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Dave Briggs2015-03-11T00:00:00-04:00March 11, 2015|
Ontario-bred filly Witch Dali continues to impress south of the border, winning a first leg division of the Petticoat Series, the first stakes event of the young season at Yonkers Raceway, this past Monday (March 9). The four-year-old daughter of Dali gave Tim Tetrick a 1:54.1 ride and he said she paced over the half-mile
Dave Briggs2015-03-07T00:00:00-05:00March 7, 2015|
The top two rookie pacing colts in the Ontario Sires Stakes last season are among the 72 still eligible to Canada's richest harness race, the $1 Pepsi North America Cup. In total there are 13 Ontario breds still eligible to the race which will take place on June 20 at Mohawk. Reverend Hanover, the leading
Dave Briggs2015-02-20T00:00:00-05:00February 20, 2015|
A pair of Ontario sired four-year-olds will look for a big early season series victory Saturday night in the Ontario Boys and Girls finals at Woodbine. The $45,000 Ontario Boys final for four-year-old pacers and the $44,600 Ontario Girls final for four-year-old pacing mares highlight Saturday's 11-race card. The Ontario Boys series has been dominated
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|
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.
