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TORONTO, October 5, 2024 – Patches O’Houlihan, with Sofia Vives in the irons, was challenged early, but fought on gamely down the lane to win Grade 2 $250,000 Nearctic Stakes Presented by The Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance, Saturday at Woodbine. The six-furlong turf stakes for 3-year-olds and upward, attracted a competitive field of 10, including Patches O’Houlihan, Canada’s reigning Read more

By Chris Lomon/Woodbine Communications TORONTO, September 29, 2024 – Roscar, Saccharine, and Side Street gave Chiefswood Stables a homebred podium finish in the $400,000 Breeders’ Stakes, the final jewel in the OLG Canadian Triple Crown, Sunday at Woodbine. Thor’s Cause, 4-5 choice Hurricane Clair, and Side Street scrapped over the early lead in the 1 Read more

TORONTO, September 26, 2024 – Seven 3-year-olds are set to go postward in Sunday’s $400,000 Breeders’ Stakes, the third jewel in the OLG Canadian Triple Crown, at Woodbine. The final event of the tri-surface series for Canadian-bred sophomores concludes on the world-renowned E.P. Taylor turf with the longest leg of 1 ½ miles. In her Read more

By Chris Lomon/Woodbine Communications TORONTO, September 21, 2024 – Owen’s Tour Guide, under Jose Campos, was full of run late to take Saturday’s $100,000 Zadracarta Stakes, at Woodbine. The Zadracarta, a five-furlong inner turf event for Ontario-bred fillies and mares, 3-year-olds and up, went postward with seven hopefuls, including 7-1 Owen’s Tour Guide, who was Read more

By Chris Lomon/Woodbine Communications TORONTO, September 15, 2024 – Dewolf was able to get the upper hand late to take top prize in the $100,000 Bull Page Stakes, a seven-furlong grass event for Ontario-sired 2-year-old colts and geldings, Sunday at Woodbine. A son of Silent Name (JPN)-Holy Cargo, Dewolf, with Rafael Hernandez aboard, sat a Read more

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