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Ajaz Firdous2023-05-19T15:10:51-04:00May 19, 2023|
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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
Ajaz Firdous2023-05-18T12:04:30-04:00May 18, 2023|
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Ontario Sired three-year-olds have their first major stakes engagement of the 2023 campaign this weekend with the $542,000 SBOA Finals on Saturday, May 20 at Woodbine Mohawk Park. The four divisions for males and females in both gaits are carded as races four through seven. Let’s take a look at the top-three morning line choice
Ajaz Firdous2023-05-10T09:25:15-04:00May 10, 2023|
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MILTON, May 9, 2023 – The entry box for the SBOA Stakes for Ontario sired three-year-olds closed Tuesday morning with O’Brien and Dan Patch Award winner Stockade Seelster headlining the fields. The events for pacing colts and geldings, pacing fillies and trotting fillies did not require eliminations, while a total of 19 trotting colts and
Ajaz Firdous2023-05-09T12:23:19-04:00May 9, 2023|
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The inaugural Ontario Sired Graduate Series wrapped up in exciting fashion on Saturday night at Woodbine Mohawk Park. The new series for Ontario Sired four-year-olds featured three $80,000-plus finals that headlined Saturday’s 12-race program. The series finales came on the heels of three preliminary legs for each event. Ontario sired superstar Adare Castle completed the
Ajaz Firdous2023-04-13T16:01:18-04:00April 13, 2023|
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MILTON, April 13, 2023 – Some of Ontario’s brightest stars will begin their four-year-old campaigns in this weekend’s first leg of the Ontario Sired Graduate Series. The new Ontario Graduate Series for four-year-olds offers an event for Pacers, Mare Pacers and Trotters. Each event will consist of three $25,000 preliminary legs and a $75,000 added
Ajaz Firdous2023-03-23T14:57:26-04:00March 23, 2023|
TORONTO, MARCH 23, 2023 - It might not feel like it, but according to the calendar spring started this week, and that means stakes season is right around the corner. With that in mind, we checked in with last year’s Ontario Sires Stakes (OSS) Super Final winners to see how they are preparing for their
Sandra2023-02-16T17:04:52-05:00February 16, 2023|
Ontario harness racing fans will ring in the summer stakes season with a double dose of Ontario Sires Stakes and Prospect Series action on the Victoria Day weekend. Flamboro Downs will host all four of the three-year-old Prospect Series divisions on Saturday, May 20 and then welcome the three-year-old trotting colts for the Grassroots season
Ajaz Firdous2022-12-05T09:27:54-05:00December 5, 2022|
Story by Heather MacKay
The iconic trotter Goodtimes, who had an indelible impact on the sport of harness racing, has been laid to rest. He was 31. One of the most talented Standardbreds ever produced in Canada, the son of Balanced Image from the Dream Of Glory mare Goodtime Kathy, was bred by Charles Armstrong and Gus Schickedanz and
Ajaz Firdous2022-11-29T10:20:48-05:00November 28, 2022|
MILTON, November 28, 2022 – Woodbine Entertainment and Ontario Racing today announced a retirement ceremony for Bulldog Hanover, the World’s Fastest Standardbred, will be held this Saturday (December 3) at Woodbine Mohawk Park. As part of Saturday’s festivities, racing fans will have the great opportunity to take a photo with Bulldog Hanover starting at 6
Ajaz Firdous2022-10-26T15:56:19-04:00October 26, 2022|
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MILTON, October 26, 2022 – In over 40 years training standardbreds, John Bax has seen a lot. So, it carries weight when he calls a moment as surreal. Surreal is how the Campbellville resident described winning the 2001 Breeders Crown for two-year-old trotting colts and geldings with Duke Of York, a feat he’s looking to
