Dave Briggs2025-06-28T20:25:20-04:00June 28, 2025|
by Chris Lomon / Woodbine communications Ontario-breds won two of the five stakes on Woodbine Racetrack's Saturday (June 28) Canada Day Racing Festival card. Reigning Canadian Horse of the Year Patches O'Houlihan won the $200,000 bet365 Highlander Stakes (Grade 2) and Mansetti won the 150,000 HPIbet Marine Stakes (Grade 3). Patches O’Houlihan (above) drifted out Read more
Dave Briggs2025-06-23T09:33:58-04:00June 23, 2025|
by Chris Lomon / Woodbine communications This story originally appeared here. The curtain raised on the Ontario Sired Heritage Series Sunday afternoon at Woodbine with a pair of $100,000 stakes, the Georgian Bay and Lake Huron. The five-furlong inner turf events are part of the Ontario Sired Heritage Series, an eight-leg stakes series open to Read more
Dave Briggs2025-06-20T10:40:56-04:00June 20, 2025|
by Chris Lomon / Woodbine communications A pair of stakes, the $100,000 Georgian Bay and $100,000 Lake Huron, mark the start of this year’s Ontario Sired Heritage Series, Sunday (June 22) at Woodbine. Established in 2021, the Ontario Sired Heritage Series is comprised of three $100,000 legs and a $100,000 final for two divisions: 3-year-old Read more
austin stanton2023-10-26T12:27:24-04:00October 26, 2023|
By Woodbine Communications/ Chris Lomon TORONTO, October 25, 2023 – Junior Hot Shot steps into the stakes spotlight for the first time in Saturday’s $100,000 Frost King at Woodbine. The son of Souper Speedy-Executive Dreamer arrives at the 6 ½-furlong Tapeta event for Ontario-sired 2-year-olds off a dazzling debut on October 1 at Woodbine. Under Read more
austin stanton2023-10-26T11:08:54-04:00October 26, 2023|
By Woodbine Communications/ Chris Lomon TORONTO, October 25, 2023 – Gradevole, a debut winner, wades into stakes action in Saturday’s $100,000 South Ocean at Woodbine. Trained by Patrick Dixon for owner and breeder Colebrook Farms, the daughter of Danish Dynaformer-Congeniality rallied smartly to win her debut, a 5 ½-furlong Tapeta race on September 14. After getting Read more
austin stanton2023-10-23T10:33:33-04:00October 23, 2023|
By Woodbine Communications/ Chris Lomon TORONTO, October 22, 2023 – Perfect Crime, under leading rider Kazushi Kimura, powered home to take top prize in the $100,000 Overskate Presented by bet365, Sunday at Woodbine. The race, for Ontario-sired 3-year-olds and up, was run at 7 ½ furlongs on an inner turf listed as “good.” Patches O’Houlihan, undefeated Read more
austin stanton2023-10-23T10:17:55-04:00October 23, 2023|
By Woodbine Communications/ Chris Lomon TORONTO, October 22, 2023 – Fashionably Fab, a 3-year-old daughter of Silent Name (JPN)-Flashy’s Legacy, fought every step of the way to eke out a narrow victory in the $100,000 Eternal Search Stakes Presented by bet365, Sunday at Woodbine. The race for Ontario-sired fillies and mares, 3-year-olds and up, was run Read more
austin stanton2023-10-23T09:58:44-04:00October 23, 2023|
By Woodbine Communications/ Chris Lomon TORONTO, October 21, 2023 – Touch’n Ride crossed the wire second, but was placed first after Solo Album was disqualified in the $150,000 Ontario Derby (G3), on Saturday at Woodbine. Solo Album, breaking from the outside post, Twin City, and Velocitor, who won the Prince of Wales Stakes – the middle jewel Read more
austin stanton2023-10-20T11:36:16-04:00October 20, 2023|
By Woodbine Communications TORONTO, October 20, 2023 – Patches O’Houlihan will put his perfect three-year-old record on the line in Sunday’s $100,000 Overskate Stakes at Woodbine Racetrack. A deep group of eight Ontario sired three-year-olds and up will race 7 ½ furlongs over Woodbine’s bet365 Inner Turf for the Overskate. The Robert Tiller trained Patches O’Houlihan Read more
austin stanton2023-10-19T17:15:11-04:00October 19, 2023|
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
