Skye Chernetz: Always up for adventure
TORONTO, March 22, 2023– For jockey Skye Chernetz, the racing offseason is a passport to adventure, with this particular chapter of her travels…
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Woodbine Winter Watch: Don MacRae and Slade Jones
TORONTO, March 20, 2023 – Each week, in the lead-up to Opening Day (April 22) of the 2023 Woodbine Thoroughbred season, the Woodbine…
Sofia Vives: “Racing, it runs through my mind all day”
TORONTO, March 15, 2023– Sofia Vives’ one complaint about getting aboard 33 Thoroughbreds on a near-perfect Florida morning? She didn’t have the…
Grade 1 Canadian International: A legendary return
TORONTO, March 14, 2023 – One of the most beloved and iconic races on the Woodbine Thoroughbred calendar has a date in…
Woodbine Winter Watch: Darwin Banach and Emma-Jayne Wilson
TORONTO, March 13, 2023 – Each week, in the lead-up to Opening Day (April 22) of the 2023 Woodbine Thoroughbred season, the Woodbine…
Woodbine Set for Most Exciting Racing Season in Recent History
Thoroughbred Meet Opens in Six Weeks on April 22 Toronto, ON – Saturday, March 11 – Woodbine Entertainment is preparing for one of…
Former Racehorses Soaring to New Heights
TORONTO, March 9, 2023– It was only fitting that on this day Jim Phillips was spending his morning marvelling at the exploits…
Woodbine unveils Pink Lloyd Stakes
TORONTO, March 8, 2023 – The Ontario Jockey Club Stakes will now be known as Pink Lloyd Stakes, in recognition of one…
A Royal Welcome for the ‘King’
Serve the King (GB) is feeling right at home in surroundings that are, rather appropriately, fit for a king. A Grade 2…
Woodbine Winter Watch: Josie Carroll and Rafael Hernandez
TORONTO, February 27, 2023 – Each week, in the lead-up to Opening Day (April 22) of the 2023 Woodbine Thoroughbred season, the…
‘He’s an incredible horse and I love him’
An Equine Welfare Feature TORONTO, February 23, 2023– As she ran her hands over the dark bay gelding’s mane, Nora Calhoun, for…
Woodbine Winter Watch: Barb Minshall and Declan Carroll
TORONTO, February 21, 2023 – Each week, in the lead-up to Opening Day (April 22) of the 2023 Woodbine Thoroughbred season, the Woodbine Communications…
Shirl’s Speight set for stiff test in Grade 1 February Stakes
A familiar face to Woodbine racing fans, Shirl’s Speight, a six-year-old son of Speightstown, trained by Hall of Famer Roger Attfield and…
Ricky’s Story: “Horse Racing Saved My Life”
TORONTO, February 15, 2023– The hotheaded kid from Weston Road and Finch was heading down a dangerous road. Ricky Dookeran saw it…
Woodbine Winter Watch: Steven Chircop and Sahin Civaci
TORONTO, February 13, 2023 – Each week, in the lead-up to Opening Day (April 22) of the 2023 Woodbine Thoroughbred season, the Woodbine Communications…
Jockey Club Of Canada Announces 2022 Sovereign Awards Finalists
TORONTO, February 10, 2023– The Jockey Club of Canada is pleased to announce the finalists for the 2022 Sovereign Awards honouring Canada’s…
Woodbine Winter Watch: Kevin Attard and Justin Stein
TORONTO, February 6, 2023 – Each week, in the lead-up to Opening Day (April 22) of the 2023 Woodbine Thoroughbred season, the Woodbine Communications…
The ‘Major,’ Barbaro, and their adoring fan
TORONTO, February 2, 2023– There are times when Donna Ralph can see a spark in the eyes of the 30-year-old Thoroughbred, a…
Home, sweet Woodbine home for Campos
TORONTO, January 30, 2023– Jose Campos has good reasons, four of them, to be exact, to believe he can make the 2023…
Canadians set to take flight on Pegasus World Cup day
TORONTO, January 27, 2023– There are plenty of Canadian-connected horses and horse people set to take part in Saturday’s highly anticipated Pegasus…
In Historic First, Fipke’s Shirl’s Speight To Run In February S. In Japan
NEW JERSEY, January 19, 2023– Charles Fipke’s Grade I winner and ‘TDN Rising Star’ Shirl’s Speight (Speightstown) will become the first foreign horse to…
Roaring Forties revved up and ready for Sunshine Turf Stakes
January 18, 2023 – Roaring Forties, a seven-year-old son of Stormy Atlantic, is set to take on six rivals in the 1…
KAZUSHI KIMURA WINS FIRST-EVER RACE AT SANTA ANITA AS KIRSTENBOSCH IS UP TO WIN GRADE III, $200,000 LA CANADA STAKES
ARCADIA, California, January 15, 2023—North America’s Eclipse Award winning Apprentice Jockey in 2019, Japanese native Kazushi Kimura won his first-ever Santa Anita…
The Search for Sunny Boy
TORONTO, January 11, 2023 – Jillian Wainwright had all but given up on finding a riding horse she could connect with. Then…