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Sandra2020-06-25T10:46:38-04:00June 25, 2020|
Ontario harness racing fans and participants will be celebrating on Friday evening as the Ontario Sires Stakes program makes its 2020 debut at Woodbine Mohawk Park. Delayed by five weeks due to the COVID-19 shutdown, the OSS program will kick off with four $23,000 Grassroots divisions for the three-year-old pacing fillies and last season’s leading
Sandra2020-06-24T12:12:01-04:00June 23, 2020|
Point standings for Leg 1 of the three-year-old pacing filly and three-year-old pacing colt Prospect Series have been posted on the Ontario Racing website. Point standings will be calculated every Monday and posted to the website. At the conclusion of the regular season the top nine point earners from each division will earn a spot
Sandra2020-06-19T13:11:24-04:00June 19, 2020|
The Prospect Series arrives at Dresden Raceway on Sunday, June 21 with two $7,100 divisions for Ontario Sired three-year-old pacing colts. Among the hopefuls is Last Three, who heads into the first division off an effortless June 13 victory at Hiawatha Horse Park for trainer Dan Kenney and driver Marc St. Louis. The 1:58.2 clocking
Sandra2020-06-18T16:26:35-04:00June 18, 2020|
The inaugural Prospect Series kicks off this Saturday, June 20 at Hanover Raceway with three divisions for Ontario Sired three-year-old pacing fillies. Trainer Jack Darling will harness two fillies in the opening leg of the Prospect Series, Races 5, 7 and 9 on the 2 pm program, and is hoping for good things from both
Sandra2020-06-18T16:22:45-04:00May 25, 2020|
Ontario Racing has released revised schedules for the 2020 Ontario Sires Stakes and Prospect Series. Events slated for the month of May have been rescheduled for later in the season and some divisions will see changes in their overall schedule to accommodate those adjustments. The season ending Super Finals remain on Saturday, Oct. 17 at
superuser2020-03-31T11:30:04-04:00March 30, 2020|
Story by Tester
As the 2019 Ontario Sires Stakes season shifted into high gear last summer, trainer Gregg McNair would not have predicted that a fourth Johnston Cup title was in his future. “There were quite a few disappointments last year. I had a bunch of them qualify kind of good and then they leveled out pretty good
superuser2020-03-31T12:38:36-04:00March 24, 2020|
Story by Dave Briggs Photos by John Watkins When Winbak Farm of Ontario brought in four new Standardbred stallions to stand at its Inglewood, ON operation for 2020, Pat Woods said he knew the time was right for an open house and stallion showcase, but not without some trepidation about doing it in February in
superuser2020-03-31T12:04:05-04:00February 12, 2020|
Seelster Farms topped all participants in the Ontario Resident Mare Program in 2019, earning a total of $370,026 in breeders’ rewards from the efforts of offspring from their Resident Mares. Pacing filly Karma Seelster topped all Seelster-breds competing in 2019, contributing $75,727 to the Lucan, ON nursery’s bottom line. In her freshman campaign the daughter
superuser2020-06-18T12:05:29-04:00January 31, 2020|
“We’ve got three Ontario Sires Stakes colts and then those same owners that own Alicorn, they bought two Bettors Delight fillies as well.” – Chantal Mitchell Ontario’s talented three-year-old pacing colts will kick off the 2020 Ontario Sires Stakes schedule on Sunday, May 17 at Flamboro Downs, competing in the first of five Grassroots Legs
superuser2020-06-18T12:07:55-04:00January 30, 2020|
Ontario Racing, in association with participating Ontario racetracks, today announced a new pilot project stakes event for the 2020 Standardbred season, open to Ontario Sired two- and three-year-old horses. “This series provides owners and trainers the chance to showcase rookie and sophomore Ontario Sired hopefuls.” – John Hayes The Prospect Series, to be contested at
