Woodbine News

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Adena Springs farm breeds some great horses as well as a lot of ...
KyForward.com
After moving from Austria to Canada, in his mid-20s Stronach founded a tool ... its base of operations in Kentucky, including its stallions, to that area.

Like it or not, Toronto casino is coming
London Free Press
Toronto just happens to have two perfect casino sites - one at Woodbine Racetrack where the slot machines reportedly jingle as merrily as anywhere in the world and one at Ontario Place, which the government has just shut down for five years as it ...


New casino would change things at Woodbine
Toronto Sun
Ridden by top Woodbine jockey, Luis Contreras, Prospective passed an important barometer for Derby hopefuls this time of year, throwing in a hard-charging ...

Weekend Warrior for Feb. 11: Wet track for Donn would help Hymn Book
Daily Racing Form
Yankee Fourtune overcame a tough post and beat five next-out winners in that race, as well as Turallure, who last year won the Grade 1 Woodbine Mile, ...


Eaves Cracks Globe's 'Power 50'
Standardbred Canada
On Monday, February 6, The Globe and Mail released its 'Power 50 List,' which ranks Canadians that have 'the influence, and the desire, to affect sport in Canada during 2012.' Woodbine Entertainment Group President and CEO Nick Eaves has cracked the ...


Lewis, Orser head Ontario Sports Hall of Fame's newest class
Toronto Star
Founded in 1995 as the Ontario Sport Legends Hall of Fame, the Hall's induction ceremony will take place in September at Woodbine racetrack. Bathgate, 79, was the lone inductee present at Tuesday's event. The former NHL Hart Trophy winner said he felt ...


Game On Dude and Ultimate Eagle likely for Big 'Cap
MiamiHerald.com
"I think Chantal (winning jockey Chantal Sutherland) did a great job not panicking when he didn't break. She got him running. They were going pretty rapid up front, but this horse, once you get him in a high cruising speed, he's so dangerous.


Insider - Horse Racing - Assiniboia Downs - Simulcast Racing, VLTs ...
In his very first bet ever, JD was pumped by the fact he almost picked a triactor. Kubicek comments on the walk here (Downs Facebook site) and here (Breeze ...

2011 Equine Canada Canadian Bred Horse of the Year: San Pail
Horse-Canada.com
In 2011, San Pail dominated Canadian harness racing by winning every stakes event he was entered in. At Woodbine, his victories include the Glorys Comet Stake and a third consecutive win in the Maple Leaf Trot Championship. A trip to the United States ...

2011 Equine Canada Media Award: Darryl Kaplan
Horse-Canada.com
Kaplan has won a Sovereign Award for Best Thoroughbred Racing Feature Story, a World Trotting Conference Award for Best International Horse Racing Feature, and an American Horse Publications “Service to the Reader Award.


Game On Dude wins at Santa Anita
San Jose Mercury News
Game On Dude defeated Uh Oh Bango by 5 1-4 lengths to win the $200000 San Antonio Stakes on Sunday at Santa Anita, giving jockey Chantal Sutherland a victory over ex-fiance Mike Smith that she was denied in the Breeders' Cup Classic.


Tampa Bay Downs: Dixie Strike takes Florida Oaks by a nose
Daily Racing Form
Through the second Dixie Strike, who trainer Mark Casse has indicated may be pointed for the Queen's Plate, ralllied four wide and set sail at the leader.


Battle Hardened gets up in Sam Davis
ESPN
Prospective, fifth at the eighth pole after being hung wide on the far turn, closed fast for Luis Contreras to get up for second over Reveron, ...


I'll Have Another upsets Robert Lewis
ESPN
Jockey Mario Gutierrez, who had his previous best days at Hastings Park, and owner Paul Reddam, who first got hooked on racing when following Standardbreds in his native Windsor, Ontario, celebrated with trainer Doug O'Neill after I'll Have Another, ...


Tampa Bay: Zagora capitalizes on perfect trip to capture Endeavor
Daily Racing Form
... Endeavour idle since finishing seventh in Woodbine's Grade 2 Canadian on Sept. ... Zagora rated off the early pace of Exclusive Love in the 1 1/16-mile ...


WEG Among Preferred Spots For Casino
Standardbred Canada
Half of Toronto residents oppose construction of a new casino in the city, according to a recent poll conducted, but if one were to be built local residents have cited Woodbine Racetrack as one of their preferences for its location.

