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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QUEENLY
You got it! Gary Stevens and Oxbow. Cindy Pierson Dulay photo All aboard! Tomorrow is the day, a day to push a casino at Woodbine, push your councillors, push your city that there is no other place
ROUND
You ready for today? WILL TAKE CHARGE IS..Cindy Pierson Dulay photo EMMA-JAYNE WILSON, one of the continent’s best riders, shows then how its done winning the Battle of Sexes Jockeys Challenge at Pimlico. The website www.horse-races.net got
WYNNE FIELDS
WYNNE-FIELDS NORTHERN DANCER PAVILLION: landmark building at CFC will house multi-discipline programs WOODBINE ENTERTAINMENT GROUP’S leader NICK EAVES talks with PREMIER KATHLEEN WYNNE at the old Windfields.CFC on Wednesday. Tom Sandler photos Walking through the property of the
DEFLATE
Okay, well, now the focus of yours truly does not stray to the Leafs anymore (NEXT YEAR? that division they will be in is much much tougher) STARTING OVER….ASKING FOR A LONGTERM PLAN FOR RACING Postmedia News By Matthew
CHILLS
You gotta Be-Leaf! -Game 7 tonight! Norm Files photo of Consolidator Joe last fall OH, IT’S SO JOE!! CONSOLIDATOR JOE ….SETS TRACK RECORD!! Woodbine is on a break until Friday and the chillin weather really made things faster
SIX
*Thoroughblog is looking for advertiser’s – 1 year for $600.00 for a button on the right, please join the Thoroughblog team and advertise today! WHAT’S THE BUZZ? QUEENSTON STAKES is a longshot festival BLACK HORNET rebounded from
NOISE
HAVE YOUR COPY of CANADIAN THOROUGHBRED May 2013 yet? Most bookstores sell it or get a subscription now! Thank you to readers/commenters who corrected me on ARTIC TUNDRA’S big effort in his debut last weekend – he is indeed trained
BLUE
almost as popular as ORB’S Kentucky Derby win was the furious rally of PYRITE MOUNTAIN to win the Wando Stakes at Woodbine and surge up the list of Queen’s Plate contenders…. STREAKIN! Pyrite Mountain strips Horse of the
BRIGHT
The mud has settled, it’s Derby hangover day – but racing at Woodbine and we will see which colt John Oxley will race in the WANDO STAKES today – UNCAPTURED or DYNAMIC SKY. The Queenston is next Saturday, 7 furlongs
HEIGHTS
DERBY DAY UPDATE: The first Saturday in May. For those of us who live and breathe horse racing, it is the most special day. We remember life events by using the Derby as a monument. I remember watching the Derby