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Ajaz Firdous2022-05-21T11:20:00-04:00May 21, 2022|
The 2022 Ontario Sires Stakes season begins Sunday, May 22 at Flamboro Downs, on the $458,300, Charles Juravinski Memorial Cup card. It will be a busy evening for local trainer Anthony Beaton, who has starters in three of the four $22,000 Grassroots divisions for three-year-old pacing colts. Beaton, a resident of Waterdown, Ontario, had a
Ajaz Firdous2022-05-19T16:59:16-04:00May 19, 2022|
Photos by Tiffany Chantel / Grand River Raceway
The opening Prospect Series legs for male and female three-year old pacers and trotters, get underway Saturday May 21 at Flamboro Downs. Three-year-old pacing colts and geldings and three-year-old pacing fillies have two divisions apiece while the trotting side features one division for each gender. Two 2021 Prospect Series Finals winners headline the fields, Two-Year-Old
Ajaz Firdous2022-05-13T09:50:03-04:00May 12, 2022|
Stonebridge Helios wins a Gold Leg at Woodbine Mohawk Park (New Image Media) Woodbine Entertainment released the first edition of its 2022 Road to the Pepsi North America Cup, ahead of the SBOA Stakes Eliminations this weekend. Stonebridge Helios is the highest ranked Ontario Sired contender The son of Sunshine Beach comes in at number
Ajaz Firdous2022-04-19T15:23:28-04:00April 18, 2022|
Image: Dagfin Henriksen (L) and Perfetto, on March 14 at Woodbine Mohawk Park. Credit: Clive Cohen / New Image Media Perfetto, the two-time defending O’Brien Award winner for Older Trotting Male, has been invited to represent Canada in the Elitloppet, as the crown jewel of Swedish harness racing brings back a full international field for
Ajaz Firdous2022-03-07T14:12:00-05:00March 4, 2022|
If you intend to race your two-year-old in the 2022 Ontario Sires Stakes (OSS) program, please submit your sustaining payment by mail, postdated no later than March 15, 2022, or through the OSS or Standardbred Canada online payment system by midnight on that date. The sustaining payment is $600. Two-year-olds sustained to the 2022 OSS
Ajaz Firdous2022-02-07T18:07:17-05:00February 7, 2022|
Photos by Clive Cohen / New Image Media
The 2021 O’Brien Awards took place last night and Ontario Sires Stakes participants collected plenty of hardware. Horses sustained to the OSS won seven of the eight younger horse categories led by the 2021 Somebeachsomewhere Horse of the Year, Desperate Man. Bred by Winbak Farms, Desperate Man won the O’Brien for three-year-old pacing colts. His
Ajaz Firdous2022-02-04T11:04:12-05:00February 4, 2022|
Photos by Clive Cohen / New Image Media
One of North America’s leading stakes programs, the Ontario Sires Stakes and its accompanying Prospect Series are back in full force for 2022, launching Confederation Cup weekend, May 21 and 22, at Flamboro Downs. All four of the three-year-old Prospect Series classes will headline the Saturday, May 21 race card, and Confederation Cup Sunday (May
Ajaz Firdous2022-02-01T13:18:27-05:00January 31, 2022|
Six new stallions will join the Standardbred ranks in Ontario in 2022, for a total of 55 registered Ontario Sires. “The new stallions show what a world class program the Ontario Sires Stakes is. Bar none we have the best program in North America,” said Tammy McNiven, member of the Standardbred Improvement Program Committee. “They
Sandra2021-11-04T16:00:06-04:00November 4, 2021|
Although compressed into four months, the 2021 Ontario Sires Stakes season featured all of the fierce battles and memorable performances fans have come to expect from the province’s top pacers and trotters. In addition to delivering impressive efforts within the program, Ontario Sired horses were also victorious in open stake action, highlighted by Desperate Man’s
Sandra2021-10-17T02:32:36-04:00October 17, 2021|
Driver James MacDonald played a starring role in the $1.8 million Super Finals at Woodbine Mohawk Park on Saturday, Oct. 16, capturing three of the eight season-ending showdowns. “It was just terrific in every way shape and form,” said MacDonald. “I had gone in with high hopes, I mean I had such a good line
