By Brad Stephens - Horse Racing Nation, August 13, 2019 Trainer Catherine Day Phillips watched gelding Keep On Truckin blaze July 7 to an 11 3/4-length debut win at Woodbine. Then he came back in stakes company Aug. 3 to romp by 7 3/4 lengths, posting the third-best Beyer figure of any 2-year-old so far in 2019. “Going into his first race, we really liked him,” the Woodbine-based Phillips said last week. “But to see him to run like that, that’s something that doesn’t happen very often. That’s p

TORONTO, July 31, 2019 – Keep On Truckin, a two-year-old son of Society’s Chairman, looks to make his stakes debut a winning one in the $125,000 Clarendon Stakes, one of two ($100,000 Duchess) added-money tilts on Saturday afternoon’s card of racing at Woodbine. Bred by Tim Meeuse and Arika Everatt-Meeuse, the Ontario-bred turned plenty of heads in his career bow on July 7 at the Toronto oval. Sent off as the 3-5 mutuel favourite, Keep On Truckin was in high gear early, holding a half-length advantage at the three-sixteenths call of the five-furlong main track race. The chestnut was 2 ½-lenghts on top at the

by Paulick Report Staff | 07.12.2019 | 6:19pm Sean and Dorothy Fitzhenry's homebred Mr Havercamp surprised Saratoga bettors at 13-1 in Friday's Grade 3 Forbidden Apple, taking the lead in mid-stretch and holding off late runs from Hembree and favorite Qurbaan to win by a half-length. It was the 5-year-old Court Vision gelding's first start since December, and he completed a mile over the yielding turf course in 1:37.50. Trained by Catherine Day Phillips, Mr Havercamp was the second winner on the c

TORONTO, July 10, 2019 – Stakes winner Dixie Moon and stakes placed Katie Baby provide trainer Catherine Day Phillips with a solid one-two punch in Saturday’s Grade 3 $125,000 Ontario Matron, at Woodbine. The 1 1/16-mile main track feature for fillies and mares, three-years-old and upward, has drawn a competitive field of 11 starters, including Day Phillips’ Ontario-bred duo. A four-year-old daughter of Curlin, Dixie Moon arrives at the Ontario Matron off a third-place showing in the Grade 3 Trillium Stakes, contested on June 16 at Woodbine. The five-time winner from 15 starts for owner-breeders Sean and Do

Anderson Farms Ontario's homebred Katie Baby, a 4-year-old daughter of Curlin , takes on seven rivals in the $125,000 Hendrie Stakes (G3) June 9 at Woodbine. (more…)

Woodbine.com TORONTO, June 6, 2019 – Bred and owned by Anderson Farms Ontario, Katie Baby, a four-year-old daughter of Curlin, takes on seven rivals in Sunday’s Grade 3 $125,000 Hendrie Stakes, at Woodbine. Trained by Catherine Day Phillips, Katie Baby arrives at the 6 ½-furlong main track Hendrie, for older fillies and mares, off a sharp allowance score at seven panels on the Toronto oval Tapeta. Sent off as the 2-5 mutuel choice, the chestnut converted a 3 ½-length lead at track announcer Robert Geller’s stretch call into a five-length romp on May 5. It was the second win from four starts for Katie Baby

This week, we check in with trainer Catherine Day Phillips. While Day Phillips had a quiet week on the track last week, her horses are beginning to ramp up at Palm Meadows Training Center in Boynton Beach, Florida. Among those are Mr Havercamp and Dixie Moon, who both were named finalists in two separate categories for the 2018 Sovereign Awards. Mr Havercamp was named a finalist in the Older Male and Turf Male divisions, while Dixie Moon was named a finalist in the Three-year-old Fi