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TORONTO, September 8, 2024 – Hurricane Clair was able to best a stubborn Stormcast to win the $250,000 Wonder Where Stakes, the third leg of the Canadian Triple Tiara, Sunday at Woodbine. Stormcast, a dominant winner of the Bison City, second jewel in the Triple Tiara, and Hurricane Clair, runner-up in that race, set the Read more

TORONTO, September 7, 2024 – Lac Macaza, at 9-2, seized the lead into the turn for home and stayed strong down the lane to take Saturday’s $100,000 Niagara Stakes Presented by The Greenwood Stakes. Jockey Pietro Moran and Lac Macaza, a 5-year-old son of Giant Gizmo-Garavogue Colleen, played the waiting game as a pair of Read more

TORONTO, September 5, 2024 – This year’s edition of the Canadian Triple Tiara concludes with Sunday’s running of the $250,000 Wonder Where Stakes, at Woodbine. Set for 1 ¼ miles on the E.P. Taylor turf, the Wonder Where, for 3-year-old Canadian-bred fillies, drew seven starters, including a pair of Chiefswood Stables’ homebreds, Quality Presence and Saccharine. A daughter of Quality Read more

TORONTO, September 4, 2024 – Stanley House, a son of Army Mule-Stormy’s Song, will try the turf for the first time in Saturday’s $100,000 Niagara Stakes Presented by the Greenwood Stakes at Woodbine, airing on Sportsnet ONE at 5 p.m. E.T. Trained by Michael De Paulo for John and Diana Russell, the 4-year-old will take Read more

TORONTO, August 31, 2024 – Chiefswood Stables’ homebred Piper’s Factor fended off Swift Delivery, co-owned by NFL star Travis Kelce, to win the $125,000 Toronto Cup Stakes Presented by Crown Royal, Saturday at Woodbine. Arriving at the one-mile Toronto Cup off a fourth in the Plate Trial on July 24, Piper’s Factor earned his first stakes success in Read more

TORONTO, August 25, 2024 - In other Sunday stakes action, Outlaw Kid took the $150,000 Vice Regent Stakes for the second straight year. The 5-year-old gelded son of Violence-Calling Rhy Rhy, with Sahin Civaci in the irons, covered five furlongs over a firm inner turf in a blistering, near track record time of :55.83 (Silent Flash Read more

TORONTO, August 25, 2024 - Scorching, trained by John Charalambous, took charge at the outset and never looked back in Sunday’s $200,000 Simcoe Stakes at Woodbine. Sent on his way as the 2-1 choice in the field of 11 (Flirting With Fire was scratched), Scorching, under Patrick Husbands, fired to the front shortly after the Read more

TORONTO, August 25, 2024 - Souper Supreme, under Patrick Husbands, tussled for early command and was full of run late to take Sunday’s $200,000 Muskoka Stakes at Woodbine. After a runner-up debut on June 8 at the Toronto oval and a maiden-breaking score on July 6, the daughter of Souper Speedy-Platinum Steel put on a Read more

TORONTO, August 25, 2024 - Junior Hot Shot earned his first stakes victory after a gutsy performance in Sunday’s $100,000 Elgin at Woodbine. Trained by John Ross for T and T Racing Team, the dark bay colt, who was contesting his fourth straight stakes event, arrived at the seven-furlong test over the all-weather track off Read more

TORONTO, August 25, 2024 - Just Follow Me, with Emma-Jayne Wilson aboard, rallied from well off the pace to best 6-5 choice Little Teddy in the $100,000 Algoma Stakes, Sunday at Woodbine. Trained by Bill Tharrenos, the daughter of Old Forester-Marilyns Last Love arrived at the seven-furlong Algoma off a fifth in the Thunder Bay Read more