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Canadian Sire Philanthropist to South Africa

Philanthropist, a successful Canadian sire, will relocate to the Rupert family's Drakenstein Stud in the Western Cape in South Africa.

 Thursday, June 28, 2012

Old Forester Tops Ontario TIP List

Old Forester, who stands at T.C. Westmeath Stud Farm in Ontario, Canada, topped the Thoroughbred Improvement Program stallion awards list.

 Thursday, January 26, 2012
Contreras Wins Breeders' to Complete Sweep

Contreras Wins Breeders' to Complete Sweep

It was jockey Luis Contreras' day at Woodbine when favored Pender Harbour got up by a nose to win the $512,764 Breeders' Stakes Aug. 7, making the rider the first to win the Canadian Triple Crown on more than one horse.

 Sunday, August 07, 2011
Pender Harbour Home Safely in Prince of Wales

Pender Harbour Home Safely in Prince of Wales

Pender Harbour, third in last month's Queen's Plate, captured the second leg of the Canadian Triple Crown when he held off the surging Bowman's Causeway by a nose in the $524,000 Prince of Wales Stakes at Fort Erie July 17.

 Sunday, July 17, 2011
Bear It's Time Gets Up for Bison City Win

Bear It's Time Gets Up for Bison City Win

Bear It's Time, under urging from Luis Contreras on the final turn, was all out to get up by a head in the $260,800 Bison City Stakes, the second jewel of Canada's Triple Tiara for 3-year-old fillies at Woodbine.

 Sunday, July 03, 2011

Philanthropist Sires First Winner

Philanthropist, a New York graded stakes winner, came through with his first winner when his son Charlie Bull won at Woodbine.

 Tuesday, August 24, 2010

On Thin Ice Glides to Hal's Hope Triumph

On Thin Ice, winless in 2005, kicked off his 5-year-old season with his first graded stakes win, romping to a 5 3/4-length victory in the $100,000 Hal's Hope Handicap (gr. III) at Gulfstream Park Saturday.

 Saturday, January 07, 2006

Nine Older Horses Contest Hal's Hope

Phipps Stable's 5-year-old homebred Philanthropist, who arrives from New York with a three-race win streak, and Robert LaPenta's 6-year-old gelding Seek Gold, runner-up in the Fred Hooper Handicap (gr. III) at Calder last out, will face off in a field of nine older horses entered for the 1 1/8-mile Hal's Hope at Gulfstream Park Saturday.

 Thursday, January 05, 2006

Magna Graduate, 'Frolic Assigned 120 for New Orleans

Recent grade II winners Magna Graduate and Super Frolic have each been assigned 120 pounds and are co-highweights for Saturday's $400,000-added New Orleans Handicap (gr. II), the biggest race of the Fair Grounds meet at Harrah's Louisiana Downs.

 Sunday, January 01, 2006

Stubborn Philanthropist Wins Queen's County

Pacesetting Philanthropist, passed in the stretch by two rivals, surged onward under strong left-handed urging from Eibar Coa to win the $105,400 Queen's County Handicap (gr. III) in his stakes debut at Aqueduct Saturday.

 Saturday, December 10, 2005

Evening Attire Formidable in Queen's County

The venerable Evening Attire shoots for his ninth stakes win in Saturday's $100,000-added Queens County Handicap (gr. III) at Aqueduct.

 Thursday, December 08, 2005