adouglas2025-12-08T08:32:59-05:00December 6, 2025|
Chris Lomon, Woodbine TORONTO, December 6, 2025 – Hammerhead, under Daisuke Fukumoto, recorded his first stakes score courtesy of a sharp showing in the $150,000 bet365 Valedictory (G3), for 3-year-olds and up, Saturday at Woodbine. Passing Game, making his first appearance at Woodbine, broke running and was hustled to the lead in the 1 Read more
adouglas2025-12-04T08:24:04-05:00December 3, 2025|
Chris Lomon, Woodbine TORONTO, December 3, 2025 – Nine starters, including Kevin Attard trainees Hammerhead, Jokestar and Zabo, will vie for top prize in Saturday’s 150,000 bet365 Valedictory Stakes (G3), a 1 ½-mile main track test for 3-year-olds and up, at Woodbine. A dark bay son of War Front out of the Medaglia d’Oro mare Read more
adouglas2025-12-01T09:27:23-05:00November 29, 2025|
Chris Lomon, Woodbine TORONTO, November 29, 2025 – Piper’s Gift presented an electrifying performance in Saturday’s $250,000 Princess Elizabeth Stakes, a main track race for Canadian-foaled 2-year-old fillies, and a key event on the path to the 71st running of the Woodbine Oaks presented by Stella Artois, the first jewel of the Canadian Triple Read more
adouglas2025-11-27T10:15:09-05:00November 26, 2025|
Chris Lomon, Woodbine TORONTO, November 26, 2025 – Graded stakes winner Dixie Law takes on eight rivals in the $250,000 Coronation Futurity, part of an 11-race Saturday Woodbine card that also features the $250,000 Princess Elizabeth Stakes. The 1 1/8-mile Coronation Futurity, a main track event for Canadian-foaled 2-year-olds, is a significant race on the Read more
Dave Briggs2025-11-14T09:50:22-05:00November 14, 2025|
Regal Moment ready for Ashbridges Bay appointment by Chris Lomon for Woodbine Eight fillies, including Regal Moment (above), will contest the $100,000 Ashbridges Bay Stakes, part of a 12-race card, Sunday at Woodbine. Trained by Stuart Simon for Anne and William Scott, the daughter of Point of Entry out of the Sky Conqueror mare Regal Read more
Dave Briggs2025-11-03T14:29:28-05:00November 3, 2025|
by Dave Briggs In August, when Ontario breeder David Clancy sold a Speaker's Corner colt (above) out of Carta de Oro for $142,000 out of the Hill ‘n’ Dale consignment, it proved to be the third-highest price reached at the Canadian Thoroughbred Horse Society’s (CTHS) Canadian Premier Yearling Sale. None of it would have been Read more
Dave Briggs2025-08-22T12:50:31-04:00August 22, 2025|
by Dave Briggs / Ontario Racing David Anderson believes the Canadian Premier Yearling Sale being held on Wednesday (Aug. 27) at the Woodbine Sales Pavilion is the antidote to a U.S. sales sector that “right now is out of control” and pricing the average horse owner out of the market. “Historically, [the Canadian sale] has Read more
Dave Briggs2025-08-15T20:53:19-04:00August 15, 2025|
by Hayley Morrison for Ontario Racing “The race has evolved, has changed, and has been challenged as far as the various components that go into having a live show put on once of year. But it’s something we can’t take for granted. We can’t take tradition, or our identity for granted.” Racing historian Tom Cosgrove Read more
Dave Briggs2025-07-29T09:01:23-04:00July 29, 2025|
by Dave Briggs / Ontario Racing Looking down from balcony of the Fasig-Tipton sales pavilion in Saratoga Springs, NY, Ontario breeder Arika Everatt-Meeuse thought she was going to vomit. It was exactly 26 days after her mother, Boss Lady J, had died. Everatt-Meeuse had spent much of the trip crying and now the hammer was Read more
Dave Briggs2025-07-20T11:32:45-04:00July 20, 2025|
by Chris Lomon / Woodbine communications (This story originally appeared here) The $150,000 Plate Trial Stakes, a key fixture on the road to this year’s King’s Plate (Aug.16), has drawn 10 hopefuls - all, but one Ontario-bred - including Scorching (above / Michael Burns photo) , who will be ridden by John Velazquez, Sunday (July Read more
