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2023-07-06T14:27:53-04:00July 5, 2023|

Ontario Sired Logan Park Establishes New Track and Canadian Record

MILTON – Logan Park stopped the clock in 1:50.3 in Tuesday’s $42,000 Free For All Trot at Woodbine Mohawk Park to set a new Canadian record for an older male trotter. The five-year-old gelding scored a 5 ½ length victory over five rivals to set the new Track and Canadian Record. The 1:50.3 mile breaks

2023-07-06T14:21:39-04:00July 4, 2023|

OSS Canada Day Weekend Recap

Canada Day weekend is in the rearview mirror, and we have a recap of all the Ontario Sire Stakes (OSS) action.  Glamour Boys Shine on Saturday at Mohawk  Midnight Nation (Betterthancheddar) was a breakthrough winner on Saturday night, winning the first of two $101,300 Gold divisions for three-year-old male pacers in Leg One of their

2023-06-28T16:36:24-04:00June 28, 2023|

OSS Gold Action Heads to Mohawk on Canada Day Weekend

MILTON, June 28, 2023 – Ontario Sires Stakes (OSS) Gold action descends on Woodbine Mohawk Park this weekend with four divisions across two nights of racing, and over $400,000 in purses.  The doubleheader begins on Friday night with a pair of $101,300 divisions for sophomore trotting fillies in races three and six.  Race six features

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