trained by John Ross, the dark bay son of Horse Greeley saved ground throughout the 6 1/2-furlong ‘Poly’ stake before being angled off the rail by Eurico Rosa da Silva […]
Lexie Lou, who lost a stretch-long battle by a nose to favoured On Rainbow Bridge, was awarded victory in the $200,000 Muskoka Stakes for two-year-old fillies, Wednesday night at Woodbine Racetrack. The stewards ruled that On Rainbow Bridge and jockey Skye Chernetz had bumped Lexie Lou and Gary Boulanger several times while slightly drifting, resulting […]
Good Better Best earned his first stakes score with a determined stretch run in Wednesday’s $125,000 Elgin Stakes, at Woodbine. Trained by Roger Attfield for owner Harlequin Ranches, the five-year-old son of Best of the Bests sat just off the pace of favoured Ultimate Destiny in the 1 1/16-mile ‘Poly’ stake, was roused into contention […]
Bear No Joke, ridden by Eurico Rosa da Silva, caught odds-on Black Hornet inside the sixteenth pole to win the $125,000 Kenora Stakes, one of six yearling sales stakes featured Wednesday evening at Woodbine Racetrack as part of Canadian Million Sales Stakes Day. Da Silva, who picked up the mount because Emma-Jayne Wilson was unable […]
Christine and Dennis Windsor’s Welloiledmachine powered his way to a convincing victory in Wednesday’s $125,400 Halton Stakes, at Woodbine. Trained by Mike Keogh, the five-year-old son of Mobil took command heading into the turn of the one-mile turf tilt and persevered the length of the expansive E.P.Taylor Turf Course to put away Pender Harbour for […]
Wednesday’s Canadian Millions Sales Stakes Day program at Woodbine was highlighted by a pair of scores for owner-trainer John Ross and a hat trick for jockey Eurico Rosa da Silva. The revamped Yearling Sales Stakes Day, restricted to horses entered in past local Canadian Thoroughbred Horse Society (CTHS) Yearling Sales, featured six stakes worth $900,000 […]
Heavily-favoured Up With the Birds gave his owner and breeder Sam-Son Farms a record sixth win in the $500,000 Breeders’ Stakes, the third leg in the Canadian Triple Crown, Sunday at Woodbine. With Eurico Rosa da Silva aboard the three-year-old son of Stormy Atlantic-Song of the Lark, Up With the Birds, much closer to the […]
Eugene Melnyk’s Leigh Court made every pole a winning one to capture Saturday’s $150,700 Grade 3 Ontario Colleen Stakes, at Woodbine. Trained by Josie Carroll, the dark bay daughter of Grand Slam-Padmore came into the one-mile turf stake off an impressive 5 1/2-length score in the main track Duchess Stakes. Leigh Court, a half-sister to […]
Woodbine Entertainment Group (WEG) has signed an agreement with Sportsnet to nationally televise four major race days live on Sportsnet 360 and Sportsnet ONE. The four key Woodbine events to be broadcast nationally, live and in high-definition (HD), include Sunday’s $500,000 Breeders’ Stakes, third jewel of the Canadian Triple Crown; the Canadian Millions Sales Stakes […]
