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Arashi (inside) breaks his maiden via disquaification Aug. 13 at Woodbine (Michael Burns) By Chris Lomon - Woodbine Communications TORONTO- Arashi will go after his second straight score when he goes postward in Saturday's $250000 Cup & Saucer Stakes at Woodbine. A 1 1/16-mile event for Canadian-foaled 2-year-olds run over the E.P. Taylor turf, the…

Book'em Danno #8 with Samuel Marin riding won the $100000 Smoke Glacken Stakes at Monmouth Park September 9, 2023. (Angelo Benedetto/EQUI-PHOTO) NYRA Press Office OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Atlantic Six Racing's stakes winner Book'em Danno will make his turf debut in Sunday's Grade 3, $150000 Futurity, a six-furlong outer turf test for juveniles, at…

Fourteen 3-year-olds, including King's Plate winner Paramount Prince and runner-up Elysian Field, Kaukokaipuu, who contested the Plate and Prince of Wales Stakes, and three Kevin Attard trainees, are slated to go postward in Sunday's $400000 Breeders' Stakes, the third jewel in the OLG Canadian Triple Crown, at Woodbine. The final event of the…

Me and My Shadow, one of eight contenders in the Wonder Where (Michael Burns) By Chris Lomon - Woodbine Communications TORONTO- This year's edition of the Canadian Triple Tiara concludes with Sunday's running of the $250000 Wonder Where Stakes, at Woodbine. Set at 1 ¼ miles on the E.P. Taylor Turf Course, the Wonder Where, for 3-year-old…

Sunday's card at Saratoga Race Course will be bolstered by a Pick 6 carryover of $251589 after the multi-race wager went unsolved on Saturday's 12-race program. The $1 Pick 6 returned $27954 to bettors who selected 5-of-6 winners correctly. The sequence kicked off in Race 7 with the Manny Franco-piloted General Partner [No. 3, $9.30] graduating…

Dream Jareem breaks his maiden under Slade Jones Oct. 16, 2022, at Woodbine (Michael Burns) By Chris Lomon - Woodbine Communications / @WoodbineComms TORONTO- Kevin Attard trainees Dream Jereem and Love to Shop chase top prize in the $125000 Toronto Cup Presented by Crown Royal, Sunday at Woodbine. Dream Jereem, a son of Austern (AUS)-Lexi Tap, and…

Grade 1 Kentucky Derby winner Mage logged his penultimate breeze on Friday at Saratoga Race Course in preparation for the Grade 1, $1.25 million Travers on August 26. The chestnut son of Good Magic covered six furlongs in 1:12.98 over the Spa's main track around 7:45 a.m. under regular exercise rider J.J. Delgado. "He did pretty good. He was a…

Silent Poet winning the Highlander at Woodbine. (Michael Burns) Stable Notes By Jim Charvat DEL MAR, Calif.-The five-furlongs turf race following the Real Good Deal Stakes Friday at Del Mar is officially listed as a third-level allowance but judging by the field, it could easily pass as another stakes race on the eight-race Friday evening…

BERRIOS VAULTS TO THE TOP OF THE JOCKEY STANDINGS IN WEEK 2 Jockey Hector Berrios put together back-to-back riding triples last weekend to climb into a first-place tie with defending riding champion Juan Hernandez in the Del Mar jockey standings. Berrios came into last Saturday with five victories and by the time the final race was in the books…

Patches O'Houlihan and jockey Daisuke Fukumoto winning the Lake Huron Stakes on July 8, 2023 (Michael Burns Photo) Chris Lomon, Woodbine Communications / @WoodbineComms TORONTO, On. - A pair of Ontario-sired 3-year-old turf stakes, the $100000 Thunder Bay, and $100000 Lake Superior, share the spotlight on Sunday's 14-race card at Woodbine. Five…

Hazelbrook and jockey Jason Hoyte win the Ontario Fashion October 15, 2022, at Woodbine (Michael Burns) By Chris Lomon - Woodbine Communications / @WoodbineComms TORONTO- Hazelbrook, Canada's 2022 champion female sprinter, will defend her crown in Saturday's $150000 Hendrie Stakes (G3) at Woodbine. Owned by True North Stable and trained by Lorne…