Better odds for Toronto casino
Toronto Sun
In fact, he would like to see two casinos in the city - a Las Vegas-style showpiece at a revitalized Ontario Place and another casino at the Woodbine Racetrack in Etobicoke. The anti-casino mood at Toronto Council has shifted as local politicians look ...


Poll: 50 per cent of Torontonians don't want a casino in city
Toronto Star
The survey also revealed that Torontonians would prefer to see a casino built at the Exhibition Place in downtown Toronto, or at Woodbine Racetrack in the city's west end. The Exhibition Place site is acceptable because it's “a separate entertainment ...

Gamilati canters home in UAE Guineas
Brisnet.com
He checked in sixth to Regally Ready and Bated Breath in the Grade 1 Nearctic at Woodbine, his last start before heading to Dubai.


STABLE NOTES BY ED GOLDEN Friday February 3, 2012
HorseRaceInsider.com
Chantal Sutherland has a symbiotic relationship going on with Martin Garcia. She rides Game On Dude; he works the horse. “I know the horse very well,” said Sutherland, who has ridden Game On Dude in five of his 14 career starts, the last four in a row, ...


Trainer Casse eager to get going
Toronto Sun
“Dixie Strike might be my Queen's Plate horse,” Casse said. “She's a half sister to (last year's Plate champ) Inglorious. I want to run them both to start ...

State of Play tests dirt in Sam F. Davis
Brisnet.com
Regular rider Luis Contreras will be back aboard as he breaks from the far outside post 11. Also exiting the Pasco are Burning Time (fourth) and Moroccan ...

Tampa Bay Downs: Casse has big plans for Dixie Strike
Daily Racing Form
In her first start her jockey, Patrick Husbands, was thrown at the gate and was injured but still rode the race. She was beaten less than a length that day ...


Fire hits Barbados trucking business
Stabroek News
His brother, Barbados' most acclaimed jockey Patrick Husbands, estimated that the fire which also burnt a crane, two cars, loads of compact paper and ...

The Breeders Cup Forum Chantal Sutherland PaulickReportcom
Chantal Sutherland is a two-time Sovereign Award-winning apprentice in her native Canada in 2001-02 who is holding her own in the highly compe...

Hastings announces 40-race stakes schedule
Vancouver Sun
VANCOUVER - Hastings Racecourse has released its 2012 stakes schedule that includes 40 races with a total of $2.5 million in purse money. Raj Mutti, Regional General Manager, BC Racing, also announced that the $100000 BC Premiers has been upgraded to ...

Game On Dude set to go again
ESPN
Game On Dude was less than sixteenth of a mile from winning the Breeders' Cup Classic at Churchill Downs last November when jockey Chantal Sutherland sensed victory. "I could touch it," she said last weekend at Santa Anita. "It was right there.


Hills pair set for Dubai
SkySports
The five-year-old Red Jazz ran in the Godolphin Mile last year, ... globetrotting exploits and claimed the Northern Dancer Turf Stakes at Woodbine in 2010.


Skate the Lake ice crews overcome Old Man Winter
Brockville Recorder and Times
McArthur ended up sixth in the 25-kilometre marathon, which was won by Constant Montpellier with a time of 51:45. In second was Adrian Loewen at 52:31 and ..


Hot Week for Alberta Trainers Down South - Northlands Park
Craig Smith, based at Tampa Bay Downs, had 2 wins on the week including a huge step forward with Northern Yankee. Northern Yankee paid $44.20 in his...

Algorithms surges to victory in Holy Bull Stakes

MiamiHerald.com
By Jim Freer Hansen came into the one-mile Holy Bull unbeaten and was the 2011 Eclipse Award winner for 2-year-olds. He stumbled slightly coming out of the ...

$1M on the line for top bettors
Toronto Sun
The field includes 31 Canadians, eight of which qualified at Woodbine. Among that group is Barrie native Brian Troop, a regular in the Woodbine grandstand and winner of the 2010 title. Players get a chance to build their bankroll based on 15 mythical ...


The best by test
Trinidad & Tobago Express
... were pulling up on the paddock bend, one guy disdainfully flashed his hand as Native Idol and jockey Emile Ramsammy went past, almost sneering at them.

