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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

2025-10-02T23:15:15-04:00October 2, 2025|

Chantilly returns to form, dominates OSS Gold for sophomore pacing fillies

Chantilly returned to form on Thursday (Oct. 2) at Woodbine Mohawk Park, pulling away in the lane to dominate the lone $140,000 Ontario Sires Stakes (OSS) Gold Leg 5 event for 3-year-old pacing fillies. Millar Farms’ homebred daughter of Big Jim out of Shiraz Seelster, driven by James MacDonald, won by eight lengths over Eternal

2025-09-30T23:45:05-04:00September 30, 2025|

Beau Jangles tops $1 million, remains unbeaten through nine

Beau Jangles topped $1 million in earnings, pushed his unbeaten streak to nine and swept all five Ontario Sires Stakes (OSS) Gold events with a 1:50.2 victory on Tuesday night (Sept. 30) in the lone $140,000 Leg 5 Gold for 2-year-old pacing colts at Woodbine Mohawk Park. The mile comes 10 days after the son

2025-09-30T12:19:13-04:00September 30, 2025|

Doug McNair wins three of four Golds on Mohawk Monday card

A quartet of Ontario Sires Stakes (OSS) Gold events were contested at Woodbine Mohawk Park on Monday night (Sept. 29) with driver Doug McNair piloting the first three winners. Both A Clean Deal and Flowing Tribute won their fourth Gold events of the year. A Clean Deal won the $140,000 event for 2-year-old pacing fillies

2025-09-28T00:23:55-04:00September 28, 2025|

Time Passer upsets in Grassroots ‘glamour boys’ Final

After going winless for nearly four months, Time Passer made every call a winning one en route to a 12-1 upset in the $75,000 Ontario Sires Stakes (OSS) Grassroots Final for 3-year-old male pacers on Saturday (Sept. 27) at Woodbine Mohawk Park, snapping a 10-race losing skid and setting a new lifetime mark of 1:49

2025-09-28T00:08:38-04:00September 28, 2025|

Nickel And Dime grinds out Grassroots score in sophomore trotting colts’ division

Nickel And Dime entered Saturday night’s (Sept. 27) $75,000 CDN Ontario Sires Stakes (OSS) Grassroots Final for sophomore trotting colts on a three-race winning streak. The Mark Etsell trainee continued his run of luck at Woodbine Mohawk Park, but it required a gritty stretch drive and a lifetime best 1:53 performance from the 7-5 favourite.

2025-09-27T23:42:13-04:00September 27, 2025|

‘Bullfrog’ is no croak, extends win streak to four in Grassroots 2-year-old male pace Final

Odds On Bullfrog did not see the rail for the first three-eighths-of-a-mile, then made the top shortly thereafter before providing his foes with a thorough thrashing in the $75,000 Ontario Sire Stakes Grassroots Final for 2-year-old pacing colts and geldings on Saturday night (Sept. 27) at Woodbine Mohawk Park. In the early going, the action

2025-09-27T23:21:32-04:00September 27, 2025|

LP Bay posts 66-1 upset in OSS Grassroots Final for 2-year-old trotting colts

The Ontario Sires Stakes (OSS) Grassroots division always includes horses who rise from humble origins and show strength late season. Homebred LP Bay was seventh in points standings for 2-year-old trotting colts and geldings going into his $75,000 Saturday (Sept. 27) night Grassroots Final at Woodbine Mohawk Park. The son of Trixton—SOS Respect finished a