austin stanton2022-10-12T16:42:03-04:00October 12, 2022|
TORONTO, October 12, 2022— Poulin in O T, a winner of three of four career starts including a pair of stakes for trainer Steve Owens, looms as the horse to beat in Friday’s Frost King. The Frost King attracted a field of seven Ontario-sired colts and geldings and goes as the seventh race over 6 Read more
austin stanton2022-10-12T16:39:57-04:00October 12, 2022|
TORONTO, October 12, 2022 — Ancient Spirit and A Touch of Red, a pair of homebreds trained by Sid Attard for Howard Walton, will be looking to continue their winning ways in Friday’s South Ocean Stakes. The South Ocean is a 6 1/2 -furlong main-track race for Ontario-sired 2-year-old fillies. Competing for Walton’s Norseman Racing Read more
austin stanton2022-10-04T15:44:26-04:00October 4, 2022|
TORONTO, October 4 – Ontario Racing’s Thoroughbred Improvement Program (TIP) is reporting a 155 per cent increase in the usage of sales credits at the 2022 Canadian Thoroughbred Horse Society’s (CTHS) Canadian Premier Yearling Sale. A total of $108,500 worth of sales credits were used to purchase 51 different horses at the August 31 sale, Read more
austin stanton2022-09-29T16:46:07-04:00September 29, 2022|
TORONTO, September 29, 2022 – Nine 3-year-olds, including four who contested the Queen’s Plate, will go postward this Sunday at Woodbine in the $400,000 Breeders’ Stakes, third jewel in the OLG Canadian Triple Crown. The final jewel of the tri-surface series for Canadian-bred sophomores concludes on the world-renowned E.P. Taylor Turf Course with the longest leg at Read more
austin stanton2022-09-26T13:49:12-04:00September 25, 2022|
TORONTO, September 25, 2022 – Lucky Score, under Leo Salles, was full of run late to take Sunday’s Grade 3 $180,000 Vigil Stakes at Woodbine. A 4-year-old son of Lookin At Lucky-Miss Matzo, Lucky Score arrived at the 6-furlong main track race for 3-year-olds and up without a stakes score on his stat sheet. On a rainy afternoon Read more
austin stanton2022-09-26T13:49:36-04:00September 24, 2022|
TORONTO, September 24, 2022 – Ancient Spirit, under Rafael Hernandez, seized control at the top of the lane en route to victory in Saturday’s $100,000 Victorian Queen Stakes, for 2-year-old Ontario-sired fillies, at Woodbine. Trained by Sid Attard for owner-breeder Howie Walton (Norseman Racing Stable), the daughter of Signature Red-Gemini arrived at the ‘about’ 7-furlong Read more
austin stanton2022-09-26T13:50:00-04:00September 24, 2022|
TORONTO, September 24, 2022 – Poulin in O T stickhandled his way to a gritty win in the $100,000 Bull Page Stakes, an ‘about’ 7-furlong grass event for Ontario-sired 2-year-old colts and geldings, Saturday at Woodbine. A son of Reload-Town Dance, Poulin in O T, with Patrick Husbands in the irons, broke sharply from the Read more
austin stanton2022-09-22T09:01:55-04:00September 22, 2022|
TORONTO, September 21, 2022 – Fresh off a maiden-breaking score, Awesome Bourbon, a bay son of Not Bourbon-Sea The Awesome (IRE), goes after his first stakes win in Saturday’s $100,000 Bull Page at Woodbine. An ‘about’ 7-furlong E.P. Taylor Turf test for Ontario-sired 2-year-olds, the Bull Page will see six starters vie for top prize Read more
austin stanton2022-09-14T10:35:14-04:00September 13, 2022|
FORT ERIE, September 13 – Labour Day is in the rearview mirror which means no white pants, and school is in session. Josh Attard must have missed the second half of that memo, as he was playing hooky to watch Pleasure’s Gold win in the $100,000 Rondeau Bay, leg two of the Ontario Sire Heritage Series Read more
austin stanton2022-09-13T20:46:36-04:00September 13, 2022|
FORT ERIE, September 13 – Stakes action on the $400,000 Prince of Wales undercard at Fort Erie Race Track kicked off in race two with leg two of the Ontario Sire Heritage Series for three-year-old colts and geldings, the $100,000 Lake Erie Stakes. Bossy Holiday bested Uncle Joe in deep stretch to win and move into Read more