Fort Erie jockey in the running
Niagarathisweek.com
A jockey from the Fort Erie Race Track is a finalist at the upcoming 37th annual Sovereign Awards in Toronto. Fort Erie jockey Betty Jo Williams has a chance to clean up in the Outstanding Apprentice Jockey award category when the Jockey Club of Canada ...

old Forester earns bonus as Ontario's top sire of 2011
Daily Racing Form
The year-end awards, administered by the Canadian Thoroughbred Horse Society's ... Vibank also received a $50000 award as Ontario's top first-crop stallion.


Queen's Plate winner Mike Fox retired to stud | UK Bloodstock News ...
MIKE Fox, winner of the 2007 Queen's Plate Stakes in Canada, has been retired to stand at his birthplace, Firestone Farms in Ontario, Canada.

Luck had nothing to do with it
Canada.com
... Toronto-raised Chantal Sutherland, a jockey who's been dubbed the Danica Patrick of horse racing, and who appears in Luck's opening hour.

Cauz Retires From Hall Of Fame
Standardbred Canada
In 1984, his book 'The Plate, A Royal Tradition' was published to coincide with the 125th running of the Queen's Plate. With the book, Cauz became the first ...

Hovdey: Santa Monica back in deserving spotlight
Daily Racing Form
That would be the Queen's Plate, Canada's own, an event of comprehensive cultural significance that has somehow lasted 151 years.

Queen's Plate Winner Mike Fox Retired
Mike Fox, the 2007 Queen's Plate Stakes winner for breeder/owner D. Morgan Firestone, has been retired from racing for stallion duty at Firestone Farms near ...

Ontario-Breds Reap Further Awards
Horse-Canada.com
... captured two legs of the Canadian Triple Crown: the Breeders' Stakes and Prince of Wales Stakes, followed by a third place finish in the Queen's Plate.


Model and jockey Chantal Sutherland of Canada arrives
Model and jockey Chantal Sutherland of Canada arrives at the Hollywood premiere of the HBO series "Luck" in Los Angeles, California January 25, 2012.

Canadian studs have spread 'speed gene'
Windsor Star
Sired by Nearctic, Northern Dancer was the Ontario-born winner of the 1964 Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes, as well as the Queen's Plate, Canada's top ...


MR. WILL-W.:POP MAVEN: 2011 SOVEREIGN AWARD NOMINEES ...
2011 Sovereign Award Nominees: 1. Maritimer 2. Tu Endie Wei 3. Embur's Song 4. Inglorious 5. Luis Contreras 6. Pender Harbour 7. Fifty Proof 8. Atlantic ..

2011 Sovereign Award Finalists Announced |
www.jockeyclubcanada.com
Starry Starry Night. The Jockey Club of Canada Announces 2011 Sovereign Award Finalists. The Jockey Club of Canada will host their 37th ...

Ramzan Kadyrov acquires Maritimer after Sweet Ducky in March 2011
bettor.com
The winner of the Coronation Futurity Stakes stands out to be the favourite for the Woodbine's Queen's Plate, which is specifically for Canadian bred horses ...


Rachel Alexandra, Curlin colt arrives
ESPN
Rachel Alexandra, the 2009 Horse of the Year, gave birth Sunday to a 125-pound colt by two-time Horse of the Year Curlin. The bay colt was born at 2:40 pm ET on Stonestreet Farm near Lexington, Ky. He took his first steps 90 minutes later.

Kentucky Derby hopeful from Canada sold to controversial Chechen ...
Louisville Courier-Journal
If Maritimer can't make the Kentucky Derby because his owner can't get a license, he's still the favorite for Woodbine's Queen's Plate, which is restricted ...


Star Canadian horse sold to controversial Chechen leader
Toronto Star
“This is a very special horse,” said Walton about the son of American stallion Stormy Atlantic. ... “We hope to have him in Canada for the Plate.

Florida-bred Applauding favored in stakes debut
Ocala
She broke her maiden at Canada's Woodbine in early December over its synthetic surface track. She was bred by her owner, Greenwood Lodge Farm.

Aaaand, THEY'RE OFF
Winnipeg Free Press
It was a long bus ride out to Assiniboia Downs from the North End, but people-watching and looking out the window was a good distraction.


