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 Briggs2025-05-24T11:48:18-04:00May 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.
