Woodbine Trainer Kevin Attard / Standardbred Trainer Rob Fellows / Woodbine’s My Railbird’s Andy McNamara

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Larry and Ann are joined by Woodbine Trainer Kevin Attard, who discusses his filly, Caitlinhergrtness, winner of last week’s King’s Plate and what his plans are for her going forward, for the rest of this season. Kevin also talks about how Caitlinhergrtness compares to his Plate winning filly Moira and mentions his other Plate entrants and whether he was pleased with the way they raced. Kevin also talks about the plans for Moira this season and discusses the recent CTHS Premier Yearling Sale and how active he was in purchasing Yearlings this year. Standardbred Trainer Rob Fellows, who talks about his Trotter Logan Park who is the early 5/2 Morning Line Favorite for tonight’s $600,000 Maple Leaf Trot Stakes at Woodbine Mohawk Park. Rob also mentions how he ended up with Logan Park and some of his career best performances and discusses Greenwood Racetrack and how racing there early in his career was such a fantastic experience. He also mentions how he eventually became a Standardbred Trainer, rather than a Driver. Woodbine’s My Railbird’s Andy McNamara, who discusses the Railbird website and what makes it different from other handicapping sites and whether it is a site where you need to have a small knowledge of betting or handicapping to take full advantage of the information provided. Also, Andy walks the listeners through the Railbird website and mentions whether Railbirds is a vehicle to attract sports bettors to betting horse racing. In our feature, ‘In Case You Missed It’ A Look at The Way It Was in Horse Racing News, Larry talks about last Wednesday’s CTHS Ontario’s Premier Yearling Sale and mentions how well it was attended. In our new regular feature, ‘Road Trip,’ Larry talks about this afternoon’s $125,000 Toronto Cup Stakes at Woodbine and mentions about some of the history behind the race itself and who he believes the race ‘goes through’ today. He also provides his ‘Ponies Picks of the Day’ selections for several North American Racetracks today, later in the show.

Key Points:

• Kevin initially talks about last week’s King’s Plate and in particular his horse, Caitlinhergrtness who ˆbeat the boys’ when winning this years Plate. He also mentions what are the plans for the horse going forward and talks about his 2022 Queen’s Plate winner and a filly, Moira and how Caitlinhergrtness compares to Moira at this stage of her career. He also discusses the future racing plans for Moira this year and talks about how his other King’s Plate entrants last week, performed and whether he was satisfied with their results. He also talks about Wednesday’s Yearling Sale and whether he bought any Yearlings this year and when asked, discusses about how he would describe the first half of the Woodbine race meet for his racing stable and whether there is a race that he would still like to win as a Trainer.

• Rob discusses tonight’s Maple Leaf Trot at Woodbine Mohawk Park and in particular his Trotter, Logan Park, who is one of the early favorites for the race. He also mentions how he ended up with Logan Park and as a winner of thirty-one races and earnings of over $1.2 Million, were there some winning races that remain highlights to him. He also mentions what the plans are for Logan Park going forward after tonight’s race and discusses his own career as a Trainer and talks about where it all started for him. Rob also recalls what made the days at Greenwood so special and why he concentrated on Training instead of Driving and whether he still remembers his first win as a Trainer and where it happened to take place.

• Andy describes the Woodbine website myrailbirds.com and whether it is a site that anyone could use, despite a persons amount of knowledge about betting or handicapping. He also talks about the demographic that Woodbine is attempting to reach through Railbirds and walks the listener through the website and outlines some of its features that the user will find informative and easy to use. Andy also mentions that Railbirds is also a vehicle to attract sports bettors and talks about himself and how he became interested in horse racing and handicapping and talks about how Woodbine continues to make updates to the Railbirds website, including an interesting new feature, ‘Railbirds on The Road.’