The Barbados Advocate Emile Ramsammy to ride Apostle in feature ...
Trinidadian born Canadian based jockey Emile Ramsammy has been declared to ride creole Apostle in the feature BTBA Garrison Turf Stakes TrophyCondition Race ...

Havre De Grace best of a weak field
Toronto Sun
Canadian owner and breeder Frank Stronach was the lone racing interest from north ... Bill Mott, who is a regular at Woodbine for major races, won the third ...


Nash known for humble generosity
London Free Press
As the story goes, Nash and his pals arrived early at the airport and decided to go to Woodbine race track to kill som


Great Hot falls back at two turns in the La Canada Stakes at Santa ...
bettor.com
Jockey Chantal Sutherland will be aboard Great Hot in the La Canada Stakes. Sutherland has ridden Great Hot for seven consecutive starts out of eight here ...


Backstretch Banter for January 13th - Northlands Park
Diodoro in Stakes action this weekend Theres no denying the Diodoro barn has been taking the Southwestern states by storm. The Alberta conditioner cu...

Ontario Sewer and Watermain Construction Association lauds Toronto ...
Daily Commercial News
... former city of Etobicoke between Woodbine Racetrack and Pearson International Airport) and $11.9 million to continue developing the Green Lane Landfill, ...

2011 Racing Champions Lead by Cold Cash 123
American Quarter Horse Journal
He will stand the 2012 season at JEH Stallion Station – Texas. .... Joyce and Erik Lehtinen's homebred The Diamond Side earned the Canadian champion title ...


Indefensible Eclipse Award Votes
Daily Racing Form
He finished fourth in the Maker's Mark, ninth in the Woodford Reserve Turf Classic, fourth in the Colonial Turf Cup, seventh in the Woodbine Mile, ...


Toronto casino could hurt competitors, Hudak says
CBC.ca
For example, Toronto's 2010 share from the Woodbine Racetrack amounted to almost ... clubs memberships -- even a $1.12 grocery bag. © The Canadian Press, 2012.


Businesses concerned about Toronto casino talk
Niagarathisweek.com
... host municipality of a slots facility at Woodbine Racetrack. Besides the Niagara Falls casinos, the OLG also operates the slots at Fort Erie Race Track. ...


The Eclipse Voting

Daily Racing Form
By Steven Crist BEVERLY HILLS -- A squeaker for 3-year-old, ... were the talk of the 41st annual Eclipse Awards tonight at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel. ...

Horse Racing - Assiniboia Downs - Simulcast Racing, VLTs, Dining ...
The Downs will come up with a design which it will put into place with city approval. What remarkable things has this tree "seen" through the ages? See this ...

Border cities decry proposal to open casino in Toronto
Globe and Mail
But the mayors say they risk losing much of that business if Canada's most ... play the slot machines on Friday evenings at Woodbine racetrack in Toronto. ...

'Luck' Debuts Sunday, January 29 on HBO
TVbytheNumbers
... Spencer Garrett, Barry Shabaka Henley, Ted Levine, Jurgen Prochnow, Alan Rosenberg, Mercedes Ruehl, Chantal Sutherland and Sir Michael Gambon.


Left Coast Racing: The Evolution of Hastings Park
They show the alignment of the Hastings Park racecourse before and after its ... Aerial view of Hastings Park - May 27, 1919 - City of Vancouver Archives image ...

UPI Thoroughbred Racing Roundup
UPI.com
Prospective, a Kentucky-bred Malibu Moon colt out of the Awesome Again mare Spirited Away, ran the 7 furlongs on a fast track in 1:23.88 with Luis Contreras ...

PROSPECTIVE, SALAD GIRL VICTORIOUS IN $100000 FEATURES
HorseRaceInsider.com
Luis Contreras rode the winner, who paid $7.20 to win. “It (the Juvenile) disappointed me. Whenever you see a race like that. … but, I have a little more ...

Trebles for Chadee, Whitehall
Trinidad & Tobago Express
Mobthewarrior, the fifth-placed finisher in Canada's Queen's Plate in 2010, ended up 1 ½ lengths adrift in his second outing in Trinidad. ...

Tampa Bay: Prospective bounces back from Breeders' Cup flop to ...
Daily Racing Form
Ridden by Luis Contreras for trainer Mark Casse, covered the seven furlongs in 1:23.88 while winning his third race from five career starts. ...


