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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

TORONTO, August 24, 2024 – Live Oak Plantation’s Ticker Tape Home tallied her first graded success after taking the $135,000 Seaway Stakes (G3) on Saturday afternoon at Woodbine. Owen’s Tour Guide and Time Passage dueled soon after the gates opened in the Seaway, a seven-furlong main track feature for fillies and mares, 3-year-olds and up, Read more

TORONTO, August 23, 2024 – Shifty, making just her second career start, entered Saturday’s Catch a Glimpse Stakes as a decided underdog while facing the likes of her undefeated Mark Casse-trained stablemate Bullet. But, after emerging from a mad scramble to take the early lead, Shifty never looked back as she rolled through fractions of Read more

TORONTO, August 23, 2024 – Patches O’Houlihan, a son of Reload-Maythefourthbwithu, went coast-to-coast for the second straight time in the $150,000 Bold Venture Stakes (G3), on King’s Plate Friday at Woodbine. One year after showing a blend of speed and resiliency in the 6 ½-furlong main track event for 3-year-olds and up, Patches O’Houlihan, in Read more

King's Plate Marches On This Friday at Woodbine The Plate and Four Stakes races rescheduled following Saturday’s record rainfall Public can witness historic race for free Grandstand and Hats & Horseshoes ticketholders being refunded TORONTO, August 21, 2024 – The 165th running of the $1 million King’s Plate will go this Friday at Toronto’s Woodbine Racetrack, Read more