Foolish Games and jockey Omar Moreno winning on May 21, 2023, at Woodbine (Michael Burns Photo) Chris Lomon, Woodbine Communications / @WoodbineComms TORONTO, On. - A pair of stakes, the $100000 Georgian Bay and $100000 Lake Huron, mark the start of this year's Ontario Sire Heritage Series, Saturday at Woodbine. Established in 2021, the Ontario…

Lucky Score and Sahin Civaci capture the Highlander at big odds (Michael Burns) By Chris Lomon - Woodbine Communications TORONTO- Lucky Score, trained by dual Hall of Famer Mark Casse, scored top prize in Saturday's $200000 Highlander Stakes (G2T), at Woodbine. It was a cavalry charge for the lead in the six-furlong turf sprint for 4-year-olds and…

Thursday kicks off Belmont Stakes week, and the $200000 Wonder Again (G2) highlights a pair of stakes on the 10-race program. I will single both stakes in a Pick 3 ticket. The sequence kicks off in the seventh race, an allowance/optional claimer for turf sprinters, and my thoughts are below. $10 Pick 3 (Race 7): 1,6 with 1 with 8 = $20 1A…

Carmelita's Man. (Benoit Photo) Stable Notes By Victor Ryan / ARCADIA, Calif.-The 10th and final race on Saturday's California Cup program is the $200000 Unusual Heat Turf Classic for older state-breds going 1 ⅛ miles on turf. While a field of nine was entered, led by 2-1 morning-line favorite Carmelita's Man, only eight will go postward as The…

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Poulin in O T wins the Frost King Oct. 14 at Woodbine (Michael Burns) By Chris Lomon - Woodbine Communications TORONTO- A pair of $150000 2-year-old stakes, the Clarendon and Shady Well, share the spotlight on Saturday's 11-race card at Woodbine. Each set for 6 furlongs over the Tapeta, the Shady Well (2-year-old fillies) and Clarendon…

There's a reason we're the #1 trusted source for premium racing picks & info. Secret Reserve will chase his second graded stakes crown when he goes postward in Sunday's Grade 2, $175000 Kennedy Road, at Woodbine. Trained by Mike Mattine for Carlo D'Amato and Stacey Van Camp, Secret Reserve will take on 10 rivals in the 6-furlong main track race for…

Hazelbrook wins the G3 Ontario Fashion Oct. 15 (Michael Burns) Woodbine Press Release TORONTO- Hazelbrook, a 4-year-old daughter of Bayern, goes for another graded stakes crown, this time in Saturday's Grade 2 $175000 Bessarabian Stakes, at Woodbine. The 7-furlong main track feature for fillies and mares, 3-year-olds and upward, has drawn nine…

Bound for Nowhere, a well-travelled 8-year-old, owned and trained by Wesley Ward, shipped in from Kentucky this July to take down the Grade 2 Highlander Handicap over 6 furlongs of Woodbine's E.P. Taylor Turf Course. On Saturday, the four-time stakes winner will be looking to add to his laurels when he faces eight rivals in the Grade 2 $250000…

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 $100000 Bull Page at Woodbine. An'about' seven-furlong E.P. Taylor Turf test for Ontario-sired 2-year-olds, the Bull Page will see six starters vie for top prize on a card that also includes the running…

Marc Keller's Kentucky homebred Daunt will look to make his stakes debut a winning one in Friday's $100000 Awad, a 1 1/16-mile Widener turf test for juveniles at Belmont Park in Elmont, N.Y. The Awad is one of four stakes on Friday's packed card, including the $200000 Ticonderoga, a 1 1/16-mile turf test for state-bred fillies and mares; the…

TORONTO, October 28, 2021 - The Grade 3 $150000 Ontario Derby, for three-year-olds, and the $125000 Ontario Damsel, for three-year-old fillies, co-headline Sunday's 10-race card at Woodbine. Riptide Rock, a son of Point of Entry, heads into the 1 1/8-mile main track Ontario Derby off a runner-up effort to British Royalty (who'll also run) in the…

Woodbine Entertainment unveiled its stakes schedule today for the 2020 Thoroughbred racing season, which will run from April 18 to December 13 at Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto, Ontario. The 2020 Thoroughbred stakes program will offer more than $16.5 million in purses across 87 stakes and features three $1 million races including The Queen's Plate…