Filly brings top price at Keeneland session
BusinessWeek
A filly by leading sire Kitten's Joy has brought a top price of $180000 during the third session of Keeneland's January Horses of All Ages Sale. Glen Hill Farm purchased the filly, out of the stakes-placed Danzig mare Garden Spot and from the family of ...

Keeneland January sale sees big gains
Louisville Courier-Journal
The rebound of the thoroughbred breeding market continued at the Keeneland January Horses of All Ages Sale that ended Thursday. The gross increased 50.5 percent to $37.99 million despite fewer horses being sold. The 1003 sold was an 1.8-percent drop ...

No more horsing around
Montreal Gazette
... farm in St. Polycarpe that had a thoroughbred stallion for commercial breeding. ... But he fell just short in Canada's biggest race, the Queen's Plate, ...

Oaklawn: Ex-claimer It Happened Again seeks third stakes win in ...
Daily Racing Form
Moss claimed It Happened Again out of an October 2010 race at Woodbine. ... main track at Delaware Park and the Grade 3 Canadian Derby at Northlands Park. ...

When sky is the limit for high fliers coming to Dubai World Cup ...
The National
... took Mourilyan to Woodbine for the Canadian International," Nicolas Iguacel, ... EP Taylor Stakes, and she kept calling out and flirting with Mourilyan. ...


Dance And Dance 'the best horse I've trained', says Ed Vaughan
The National
The mount of Jamie Spencer finished sixth to Turallure in the Group 1 Woodbine Mile in September, one place ahead of Court Vision. ...


EXCITEMENT BUILDS FOR 2012 ... - Hastings Racecourse -
“The increase in attendance and the pari-mutuel handle last year was encouraging,” Mutti said while announcing Opening Day at Hastings Racecourse in 2012 ...

Racing Returning To Assiniboia Downs | Standardbred Canada
Warner recalls that before the Manitoba Jockey Club took control of Assiniboia Downs the track handled both breeds unsuccessfully ...

STABLE NOTES BY ED GOLDEN Saturday January 7, 2012
HorseRaceInsider.com
Where the girls are: Among the leading jockeys and trainers in Santa Anita's standings, five are women: Chantal Sutherland, Janet Armstrong, Kristin Mulhall ...

Delightful Mary, R Holiday Mood dead heat in Ocala
Brisnet.com
Never much more than two lengths off the pace, the Mark Casse trainee worked her way into third for Luis Contreras rounding the far turn. ...

Exciting finish to race ends in dead heat at Gulfstream
MiamiHerald.com
In a photo provided by Gulfstream Park, Delightful Mary (3), with Luis Contreras, and R Holiday Mood (2), with John Velazquez, finish in a dead heat for the ...

Saturday Spot Plays
Daily Racing Form
Most recently, she failed to change leads again when a non-threatening second behind the good Canadian filly Tu Endie Wei at Woodbine. ...

Dubai Duty Free still an option for Cityscape
Racing Post
... winning the Group 2 Prix de Royallieu at Longchamp, and finishing her season with a close fifth in the Grade 1 EP Taylor Stakes at Woodbine. ...

Sweet Seventeen to try two turns for the first time in the Busanda ...
bettor.com
Ridden by jockey Patrick Husbands, Sweet Seventeen, ran a solid race, but couldn't over haul the front running filly, Tu Endie Wei, and weakened just before ...

Postcard from Laurel Park: Where the will to win never grows old
Ottawa Citizen
It was hardly going to be the Kentucky Derby or the Queen's Plate or the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe anyway. No one ever pretended that The Brave Little Horse ...

Chantal Sutherland gets engagednot to Mike Smith PaulickReportcom
In case you haven't heard the news on Twitter, Southern California jockey Chantal Sutherland is celebrating her engagement to Dan Kruse of Monro...

Mahbooba kicks off Dubai Carnival in style
Brisnet.com
Mahbooba led for part of the way in the EP Taylor, only to tire in the yielding ground and end up sixth. Thursday's feature was designed as a prep for the ...


2011 Eclipse Awards: Perfect Shirl
Daily Racing Form
That effort signaled a return to form for Perfect Shirl and put her under consideration for the EP Taylor Stakes on home turf. However, she was withheld ...


