Can Wigmore Hall defend his Northern Dancer title?
Triple Dead Heat - On a Breeders' Cup ‘Win & You're In’ weekend where the Ricoh Woodbine Mile is the focal point, a handy little race - - the Grade 1 Northern Dancer - - flies under the radar. The...
View ArticleImperial Monarch and Reliable Man headline Canadian International #WoIntl
Triple Dead Heat - A fantastic card lined up at Woodbine today with three Grade 1, Breeders' Cup Win & You're In races including the $1.5-million Canadian International, the $1-million E.P Taylor...
View ArticleOne eye, big heart
Triple Dead Heat - Royal Slam, a dark bay two-year-old filly, figured the game out in a big way when romping home a seven-length winner on September 30, at Woodbine. Royal Slam mugs for the camera It...
View ArticleIt's all relative...
Triple Dead Heat - Earlier this year, Jamie Attard became the eighth member of Woodbine’s famous Maltese family to enter the training ranks, joining his father (Sid), brother (Paul), uncles (Joe, Tino,...
View ArticleAction, adventure and adversity: On the road at Penn National with Steven...
Triple Dead Heat - While many of Woodbine’s trainers are keeping busy as ‘Snowbirds’ basking in the sun at Palm Meadows and Payson Park in Florida through the dark winter, 28-year-old conditioner...
View ArticleSpring Venture hooks Kauai Katie in 3YO debut
Triple Dead Heat - Seth Merrow, proprietor of Equidaily.Com and co-host of Racing Across America on Capitol OTB, has been a good friend to TripleDeadHeat since I first started blogging back in 2008....
View ArticleSilent Name in with a shout with a trio of Queen’s Plate contenders
Triple Dead Heat - Ten top stallions call Adena Springs North, located in Aurora, Ontario, their home and on Saturday, February 9th, the public was welcomed into the modern facility to meet the...
View ArticleStraight from the horse's mouth
Triple Dead Heat - Trainers will often compliment a rider as having good hands. It’s a compliment 31-year-old exercise rider Briar Perkins has heard quite often at the track - - not just for her work...
View ArticleAttfield joins Casse on the Kentucky Derby trail
Triple Dead Heat - Perry Lefko, a winner of four Sovereign Awards as a turf writer, interviewed trainer Mark Casse this morning on his internet show, Be My Guest. Casse spoke at length about the ups...
View ArticleBetting Woodbine: Speed and conditioning prevails early in the meet
Triple Dead Heat - Woodbine’s 133-date meet bursts from the gate on Saturday, a card highlighted by the $150,000 Star Shoot Stakes, and many local handicappers will be shaking off the rust after a long...
View ArticleFrom Canada's ocean playground to the Woodbine 'Poly'
Triple Dead Heat - Listed at 20-1 in the morning line in Friday’s sixth race, it would be easy to overlook a four-year-old filly by the name of Katya. Through four races, the stout daughter of Mobil, a...
View ArticleFipke hoping to unearth a Derby gem
Triple Dead Heat - When 20 horses spring from the gate in Saturday's Grade 1, $2-million Kentucky Derby, two of the jockeys will proudly sport the white, yellow and blue silks of Edmonton, Alberta born...
View ArticleNorthern Dancer continues to inspire...
Triple Dead Heat - Earlier this morning, on Bayview Avenue in Toronto, on the grounds of the Windfields Estate, the Canadian Film Centre (CFC) celebrated the commencement of the construction of the...
View ArticleQueen's Plate Preview: Nipissing set to make a splash in Queen's Plate
Triple Dead Heat - On Sunday, a field of 12 will burst from the gate in the $1-million Queen's Plate, at Woodbine. The Plate, the first jewel in the Canadian Triple Crown, is raced at a distance of 1...
View ArticleChristmas in October! It's International Day at Woodbine...
Triple Dead Heat - International day is, by far, my favourite racing day of the year at Woodbine. It brings back so many memories of coming to the races with my dad, an Irishman, who likely backed...
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