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By Woodbine Communications TORONTO, October 19, 2023 — OLG Canadian Triple Crown jewel winners Velocitor and Touch’n Ride are set to compete in the $150,000 Grade 3 Ontario Derby on Saturday at Woodbine. The Grade 3 Ontario Derby for three-year-olds is run at a mile and an eighth on the Tapeta. Saturday’s contest has attracted a Read more

TORONTO, October 15, 2023— In a last to first triumph, A Little Frisky gave Jockey Ryan Munger his first Woodbine Stakes win in the Glorious Song Stakes on Sunday at Woodbine. A Little Frisky is trained by Josie Carroll and owned by Mark Dodson. This is the filly’s first win in two career starts, after Read more

TORONTO, October 14, 2023 – In other stakes action, Millie Girl, under Rafael Hernandez, rallied late to take the $150,000 Ontario Matron (G3), also for fillies and mares, 3-year-olds and up, Saturday at Woodbine Racetrack. Millie Girl is trained by Catherine Day Phillips, who also co-owns (through her Kingfield Racing Stable, Ltd.) with Braconcrest Inc. and Read more

By Woodbine Communications TORONTO, October 14, 2023 – My Boy Prince proved to be much the best with an easy-looking gate to wire victory in Saturday’s 86th running of the Cup and Saucer Stakes at Woodbine Racetrack. Making his first start since finishing runner-up in the Grade 1 bet365 Summer Stakes on September 16, My Boy Prince Read more

By Woodbine Communications/ Chris Lomon TORONTO, October 12, 2023 – Millie Girl, who has hit the top three in all her starts, chases her first stakes success in the $150,000 Ontario Matron (G3), Saturday at Woodbine. The 1 1/16-mile main track feature for fillies and mares, 3-years-old and upward, has drawn 12 starters, including the 5-year-old Read more

By Woodbine Communications/ Chris Lomon TORONTO, October 11, 2023 – Arashi will go after his second straight score when he goes postward in Saturday’s $250,000 Cup & Saucer Stakes at Woodbine. A 1 1/16-mile event for Canadian-foaled 2-year-olds run over the E.P. Taylor turf, the 86th running of the Cup & Saucer has drawn 10 hopefuls, including Arashi, an Read more

TORONTO, October 7, 2023 – Artie’s Storm, under Emma-Jayne Wilson, got by one foe and then held off another in Saturday’s $150,000 Durham Cup (G3) at Woodbine. A pair of multiple graded stakes-placed talents, namely, Wolfie’s Dynaghost and Algiers (IRE), vied for early control in the 1 1/16-mile main track feature for 3-year-olds and up, with Read more

By Woodbine Communications/ Chris Lomon TORONTO, October 5, 2023 – This year’s edition of the prestigious $750,000 Canadian International (G1T), set for this Sunday at Woodbine, has once again attracted a top-class field of turf talents from across the world. Having returned after a year’s absence – the race was paused in 2022 due to travel Read more

By Woodbine Communications/ Chris Lomon TORONTO – Touch’n Ride, under Kazushi Kimura, wore down a game rival in Elysian Field and then survived a rider’s claim of foul to win the $400,000 Breeders’ Stakes, the final jewel in the OLG Canadian Triple Crown, Sunday at Woodbine. It was the duo of slight 3-1 choice Paramount Prince, winner Read more

By Woodbine Communications/ Chris Lomon TORONTO – Fourteen three-year-olds, including King’s Plate winner Paramount Prince and runner-up Elysian Field, Kaukokaipuu, who contested the Plate and Prince of Wales Stakes, and three Kevin Attard trainees, are slated to go postward in Sunday’s $400,000 Breeders’ Stakes, the third jewel in the OLG Canadian Triple Crown, at Woodbine. The final event Read more