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2023-06-16T22:40:19-04:00June 16, 2023|

NA Cup Rewind: Desperate Man Takes Connections on Ride of a Lifetime

Today is the 40th edition of the Pepsi North America Cup, and to end our rewind series, we’re looking back at Desperate Man’s 2021 victory, the most recent triumph by an Ontario Sired horse. TORONTO – “I still wake up wondering if it actually did happen. It’s still very surreal to me,” said trainer Kathy

2023-06-15T14:17:56-04:00June 15, 2023|

OSS NA Cup Undercard Preview

MILTON - The $1 million Pepsi North America Cup is the star of the show Saturday night at Woodbine Mohawk Park, but the undercard features over $1 million in additional stakes, and we've previewed all the Ontario Sired content on the undercard. ARMBRO FLIGHT – Older Trotting Fillies and Mares  ADARE CASTLE (Muscle Mass –

2023-06-15T11:19:02-04:00June 15, 2023|

NA Cup Rewind: Tall Dark Stranger Makes History in COVID Cup

MILTON – The most extraordinary, difficult, rewarding, and frustrating thing he’s ever experienced is how co-owner Marvin Katz described Tall Dark Stranger’s three-year-old campaign where he won 11 times and earned over $1.4 million dollars in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic. One of those 11 wins was his 2020 Pepsi North America Cup victory.

2023-06-13T22:05:22-04:00June 13, 2023|

Baroness Hill Breaks Through in Gold Action at Woodbine Mohawk Park

MILTON, June 13, 2023 – Baroness Hill cemented her status as a filly to watch in the Ontario Sires Stakes (OSS) this season with an impressive gate to wire victory in the first of two $101,300 OSS Gold divisions for three-year-old trotting fillies tonight at Woodbine Mohawk Park. Doug McNair took the Chantal Mitchell trainee

2023-06-13T10:10:18-04:00June 13, 2023|

NA Cup Rewind: Betting Line’s Win Kickstarts Historic Season

TORONTO - In May of 2016 Jonathan Drury drove Betting Line to a runner-up finish in his seasonal debut at Woodbine Mohawk Park. It was against conditioned company, and a standard early season tune-up for a sophomore pointed at major summer stakes. Afterwards, Drury told trainer Casie Coleman that he was upset because he was

2023-06-12T11:29:36-04:00June 12, 2023|

NA Cup Rewind: Canada’s Horse Wins Canada’s Race

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

2023-06-09T09:39:31-04:00June 9, 2023|

NA Cup Rewind: Apaches Fame Becomes First Ontario Sired Winner

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

2023-06-07T13:39:35-04:00June 7, 2023|

Stockade Seelster Leads Ontario Group in NA Cup Eliminations

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

2023-06-05T09:37:45-04:00June 3, 2023|

Stockade Rolls in Somebeachsomewhere

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)

2023-05-31T16:58:25-04:00May 31, 2023|

Super Final Winner Cheesy Smile in Action Friday at Woodbine Mohawk Park

MILTON, JUNE 1, 2023 – Cheesy Smile will try for her second consecutive stakes win as sophomore pacing fillies take centre stage Friday night at Woodbine Mohawk Park with over $205,000 in total purses split across in two Ontario Sires Stakes (OSS) Gold divisions. The 2022 Super Final winner won her last start, the $129,500