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2026-07-18T19:23:03-04:00July 18, 2026|

Saturday’s OSS events at Hiawatha Horse Park rescheduled

The Ontario Sires Stakes (OSS) events originally scheduled for tonight (July 18) at Hiawatha Horse Park have been rescheduled after poor air quality forced the cancellation of racing on Saturday at the Sarnia, ON track. Tonight’s OSS events – the Grassroots Leg 3 and Prospect Series Leg 3A, both for 3-year-old pacing colts – have

2026-07-17T13:01:33-04:00July 17, 2026|

Tonight’s OSS Gold and Grassroots events rescheduled

The Ontario Sires Stakes (OSS) events originally scheduled for tonight (July 17) at Woodbine Mohawk Park have been rescheduled after poor air quality forced the cancellation of the entire Friday night card at the Milton, ON track. The $150,000 OSS Gold Series Leg 3 event for 3-year-old trotting colts has been rescheduled to Sunday, July

2026-07-12T21:58:25-04:00July 12, 2026|

Blue Jean Gal blasts to 1:51.3 Ontario Sires Stakes record for sophomore trotting fillies

Blue Jean Gal set a 1:51.3 Ontario Sires Stakes (OSS) record while winning the first of two $100,000 Gold Series Leg 2 divisions for 3-year-old trotting fillies on Sunday (July 12) at Woodbine Mohawk Park. Lo And Behold won the second Gold division. In the first division (race 3), James MacDonald drove Blue Jean Gal

2026-07-09T12:41:49-04:00July 9, 2026|

Ontario’s Standardbred industry receives additional funding of more than $14 million

Ontario Racing is excited to announce that it is immediately contributing additional funding of more than $14 million to the Ontario Standardbred horse racing industry as part of the Ontario government’s plan to increase support to protect agriculture and rural jobs across the province. The new money for the Standardbred industry is part of $35

2026-07-06T23:16:35-04:00July 6, 2026|

Unstable Genius impressive and golden in career pari-mutuel debut

Unstable Genius broke his maiden in his first career pari-mutuel start, winning the lone $150,000 Ontario Sires Stakes (OSS) Gold Series Leg 1 event for 2-year-old trotting colts on Monday (July 6) in 1:54.2 at Woodbine Mohawk Park. The victory, which came after a long technical delay caused by a mass network outage, put $75,000

2026-07-06T21:00:42-04:00July 6, 2026|

Rookie trotting fillies rise to the occasion in OSS Gold

Two-year-old filly trotters Queens Of Bs, Verily and Rebel Moon won their respective $66,666 OSS Gold opening legs, Sunday evening (July 5) at Woodbine Mohawk Park. Queen Of Bs (above, trained by Matt Bax for owner Brad Grant, kicked things off with a gritty score in the first OSS Gold dash on the 12-race card.

2026-07-03T22:29:23-04:00July 3, 2026|

Gogo Gadget, TH Benedict take Golds for 2-year-old pacing colts

The 2-year-old Ontario Sires Stakes (OSS) season is officially underway and in Leg 1 of the Gold Series the two $100,000 divisions for rookie pacing colts were won by Gogo Gadget and TH Benedict. In race 2, 1-2 favourite Gogo Gadget (above, Jonathan Drury) set a 1:52.2 lifetime best while defeating Bulldog Xpress (James MacDonald)

2026-07-03T21:26:57-04:00July 3, 2026|

Twin B Mayreau, Money Carlo both golden in pari-mutuel debuts

Twin B Mayreau and Money Carlo were the winners of the two $100,000 Ontario Sires Stakes (OSS) Leg 1 Gold Series divisions for 2-year-old pacing fillies on Friday (July 3) at Woodbine Mohawk Park. In race 4, Tyler Jones drove 19-1 Twin B Mayreau (above, Cattlewash—Olivia Mcskywalker) to an impressive 1:50:3 victory in her pari-mutuel

2026-06-27T21:56:03-04:00June 27, 2026|

Borderline Mobby upsets Beau Jangles, wins first career OSS event

Borderline Mobby and James MacDonald upset reigning Canadian and U.S. Horse of the Year Beau Jangles in the lone $140,000 Ontario Sires Stakes (OSS) Gold Series Leg 2 event on Saturday (June 27) at Woodbine Mohawk Park. The mile was 1:48.2. Beau Jangles finished fifth in the field of seven. The mile was just one-fifth-of-a-second

2026-06-26T22:52:49-04:00June 26, 2026|

A Clean Deal sets 1:49.3 career best in lone sophomore pacing filly Gold event

A Clean Deal made it two-for-two in 2026 Ontario Sires Stakes action with a career-best 1:49.3 victory on Friday (June 26) at Woodbine Mowak Park in the lone $140,000 Gold Series Leg 2 event for sophomore pacing fillies. Doug McNair drove the slight 6-5 favourite to victory for trainer Kyle Fellows and owners Yolanda Fellows