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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

By Jennifer Morrison Canada's unique Triple Crown series, presented by OLG, makes a stop at Fort Erie Race Track on Tuesday for the $400,000 Prince of Wales Stakes, the middle jewel of the prestigious series for Canadian-bred three-year-olds. The Prince of Wales is slightly shorter than the first jewel, the King's Plate, at 1-3/16 miles, Read more

TORONTO, September 8, 2024 – Hurricane Clair was able to best a stubborn Stormcast to win the $250,000 Wonder Where Stakes, the third leg of the Canadian Triple Tiara, Sunday at Woodbine. Stormcast, a dominant winner of the Bison City, second jewel in the Triple Tiara, and Hurricane Clair, runner-up in that race, set the Read more

TORONTO, September 7, 2024 – Lac Macaza, at 9-2, seized the lead into the turn for home and stayed strong down the lane to take Saturday’s $100,000 Niagara Stakes Presented by The Greenwood Stakes. Jockey Pietro Moran and Lac Macaza, a 5-year-old son of Giant Gizmo-Garavogue Colleen, played the waiting game as a pair of Read more

By Fort Erie Race Track Communications The second jewel of Canada’s Triple Crown, the $500,000 Prince of Wales, will take place on Tuesday, September 10 but without the King’s Plate winner, the filly Caitlinhergrtness. It is not uncommon for the Plate winner to by-pass the ‘Wales, which is run on the dirt at 1 3/16 Read more

TORONTO, September 5, 2024 – This year’s edition of the Canadian Triple Tiara concludes with Sunday’s running of the $250,000 Wonder Where Stakes, at Woodbine. Set for 1 ¼ miles on the E.P. Taylor turf, the Wonder Where, for 3-year-old Canadian-bred fillies, drew seven starters, including a pair of Chiefswood Stables’ homebreds, Quality Presence and Saccharine. A daughter of Quality Read more