Knowlton Ridge starts 2012 with a win in West Virginia
Bay Today
Firstimage won the 5th race last night at Charlestown Race Track in West Virginia by ... The gelding left Woodbine in December at the conclusion of the 2011 ...

Finalists Announced For 2011 Media Excellence Awards
Standardbred Canada
Cohen's shot of a wintry night at Woodbine Racetrack was published in the February, 2011 edition of The Canadian Sportsman. The six finalists were the top ...

WEG S-Bred Handle Up In 2011
Standardbred Canada
On Wednesday, January 4, the Woodbine Entertainment Group announced that its 2011 season of live standardbred racing, conducted at Woodbine Racetrack and ...

Calumet Farm acquires stallion
Daily Racing Form
Cactus Ridge already is the sire of Canadian champion sprinter Hollywood Hit, Grade 1 winners Hot Cha Cha, and dual stakes winner Peyote Patty. ...


2011 in Review
Brisnet.com
T -- TURALLURE could have been honored elsewhere for his last-gasp victory in the Woodbine Mile, but his superb second in the Breeders' Cup Mile is even ...


Never Retreat retired, she will miss the shot at the Marshua's ...
bettor.com
... Stakes at about 1 1/8 miles over the Woodbine race course's turf track. ... while she bagged the 1 1/8 mile event in 1 minute and 45.13 seconds. ...


Photo - Trinidad and Tobago's Newsday : newsday.co.tt :
RAMSAMMY ON THE GO Ace jockey Emile Ramsammy aboard Big Daddyright surges. « previous · next ». RAMSAMMY ON THE GO Ace jockey Emile Ramsammy aboard Big ...

Harding saddles Raging Halo to Sian's Gold
Trinidad News
Canadian-based Emile Ramsammy rode three winners under sunny conditions in Arima while, among the trainers, John O'Brien is the early leader of the 2012 ...


Kentucky breeding operations worry about losing stallions to other ...
Louisville Courier-Journal
According to The Jockey Club, Kentucky's 228 reported stallions covered 15714 mares this year, more than the next nine states or Canadian provinces combined ...

SD Sportswriters Take A Look At The Unusual Happenings Of 2011
Yankton Daily Press
July 6: Aberdeen native and Rapid City horse trainer Ardell Sayler saddled his 1000th-winning horse at Assiniboia Downs race track in Winnipeg, Canada. ...

Here's to the Ladies and Their Futures in 2012
HorseRaceInsider.com
... in the year that filly went on to win Canada's $500000 Woodbine Oaks and then defeat male rivals in the $1000000 Queen's Plate north of the border. ...

Pletcher, Dominguez, Midwest Thoroughbreds top 2011 North American ...
Paulick Report
... Luis Contreras, $12307455 (220/1134); Garrett Gomez, $11870360 (137/782); Jose Lezcano, $10713658 (182/1047); and Patrick Husbands, $9849835 (193/846). ...

Oh, Canada: Top 10 anticipated things for racing in 2012
Paulick Report
... breeding business, and the return of a stellar jockey colony that includes Luis Contreras, Eurico Rosa Da Silva, Emma-Jayne Wilson and Patrick Husbands. ...

Tattenham Corner
The Guardian
It uses the Santa Anita name and even features top jockeys Chantal Sutherland and Gary Stevens, who will play a rider with drug problems. ...

Year in photos
Albany Times Union
The picture captured the expression on jockey Chantal Sutherland's face when the horse she was riding in the $6 million Breeders' Cup Classic at Churchill ...

A year to surpass all others
Trinidad & Tobago Express
The 49-year-old winner of more than 2500 races came across from his base at Woodbine in Canada along with countryman Richard Dos Ramos, who has ridden at ...


Great Hot & Jockey Chantal Sutherland | Flickr Photo Sharing
Great Hot & Jockey Chantal Sutherland. ... Newest photo →; Great Hot & Jockey Chantal Sutherland · Teddy's Promise La Brea Stakes · Angela ...

Ringing in the New Year at Northlands - Northlands Park
Live racing continues this weekend at Northlands with dashes Friday and Saturday (New Years Eve) evening beginning at 6 pm - plus a Sunday (New Years...

Mahbooba set for Dubai return on Thursday
Racing Post
She was then based in Newmarket and won a Listed race at Newmarket beforea close sixth in the Grade 1 EP Taylor Stakes at Woodbine in Canada. ...


