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By Chris Lomon/Woodbine Communications TORONTO, September 15, 2024 – Souper Supreme, under Patrick Husbands, took the lead early and was resolute throughout en route to victory in Sunday’s $100,000 Victorian Queen Stakes, for 2-year-old Ontario-sired fillies, at Woodbine. Trained by Mark Casse for owners Michael Langlois and Gary Barber, the daughter of Souper Speedy-Platinum Steel Read more

By Woodbine Communications TORONTO, September 14, 2024 – Patches O’Houlihan took command at the start, turned back a couple of challenges from longshot Rockcrest, and motored to his third win in as many starts this season in Saturday’s Grade 3, $150,000 Branded Cities Vigil Stakes, at Woodbine. The defending champion in the six-furlong Vigil, Patches Read more

By Chris Lomon/Woodbine Communications TORONTO, September 14, 2024 – Kentucky-bred Win for the Money, a 5-year-old son of Mohaymen-Mayakoba, rode the rail to victory in Saturday’s Grade 1, $1 million Rogers Woodbine Mile, part of the Breeders’ Cup “Win and You’re In” program. Trained by Mark Casse for Live Oak Plantation, the chestnut, under a masterful Read more

By Woodbine Communications TORONTO, September 14, 2024— Full Count Felicia, coming off a front-running victory here in the 1 1/8-mile Canadian Stakes (G2T), knocked another one out of the park to become a Grade 1 winner in Saturday’s E.P. Taylor Stakes. Stretching out to 1 ¼ miles on the eponymous turf course and facing four Read more

By Chris Lomon/Woodbine Communications TORONTO, September 14, 2024 – Fashionably Fab, under David Moran, rallied late to take the Grade 3 $150,000 Ontario Matron, for fillies and mares, 3-year-olds and up, Saturday at Woodbine Racetrack. Moran, who got the call from trainer Kevin Attard, after the former’s son, apprentice Pietro Moran, was injured in a Read more

By Chris Lomon/Woodbine Communications TORONTO, September 14, 2024 – And One More Time, closing down the middle of the track under Rafael Hernandez, got the measure of stablemates Vixen, and Nitrogen in Saturday’s Grade 1 Johnnie Walker Natalma Stakes for 2-year-old fillies. The Natalma, a $500,000 turf race contested over one mile of grass, is Read more

Woodbine Communications TORONTO, September 12, 2024 – Cairo Caper, winner of his last two starts, including the Soaring Free Stakes, will be looking to score one for the home team in Saturday’s $500,000 bet365 Summer Stakes (G1T), with a Breeders’ Cup berth on the line in the one-mile race. The Summer attracted a field of Read more

By Chris Lomon/Woodbine Communications TORONTO, September 12, 2024 – Mountain Breeze (IRE), racing for the top-class trio of owner and breeder Godolphin LLC, trainer Charles Appleby, and jockey William Buick, will look to secure her first stakes success in the Grade 1 Johnnie Walker Natalma, Saturday at Woodbine. The $500,000, one-mile turf race is a Read more

Woodbine Communications TORONTO, September 12, 2024 – Fev Rover (IRE) and Moira, Canada’s last two Horses of the Year, will renew their rivalry Saturday at Woodbine in a highly competitive renewal of the Grade 1 E.P. Taylor Stakes. The $750,000 E.P. Taylor is run over 1 ¼ miles on Woodbine’s eponymous turf course and the Read more

FORT ERIE, Ont., Sept. 10, 2024 - Vitality, a 9-1 longshot, claimed the $400,000 89th Running of the Prince of Wales Stakes Tuesday at Fort Erie Race Track. The victory marked just the second win in the three-year-old gelding’s career, as he followed up a sixth-place finish in last month’s King’s Plate by scoring the Read more