Story by Dave Briggs
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Ontario Racing is excited to announce that it is immediately contributing additional funding of more than $14 million to the Ontario Standardbred horse racing industry as part of the Ontario government’s plan to increase support to protect agriculture and rural jobs across the province. The new money for the Standardbred industry is part of $35

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Unstable Genius broke his maiden in his first career pari-mutuel start, winning the lone $150,000 Ontario Sires Stakes (OSS) Gold Series Leg 1 event for 2-year-old trotting colts on Monday (July 6) in 1:54.2 at Woodbine Mohawk Park. The victory, which came after a long technical delay caused by a mass network outage, put $75,000

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Two-year-old filly trotters Queens Of Bs, Verily and Rebel Moon won their respective $66,666 OSS Gold opening legs, Sunday evening (July 5) at Woodbine Mohawk Park. Queen Of Bs (above, trained by Matt Bax for owner Brad Grant, kicked things off with a gritty score in the first OSS Gold dash on the 12-race card.

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The 2-year-old Ontario Sires Stakes (OSS) season is officially underway and in Leg 1 of the Gold Series the two $100,000 divisions for rookie pacing colts were won by Gogo Gadget and TH Benedict. In race 2, 1-2 favourite Gogo Gadget (above, Jonathan Drury) set a 1:52.2 lifetime best while defeating Bulldog Xpress (James MacDonald)

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Twin B Mayreau and Money Carlo were the winners of the two $100,000 Ontario Sires Stakes (OSS) Leg 1 Gold Series divisions for 2-year-old pacing fillies on Friday (July 3) at Woodbine Mohawk Park. In race 4, Tyler Jones drove 19-1 Twin B Mayreau (above, Cattlewash—Olivia Mcskywalker) to an impressive 1:50:3 victory in her pari-mutuel

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Borderline Mobby and James MacDonald upset reigning Canadian and U.S. Horse of the Year Beau Jangles in the lone $140,000 Ontario Sires Stakes (OSS) Gold Series Leg 2 event on Saturday (June 27) at Woodbine Mohawk Park. The mile was 1:48.2. Beau Jangles finished fifth in the field of seven. The mile was just one-fifth-of-a-second

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A Clean Deal made it two-for-two in 2026 Ontario Sires Stakes action with a career-best 1:49.3 victory on Friday (June 26) at Woodbine Mowak Park in the lone $140,000 Gold Series Leg 2 event for sophomore pacing fillies. Doug McNair drove the slight 6-5 favourite to victory for trainer Kyle Fellows and owners Yolanda Fellows

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Strobe Lite turned the tables on Touchedbyanangel with a 1:52.2 career-best mile in the lone $140,000 Ontario Sires Stakes (OSS) Gold Series Leg 2 event for male sophomore trotters on Sunday night (June 21) at Woodbine Mohawk Park. Touchedbyanangel (Doug McNair), the winner of the $140,000 Leg 1 Gold event on May 24 at Mohawk,

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Bingo Night and Th Trix R Forkids each recorded lifetime-best victories winning their respective $90,000 Ontario Sires Stakes (OSS) Gold Series Leg 2 divisions on Saturday (June 20) at Woodbine Mohawk Park. In the first division (race 4), favoured Bingo Night (above) won her 2026 OSS debut in convincing fashion, posting a four-length victory over

Story by Dave Briggs

For more than 50 years, the Ontario Sires Stakes (OSS) program has produced world class horses and that excellence continues on Saturday (June 13) at Woodbine Mohawk Park when 15 Ontario-sired horses, including five O’Brien Award winners, will do battle in five stakes totaling just under $2.2 million in purses. Three of the 10 finalists