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2024-02-12T13:23:36-05:00February 12, 2024|

Reminder: Three-Year Old Sustaining Payment due Feb. 15

This is a reminder that if you would like to sustain a three-year old, it must have been nominated to OSS#51 as a yearling. And if you intend to race this three-year-old in the OSS in 2024, a sustaining payment in the amount of $800 CDN ($630 USD) must be received in the OSS office

2024-02-02T10:08:19-05:00February 2, 2024|

OSS 50th Anniversary Season kicks off May 19

The Ontario Sires Stakes program will open its 50th anniversary season on Sunday, May 19 with the three-year-old trotting colts squaring off in Grassroots action on the Charles Juravinski Memorial Cup program at Flamboro Downs. Later that week Woodbine Mohawk Park will host the Gold Series opener with a star-studded Saturday, May 25 card that

2024-02-02T10:56:45-05:00January 30, 2024|

Reminder: Yearlings must be registered before nomination

The Ontario Sires Stakes program coordinator would like to remind all participants who are planning to nominate their OSS eligible yearlings in May that all yearlings must be registered at time of nomination and Standardbred Canada requires that the DNA and microchipping be completed before the foal is registered. OSS Yearling Nomination deadline is May

2024-02-02T10:55:10-05:00January 12, 2024|

Willys Home Run was a great success story both on and off the track

By Steven Loung/Ontario Racing TORONTO, Janurary 12, 2024 - Willys Home Run was one of the breakout success stories of the 2023 OSS season, capturing five Gold Series victories in her debut season. The ease with which the brown filly won made it seem as if she was born to race. Only, that wasn’t the initial

2024-01-11T11:16:47-05:00January 11, 2024|

Deadline to register Ontario Sire to stand stud due Jan. 15

The deadline to register an Ontario Sire to stand stud in Ontario for the 2024 breeding season without a penalty is due Jan. 15. Applications to register a stallion received by the Program after Jan. 15 will be subject to payment of a Late Registration Fee ($500). A stallion is ineligible for registration as a

2023-12-21T11:59:03-05:00December 6, 2023|

2024 Stallion Registration now open

The Ontario Sires Stakes 2024 Stallion Registration form and online payment option is now open. Registration for all stallions wishing to stand stud in Ontario for the 2024 season must be received by the OSS Program Coordinator by January 15, 2024. Applications to register a stallion received by the Program after January 15 will be

2023-10-15T00:33:17-04:00October 15, 2023|

Moment Is Here Arrives in OSS Gold Series Super Final

MILTON, October 14, 2023 – Homebred Moment Is Here rebounded from a sixth-place effort his last time out to capture the $300,000 Ontario Sires Stakes Gold Series Super Final for sophomore pacing colts Saturday at Woodbine Mohawk Park. Steered by Tim Tetrick, the gelded son of All Bets Off-Breathtacular outkicked favored Stockade Seelster and held

2023-10-17T12:03:32-04:00October 15, 2023|

Ghostly Casper Delivers Big Win at Last in Super Final

MILTON, October 14, 2023 – In a division with no dominating horse this season, Ghostly Casper, driven by Tyler Borth, was much the best winning the $300,000 three-year-old colt and gelding trot Gold Series Super Final on Saturday at Woodbine Mohawk Park. The 1:53 winning mile was a personal best for the Resolve-Cool Creek Breeze

2023-10-14T23:41:16-04:00October 14, 2023|

One Last Surge by One Last Wish

MILTON, October 14, 2023 – The Ontario Sires Stakes Gold Series Super Final for three-year-old pacing fillies wrote its own headline when a sentimental favourite dug deep for victory. One Last Wish walked quietly out of the Woodbine Mohawk Park paddock for the post parade, in line to regular driver Paul MacDonell. As she headed

2023-10-14T23:37:40-04:00October 14, 2023|

Roy Scores un’Believe’able Super Final Upset

MILTON, October 14, 2023 – A Gold Series victory had eluded Believe U Me in four previous starts, but the sophomore trotter brought her best effort Saturday night at Woodbine Mohawk Park. With Louis-Philippe Roy in the bike, the Muscle Mass-I Believe filly overcame the outside post to score a 1:54.3 upset in the $300,000