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CTV News
24-05-2025
- CTV News
No TTC subway service between Sheppard-Yonge and College stations this weekend
A Toronto Transit Commission sign is shown at a downtown Toronto subway stop Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graeme Roy A portion of TTC's Line 1 is going to be closed this weekend due to track and state-of-good repair work. There will be no subway service between Sheppard-Yonge and College stations on Saturday and Sunday. The TTC says work includes the replacement of a major track switch at York Mills Station, essential rail repairs, and geotechnical survey work. Shuttle buses will stop at each affected station, the TTC says. The transit agency noted that Lawrence and Summerhill stations will be closed to the public while the other stations will be open during the closure to allow customers to buy PRESTO fares, tickets and connect to surface routes. The TTC says 7 Bathurst, 96 Wilson, 160 Bathurst North, and 165 Weston Road North bus routes will be diverting during the Walk with Israel on Sunday from 6 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. GO Transit Meanwhile, service on the Lakeshore West GO line has been temporarily modified this weekend to accommodate track work. GO trains will run every 30 minutes between Oakville and Union stations. GO buses will service stations between West Harbour and Oakville. There will be no GO Transit service at Appleby or Bronte GO stations, but early morning and late-night route 18 GO buses will continue to serve them. As for Niagara train trips, they will be on an adjusted schedule between Niagara Falls and Aldershot GO. Regular service on Lakeshore West will resume on Monday.
CTV News
21-05-2025
- General
- CTV News
Late night TTC Line 1 closures planned to accommodate track work
Parts of the TTC's Line 1 will be closed during the late-night hours this week due to planned track work. From Tuesday, May 20 until Friday, May 23, subway trains between Sheppard-Yonge and College subways stationswill be replaced with shuttle bases starting at 11 p.m. nightly until service ends at about 2 a.m. During these times, Lawrence and Summerhill stations will also be closed. 'All other subway stations will remain open for customers to purchase PRESTO fares, tickets, and connect to surface routes,' the TTC said, adding staff will be on hand to assist customers. Additional Wheel-Trans buses will also be operating between Sheppard-Yonge and College stations.
News.com.au
20-05-2025
- Sport
- News.com.au
Adelaide jockey Kayla Crowther recovering from nasty collarbone injury
Adelaide jockey Kayla Crowther is hoping to return to trackwork next month, following a fractured collarbone sustained in a pre-race incident at Murray Bridge in April. Crowther, 26, has avoided surgery, and is making steady progress, the fracture is 'protruding' but isn't giving the hoop too much discomfort. • PUNT LIKE A PRO: Become a Racenet iQ member and get expert tips – with fully transparent return on investment statistics – from Racenet's team of professional punters at our Pro Tips section. SUBSCRIBE NOW! 'It feels pretty comfortable, it just looks ugly really,' Crowther said. 'I don't have any pain relief or anything, I can do a fair bit with my left arm now. 'I took horses into the track Monday, Ben (Price) rode them, I can do a little bit, walk them around and put them on the float and stuff with my other arm.' Crowther is eyeing a return to trackwork riding in June, which would have her back race riding by early July. She is scheduled for another consultation with Racing SA doctor Steve Kennett in mid-June. 'Dr Kennett said six weeks, which takes me until the 12th of June, he wants to reassess it then,' she said. 'That's probably to start a bit of trackwork again if he's happy with it. 'It's been three weeks and I can't lift my arm up yet without it hurting, my gut feeling is that he's probably not going to say 'you can ride now'. 'I'm hoping if its improved a lot by that six-week mark, and he says I can go back to trackwork, I'll spend a couple of weeks doing that and it might be a total of eight weeks out from the races.' Blanc Visage storms over the top of them down the outside ðŸ'¥ @KaylaCrowther2 — (@Racing) April 21, 2025 • 'No two-horse race': Gollan insists chances aplenty in Doomben Cup Crowther was dislodged from the Garret Lynch-trained Got An Inspiration on April 30 when exiting the mounting yard for race six at Murray Bridge. 'He ran into the side of the gate, I sort of flopped off the side of him,' she said. 'The fall was harmless, I was about to get up but he must have got caught on the fence or something, and he just galloped over me. 'To be honest, I was more winded on the other side, I didn't even feel the collarbone at the start. 'I stood up and I thought 'I can breathe again, that's good'. 'I felt my collarbone, and there was already a big lump, and I thought 'this is broken already' – you could tell straight away.' The injury saw Crowther miss out on the remainder of the Adelaide racing carnival, including a Group 1 ride on Prairie Flower in The Goodwood, alongside a win and stakes placing with Fine Future. 'Obviously I would've liked to have ridden Prairie Flower again but Will (Price) gave her a perfect ride, she sort of ran up to her best,' she said. 'I was gutted I missed out on Fine Future, he won that finals race and then ran third in a stakes race, that was a bit of a bugger to miss.' • Nichols to unveil well-bred filly after breeder's bad luck Crowther is one of the hardest working jockeys in South Australia, and while there is never a good time to get injured, it has given the hoop a rare chance to reset. The premiership winner currently sits second in SA's statewide premiership with 62 wins. 'It's a bit of a shame, but to be honest, since I've started race riding I don't think I've had more than three weeks off, when I had a little bit of ankle surgery, and I think that was 2018,' Crowther said. 'It's actually really nice to have a bit of a break from racing, because I would never give myself this much time off. 'It probably came at a good time, to have a real reset, as much as being forced doesn't help, to have a proper break from racing, it will make me even hungrier. 'I ride everywhere, and ride a lot of races every year, it will ignite a bit more love for it, I love racing, but I think it will drive the passion for it, having a forced break.'
