#HORSERACING: AMERICAN PHAROAH HEADLINES AN EMOTIONAL, STAR-STUDDED BREEDERS’ CUP 2015!
Having spent most of my childhood weekends at the racetrack with my parents, it has always been a dream of mine to attend the Breeders' Cup. The two-day championship series of races often decide divisional honours and Horse of the Year title in America, with 13 races totaling a whopping $24.5 million. Although the event rotates from track to track annually, with our Woodbine playing host once only in 1996, Keeneland in Lexington, Kentucky would have the honour this year.
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#HORSERACING: MY 2015 WOODBINE RACING SEASON HIGHLIGHTS
It's been absolutely a stellar 2015 racing season at Woodbine Racetrack and even though we've still got a month to go before the curtain drops for the Thoroughbreds, both the 24-hour Casino and Standardbreds still are going into the New Year! Details and schedule here!
We've been there every step of the way this racing season. The build-up to the Woodbine Oaks, won by likely champion three-year-old filly Academic. We were there for the thrill and fashion of North America's most historic ...
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#HORSERACING: BREEDERS CROWN 2015 HIGHLIGHTS
It isn't every year that Woodbine gets to host the richest, most prestigious night in Harness Racing, so we were incredibly lucky to be home to the 12 races totaling $6 million this year. These races often have a strong bearing on which horses will go on to be crowned champion year-end.
The best in the sport gathered for a shot at the huge purse money and the biggest winner tonight was driver Dave Miller who topped the night with a whopping five Breeders Crown wins tonight. Neither rain nor ...
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#HORSERACING: THE 2015 BREEDERS CROWN TAKES PLACE SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2015 AT WOODBINE RACETRACK!
It's been a good while since we've been out to enjoy some harness races, so what better night to do it than this Saturday night, the Breeders Crown? The championship night of standardbred racing - a little different from thoroughbred races, in that horses pull the rider on a two-wheel cart - is comprised of 12 races totaling almost $6 million - spaced quickly - often determining supremacy in each respective division. Although held annually, Woodbine Racetrack here in Toronto is ...
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#HORSERACING: “CANNOCK CHASE” CATCHES CANUCK GLORY IN THE 2015 PATTISON CANADIAN INTERNATIONAL
The 78th running of the Pattison Canadian International took place at Woodbine yesterday and despite the chill, fans came out in crowds to see the thoroughbred season's final marquee race of the 2015 racing season at the historic racetrack! Scarves and free bets were given away to all who registered, while the third floor saw a variety of international flavours being served for one day only. And for the first time ever, a chance to win $1-million was offered to fans with Woodbine's Million ...
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#HORSERACING: THE 2015 PATTISON CANADIAN INTERNATIONAL TAKES PLACE SUNDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2015
The 78th running of the Grade I PATTISON CANADIAN INTERNATIONAL is set to take place at Woodbine Racetrack on Sunday, October 18, 2015. Have you marked your calendar yet?
The final marquee race in the 2015 Woodbine thoroughbred racing season is set to go with a cast of international megastars set to make their way to Toronto for a shot at the $1-million purse money! This is the very race in which iconic Secretariat capped-off his storied racing career in 1973, so there's a bit of ...
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#HORSERACING: MONDIALISTE WINS THE 2015 WOODBINE MILE
It was a thrilling day of racing at Woodbine today as the Toronto Racetrack hosted the Rock N' Racing Festival on Woodbine Mile Day. With one-day-only food trucks and musical acts on-site today including local talent like Rynheart, The Honest Heart Collective, Aukland, Highs and JJ and The Pillars, racing fans new and old got to experience the historic track in a way like never before! Above this, The Edge 102.1 Hosts Melani Mariani and Wade MacNeil.
Sunglasses were given away and ...
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#TIFF15: “DARK HORSE”
This year at TIFF, we are gifted with not one but two films about Horse Racing. Mongrel Media handles distribution on Dark Horse, a heartwarming documentary about a syndicate of non-experienced, working class pub-goers who wound-up comprising the band of owners behind Welsh racehorse, Dream Alliance. The horse of non-remarkable pedigree was bred from the combined savings of 10£ a week multiplied by 30 people, surpassing all expectations to be good enough to compete in the important 2010 ...
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#HORSERACING: 2015 WOODBINE MILE + ROCK N’ RACING FESTIVAL!
Sunday marks a huge day in Woodbine Racetrack's 2015 Racing Season with the $1-million RICOH WOODBINE MILE to be run over one of the World's finest turf courses.
Despite making the headlines as two-time American Horse of the Year WISE DAN's big return to the races, it was just announced that the champion has been retired due to an injury. Still expect it to be a superb race with a strong local contingent and some outstanding horses invading Canada for a shot at that huge purse money!
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#HORSERACING: LEXIE LOU SET TO MAKE 2015 COMEBACK AT WOODBINE RACETRACK
"With all due respect sir, no.", I said to the part-Owner of a horse up for Canadian Horse of the Year this April, just one day before the 2015 racing season began at Woodbine Racetrack. It was the Sovereign Awards, honouring the year's best across Canada and it was this gentleman's first time ever at the prestigious affair. He wanted an honest answer from me if his horse would win the coveted title and that I gave him. Although his horse in all fairness was and is very talented, there ...
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