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Canuck Racing Club buys third highest priced filly at 2024 CTHS Sale
Aug 29, 2024 – Fresh with a new board of directors, a new president, and a stronger catalogue, the Canadian Thoroughbred Horse Society (Ontario division) had positive results from its…
North Warden wards of all rivals to capture first win
Aug 17, 2024 – On the opener on the day of the running of the 165th King’s Plate which would later be cancelled due to heavy rain, Canuck Racing Club’s…
Canuck’s Skylight Caper steals the show… twice.
Aug 3, 2024 – Despite drawing a disadvantageous gate to break from, Canuck Racing Club’s two-year-old filly Skylight Caper, sired by Souper Speed out of Kin’s Ghost, still went into…
War Painter to race in the Woodbine Oaks
July 3, 2024 – Canuck Racing Club’s three-year-old filly War Painter is considered a legit contender by Canadian Thoroughbred for the $500,000 Woodbine Oaks on July 20th, a race second…
Bowman’s Run finishes twice in the money in first two starts
June 23, 2024 – Canuck Racing Club’s seventh start of 2024 allowed the club to lay claim to a 2-2-1 record and an impressive 71% in the money finish rate….
Canuck’s War Painter claims 1st and 2nd in first two races as a 3-year-old
June 7, 2024 – Canuck Racing Club’s filly War Painter earned her billing as a hot favourite coming into the second race of her 3-year-old campaign at Woodbine on Thursday….
Canuck Racing Club’s Sinclairity makes her first shot count
May 24, 2024 – Making her debut as a three-year-old on Thursday, Canuck Racing Club’s filly Sinclairity didn’t get a lot of love from the experts handicapping race in race…
DRF: Sinclairity looking to score in debut
May 21, 2024 – The first Thursday program of the Woodbine meet includes a competitive maiden event that rounds out the eight-race card. Trainer Kevin Attard sends out the debuting…
Hard fought second place finish in Shady Well Stakes earns Vandoo 2-1-2 record in 5 starts
Dec 2, 2023 – The Shady Well Stakes ran Saturday at Woodbine, a 6-furlong race on the tapeta between seven Ontario-bred 2-year-old fillies competing for a $150,000 purse. Race 9…
War Painter continues to impress in Princess Elizabeth Stakes
Nov 25, 2023 – Canuck Racing Club’s War Painter staked her claim as the top 2-year-old filly in Canada when she won the Victorian Queen stakes earlier this year. Doubts…
Victorious Vandoo vaults to second win in 4th start
Nov 16, 2023 – After three races and finishing all in the money, Canuck Racing Club’s 2 year old filly Vandoo was back on the track in Woodbine’s first race…
Two more colts join the Canuck Racing stable at Fasig-Tipton’s Kentucky October Yearlings Sale
Oct 27, 2023 – The final stop on the North American yearling sales tour, Fasig-Tipton’s Kentucky October Yearlings Sale has developed into one of the nation’s leading Thoroughbred auctions. Over the…
Vandoo gives Canuck Racing Club yet another finish in the money
Oct 6, 2023 – Fridays are a quieter day at Woodbine than weekends, but on Friday there was certainly action in race 8 as Canuck Racing Club’s filly Vandoo took…
War Painter wears the crown in the Victorian Queen
Sept 25, 2023 – Trained by Kevin Attard for Canuck Racing Club, the daughter of Danish Dynaformer-Morning Tale came into the seven-furlong turf race with a second and third on…
BATTLEFIELD ARTISTRY: War Painter pulls off masterstroke to deliver club’s first stakes win
Sept 25, 2023 – As the horses were loading into the gate before Sunday’s Victorian Queen Stakes, Woodbine track announcer Robert Geller noted the impressive success that the Canuck Racing…
War Painter first stakes winner for Danish Dynaformer
Sept 25, 2023 (Bloodhorse.com) – Canadian second-crop sire Danish Dynaformer was represented by his first black-type stakes winner Sept. 24 when his daughter War Painter rallied to take the CA$100,000…
Canuck Racing Club expands racing stable by two in Keeneland (and sets record doing it)
Sept 25, 2023 – Keeneland’s September Yearling Sale is the global marketplace for Thoroughbred yearlings and is the world’s most important Thoroughbred sale. The September Sale stands apart from all…
First stakes wins for Amis Gizmo, Danish Dynaformer
Sept 25, 2023 (Canadian Thoroughbred) – Two young Ontario sires got their first stakes winners at Woodbine Sept. 24 and Canuck Racing Club also has first SW. Young Ontario stallions…
War Painter is the queen of the Victorian Queen
Sept 24, 2023 (Woodbine) – War Painter, under Patrick Husbands, brushed to the lead late en route to victory in Sunday’s $100,000 Victorian Queen Stakes, for 2-year-old Ontario-sired fillies, at…
Canuck Racing Club partners with iconic owners at Keeneland September Yearling Sale
Sept 23, 2023 – The last day of the Keeneland September Yearling Sale saw fiercely competitive bidding for Hip 4037, a magnificent and powerful looking dark bay colt by Silent…
Bloodhorse: Canuck Racing Club continues momentum into sales season
Sept 6, 2023 (Bloodhorse magazine) – The quartet of Ontario Bred yearlings Canuck Racing Club purchased at last week’s Canadian Premier Yearling Sale are the same age as the club…
Canuck Racing Club adds four more to its racing stable at the Canadian Premier Yearling Sale
Sept 1, 2023 – More than two hundred thoroughbreds were up for grabs at the 2023 Canadian Premier Yearling Sale. At the auction held on Wednesday August 30th, 168 horses…
Two more races, two more Canuck horses finishing in the money
Aug 27, 2023 – Canuck Racing Club members had reasons to cheer on Sunday’s races with two thoroughbreds from its racing stable competing at Woodbine. As expected, their Vandoo found…
EnjoytheSilent battles from difficult post position to finish 6th out of 17 in the King’s Plate
Aug 20, 2023 – While most thoroughbred owners go their entire lives and never get an opportunity to run their horse in the biggest races in the sport, the Canuck…
Canuck Racing Club featured in Thoroughbred Daily News on King’s Plate day
Aug 20, 2023 – With a string of early successes, the Canuck Racing Club story gains traction in feature article in TDN, thoroughbred horse racing’s leading worldwide source of news…
EnjoytheSilent hits the board again
July 30, 2023 – Three year-old gelding and King’s Plate nominee EnjoytheSilent (Silent Name-Spun Lace) finished in the money for the third race in a row in race #12 at…
Canuck’s War Painter tranforms a battle into art and second place in her debut
July 29, 2023 – Only minutes after her stablemate Vandoo won her first-ever race, War Painter took to the track in race #6 on Saturday at Woodbine, again with top…
Canuck’s Vandoo wins first try in an exciting dead heat finish
July 29, 2023 – In her first-ever race, Canuck Racing Club’s Vandoo registered her first win despite being the sole filly in a field of geldings and colts in race…
EnjoytheSilent among Canadian Thoroughbred’s Top 15 King’s Plate contenders
Jun 13, 2023 – Canadian Thoroughbred released its latest instalment of top contenders for this year’s King’s Plate and Woodbine Oaks. Making an appearance in the Top 15 was EnjoytheSilent…
Canuck adds 9th thoroughbred and more fun via ownership stake in EnjoytheSilent
Jun 9, 2023 – Adding more fun and excitement to what is shaping up to be a promising 2023, the Canuck Racing Club acquired an ownership stake in dark bay…