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2025-10-11T23:19:06-04:00October 11, 2025|

Chantilly defends Super Final crown in 3-year-old pacing fillies’ division

While her 2025 has not lived up to the hype created from a blemish-free Canadian Horse of the Year-winning freshmen season a year ago, Chantilly proved once again that there’s no place like home, taking the $300,000 Ontario Sires Stakes (OSS) Gold Super Final for 3-year-old pacing fillies at Woodbine Mohawk Park Saturday night (Oct.

2025-10-11T23:10:07-04:00October 11, 2025|

P L Spencer cruises to OSS Gold Super Final score in sophomore trotting colts’ division

Heavy favorite P L Spencer and driver Bob McClure turned in a dominating effort Saturday evening (Oct. 11) at Woodbine Mohawk Park, comfortably winning the $300,000 Ontario Sires Stakes (OSS) Gold Super Final for sophomore trotting colts. Leading gate to wire the sophomore trotter picked up his 10th seasonal win with a 1:52.4 performance. “There

2025-10-11T22:56:50-04:00October 11, 2025|

Crack Shot repeats in Super Finals, furthers Ontario Sires Stakes legacy

Last year, Crack Shot became the first horse in history to win both the Ontario Sires Stakes (OSS) Grassroots Final and the Gold Super Final. This year, the son of Bettors Delight out of Beautyonthebeach joined a select group of Ontario stars that have won Super Finals in back-to-back years. Crack Shot and driver Doug

2025-10-11T22:19:54-04:00October 11, 2025|

Monalishi masterful in her OSS Gold Super Final for 3-year-old trotting fillies

Monalishi brushed off a break in her previous start with a platinum performance in the $300,000 Ontario Sires Stakes (OSS) Gold Super Final for 3-year-old filly trotters on Saturday night (Oct. 11) at Woodbine Mohawk Park. The bay daughter of Green Manalishi S out of the RC Royalty mare Pretty Phylly G came into her

2025-10-11T00:37:46-04:00October 11, 2025|

Strobe Lite shines bright in OSS Gold Super Final for freshman trotting colts

Strobe Lite entered Friday’s (Oct. 10) $300,000 Ontario Sires Stakes (OSS) Gold Super Final for freshman trotting colts as the divisional points leader. He finished the eighth race at Woodbine Mohawk Park as divisional champion after storming down the centre of the lane to win by 1 ¼ lengths in a time of 1:55.2. James

2025-10-11T00:05:40-04:00October 11, 2025|

A Clean Deal wipes away competition in OSS Gold Super Final for freshmen filly pacers

A Clean Deal did not pace the most pristine path, but overcame obstacles to win the $300,000 Ontario Sires Stakes Gold Super Final for 2-year-old filly pacers on Friday night (Oct. 10) at Woodbine Mohawk Park. In a race that saw Th Check Me Out (post 3), Daya (post 5), and Jen Tilly (post 7)

2025-10-10T23:54:31-04:00October 10, 2025|

McClure has karma to thank for landing Super Final champ Beau Jangles

Minutes after keeping Beau Jangles perfect both through 10 career starts and all six of his Ontario Sires Stakes (OSS) events, driver Bob McClure stood in the paddock dripping mud and contemplating the karma of how he arrived here with this superstar 2-year-old pacing colt, who dominated his $300,000 OSS Gold Super Final on Friday

2025-10-10T22:46:19-04:00October 10, 2025|

Bingo Night storms to Super Final victory for 2-year-old trotting fillies

Bingo Night overcame post position 10 and her driver Tyler Jones withstood a seven minute inquiry as the pair powered to a 1 ¾ length victory in the $300,000 Ontario Sires Stakes (OSS) Gold Super Final for 2-year-old trotting fillies on Friday (Oct. 10) at Woodbine Mohawk Park. Meeting four-time Gold event winner Flowing Tribute,

2025-10-08T20:22:04-04:00October 8, 2025|

Ontario’s best set to do battle in $2.4 million OSS Super Finals this weekend

It pays to be at Woodbine Mohawk Park this weekend for $2.4 million worth of Ontario Sires Stakes (OSS) Gold Super Finals to be contested over two nights – Friday, Oct. 10 for the four $300,000 2-year-old events and Saturday, Oct. 11 for the four $300,000 3-year-old events. Customers who come early to the Campbellville,

2025-10-06T13:28:25-04:00October 6, 2025|

American breeders bullish on Ontario

U.S. Standardbred breeding titan Joe Thomson said there is a simple reason he’s bullish on producing horses in Ontario. “Ontario has one of the best programs in North America,” said Thomson, the owner of Winbak Farm that has breeding operations in New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware and, yes, Ontario where Winbak is currently leading the