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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July 29, 2010 | 6 CommentsThursday - no racing today at Woodbine as a long weekend is coming up…from Bruno to Gill trainers…horsefolks are banding together…Tiller 1-2 in stakes race PERFCT SHIRL - shown at Woodbine, is the latest Stakes winner for Charles Fipke and trainer Roger Attfield - Norm Files photo Read more »
ALIGN
July 26, 2010 | No CommentsShrowded in secrecy heading into the race, GOLDEN MOKA run a 93 Beyer Figure and wins Prince of Wales. Terence Dulay photo GOLDEN MOMENT jaw dropping result in Prince of Wales, Fort Erie swallows up another fave Move over Seabiscuit - Read more »
COLOURS
July 25, 2010 | 1 CommentSUNDAY MORNING - It’s Prince of Wales day at Fort Erie - let’s hit the highway! GOLDEN MOKA goes for paralyzed jockey and hockey players…news from Woodbine and stories in the papers… PRINCE OF WALES, 5 P.M. The weather has been wild, the phones were zapped but Fort Erie will have its best dress Read more »
POWERLINE
July 23, 2010 | 1 CommentFRIDAY NEWS - TGIF!! EURICO HITS THE HEIGHTS OF POPULARITY, PRINCE OF WALES ON SUNDAY, SARATOGA OPENS! HOW OLD IS THAT HORSE??? MIKE AND HOTEP are at it again on Sunday… DAVE LANDRY PHOTO BIG RED MIKE GOES WALES HUNTING Panamanian invader Read more »
HOLD THE FORT
July 21, 2010 | 6 CommentsUPDATE - 11 A.M.- CHOREOGRAPHY (see below) has been euthanized.. All eyes are on FORT ERIE this weekend as BIG RED MIKE heads down the QEW HIGHWAY to race in the second leg of Canada’s Triple Crown, the Prince of Wales Stakes. Thanks for everyone’s notes and comments - thank you to BARB MINSHALL who informed us that old-time RAW POWER has been 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.
