Windfields Farm News Today

Alberta-based Capital Power cites financial feasibility in decision to abandon proposal

The Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame (CHRHF) Induction Gala is taking place this evening (Wednesday, Aug. 9) at the Mississauga Convention Centre, honouring the Classes of 2022 and 2023, including some of the biggest names in Canadian Standardbred and Thoroughbred racing.

There was no birthday cake on his north Oshawa grave site but the greatest racehorse in Canadian history, an Oshawa sporting icon and Canadian Sports Hall of Fame member and one of the leading sires in international racing history, turned 62 Saturday

Mike Carroll, co-breeder of 2007 U.S. champion female sprinter Maryfield and former owner of Grandview Farm, died Feb. 22 in Guelph, Ontario, the Canadian Thoroughbred reports. He was 72.

The Jockey Club of Canada will be honoring the legacy of our founding members throughout 2023 with various celebrations of our 50th anniversary.

The Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame congratulates the people and horses being recognized as inductees in 2022. Five people and three horses have been elected from an extremely deep ballot of candidates.

The Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame congratulates the people and horses being recognized as inductees in 2022.  Five people and three horses have been elected from an extremely deep ballot of candidates.   

Article by Patricia McQueen: In the latest of her popular series, Patricia McQueen throws the spotlight on Betty’s Secret and Partygoer, a pair of mares whose class shone through in their high-profile progeny more than it did on the racetrack

Bernard McCormack of Cara Bloodstock will have a solid chance to add another Queen's Plate to his resume on Sunday in Hall of Dreams, a Lemon Drop Kid colt who enters the race off a runner-up effort in the Plate Trial Stakes on July 24.

Article by Nancy Sexton: Bloodstock expert Nancy Sexton ranks the stallions who have left the most indelible mark in the last 100 years. Today: the top five