Turn $2.00 into $656K at New York's lovely Saratoga Race-Track

This afternoon at 4:09 p.m. race four on today's Saratoga card will go to post with a little something extra on the line. Thanks to a host of long-shots that paraded to the winners circle during the first...

Canadians Dominate Alabama, in New York?

On Saturday afternoon Veteran Woodbine Jockey Robert Landry shifted his tack from the comforts of home to Upstate New York's and more specifically Saratoga Race Course. Landry, who could have stood pat in...

Twenty-two years in the making

$20.20 , music to my gamblin ear’s, yesterday was the 117th running of the Breeder’s Stakes at Woodbine Racetrack. The 1 ½ mile turf race run over the world class E.P. Taylor Turf course has been the...

Texan Steals Prince of Wales

American uber trainer, Todd Pletcher was poised Sunday afternoon to runaway with the second jewel of the Canadian Horse Racing Triple-Crown and I for one couldn’t bare to watch. It’s not that I’m...

The Canadian Kentucky Derby

The pickpocket shuffle, Single file like good Canadians, And, Oh no, not bourbon.         Woodbine racetrack was packed to the rafters this Sunday to see 15 of Canada’s finest three-year-old...

A gamblers diary...Day2

Day 2Oh how the times have changed:One day later and it seems my whole perspective has change, maybe I don’t have it in me to document my dissent. Its quite easy for an individual like my self to loose...

A gamblers diary

Exhibit patience, Control your emotions, Exhibit patience, Control your emotions. I found my shelf repeating these two confirming statements over and over as I made my way to the front gate at Woodbine Racetrack....