News.com.au
13-05-2025
- Sport
- News.com.au
Apprentice jockey Dale Cole's inspiring return to the saddle
Trainer Danny Williams admits to shedding a tear or two after his apprentice jockey Dale Cole punched home a winning double at Goulburn last Thursday. And for a mighty good reason. While on this occasion there were tears of joy flowing it was a vastly different story at the same venue 20 months earlier, when Cole was involved in a trackwork mishap that left the then 23-year-old with horrific injuries. 'We had a couple of clients attend the stables that wanted to see their young horses work so Dale and I took two of them out for a trot and canter,' Williams reflected. 'Things were going well and the horse Dale was on was as quiet as a mouse but she resented having another horse beside her and bucked. 'The second time she bucked the saddle shifted and Dale came over the front and she dragged him at three-quarter pace for around 300m until his leg finally came out of the irons. 'With the way it happened she galloped on him a couple of times as well.' Such was the magnitude of Cole's injuries, which included five broken ribs, a punctured lung, snapped femur and broken pelvis, medical experts had to relieve the pressure from his lungs on site before he could be flown to hospital. 'His broken leg was pulled right out of the socket … it's still hard to talk about now,' Williams said. 'When we first called the ambulance they said it could be 60-90 minutes but thankfully a few things happened and they were there within about 20 minutes. 'The whole experience, just feeling so helpless and not being able to do more for him at the time was very traumatic, still is now. 'He's a great kid from a terrific family and very resilient. When he first came to me he hadn't been on the back of a horse. I sent him away to get some basic training and have helped him along from there. 'I'm extremely proud of what he's achieved in such a short amount of time. But he's not the finished product and he knows that.' After spending three weeks in hospital where he underwent a number of surgeries, Cole was sent home to continue his rehabilitation and put himself back together, both mentally and physically. For those around him a return to the saddle seemed forlorn but not for Cole who had a steely resolve from the outset. 'The plan was to always find my way back,' Cole said. 'I couldn't walk for the first four months and then had to get around with a walking stick for about another six months after that. 'With everything that happened I was pretty incapacitated for a while but I've really tried to put that behind me now and just focus on what's next, not what's been. 'I've had to tick a lot of boxes with the doctors along the way. It's been a long road and there were days where I got a bit down about it all but never really had the thought of giving up.' For Cole, that hard work and resilience paid off in the most memorable fashion last Thursday when in front of friends and family he steered home Let's Go Brandon for Goulburn trainer Wayne Hudd and Chemtrail to victory for his master, Danny Williams. 'It was a bit overwhelming to be honest – pretty emotional,' Cole said. 'Danny has been so good for me and to be able to win for him after everything, yeh it was pretty special. 'Before the accident I had a lot of goals but for now I'm just taking it all in my stride and worrying about working hard and the next ride.' For Cole, that's expected to be at Albury on Friday, where he'll be back in the saddle looking to make up for more lost time.
