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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THIRTEEN
August 13, 2010 | 1 CommentFRIDAY THE 13TH - FEELIN’ LUCKY? COGNASHENE, horse to beat in Breeders? DAVE LANDRY PHOTO BREEDERS’ STAKES WEEK $500,000, 3RD JEWEL CANADIAN TRIPLE CROWN Entries for the Breeders’ Stakes, first run in 1889 (!!) were taken today and the field is a wild one - not Read more »
TRENDS
August 10, 2010 | 4 CommentsTODAY’S NEWS - FOR A TUESDAY - ROAN INISH OUT FOR YEAR, NICE WINNERS, GOOD STORIES AND BAD STORIES.. BORN TO BOOGIE DANCED HIS WAY TO THE WINNER’S CIRCLE IN HIS VERY FIRST START ON SATURDAY AT WOODBINE. The colt is by Strut the Stage, the first year sire who was getting his first winner. Born to Boogie won Read more »
WEAPONS
August 6, 2010 | 3 CommentsFRIDAY! - Wraps of Wednesday night and Thursday - bits here and there…enjoy the weekend of racing MELNYK SON OF PAYNES BAY WINS STAKES Grazettes Landing game in Shepperton TORONTO, August 4 - Melnyk Racing Stables homebred Grazettes Landing captured Wednesday’s $126,200 Shepperton Stakes at Woodbine. Read more »
NAME
August 4, 2010 | 1 CommentIt’s WEDNESDAY AUG 4- in 1963, on Aug. 1…..Northern Dancer debuted as a 6 3/4-length winner at Fort Erie… Monday, a big run from ESSENCE HIT MAN at the Spa…SARATOGA sales drop in average, UNZIP ME romps at Woodbine for Martin Jones..Manitoba Derby and lots of other stuff… LUCKY DUCK - LOOKIN AT LUCKY romps in Read more »
CIVIC
August 1, 2010 | 3 CommentsSUNDAY NEWS - in the midst of a long weekend here - lots of chalk won yesterday at Woodbine following some weird results on Friday (will follow up on Friday’s races in the coming days) - lots of Canadian action elsewhere too SLAM DUNK Colt stays unbeaten but it wasn’t pretty 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.
