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TORONTO – He’s big, he’s strong, and he has got it going on. Ken Middleton’s famous call of Somebeachsomewhere winning the Pepsi North America Cup helped cement the 2008 edition as one of the all-time great moments in Canadian harness racing. It was the first time an undefeated horse won the Pepsi North America Cup

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2023 is the 40th Pepsi North America Cup, so Ontario Racing is looking back at the five times an Ontario Sired horse won Canada’s biggest harness race. This is the first of those stories. TORONTO – My World Champion. Those are the words Brad Fritz – caretaker of Apaches Fame and son of the late William

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MILTON - Intense battles are guaranteed for this Saturday’s Pepsi North America Cup eliminations at Woodbine Mohawk Park and there will be four Ontario Sired competitors across the four divisions. Each $50,000 elimination this Saturday will feature just two guaranteed spots for the $1 million race. The top-two finishers from each elimination, plus two third-place

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MILTON, Ontario Sires Stakes superstar, Stockade Seelster, captured his $75,000 division of the Somebeachsomewhere stakes on Saturday at Woodbine Mohawk Park. The Somebeachsomewhere served as a preview of next week’s highly anticipated Pepsi North America Cup eliminations. The son of State Treasurer prevailed in the third and final division. Moment Is Here (All Bets Off)

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MILTON, MAY 29, 2023 – Ghostly Casper opened the 2023 Ontario Sires Stakes (OSS) Gold season by winning the first of two $101,300 divisions for three-year-old trotting colts as the road to the $2.4 million Ontario Sires Stakes Super Finals began tonight at Woodbine Mohawk Park. The son of Resolve prevailed over 1-9 favourite Hasty

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LONDON – Elises Delight is one of 45 sophomore pacing fillies heading to southern Ontario on Friday to compete for $132,000 in six Ontario Sires Stakes Grassroots divisions at The Raceway at the Western Fair District. Elises Delight, trained by Jeff Gillis who bred and owns the filly with Ellen Ott of Buffalo NY, won the

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LONDON – Kenn Beatson a co-owner of So Much More – the millionaire mare who has achieved so much more than expected – is preparing for another thrill on Friday night in the $50,000 Forest City Pace at The Raceway at the Western Fair District on Camluck Classic night. “We suspect there will be a lot

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May 23, 2023 – The Ontario Sires Stakes (OSS) got into the Victoria Day spirit this weekend with plenty of fireworks on its opening weekend of racing. Bax with Training Double in Grassroots Opener Matt Bax sent out a pair of odds on favourites in the four Grassroots divisions for three-year-old male trotters on Sunday

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DUNDAS, May 19, 2023 – The Ontario Sires Stakes (OSS) season gets underway this weekend at Flamboro Downs with Prospect Series action on Saturday May 20 and Grassroots racing on the Sunday May 21, Charles Juravinski Memorial Cup card. The four Grassroots divisions for three-year-old male trotters will go for a total of $87,800, beginning