Welcome to Jen's Thoroughblog. This is a personal blog site with news and some views on the Ontario thoroughbred racing industry. It is updated most mornings. I am a freelance writer and handicapper for various publications. Opinions on this site are NOT THOSE OF ANY OF MY EMPLOYERS. Feel free to give your insights and comments. Thoroughblog has the right to refuse publication of anonymous or offensive comments.
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SEPTEMBER
September 1, 2010 | No CommentsSEPT 1 NEWS - GOSH, the fall is here, although it does not feel like in currently in southern Ontario, it’s a heatwaaaave….LONG WEEKEND comin up, yearling sales stakes day on Monday and the sale on TUESDAY! SEE YOU IN SEPTEMBER 1st of the month and the fun is just beginning Read more »
BULLISH
August 29, 2010 | 3 CommentsNEW, EMPIRE STABLE OPEN HOUSE TOMORROW!! 12-30 - 4:30 Come out to NICOLE UMIKER`S new boarding stable, EMPIRE STABLE, just 5 min north of highway 9 on Highway 50, (just across and up from T and T Stud) near Loretto, Ontario. A former jockey Umiker is looking for clients for her new business which includes a fresh new barn, round pen, Read more »
CRISP
August 27, 2010 | 2 CommentsIn Memory of WAKE AT NOON BRUNO SCHICKEDANZ DENIED INTERIM RELIEF The hearing requested by Bruno Schickedanz has wrapped up as far as testimony is concerned and while final written arguments are composed and then submitted and the ORC comes to a final ruling, Schickedanz still cannot stable or race his horses at Woodbine. Read more »
LUCK
August 22, 2010 | 1 CommentSUNDAY MORNING - it’s grey and rainy today…expect a very soft course for the Sky Classic Stakes at Woodbine today… NO HESITATION - none at all, he’s the best but Canadian Derby marred by accident The grey streak NO HESITATION fought off Read more »
WANDER
August 21, 2010 | No CommentsAROUND THE WORLD (okay North America) with ROGER ATTFIELD Woodbine, Arlington, Del Mar, Saratoga. That’s where you will find stakes horses trained by Roger Attfield toay. It will be a whirlwind for the conditioner. Attfield will be at Arlington for the big stakes day there - AVE is in Read more »
Top 5 Queen’s Plate Contenders
Top 5 Queen’s Plate contenders
1. Hotep
2. Hollinger
3. D’s Wando
4. Artic Fern
5. Mobilizer
Top 5 Woodbine Oaks contenders
1. Embur’s Song
2. Ernfold
3. Roan Inish
4 Resentless
5. Isabeau’s Elegance
2010 Hot Canadian-bred Runners
1. Sterwins (103)
2. Society’s Chairman (95)
3. Rahy’s Attorney (95)
4. Essence Hit Man (100)
5. Tribal Belle (94)
6. Milwaukee Appeal (90)
7. Not Bourbon (90)
8. Embur’s Song (99)
9. Hotep (85)
10. Impossible Time (92)
(Based on Beyer, $, SW)
Jen’s Latest Must-Reads!
- The Help
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
- After the Falls
- Too Close to the Falls
- Mistress of Nothing
- Wolf Hall
- The Collected Works of T.S. Spivet
- Race to the Polar Sea
- Second Chance Horses
- Still Alice
- Dreams From My Father
- The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
- The Guernsey Literary, PotatoePeelPie Soc.
- The Other Boleyn Girl
- Twilight - the saga
- The Way the Crow Flies
- Three Day Road
- What Was Lost
- Falling Man
- The Thirteenth Tale
- Memorykeeper’s Daughter
- Late nights On Air
- Middlesex
- Shadow of the Wind
- The Chase (Clive Cussler)
- Dead Heat (Dick Francis)
- Playing for Pizza
- The Gambler and the Bug Boy
- No Country for Old Men
- The Continuity Girl
- In the Company of the Courtesan
- Water for Elephants
- Not By a Longshot
- The Kite Runner
- The Great Match Race
- Lullabies for Little Criminals
Photocafe: My Brother’s Inventions!
PhotoCafe Screensaver
AndySnap screen capture
Not my brother’s inventions but good links none the less!
In-Form Handicapping System
TODOS STAT
Cindy Piersen Dulay
Emma-Jayne Wilson
Horse Memorial Site
Long Run
Phase 2 TB’s for Sale
Thoroughbred Bloggers Alliance
Sarah K. Andrew
Woodbine Stakes 09
Book Flogging
Second-Chance Horses is a collection of true stories that are just a small reflection of the amazing things ex-racehorses can accomplish once they are re-trained for new careers. I wrote the chapters on Swamp Line and Lindros/Impropriety!! Now for my next goal, to write an entire book! Order your copy here.
