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Fifty Proof Returns With Sharp Sir Barton Win

Fifty Proof Returns With Sharp Sir Barton Win

Favored Fifty Proof, Canada's champion older male of 2011, returned from 16-month layoff to take the $127,321 Sir Barton Stakes in front-running style at Woodbine Dec. 2.

 Sunday, December 02, 2012
Fifty Proof to Make Comeback in Sir Barton

Fifty Proof to Make Comeback in Sir Barton

Fifty Proof, idle since a second-place effort in the Nijinsky Stakes (Can-II) in July 2011, returns to action in the $125,000 Sir Barton Stakes Dec. 3 at Woodbine.

 Thursday, November 29, 2012
Stormy Lord Easily Repeats in President's Cup

Stormy Lord Easily Repeats in President's Cup

Stormy Lord proved too classy for his rivals as he successfully defended his title in the $250,000 PTHA President's Cup, a race that was marred by a three-horse spill on the turf at Philadelphia's Parx Racing Sept. 15.

 Saturday, September 15, 2012
Stormy Lord Takes Command in President's Cup

Stormy Lord Takes Command in President's Cup

Woodbine-based Stormy Lord ventured to Philadelphia for the $250,000 PTHA President's Cup and produced a 9-1 upset for trainer Ian Black Sept. 17 on a yielding turf course at Parx Racing.

 Saturday, September 17, 2011
Stormy Lord Reigns Over Connaught Cup

Stormy Lord Reigns Over Connaught Cup

Relishing the soft condition of Woodbine's turf course, Stormy Lord led every step of the way to take the $172,802 Connaught Cup (Can-IIT) for the first graded stakes victory of his career May 29.

 Sunday, May 29, 2011
Fifty Proof's Best Shot Wins Eclipse Stakes

Fifty Proof's Best Shot Wins Eclipse Stakes

Fifty Proof earned his first graded stakes win when he disposed of odds-on favorite Exhi on the final turn and held on for a half-length win in the $175,871 Eclipse Stakes (Can-III) at odds of 10-1 at Woodbine May 28.

 Saturday, May 28, 2011
Grade I Winner Square Eddie Back in Training

Grade I Winner Square Eddie Back in Training

The breeding career of Square Eddie, one of the leading 2-year-olds of 2008, was short-lived. The son of Smart Strike is back in training with Doug O'Neill.

 Thursday, September 23, 2010

Stakes Winner Key Spirit Dies

Key Spirit, who was a stakes winner during the early part of his career and a $3,000 claimer near the end, was euthanized Aug. 18 because of complications from laminitis.

 Thursday, August 19, 2010
13 to Test Distance in Breeders' Stakes

13 to Test Distance in Breeders' Stakes

Stormy Lord, who notched his first stakes score in the Toronto Cup, will get a distance test when he faces a dozen 3-year-old rivals in the $500,000 Breeders' Stakes on the Woodbine turf course Aug. 15.

 Thursday, August 12, 2010

Willmot to Step Down as Woodbine CEO in 2010

Woodbine Entertainment Group, which operates Woodbine Racetrack, announced that David S. Willmot plans to leave the post of CEO, effective with the board of directors next meeting June 4, 2010. Willmot announced his intentions during the WEG directors meeting Dec. 4.

 Friday, December 04, 2009
Twilight Meteor Strikes in Canadian Turf

Twilight Meteor Strikes in Canadian Turf

Peachtree Stable's Twilight Meteor, making his second start since an extended layoff, cut the corner perfectly under John Velazquez and outdueled pacesetter Buddy's Humor to the wire to take the $150,000 Canadian Turf (gr. IIIT) by a length Feb. 28 at Gulfstream Park.

 Saturday, February 28, 2009

Seductively Overpowering Whimsical Winner

Kinghaven Farms homebred Seductively kicked off her 4-year-old campaign in style, winning Sunday's US$154,616 Whimsical Stakes (Can-III) at Woodbine by 2 1/4 lengths.

 Sunday, April 15, 2007

Seductively Steams to Victory in Selene Stakes

Kinghaven Farms' homebred Seductively set all the fractions after a fast start and held off a late challenge from Angel On Watch to win the $283,000 Selene Stakes (Can-III) at Woodbine on Wednesday night.

 Thursday, May 25, 2006

With Approval Sold to Lanwades in England

With Approval, for years one of North America's top turf stallions, has been acquired by Kirsten Rausing's Lanwades Stud from a syndicate for stallion duty.

 Tuesday, August 23, 2005

Canadian Champion Summer Mood Dead

Summer Mood, Canada's champion sprinter of 1985 as a homebred for Kinghaven Farms, died in mid-April

 Monday, June 02, 2003

Maple Leaf Distance Suits Small Promises

Small Promises is much like the Energizer bunny made famous in a series of well known television commercials – she just keeps going and going and going.

 Thursday, October 31, 2002

Maple Leaf Distance Suits Small Promises

Small Promises is much like the Energizer bunny made famous in a series of well known television commercials – she just keeps going and going and going.

 Thursday, October 31, 2002

Canadian Horse of the Year Alywow Euthanized

Alywow, Canada's Horse of the Year in 1994, was euthanized March 2 following a lengthy battle with a bone infection

 Tuesday, March 05, 2002

Northern Baby Pensioned

Northern Baby, a 25-year-old son of Northern Dancer and sire of 40 stakes winners, has been pensioned at Arthur B. Hancock III's Stone Farm near Paris, Ky. Northern Baby first stood in Europe before being moved to Stone for the 1982 breeding season. Northern Baby, who covered 22 mares in each of the past two breeding seasons, sired the earners of $22 million.

 Thursday, January 11, 2001