News.com.au
08-05-2025
- Sport
- News.com.au
How trainer Leah Gravanich turned ‘slow and lazy' Know Thyself into a serious racehorse
The superbly-bred colt with the conformation to match was disappointingly slow and lazy in trackwork. In frustration, co-trainer Leah Gavranich decided one morning to ride the two-year-old herself – and what happened next left her stunned. 'He was one of those horses that early on when still a colt he was very lazy in his gallops,'' Gavranich recalled. 'His original rider couldn't even get him to go even time on the track. 'But I thought 'I'm not having this' so I jumped on him and gave him a bit of rev up to get him on the bridle. 'Immediately I could feel the power underneath me. In the space of two weeks, I gave him four pieces of work and I knew then he was a very good horse.'' Fast forward two years and that same colt is now a gelding named Know Thyself, already the winner of six of his nine starts including the $1m Country Championships Final at Royal Randwick last month. Gavranich, who trains in partnership with Paul Messara these days, has been Know Thyself's regular track rider ever since that morning when she took matters in her own hands. 'I ride him all the time now and he just gives you a different feel to other horses,'' she said. 'It's the way he drives with his back legs, it's so powerful but effortless at the same time.'' Messara said Gavranich and Know Thyself share a 'special bond'. 'Leah has ridden him right through and knows the horse so well,'' Messara said. 'She gets very attached to her horses and Know Thyself falls into her pet category. She spends half the day grooming and feeding him.'' But Messara said Gavranich's understanding of Know Thyself and her feedback about the horse's wellbeing is invaluable. 'Good riders are such an important part of the puzzle in training,'' he said. On Saturday, Know Thyself is poised to win another big-money race in the Listed $500,000 The Coast (1600m) at the Gosford stand-alone meeting. In early TAB betting, Know Thyself is the $3.60 favourite ahead of Queensland raider Depth Of Character at $4.40 and Mare Of Mt Buller at $7. Then its $10 or longer the rest. Messara and Gavranich are in their second season as a training partnership and since August 1 they have prepared 32 winners on all tracks at an outstanding strike rate of nearly 29.4 per cent, or nearly one winner every three starters. Know Thyself has led the stable charge this season and goes to Gosford chasing a fourth successive win. The talented four-year-old followed his Country Championships defeat of Lisztomania and Fukubana with another Randwick win, this time over the famous 16000m course when he ran down his old rival Fukubana near the line. 'Know Thyself has a great will-to-win and we are really happy with the way he came through his last win,'' Messara said. 'He's a straight forward horse to train, he's very fit and now it is just maintenance gallops between races. It's all systems go for Gosford.'' With regular rider Aaron Bullock unable to make Know Thyself's 53kg impost, former jockey Ashley Morgan has been booked to partner the horse in The Coast. Know Thyself could earn himself a Brisbane winter carnival campaign if he can continue his winning streak in The Coast. 'Brisbane is a possibility,'' Messara said. 'I would love to give him a crack over 2000m to see how he goes.'' • Shayne O'Cass's race-by-race tips, analysis for Gosford on Saturday The Listed $200,000 Scone Cup (1600m) at Scone next Friday was also an option Arrowfield Stud supremo and owner John Messara was considering for Know Thyself. But the Scone Cup is likely to attract a very good field and Know Thyself, with a rating of 86, was in danger of missing a start. 'We were concerned Know Thyself won't get a run at Scone and a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush,'' John Messara said. 'If we wait for Scone what if we don't get a run so we miss both races.'' Know Thyself is impeccably bred by Arrowfield's emerging champion sire The Autumn Sun out of the Dubawi mare, Mantra Of Life, and was in the Inglis Easter Yearling Sale three years ago. But Paul Messara, who also manages Arrowfield Stud, had taken a particular liking to Know Thyself as a yearling and was reluctant to sell. 'I loved this horse as a type,'' Paul Messara said. 'I told our partners in Mantra Of Life that her colt was so good we should put more than the $200,000 reserve we initially planned for him. 'In the end, we put a $300,000 reserve on the horse but he was passed in at $220,000. 'Our partners in the horse were obviously a bit disappointed so we decided to buy them out at $300,000. 'They were happy with that result and obviously we are happy with how Know Thyself has turned out on the racetrack which only makes his dam's progeny even more valuable now.'' John Messara revealed he drew on his experiences in the breeding industry spanning more than five decades before making the difficult decision to geld the horse. 'Know Thyself was a very good-looking colt from an early crop by The Autumn Sun,'' Messara said. 'But after Paul told me the colt needed gelding, I agreed immediately. 'I remember making a mistake with Danehill and particularly Redoute's Choice when I didn't geld some of their colts. 'I kept thinking we might have a stallion prospect here but quite a few colts that could have been serious racehorses didn't quite make it. 'So, with The Autumn Sun we felt if there was any colt that needed gelding we wouldn't hesitate as that would also help the sire get established. 'I think this comes with experience – when I was younger I kept thinking I have a stallion in the making but then nothing happens.'' Messara admitted he has taken great pride in watching the success his son and Gavranich have had as a training partnership and, in particular, Know Thyself's Country Championships Final win last month. 'Paul and Leah are going very well, they are a good team, very dedicated,'' he said. 'They get the horses we couldn't take to the sales due to setbacks or injuries, they also get some of the pass-ins so they don't get the cream of the crop but their stable is still doing really well. 'Know Thyself was home-bred by an emerging stallion and we felt early on he was a good horse in the making. 'I've learned over my years in racing that you can't take anything for granted in this game but I got a lot of personal satisfaction watching Know Thyself win the Country Championships. I got as excited that day as I did 50 years ago.''
