Dave Briggs2025-05-24T20:31:00-04:00May 24, 2025|
Story by Dave BriggsPhotos by New Image Media
Chantilly, Canada’s reigning Horse of the Year, set a career best 1:49.4 mark while easily besting a field of 10 in the lone $140,000 Ontario Sires Stakes (OSS) Gold Series event for 3-year-old pacing fillies on Saturday (May 24) at Woodbine Mohawk Park. It was the first OSS Gold event of 2025. Millar Farms’ homebred
Dave Briggs2025-05-24T11:48:18-04:00May 23, 2025|
Story by Dave Briggs
Mike Wade knows it sounds cliché, but the trainer from Little Britain, ON honestly can still see Billyjojimbob thundering to victory at Solvalla like it was yesterday, not 33 years ago. In 1992, the homebred trotter became the first Ontario-sired horse to win Sweden’s famed Elitloppet. On Sunday in Stockholm, Logan Park will attempt to
Dave Briggs2025-05-22T12:33:36-04:00May 22, 2025|
Story by Dave BriggsPhotos by New Image Media
A few days after Ontario-sired Crack Shot stormed to victory on May 17 at Woodbine Mohawk Park in the $126,912 SBOA final for sophomore pacing colts, and just hours before leaving with his team for the Memorial Cup in Rimouski, QC, London Knights coach Dale Hunter was marveling about the power of karma and how
Dave Briggs2025-05-15T12:21:08-04:00May 15, 2025|
Story by Dave BriggsPhotos by Dave Landry
The popularity of “Buy Canadian” programs as a response to U.S. threats on Canada’s sovereignty has been extended to Ontario’s horse racing industry in a campaign called Bet Ontario (#betontario). Ontario Racing is encouraging those that choose to bet on horse racing to consider the critical importance of wagering on the races conducted in Ontario.
Dave Briggs2025-03-05T16:11:34-05:00March 5, 2025|
If you plan to race your two-year-old in the 2025 Ontario Sires Stakes (OSS) program, please submit your sustaining payment by mail, postdated no later than March 17, 2025, or through the OSS online form. The sustaining payment is $600 ($450 USD). Two-year-olds sustained to the 2025 OSS must have been nominated as a yearling
