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Dave Briggs2025-06-12T11:51:59-04:00June 12, 2025|
Story by Dave BriggsPhotos by Claus Andersen
Driver Doug McNair (above) can now admit he was wrong about Crack Shot, Ontario’s biggest hope in Saturday’s (June 14) $1 million Pepsi North America Cup at Woodbine Mohawk Park. “At the start of [last] year, I didn't really like the horse, to be honest with you,” McNair said of the Ontario-sired son of 2001
Dave Briggs2025-06-03T17:13:10-04:00June 3, 2025|
Story by Dave BriggsPhotos by New Image Media
The tears were unexpected, but Todd Ratchford said the magnitude of the moment – made possible by at least three generations of horsepeople in his family that came before him – hit him out of nowhere when he was standing in the winner’s circle and Ritchie Rich was already walking back to the paddock wearing
Dave Briggs2025-05-30T14:42:24-04:00May 29, 2025|
Story by Dave BriggsPhotos by New Image Media
P L Spencer (above) won the fastest of two $90,000 Ontario Sires Stakes (OSS) Gold Series events for 3-year-old trotting colts on Thursday (May 29) at Woodbine Mohawk Park. Ritchie Rich was the other winner. In the first OSS event of the night, P L Spencer set a lifetime best 1:54 while winning his first
Dave Briggs2025-05-26T21:36:40-04:00May 26, 2025|
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Sprite Seelster led gate to wire and set a lifetime best of 1:52.4 while posting a 15-1 upset in the lone $140,000 Ontario Sires Stakes (OSS) Gold Series events for 3-year-old trotting fillies on Monday (May 26) at Woodbine Mohawk Park. She was driven to victory by her co-owner Tyler Borth of Ingersoll, ON, who
Dave Briggs2025-05-26T14:05:02-04:00May 26, 2025|
Story by Dave BriggsPhotos by New Image Media
Trainer Blake MacIntosh (above) said he will decide Tuesday whether to enter Ontario-sired Sterling Choice into Saturday’s Somebeachsomewhere Stakes at Woodbine Mohawk Park. On Monday, two days after Sterling Choice handily won his $90,000 Ontario Sires Stakes (OSS) Gold test for sophomore pacing colts at Mohawk in a lifetime best 1:50.4, MacIntosh was leaning toward
Dave Briggs2025-05-24T22:48:19-04:00May 24, 2025|
Story by Dave BriggsPhotos by New Image Media
Sterling Choice and Control Rocks won the two $90,000 Ontario Sires Stakes (OSS) Gold Series events for 3-year-old pacing colts on Saturday (May 24) at Woodbine Mohawk Park. Both winners set career-best miles and had first-time drivers. In the first division (race 6), roan pacer Sterling Choice, bred by Winbak Farm, led most of the
Dave Briggs2025-05-24T20:31:00-04:00May 24, 2025|
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Chantilly, Canada’s reigning Horse of the Year, set a career best 1:49.4 mark while easily besting a field of 10 in the lone $140,000 Ontario Sires Stakes (OSS) Gold Series event for 3-year-old pacing fillies on Saturday (May 24) at Woodbine Mohawk Park. It was the first OSS Gold event of 2025. Millar Farms’ homebred
Dave Briggs2025-05-24T11:48:18-04:00May 23, 2025|
Story by Dave Briggs
Mike Wade knows it sounds cliché, but the trainer from Little Britain, ON honestly can still see Billyjojimbob thundering to victory at Solvalla like it was yesterday, not 33 years ago. In 1992, the homebred trotter became the first Ontario-sired horse to win Sweden’s famed Elitloppet. On Sunday in Stockholm, Logan Park will attempt to
Dave Briggs2025-05-22T12:33:36-04:00May 22, 2025|
Story by Dave BriggsPhotos by New Image Media
A few days after Ontario-sired Crack Shot stormed to victory on May 17 at Woodbine Mohawk Park in the $126,912 SBOA final for sophomore pacing colts, and just hours before leaving with his team for the Memorial Cup in Rimouski, QC, London Knights coach Dale Hunter was marveling about the power of karma and how
Dave Briggs2025-05-15T12:21:08-04:00May 15, 2025|
Story by Dave BriggsPhotos by Dave Landry
The popularity of “Buy Canadian” programs as a response to U.S. threats on Canada’s sovereignty has been extended to Ontario’s horse racing industry in a campaign called Bet Ontario (#betontario). Ontario Racing is encouraging those that choose to bet on horse racing to consider the critical importance of wagering on the races conducted in Ontario.