`Luck' could pay off for Santa Anita
Los Angeles Daily News
"Luck" features familiar race scenes and characters from Santa Anita Park, including retired Hall of Fame jockey Gary Stevens and jockey Chantal Sutherland. ...


Photos of the year
Winnipeg Free Press
... gold at the 2010 Olympic Games skeleton event the winter before this image was taken at Assiniboia Downs. The human Jon holds his Olympic gold medal. ...

Party like it's 2011
Winnipeg Free Press
Horse-racing fans who didn't get tickets to the Assiniboia Downs party already are out of luck: the night is sold out. THE Winnipeg Convention Centre's ...

Bumper card to start new year
Trinidad & Tobago Express
Emile Ramsammy, who has been based at "Woodbine" for the last two decades and is the most successful jockey ever to emerge from this country, ...


Martin: "We Have A Very Good Story To Tell"
Standardbred Canada
"What we basically did was at the request of the Canadian Pari-Mutuel Agency, Woodbine had expressed a desire to offer to new configurations on some wagers, and out position is that if there's not an integrity concern that we would try to accommodate ...

Toronto's Top 100 Events of 2011
BizBash
Up From 4: Queen's Plate continues to grow where other top-notch horse races have been in decline. The triple-crown race has been on a steady climb since ...

Beaten Legally Ready chases First Classic
Trinidad News
And the Harold Chadee owned and trained filly, who will again have Canada-based Trinidadian jockey Emile Ramsammy in the saddle, will not have to contend ...

The $300000 crapshoot
ESPN
As the offspring of Smart Strike, a stallion whose other offspring include 2010 Preakness winner Lookin ... "Registered Canadian bred," Collier continues. ...


Twenty horses died in as many months at Hastings Racecourse in Vancouver due mainly to bone fractures, according to provincial documents released through ...

'BOOGIE' STRIKES GOLD
Trinidad & Tobago Express
The American-bred four-year-old, who was partnered by the Canada-based Omar Moreno, earned $300000 for owner Dachin Racing Stables to go past $500000 for ...


Boogie Blues battles to Gold Cup victory
Trinidad News
Sir Bas comfortabley took the $150000 St James Stakes with Emile Ramsammy astride. But there was some disappointment for connections when Legally Ready ...


STABLE NOTES BY ED GOLDEN Monday December 26, 2011
HorseRaceInsider.com
Probable for the La Brea: Great Hot, Chantal Sutherland; Home Sweet Aspen, Joel Rosario; May Day Rose, Martin Garcia; Sugarinthemorning, Garrett Gomez; ...

Big name riders congregate at Santa Anita
Sports Network
Canadian-native Chantal Sutherland is back for another meet at Santa Anita. She won this year's Big 'Cap aboard Game On Dude for trainer Bob Baffert. ...

Bank on Ramsammy on Republic Day
Trinidad Guardian
Tres Amigos has gone for Emile Ramsammy to partner Bruceontheloose. The John O'Brien trained in-mate should be at concert pitch. Of the others, only Boogie ...

Racing season to end with big bang
Trinidad & Tobago Express
And if all of that is not enough, Emile Ramsammy, this country's most celebrated jockey of all time, has returned from his base in Canada to be part of the ...

Maragh returns to winning ways with triple
Jamaica Observer
... year in North America behind Trinidad & Tobago's Oswald Pereira (231 wins), Barbadian Patrick Husbands (193) and another Jamaican Shaun Bridgmohan (136).

Track to hold its first quarter-horse race
MiamiHerald.com
Spirited Miss, trained by Mark Casse, has second- and fourth-place finishes in a pair of stakes races at Woodbine in Etobicoke, Ontario. Luis Contreras will ...

20 horses died at track in two seasons: Documents
MetroNews Canada
An average of one horse every month dies or is put down at Hastings Racecourse, according to government documents. Autopsy reports — posted on the BC government's freedom-of- information website — reveal that 19 horses and one pony were examined ...

Finders Key a keeper
The Province
Back in 2002, Finders Key, a grandson of popular stallion Key to the Mint, ... Clark was inducted into the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame in 2009. ...

Nina just one of the lads in male-dominated environment
Irish Times
Group One winners such as Hayley Turner in Britain or the glamorous Canadian Chantal Sutherland just seem to cut a different shape in the saddle. ...

