Dave Briggs2015-02-07T00:00:00-05:00February 7, 2015|
Canadian harness racing celebrated the absolute best performers of the 2014 season at tonight's O'Brien Awards and five of the winners were Ontario-sired performers. John Bax, who was the leading trainer in the 2014 Ontario Sires Stakes in terms of money won, collected two O'Brien trophies on behalf of his talented trotting fillies Stubborn Belle
Dave Briggs2015-02-06T00:00:00-05:00February 6, 2015|
Witch Dali, an Ontario-sired four-year-old mare, is the favourite in tonight's opening leg of series at the Meadowlands named for one of the all time great Ontario-sired distaffers, Burning Point. A winner of more than $3 million in her career, Burning Point earned $366,000 in the Ontario Sires Stakes program, most during her sophomore season
Dave Briggs2015-01-06T00:00:00-05:00January 6, 2015|
An Ontario-sired filly who didn't begin her racing career until late in her three-year-old season, will make her first stakes appearance on Thursday in the first leg of the Blizzard Series at Woodbine. It will be the first WEG outing for the four-year-old mare who has only raced at The Raceway at Western Fair District
Dave Briggs2014-12-16T00:00:00-05:00December 16, 2014|
A total of 11 Ontario-sired pacers and trotters are among the nominees for Canada's highest Standardbred honour, an O'Brien Award, which recognize the absolute best in harness racing in the country over the past racing season. Two nominees in each of the 12 categories were announced this week for the 2014 awards with Ontario-sired trotting
Dave Briggs2014-11-24T00:00:00-05:00November 24, 2014|
A total of 13 Ontario-sired horses competing in last weekend's rich Breeders Crown finals and 10 of those performers earned money in their events. On Friday night it was the great Bee A Magician leading the way, winning the Mare Trot final with an impressive performance. Last year's horse of the year in both Canada
Dave Briggs2014-11-21T00:00:00-05:00November 21, 2014|
Last year's Horse of the Year in both Canada and the US, Ontario-sired Bee A Magician, needed no magic in tonight's $250,000 Breeders Crown final for trotting mares at the Meadowlands as she relied on sheer talent to win. Bee A Magician grabbed early control of the event for Brian Sears and was by the
Dave Briggs2014-11-14T00:00:00-05:00November 14, 2014|
"He's fun to be around and pretty to look at." Harness driver John Campbell wasn't referring to his long time friend and fellow Hall of Famer Bob McIntosh, but rather the Windsor, Ontario, trainer's rookie pacing colt Go Daddy Go who earlier today drew post five in the $500,000 Breeders Crown final Saturday at the
Dave Briggs2014-11-14T00:00:00-05:00November 14, 2014|
A total of 16 Ontario-sired performers will compete in the Breeders Crown races at the Meadowlands, which have attracted the top harness horses from across North America and beyond. There are a total of 12 divisions, divided by age, sex and gait, and the OSS is represented in all but one, the three-year-old pacing fillies.
Dave Briggs2014-11-04T00:00:00-05:00November 4, 2014|
Several successful Ontario Sires Stakes graduates will go postward in Thursday's rich Matron Series Finals at Dover Downs. Two sophomore trotting fillies by Angus Hall will contest the $160,950 final for that division. Sweetie Hearts has drawn post four and will have leading driver Tim Tetrick at the lines for the first time. Owned and
Dave Briggs2014-10-31T00:00:00-04:00October 31, 2014|
Coming off a race described by trainer Dave Menary as "vicious," former Ontario Sires Stakes star Charmed Life might finally be sitting pretty as she gets ready for Saturday's $178,000 Muscle Hill Stakes for older female trotters at Vernon Downs. Charmed Life drew outside starting spots in four of her previous five races, but will
