It was the Seagram Cup Stakes at Woodbine on Saturday and it featured 2 Kings Plate champions.

Trainer Jordan Lay has just one horse – Go Olivia - and you will wish you bet her in her second lifetime start.

It rained so hard last Wednesday that the races at Saratoga were cancelled. We wondered how that would affect the quarter horses that day at Ajax Downs.

And we skew younger this week thanks to

+ 12-year-old Adrianna Mongrain who triumphed in the Canadian Jr Driving Championship

+ 18-year-old Kevin Detweiler who swept all 8 races on a card at Connersville Fair

+ 22-year-old Nathan Klein, not only the youngest full time race caller in North America, but a young man who says his autism is a benefit in his job

A Stakes filled weekend at Woodbine – we have the Ontario Colleen, the Hendrie, the Trillium, the Thunder Bay and the Lake Superior. Will trainer Josie Carroll add a King’s Plate to her 3 Queen’s Plates? She tells us no decision has been made yet about Oaks winner, Luster. Corbourg’s Melanie Giddings won another at Saratoga and you’ll wish you bet it. Chantal Sutherland won a pair at Monmouth and it won’t sadden you if you didn’t bet her. How amazing were Jody Jamieson last week? He won 9 Stakes races in 5 days – 7 for his father Carl, then trotted over to Clinton Raceway to win the National Driving Championship. And we speak with jockey Jason Hoyte who was about to win a race at Woodbine, except his horse, Bonjino Warrior had other ideas.

Sunny and smoke free skies on Sunday at Woodbine for 3 Stakes races, including the Woodbine Oaks and the King’s Plate Trial. Also, a tribute to legendary trainer Roger Attfield. There was also great weather at Ajax Downs for special Sunday card. We have Canadians winning in the U.S. – Charles Fipke’s Shirl’s Soul Town was brilliant in her debut at Saratoga, and Chantal Sutherland won on Friday and Saturday at Monmouth; all 3 of these horses paid great.

Should pacing fillies race against the boys? Loua Dipa gave it a shot at the Meadows in an elimination for the Adios Pace.

We’ve got driver Jason Ryan this week telling us about his experience winning races at 3 different tracks on the same day...

And writer, horse player Mark Paul talks about his wild and crazy book, The Greatest Gambling Story Ever Told, about 3 guys who bet $25,000 on the filly Winning Colours to take down the 1988 Kentucky Derby and how they went about trying to collect over $1 million from the Mexican drug cartel.