Historicist: The Brothers Turofsky
Torontoist
On the only occasion a reigning monarch attended the Queen's Plate, Nat snuck onto the platform—with the assistance of an RCMP officer friend—so he could ...

Horse Breeding Canters Back to NY
Wall Street Journal
Last year, Frank Stronach, founder of the Canadian auto components company Magna, sent five stallions to McMahon. "He placed five in New York state last ...

Indian Charlie, sire of Uncle Mo, dies at 16
Daily Racing Form
Cancer was not the first medical issue the stallion had fought. ... the 2006 champion older mare; and Indian Apple Is, a Canadian champion female sprinter. ...

2011 Year In Review: Division by division
Daily Racing Form
Tizway won two of the biggest races in New York, the Met Mile and Whitney, .... held off the onrushing Turallure, who was coming off a win in the Woodbine Mile.

Rocket Man bids to blast to HK Sprint glory
Racing Post
... was less impressed with stall 12 but the horse did overcome a similarly tricky draw when second in the Grade 1 Nearctic Stakes at Woodbine in October. ...

If There Were a Better Moment than the Delaware 'Cap, I Missed It
HorseRaceInsider.com
To wit: Game on Dude and Chantal Sutherland survive 10 furlongs and a 12-minute stewards' inquiry in capturing the Santa Anita Handicap—Wrote about it when ...

Woodbine's top-10 stories
Toronto Sun
By the time the Queen's Plate rolled around, he was well in front of the jockey's standings and he continued to draw off right through the end of the meet. ...

Rick Teverbaugh: Stroke of 'Luck' for race fans
The Herald Bulletin
I find it particularly encouraging that former jockey Gary Stevens, who was so good in “Seabiscuit,” and Chantal Sutherland, one of the top current female ...

Casse, Contreras Set Records During 2011 Woodbine Meet
Horse-Canada.com
Patrick Husbands was a clear second in the standings with 192 wins, while Emma-Jayne Wilson was third (135 wins). Melnyk Racing Stables, Inc. led all owners ...

Wagering up again as Woodbine calls 2011 a wrap
Toronto Star
Thoroughbreds ride off into the sunset as Woodbine Racetrack's 167-day racing ... Eaves also pointed out that the success of Canadian-based horses and ...

ACTRESS/MODEL/JOCKEY CHANTAL SUTHERLAND ... - Will-W.
Toronto's v. own Chantal Sutherland has returned home once again - even if only for a weekend - to cap-off the Thoroughbred Racing Season at Woodbine ...

Woodbine: 2007 Queen's Plate winner gets plenty of practice, but no real races
Daily Racing Form
The off-season should give the Woodbine Entertainment Group, the Ontario Racing Commission, and the Canadian Pari-Mutuel Agency a chance to look at some issues of concern to Woodbine horseplayers. ◗ More accurate reporting of first-time gelding ...

Horse Racing 2011: NTRA Chief Alex Waldrop Weighs In
Huffington Post
Filling races is a challenge every race track is facing. .... major facilities like Woodbine and Santa Anita, and smaller venues like Canterbury Park and ...

Leading Indiana sire Chief Seattle dead
Thoroughbred Times
He has also sired champions in three different countries—Canadian ... Chief Seattle began his stallion career at Spendthrift Farm in Lexington and also ...

Popular media personality loved horse racing, alter egos
Globe and Mail
He was also a familiar commentator on CBC Television broadcasts of such prestigious races as the Queen's Plate. As a young man on the West Coast, ...

Horse Racing Draws a Line at Licensing Chechen Leader
New York Times
Sweet Ducky eventually surfaced at Woodbine racetrack in Toronto, where he was entered in a $78937 race on Oct. 30. 展e have no reason to deny the man a ...

Horse-racing snowbirds head for the sunshine and track in Arizona
The Province
By Tom Wolski, Province Sports Columnist November 25, 2011 2:22 AM For years when the thoroughbred season was over at Hastings Racecourse, it would mean for many horse-men a time to close up their stables and head home with their horses to the farm. ...

JAPAN CUP SET TO STAY AT HOME
Sportinglife.com
Globe-trotting filly who won the Canadian International at Woodbine last time out in convincing fashion. Behind Shareta in the Prix Vermeille before that, ...