For newly married couple Nolan Ramsey and Katie Clawson, working and living in Canada has worked out perfectly. Ramsey, the assistant to trainer Mike Maker and grandson of prominent owners Ken and Sarah Ramsey, and Clawson, who gave up a promising race-riding career last fall because she preferred to gallop horses, are stabled at Woodbine [...]

Toronto, ON–Pink Lloyd (Old Forester) became a fan favorite in 2017 winning a stakes race in each of his eight starts and Thursday night in Toronto at the Canadian Sovereign Awards the 6-year-old gelding collected three trophies, including the coveted Horse of the Year Honors. For Frank Di Giulio Jr., the majority owner of the [...]

Sam Lima has been an ardent supporter of Canadian horse racing in a variety of capacities for more than 50 years and now he is being rewarded for it with a special Sovereign Award to be presented Thursday night in Toronto. The 88-year-old will stand alongside the best in Canadian horse racing in 2017 while [...]

Fort Erie Racetrack, famous as the site of the Prince Of Wales S.–the middle leg of the Canadian Triple Crown–is up for sale, but it is not expected to impact the track's 2018 schedule of 40 race dates. In fact, the “for sale” sign has interested the Fort Erie Live Racing Consortium (FELRC), which leases [...]

Former National Hockey League player and horse racing broadcaster Eddie Olczyk is celebrating a huge victory in his life having won his battle with colon cancer. The 51-year-old learned a few days ago via a scan that the cancer is gone, ending a health scare that began last July when he was diagnosed with the [...]

The President/National Director of the Canadian Thoroughbred Horse Society is hopeful an announced plan by the Ontario Liberal Party to provide up to $105 million annually over a 19-year period will create some long-term sustainability for horsemen in the province. “The breeders really believe they need a five-year window to make a business plan,” said [...]

Trainer Mike Maker is planning to run a string of horses at Woodbine for the first time in 2018, and his principal owner Ken Ramsey is hoping it results in another Queen's Plate victory. Maker plans to stable about 20-25 horses, about a third of them owned by Ramsey and his wife, Sarah, at Woodbine. [...]

Hockey/horse racing broadcaster Eddie Olczyk will not find out until early April following a scan if he is in remission from colon cancer, but he is glad to have finished 12 rounds of chemotherapy to shrink the tumor first diagnosed last August. “Am I scared? Yeah, I'm still scared,” he said on his way from [...]

For a smalltime breeder in the Canadian province of British Columbia, Deborah Holmes is having a hard time believing that one horse she bred and sold is on the road to the GI Kentucky Derby and another is on the path to the Queen's Plate. The victory by John Oxley's Flameaway (Scat Daddy) in Saturday's [...]

The Board of the Breeders' Cup World Championships will meet later this month to talk about tracks that could potentially host the event from 2019-22 and also discuss the possibility of adding another race. Fred Hertrich III, voted in as the Breeders' Cup Chairman last September, told the TDN that six tracks have expressed tentative [...]

Some filmmakers wait their entire lives to find the ultimate story. For former jockey/trainer Amanda Roxborough, it has happened rather quickly. Roxborough, who retired from horse racing after 26 years in 2004, began a career in television broadcasting that turned into video and film production and is currently riding the crest of an award-winning documentary, [...]

Katie Larsen is living out her dream in the horse business, but in a way she never imagined with a different breed. Larsen, a one-time equestrian rider who works in a bank in credit adjudications, is finding second homes for recently-retired racehorses in Ontario with a business she calls Southern Belle Thoroughbreds. The operation has [...]